The Morning Brew #770

ASP.NET MVC 3, WebMatrix, Nuget….

• Announcing release of ASP.NET MVC 3, IIS Express, SQL CE 4, Web Farm Framework, Orchard, WebMatrix – Scott Guthrie announces no less than 7 major releases today, with ASP.NET MVC 3 hitting RTM along with NuGet, IIS Express 7.5, SQL Server Compact Edition4, Web Deploy and Web Farm Framework 2.0, the Orchard Content Management System 1.0 and WebMatrix 1.0.
• Windows Web App Gallery – Install an App – The Web Platform Installer also gets an update with these releases, and is probably the easiest way of getting hold of all the new stuff, along with plenty of other great code, utilities, SDKs and platforms.
• ASP.NET MVC 3 and NuGet 1.0 Released (Including Source Code!) – Phil Haack discusses the ASP.NET MVC 3 and NuGet releases, highlighing release notes, documentation, the NuGet Gallery, and his team’s plans for the future.
• MVC 3 Project Upgrade Tool – Marcin Dobosz announces the release of a tool to help you move your ASP.NET MVC 2 projects to the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release. The tooling works for any VS2010 ASP.NET MVC2 project which targets .NET 4, so you will need to perform this upgrade first using Visual Studio. Marcin has the full step by step process listed in this post.
• WebMatrix shipping January 13, 2011 – ‘lmoroney’ highlights the WebMatrix 1.0 release. This product brings easy to use entry level web development tooling to the Microsoft platform making it ideal for creating simple sites and providing a similar experience to other web platforms allowing ease of transition.
• WebMatrix is Released – a free tool that allows you to create, customize and publish web sites on the Internet – Bruno Terkaly discusses the availability of a number of Open Source projects which can be worked on within WebMatrix,
• Thoughts on WebMatrix – Rob Conery shares his impressions of the WebMatrix product and platform looking at all aspects of the product from data access to the Razor view engine, and then compares WebMatrix to other Web platforms.
• ASP.NET MVC3, WebMatrix, NuGet, IIS Express and Orchard released – The Microsoft January Web Release in Context – Scott Hanselman discusses the whole range of releases yesterday, providing links to all the parts, and discusses where they fit in to the whole Microsoft Web picture

Software

• ReSharper 5.1.2 is Released – The team over at JetBrains announce the release of ReSharper 5.1.2, a bugfix and update release for the V5 product line which introduces fixes to stop intellisense interference with Razor, improvements to intellisense in watch windows, along with various other improvements and speedups.
• VsVim Update Released (Version 0.9.4) – Jared Parsons announces the latest update to his Vim emulation layer for Visual Studio 2010 which brings Vim keybindings to the Visual Studio IDE
• SharpDevelop 4.0 Final – Last week the SharpDevelop team released their latest version of the SharpDevelop IDE, a free OpenSource development environment for .NET development. This new version brings loads of new features to bring parity with .NET 4 with full WPF and Entity Framework Designers, support for IronRuby and IronPython, and much more
• Scaffold your ASP.NET MVC 3 project with the MvcScaffolding package & MvcScaffolding: Standard Usage – Steve Sanderson announces the MVCScaffolding NuGet package which brings a very simple way of creating a skeleton MVC user interface which you can then build upon.

Information

• Monads in C#-4. Linq loves Monads! – Miek Hadlow continunes his exploration of Monads in C# in preparation for his DDD9 session with a look at building on the Identity<T> implementation improving the SelectMany to reduce the complexity of its use
• Reimplementing LINQ to Objects: Part 33 – Cast and OfType – Jon Skeet continues his series on re-implementing LINQ to objects with a look at the Cast and OfType operators.
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Constraining Generics with Where Clause – James Michael Hare shares another post in his .NET Little Wonders series, looking in this post at the use of ‘where’ with generics to control what types can be specified fo the type parameter.
• Razor Tip #2 : Inheritance & Configuration – K. Scott Allen shares his second Razor View engine tip looking at how you can control what class the view inherits from
• ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Mobile – Maarten Balliauw explores the use of jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC to create rich mobile web site experiences.
• How Developers Should ‘Read’ Exceptions – Davy Brion shares some advice on how to get the most information out of the exceptions thrown by your applications.

Community

• Online YUI 3 Introductory Course Monday, Jan 17th – Luke Smith is hosting a free online half day course on Developing with the Yahoo! YUI JavaScript library on Monday 17th January running from 9:30am PST to 1pm
• Event: .Net on a chip! – Tuesday 1st March 2011 sees Ryan O’Neill delivering a session to the Oxfordshire NxtGenUG usergroup on the .NET Micro Framework