The Morning Brew

Software

• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Interim Fix List – Jason Zander bows to public pressure and pulls together an interim list of the fixes included in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Beta. This list is subject to change, and a full authoritative list will be published when the service pack meets its official release.

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• Why are anonymous types generic? – Eric Lippert takes a look at the compiler generated output of an anonymous type, discussing why it makes use of Generics for the types of the anonymous types fields/properties.
• Foundations of Programming 2 – Chapter 1 – Quality and Efficiency – Karl Seguin kicks off the writing of his second edition of the Foundations of Programming, sharing the draft of Chapter 1, discussing quality and efficiency in development. Karl is actively looking for feedback on all chapters, so have a read and feedback any suggestions.
• Not Really Interested In Lean – Phil Haack looks back on his involvement with the NuGet project, discussing some of the areas he and the team could have done better, focusing on the Quality Assurance practices of the team.
• ASP.NET MVC JavaScript Routing – Zack Owens looks at the thorny issue of getting URLs into JavaScript code in your ASP.NET MVC projects where the URL is generated by routing rules, looking at providing a JavaScript implementation of your routing rules at runtime to make client side URL generation and use better and safer.
• "And she’d say, ‘Can you see … what I’m saying?’" [How to: Localize a Windows Phone 7 application that uses the Windows Phone Toolkit into different languages] – David Anson discusses Windows Phone 7 Localization and takes a step by step look at localizing the controls that are included in the Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 Toolkit
• "Effective Windows PowerShell" free ebook – Stefano Mapelli highlights a free 60+ page e-book on PowerShell published by Keith Hill earlier this year.
• Expressiveness Omnibus – Phillip Calçado sets out his thinking on Expressiveness in design and code in a single post, linking back to a number of his previous (and more detailed) posts on various aspects of the subject – interesting reading.
• WP7 Third party sample code repository – ‘help.net’ shares a link to a forum post which gathers together a variety of Windows Phone 7 sample applications from a variety of organisations and people (Microsoft included) categorised by the features of the phone they use,
• FREE goodies if you are a UK based software house already live on the Windows Azure Platform – Eric Nelson highlights a great offer for any UK based company who have published an application on the Windows Azure platform. This offer gets you email based developer support, a free monthly Azure allowance, along with licenses for various other Microsoft Cloud offerings as a part of the ‘Cloud Essentials’
• EF4 Code First Control Unicode and Decimal Precision, Scale with Attributes – Dane Morgridge takes a look at controlling the finer points of particular data types in Entity Framework Code First using attributes to specifu the Unicode status of strings, and the precision on decimals.
• Simple HTTP Server in C# – David Jeske shares a simple implementation of an HTTP Server implemented in C# illustrating some of the basics of HTTP1.0 and providing a base to build simple HTTP based services with in this CodeProject article.

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