The Morning Brew

Software

• Windows Phone Developer Tools January 2011 Update is now available for download – Aaron Stebner highlights the release of the January 2011 Update to the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools SDK. This new release includes an updated version of the Windows Phone 7 Emulator which includes the Copy/Paste functionality which will be coming to the physical devices in the near future.
• Notes on Silverlight and Phone Toolkits, Testing and Other Phone Stuff – Jeff Wilcox also discusses the Windows Phone 7 SDK update, looking in detail at the copy / paste functionality, discussing the other changes in the SDK, and looking towards the February 2011 update release.
• AsmSpy: A little tool to help fix assembly version conflicts – Mike Hadlow shares a simple little command line tool which will output the assembly references and version numbers for each of your dependent libaries which will help when diagnosing problems with assembly references and versioning.
• Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework "Sample Browser" v2 available for Technical Preview – Jialiang Ge highlights the new and improved sample browser for the All-In-One Code Framework, allowing you to view the various samples and search for code from within the samples.

Information

• If Writing An Object That Is IDisposable, Don’t Fail During Construction – Steve Smith explores the IDisposable pattern for working with unmanaged resources safely in .NET, exploring some of the issues that can occur if you allocate your unmanaged resources in the constructor of your object
• Using DbContext in EF Feature CTP5 Part 10: Raw SQL Queries , Part 11: Load and AsNoTracking & Part 12: Automatically Detecting Changes – Arthur Vickers completes his series of posts looking at the DbContext in the CTP5 release of the Entity Framework Features, exploring the running of native SQL Queries through Entity Framework, Loading entities without tracking changes, and a look at the automatic change tracking functionality.
• New Validation Attributes in ASP.NET MVC 3 Future – Imran Baloch explores the additional validation attributes available in the ASP.NET MVC 3 Futures assembly which provide Email, URL, CreditCard and FileExtension validations.
• Functions inside page using Razor View Engine – ASP.NET MVC – Hajan takes a look at how you can create functions inside your Razor view engine pages using the @functions syntax and the underlying programming language of the template.
• Internals of Anonymous Types – Abhishek Sur continues his series of posts looking at the internal implementation of various language features. In this post he explores how Anonymous types are represented by the compiler into C# and the intermediate language.
• MSDN Magazine: February 2011 Issue – The February 2011 edition of the MSDN Magazine is now available online. This month the focus is on dynamic programming, along with looks at F# pattern matching, Workflow, TFS, the use of SynchronizationContext, and all the usual columns.
• F# + Razor View Engine = FSRazor – Keith Dahlby shares his experiments with using the Razor View Engine with the F# language, showing a simple example of the combination in use, and looking at the next steps for his experiments.
• TDD breaking the mould – Gojko Adzic shares the recording of his recent session on different models of Test Driven Development which he delivered at Skills Matter

Community

• The 2010 Niney Award nominees have been announced – Raymond Chen highlights the Niney Awards, Channel 9’s awards for contributions to the developer community with the winners being awarded based on community votes
• Some videos from DDD9 Sessions – John Price highlights the availability of videos from the sessions at DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper 9 which were hosted in Chicargo, including Mike Hadlow on Monads, Liam Westley on Async, Paul Stack on Continuous Integration, Helen Emerson on CSS and Andy Gibson on MVC.
• Boilerplate talk slides for DDD9 – Dan Maharry shares the slides from his session at DDD9 on the HTML5 Boilerplate Project.
• DDD9, teaching Jon Skeet C#, and fun with exceptions – Mark Rendle shares his impressions of DDD9, on having Jon Skeet in the audience for his talk, and discussions of some of the techniques from his session on Functional C#
• jQuery Conference: Boston 2010 – Videos from the jQuery Conference held last year are now available online, with over 25 sessions already available and more still to come. The videos, including the keynotes from John Resig and Richard D Worth cover all aspects of jQuery, from JavaScript testing to HTML6.

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