The Morning Brew

Software

• jQuery 1.6 Released – The jQuery Team announce the release of jQuery 1.6, a significant release which includes a number of performance enhancements along with a re-write of the Attribute module. Please note that this release includes a number of breaking changes as a result, so you may need to exercise more caution in upgrading existing code.
• Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.0.10425 & Reactive Extensions (Rx) v1.1.10425 (Experimental Release) – The end of last month saw the Reactive Extensions get an update, with the latest version supporting .NET 3.5 & 4, Silverlight 3,4,5 Windows Phone 7 and XNA4 – I’ve not seen any blog content discussing what is new in these releases yet – if you know of one let me know and I’ll include it in a future edition.
• MassTransit 2.0 Beta – Boo Yeah! – Dru Sellers announces the release of the beta of MassTransit 2.0. This release is the first beta release of what has been a significant clean up and enhancement of the platform, available as a NuGet package and includes support for a number of new usage scenarios along with support for .NET 3.5 and 4.
• NTrace v2 now available (think Managed VS2010/.Net 4 Event Tracing for Windows) – Greg Duncan highlights the release of NTrace 2.0, a runtime framework and code preprocessor which implements an API for Event Tracing for Windows allowing you to have configurable tracing support in your applications

Information

• ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update – Scott Guthrie highlights the recent release of the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools update announced at MIX11, sharing links to content relating to the release from MIX in the form of Video recording of the sessions and Phil Haack’s announcement blog post.
• Boosting Stackoverflow.com – Oleg Smirnov discusses a number of optimisations that can be made to ORM frameworks to enhance their performance, looking at reflection, use of closures to optimise, and string concatenation
• Reactive Extensions "for the rest of us"(DevDays, Holland, Part 1) & Part 2 – Mike Taulty takes shares the video recording of his DevDays session on the Reactive Extensions, sharing the code samples from the demos
• The 10 commandments of good source control management – Troy Hunt discusses the correct use of Source control, highlighting 10 best practices, and giving some background discussion of why these practices should be followed, highlighting the benefits of doing it, and some of the costs of not.
• EFMVC – A demo web app using ASP.NET MVC 3 and EF 4.1 Code First – Shiju Varghese shares a sample application based on ASP.NET MVC3 using the Entity Framework 4.1 Code First for data access, Unity 2.0 and jQuery Mobile, demonstrating a number of application best practices – looks well worth a read of the source.
• Dealing with Now and why I’m almost done with C# and Java – Karl Seguin discusses the efforts required in languages like C# and Java to provide a suitable level of decoupling and abstraction to ensure that our code is testable, looking at some examples involving the current time.
• Securing your ASP.NET MVC 3 Application – Rick Anderson takes a look at how you should go about securing your ASP.NET MVC Applications, looking at how the advice has changed since ASP.NET MVC2, looking at the use of Filters to provide the security.
• A totally simple introduction to the MVVM concept with Silverlight – ‘pjacapozzi’ takes a looks at a minimal implementation of a Silverlight MVVM application illustrating the key concepts of MVVM including a brief look a Unit testing using the Silverlight Unit Test Framework in this CodeProject article.
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes – Hardware Decoded H.264 – & Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes – Trick Play Video – Mike Taulty continues his series of Rough Notes on the Silverlight 5 Beta release with a look at video support and how you can control playback.

Community

• Connected Development event in Leeds, 26th May – The Microsoft UK Developer Tools Team are holding a Connected Development event in Leeds on Thursday 26th May where Martin Woodward, Mike Taulty, Robert Hogg and Richard Fennell will be presenting sessions ranging from Windows Phone to Azure. Registration is required.

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