The Morning Brew

Software

• New JavaScript library for OData and beyond – WCF Data Services Team announce a new poject hosted on CodePlex which aims to allow you to work more easily with data in formats such as JSON and OData. ‘datajs’ is a cross browser JavaScript library which brings helpers for obtaining data in OData format and enabling you to work with it.
• LLBLGen Pro v3.1 released! – Frans Bouma announces the release of LLBLGen Pro 3.1, the latest update to his Object Relational Mapper Designer and framework. If you already have a license for 3.x this is a free upgrade, and brings numerous new features including support for model only relationships, an extensible import system, field ordering, along with significant performance improvements to the LLBLGen Pro Runtime framework.

Information

• Important .NET Framework 4.0 Command Line Tools You Must Know – Suprotim Agarwal shares a breakdown of the various commandline tools included in the .NET Framework, giving a brief overview of them and linking to more details of the tool on MSDN.
• How to deploy to, and debug, multiple instances of the Windows Phone 7 emulator – Samuel Jack discusses how he has been working with multiple instances of the Windows Phone 7 Emulator while deploying and debugging a multi-player game, walking through the process of achieving this.
• Once More In Defense Of The var Keyword – K. Scott Allen discusses the use of the var keyword for declaring local variables in C#, and suggests that var leads to better variable naming
• Special 48-Hour Offer: Free ASP.NET MVC 3 Video Training – Scott Guthrie highlights an offer from Pluralsight where you can get over 3 hours of video training covering ASP.NET MVC 3 absolutely free for the next 48 hours
• Design Patterns Series: The Observer Pattern – ‘Max’ uses a Super Bowl based example to discuss the Observer Pattern, and shares a Super Bowl implementation of the pattern to handle the score notifier.
• Focusing on Real World Web Performance with Internet Explorer 9 – Jason Weber discusses the performance factors being considered by the Internet Explorer 9 team to ensure that their browser is as quick as possible in real world scenarios
• You Want To Wrap OData Around What?!?! – Jonathan Carter looks at the WCF Data Services Toolkit and shows how it can be used to make arbitary sources of data into OData services, illustrating with an example.
• Expression Builder, DSL, Fluent Interfaces and C#, RPG (as in role playing game) Style – Greg Duncan highlights a tutorial from Primary Objects which looks at Fluent Interfaces,Domain Specific Languages and Expression Builders with an example of all of these in the context of a role playing game
• GMind Solution: Steps to Call WCF Service using jQuery – ‘pranay’ shares a step by step example of calling a WCF based service from jQuery on a webpage, sharing the full code in the step by step process, highlighting some of the key points in the code.

Community

• jQuery Manchester Meetup – The second gathering of the jQuery Manchester (UK) group will be happening on Tuesday 8th March 2011 at Manchester Digital Laboratory. This meet up sees Jon Bines hosting a session on building ‘Sexy Navigation’ in a live coding session, and DJ Adams on JSON.
• LDNUG FEB 16th Raven DB and CQRS – The London .NET User Group feature two DDD9 presentations giving you a great opportunity to see two of the sessions you may have missed. The meeting, on Wednesday 16th February features Rob Ashton delivering his session on RavenDB, and Ian Cooper on Command Query Responsibility Separation.

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