The Morning Brew #766

Software

• Extended WPF Toolkit – Release 1.3.0 – Brian Lagunas highlights the release of the Extended WPF Toolkit 1.3.0 which brings three new controls (DateTimeUpDown, Magnifier and Magnifier) along with updates to two others (RichTextFormatBar and ColorPicker)
• 500 Metro Style WP7 Icons – Bil Simser shares ‘The Noun Project”s 500+ icons ported to PNG and XAML format (in addition to the original SVG format) making them easier to consume in your Windows Phone 7 Applications, discussing the conversion process along the way.

Information

• How to find and fix performance problems in ORM powered applications – Frans Bouma explores the investigation and resolution of common classes of Object Relational Mapper performance problems in applications, looking at the various techniques to help identify the problems and talking about the common causes of the issues.
• HTML5: Installing the Microsoft WebSockets prototype – Jef Claes takes a look at the WebSockets prototype recently released on the HTML 5 Labs site, walking through the installation and getting one of the samples up and running.
• Grouping Routes Part 2 – Phil Haack builds on a previous post and looks at the generation of URLs from group routes using ASP.NET routes
• There is something about "Paths" for Asp.net beginners – Al-Farooque Shubho takes a back to basics look at the use of Paths win ASP.NET Applications discussing relative and absolute paths for images, css and user controls.
• Monads in C# – 1. Introduction &2. What’s the point? – Mike Hadlow kicks off a new series of posts where he will be gathering his throughs on Monads and their use in LINQ code in preparation for his DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper 9 session.
• FubuMVC’s Internal Runtime, the Russian Doll Model, and how it compares to ASP.Net MVC and OpenRasta – Jeremy Miller talks about the internals and how FubuMVC implements functionality, comparing to the ASP.NET MVC and OpenRasta implementations of similar
• Reimplementing LINQ to Objects: Part 26d – Fixing the key selectors, and yielding early, Part 27 – Reverse, Part 28 – Sum & Part 29 – Min/Max – Jon Skeet continues his series on re-implementing LINQ to Objects, completing his look at ordering, and moving on to look at Reversing IEnumerables, and starts looking at the aggregates Sum and Min/Max.
• Tools for the lazy: Templify and NuGet – Maarten Balliauw looks at reducing the friction of setting up a new ASP.NET MVC project with all the common libraries that you want included, showing how the Templify and NuGet projects can really assist you in simplifying this process.
• Debugging Windows Phone 7 device traffic with Fiddler – Eric Lawrence discusses the use of Fiddler to monitor and debug HTTP traffic to the Windows Phone Device
• A first look at ConfORM – Part 1 – Context is King – Thang Chung takes a look at the ConfORM project exploring its use in configuring object relational mappings in a model driven development style
• Windows Phone 7 Design Guidelines – Cheat Sheet – ‘cherylws’ shares a Windows Phone 7 development cheat sheet which focuses on the design and certification requirements drawn from the various official documents.

Community

• A Couple of Upcoming Events – Mike Ormond highlights the UK Bing Maps Usergroup’s event on the evening of Wednesday 19th January, in London which will include a briefing on what is new in the Bing maps platform and a series of presentations of real world uses of the API. Mike also highlights the VBUG Spring Conference being held on 28/29th March in Reading