The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing ShadowSpawn – Craig Andera announces his latest project, ShadowSpawn allows you to take a Volume Shadow Copy Snapshot of a drive, mount it as a drive letter, and execute a command against the new ‘virtual’ drive before unmounting the shadow copy.
• The commercial launch of JustTrace brings new .NET profiler to the developer’s toolset – The JustTrace Team over at Telerik announce the commercial release of JustTrace, following on from their beta releases of the product this release meets their core requirements for a new type of .NET Profiler. As a introductory offer they are also offering 50% off discounts on a developer license or developer license with subscription.

Information

• Free Security tools which you should have in your tool belt – Tiki Wan highlights collection of great security resources, both information from the likes of OWASP and the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle, along with software tools that provide some useful security related functionality.
• When to use ViewBag, ViewData, or TempData in ASP.NET MVC 3 applications – Rachel Appel discusses the differences between ViewBag, ViewData and TempData in ASP.NET MVC applications, looking at each, discussing how they work and when they are appropriate to use, removing an area of confusion which often surrounds a choice between seemingly similar options.
• Feedback of a graphic development using HTML5 & JavaScript – David Catuhe walks through the creation of a graphic based application using HTML5 and JavaScript making use of various HTML5 features such as canvas, local storage, and multi device support.
• From Soup to Nuts with the Surface 2.0 SDK – Michael Crump continues his ‘The Busy Developers Guide’ series with a look at the Microsoft Surface 2.0 SDK which is applica ble for both Surface and Windows 7 touch screen devices. In the post Michael walks through the install, and through creating your first simple sample applications.
• 19 Mango’s in 15… 19 "How Do I" 15 minute videos from MSDN on WP7 Mango dev – Greg Duncan highlights 19 nice focused videos from the team at MSDN on how to achieve various common tasks on the Windows Phone 7 Mango platform.
• Windows Phone App Hub Enhancements – Mike Ormond highlights some of the recent improvements on the Windows Phone App Hub site including more markets, private application distribution, improved application submission and lots more.
• My Leading Candidate for Worst C# Feature – Method Hiding – Shay Friedman discusses one of his most hated feature of C#, looking at the new keyword in method declarations which results in a method hiding another method declared up the inheritance hierarchy.
• ValueTypes and ReferenceTypes : Under the Hood – Abhishek Sur takes a look ‘under the hood’ at how value and reference types are implemented, answering a number of questions about how these types work and are used.
• Reducing memory footprint and object instance sizes: StructLayoutAttribute is only the beginning – R. Stacy Smyth takes a look at how you can go about calculating the size of your objects, and exploring a number of techniques you can use to shrink your objects memory footprint.
• The Principles of Good Programming – Christopher Diggins shares links and a brief overview of a number of key programming principles which have helped him become a better, more effective programmer.
• Speed up Visual Studio Builds – Arik Poznanski shares a number of tips to help improve the build time of larger Visual Studio Solutions.

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