The Morning Brew

Software

• NuGet 1.1 Released! – Phil Haack announces the release of version 1.1 of NuGet, available via the Visual Studio Extension Gallery and CodePlex. This release is mainly a bug fix release but also adds a Recently used packages tab, progress bar and output window feedback during installation of packages,F# support and an updated dependency resolution algorithm. Phil also highlights potential installation problems (and a work around) if you have VS 2010 SP1 Beta installed.
• Sterling Object-Oriented Database 1.0 RTM – Jeremy Likness announces the V1.0 RTM release of his Sterling Object Oriented Database designed for use in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 applications, giving a little history of its development and pointing to the release over on CodePlex
• FsUnit Now On NuGet Gallery – Daniel Mohl highlights the release of FSUnit 0.9 on NuGet, which combined with the NuGet 1.1 release supporting F# projects makes this the easiest way of getting unit testing set up in your F# projects.

Information

• Microsoft and Nokia announce plans for a broad strategic partnership on Windows Phone – M3 Sweatt shares the details of the Microsoft and Nokia Strategic Partnership which will see Nokia being heavily involved in the Windows Phone 7 platform’s evolution.
• Nokia and Microsoft Strategic Partnership: Announcement, Press Conference webcast replay, and more – Eric Ligman also highlights the announcement with links to further information and video clips from the press conference.
• Register your HTTP modules at runtime without config – David Ebbo looks at the ApplicationPreStart functionality added to ASP.NET in version 4 which allows you to perform setup code by decorating an assembly with the PreApplicationStartMethod attribute allowing you to do things like register your own HTTP modules.
• IE9 RC Minor Changes List – Eric Lawrance shares an updated list of minor changes in the Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate providing a very useful reference for anyone working on checking the compatibility of their applications with IE9.
• Running .NET applications in-process using AppDomains – Kirill Osenkov discusses the launching of other .NET applications within your own application making use of Application Domains to separate their running and to allow the memory from loading the application to be reclaimed.
• Code Contracts in .NET 4.0 & its Internals – Abhishek Sur continues his series looking at the implementation of .NET language features at the IL level. In this post, Code Contracts which were introduced to the core framework in .NET 4 come under the spotlight.
• Design Patterns. The Bridge. Another Look – Ed Guzman explores the use of the Bridge Pattern in application architecture discussing a use and showing an implementation of the bridge in this CodeProject article.
• On Bad Code – Mehdi Khalili discusses the issue of Code Quality, looking at if it is OK to write bad code, what you can do with bad code to improve it, and how bad code comes into being.
• Windows Phone 7 Performance Measurements – Emulator vs. Hardware – Colin Eberhardt takes a look at the performance of the Windows Phone 7 Emulator vs Actual device, sharing his performance testing code so you can try it on your own machine and device.
• Using Git alongside other version control systems – Mike Hadlow takes a look at using the Git version control system along side with other version control systems allowing you to take advantage of some of the features of Git whilst still sticking to company version control policy.

Community

• DDD Scotland – Vote for Sessions – The community voting for the sessions you want to see at DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Scotland (which is on the 7th May 2011 in Glasgow) has now opened, and as is usual for these events there is an excellent range of sessions proposed – its going to be difficult to choose.
• Free Talk: TDD with JavaScript and Jasmine, by Damjan Vujnovic at Skills Matter Limited (Tuesday February 15, 2011) – SkillsMatter welcome Damjan Vujnovic tomorrow (15th Feb) for a JavaScript Test Driven Development workshop which will explore the use of Jasmine for test driving your JavaScript applications.
• Reflector 7 Giveaway – Dan Maharry has secured 50 Redgate Reflector 7 licenses to give away. All you have to do to enter is share your favourite use of Reflector (including illustrative screenshots) with the best being posted next month.

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