The Morning Brew

Software

• Castle Visual Studio Integration 0.4.0 – Jonathon Rossi announces both binary and source release of v0.4.0 of the Castle Visual Studio Integration which brings colourisation and Intellisense for the NVelocity language to Visual Studio 2010. The binary for this release is available from the Visual Studio Extension Manager.
• Prism Template Pack 1.4: Now with MEF Support! – David Hill highlights the release of the latest version of the Prism Template Pack, taking the version to 1.4, and introducing support for MEF and Unity into the templates, adding those possibilities to the choice between C# and VB.NET, and Silverlight and WPF.
• Performance Troubleshooting Article and VS2010 SP1 Change – Jason Zander hints at an imminent release of Visual Studio 2010 Service pack 1, discussing some of the changes that will be being made to help improve reliability of the product on Windows XP to do with Hardware Acceleration.

Information

• IE6 Countdown – Microsoft launch a new website designed to encourage the upgrading of Internet Explorer 6, and also to promote adoption of Internet Explorer 9. The aim of the site is to get use of Internet Explorer to drop below the magic 1%, which judging by some of the stats on the site will be no mean feat in certain parts of the world. This site has created quite a stir in the community, and here are a few reactions to it:
  • Microsoft joins the rest of us…and counts down to the end of IE6 – Brian Ritchie
  • IE6countdown.com – Pushing for IE6 to Die – Rey Bango
  • Missing the point with ie6countdown.com – Christian Heilmann
• Danger, Will Robinson! – Eric Lippert discusses the considerations which go into deciding wether to introduce a new compiler warning, looking at some examples where compiler warnings weren’t introduced.
• Building a simple ASP.Net application using the Entity Data Model – Nikolaos Kantzelis hase been busy posting up a series looking at the Entity Framework and its use in ASP.NET, with part 2 exploring tthe Model First approach , part 3 examining the use of stored procedures , part 4 looking at the Reading data from an Entity Framework data model through a WCF Data Service, part 5 delving into the concurrency support in Entity Framework , and part 6 explores the use of Plain Old CLR Objects (POCOs)
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: ConcurrentBag and BlockingCollection – James Michael Hare continues his ‘Little Wonders’ series with a continuation of his exploration of the concurrent collection classes, exploring the use of ConcurrentBag and BlockingCollection in this post.
• NuGet Package of the Week #1 – ASP.NET Sprite and Image Optimization – Scott Hanselman kicks off a new series exploring some of the best NuGet packages currently available. In this first post Scott looks at the ASP.NET Sprite and Image Optimization, available for both WebForms and MVC / Razor, showing how to obtain the library, and looking at its application in your applications.
• Why We’re Going With HTML(5) Instead Of Silverlight – Davy Brion discusses the outcome of his research into UI technology which has resulted in his client opting for HTML5. In the post Davy discusses the key factors which influenced the decision, and also provides his comparison spreadsheet.
• Auto updating a desktop app – Louis Salin discusses the difficulties of providing a self updating desktop application, and shares his lightweight solution to this problem, discussion its creation and design.

Community

• Webcast on NServiceBus with Andreas Öhlund – Udi Dahan gives a reminder that the much awaited second part of Andreas Öhlund’s NService Bus presentation is being held by the European Virtual Alt.NET Usergroup, tomorrow (Tuesday 8th).

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