The Morning Brew

Software

• Native NuGet Support in TeamCity – Hadi Hariri discusses the new functionality available via plugin which brings native support for NuGet into the JetBrains Team City Continuous Integration server, as previously highlighted by Scot Hanselman at TechEd US.
• PowerStudio – Ian Davis has been hard at work on PowerStudio, a Visual Studio Extension which brings tight PowerShell integration to Visual Studio 2010, supporting Code Colouring, auto-complete Intellisense, error detection in tokens and expressions, project and file templates, and much more. The Extension is available for free on the Visual Studio Gallery, and full source is available on GitHub.
• Introduction to MVVM Hands-on-lab – App Development – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Patrick Danino announces the release of an ‘Introduction to MVVM’ Hands-on-lab, available in Visual Studio Extension form and available via the Visual Studio Gallery. he lab gives a step by step tutorial on taking a traditional event based application and converting it to an MVVM unit tested application.

Information

• First Look at the New C++ IDE Productivity Features in the Next Version of Visual Studio – Sumit Kumar shares an early look at some of the new IDE productivity features for C++ Developers in the next version of Visual Studio, including a new Solution Explorer, improved intellisense, and code understanding changes.
• Fiddler In Action – Part 1 – Mehdi Khalili kicks off a series of posts looking at the Fiddler Debugging tool, exploring how it works, looking at its architecture and how it bolts into the request flow, highlighting some similar tools, and exploring Fiddler in use.
• Continuous delivery – The folks over at ThoughtWorks have created a new portal site for the ideas, principles and themes behind the practice of Continuous Delivery. The site highlights the best articles, events and resources in this area.
• My article on HTML5 for ASP.NET Developers is now online – Wallace B. McClure – Wallace B. McClure highlights his latest article, featured on DevProConnections which takes a look at some of the key components of HTML5 from the point of view of an ASP.NET Developer, examining HTML5 and how you can strat to introduce it to improve your ASP.NET web applications.
• Play Sound in HTML5 and cross browser support with backward compatibility – Joe Stagner continues his series looking at building a Workout Timer using HTML5 and JavaScript exploring the playing of sound in HTML 5 and ensuring that your sounds will be heard in different browsers
• The "got to have guide" to Iconography for Windows Phone 7 – Greg Duncan highlights an interesting article from Peter Kuhn exploring the key concepts of iconography in Windows Phone 7 applications, discussing Tile, Marketplace, and AppBar icons.
• Fun With New Live Tile API – Shawn Wildermuth is also taking a look at Windows Phone Tiles, exploring some of the changes and improvements made to the Live Tile API in Windows Phone 7.1 (Mango)
• Making the most out of IIS compression – Part 2: Configuring IIS 6 compression – Matt Perdeck shares part 2 of his series on IIS Compression, taking a look at its implementation in IIS 6

Community

• WPUG Manchester – Windows Phone – Tuesday 13th September sees the first meeting of a Manchester (UK) based Windows Phone User Group. The group will be gathering at MadLab in Manchester City centre. The speaker line up for the first event is still awaiting confirmation, but it should prove to be a useful gathering for an North West based WP developers.
• NxtGenUG – Event ‘Reach Warp speed with Velocity’ – Phil Pursglove will be presenting a session on the AppFabric Distributed Caching (previously known as Velocity) on Tuesday 20th September at the Cambridge NxtGenUG. In the session Phil will explore a variety of use cases for the AppFabric cache to improve the performance of you ASP.NET applications.

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