The Morning Brew

Software

• PhoneGap mobile HTML5 framework adding support for Windows Phone Mango – JC Cimetiere highlights the release of a beta of the Phone Gap platform which includes support for Windows Phone 7.1 Mango, allowing you to create Phone applications in HTML5 / JavaScript with access to some native functionality and deploy to a range of device types such as iPhone / iPad, Android, and now Windows Phone.
• Want Denali CTP3 (aka next version of SQL Server)? Here’s a Hyper-V VHD just for you (in 36 parts, but I’ve also provided direct download URL’s for use in your DM of choice…) – Greg Duncan highlights the availability of a pre-installed and configured Hyper-V Virtual Machine of the SQL Server Denali CTP3 release, available as a substantial 36part download.

Information

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The String Split() and Join() methods – James Michael Hare continues his series of posts on less well known areas of the C# language and .NET Framework with a look at some of the more unusual options of the String Split and Join functions.
• Know your place in life [Free PlaceImage control makes it easy to add placeholder images to any WPF, Silverlight, or Windows Phone application!] – David Anson shares an implementation of an image control which handles content that takes a while to load into your application by providing a placeholder while the image loads, swapping it with the image when loaded. David’s control supports WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7
• There is no need to provide an custom error message when using Code Contracts – Derik Whittaker takes a look at the exception messages produced by the Code Contracts functionality when validating parameters, discussing how you should use the built in condition statement message rather than duplicating the condition in your own message
• Client side paging of Server Paged OData Entity Sets using dataJS – Lohith shares a look at OData Paging, how you can support and enforce paging in your OData feeds, sharing a sample application demonstrating the concepts.
• Periodic Agents on Windows Phone 7.1 – Shawn Wildermuth discusses the use of the different types of agents in Windows Phone 7.1, taking a look in detail at the use of Periodic Agents to perform background tasks on the phone.
• Tweaking NHibernate Mappings at Runtime With a Remapper – Alex Ullrich discusses the ability to manipulate NHibernate Configuration and Mapping at runtime, allowing you to manipulate settings in the config depending on the database system being used without having to have separate mappings, sharing a code sample which illustrates this technique.
• Data Contracts and Behaviors over the Wire – Jeremy Likness discusses the ability to share your model classes between client and server in Silverlight applications via WCF Services, exploring some of the unintended side affects you may encounter when using this approach

Community

• Progressive .Net Tutorials – A Review @skillsmatter #prognet11 – Gary Ewan Park shares a look at the sessions he attended at this week’s Progressive .NET Tutorials held at Skills Matter. Gary has prepared his nots on all the sessions he attended into blog posts sharing the salient information from each session
• Progressive .NET Tutorials 2011 05-09-11 – Skills Matter have been busy since the end of the Progressive .NET Tutorials getting videos of all the sessions up on their site providing a great opportunity for those who weren’t able to attend to get some of the benefit of the event. I shall certainly be watching a good number of these.
• London Ajax User Group Meetup: MooTools, Dojo, jQuery, and PhoneGap – The London Ajax User Group are meeting at Skills Matter on Tuesday 13th September for two sessions, one exploring jQuery and PhoneGap for developing mobile applications using JavaScript with Mark Drew presenting, and David Walsh will be exploring JavaScript Development with MooTools and Dojo.
• Functional meets parallel – Functional Brighton – The Functional Brighton group will be meeting on Tuesday 20th Septemnber at The Skiff in Brighton where they will be exploring the parallelizable nature of functional code looking at its implementation in a number of languages.
• RavenDB Webinar #2 – Q & A Free For All – Ayende celebrates the success of the first RavenDB Webinar and announces plans for another webinar today (Friday) which will also include a Question and Answer session.

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