The Morning Brew

Software

• SSMS Tools Pack 2.0 is out! With huge productivity booster features that will blow your mind and ease your job even more. – Mladen Prajdi? announces the release of the SSMS Tools Pack 2.0, a great collection of extensions to SQL Server Management Studio including Session Auto Save, Session restore and e new Execution Plan Analyzer.
• Scrum for Team System v3 Open Sourced – Giles Davis highlights the open sourcing and continued maintenance of Scrum for Team System v3 by Crispin Parker.
• Announcing PostSharp 2.1 RC 2 – Gael Fraiteur announces the second Release Candidate release of the PostSharp 2.1 Aspect Oriented Programming Framework. This release, available via NuGet and a direct download, contains a number of bugfixes and improvements over the previous release candidate.
• Lucene.Net.Contrib – Itamar Syn-hershko highlights the Lucene.Contrib project he has started on GitHub to collect together various Lucene.NET extensions in one place, and is looking for contributions from the community

Information

• Hook Up Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview and Visual Studio Express for Windows Developer Preview to Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview content on MSDN – Paul ORear explains why the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview looks up online help against VS2010, and shows how you can make your installation look to the now available Dev11 query service.
• Optimizing the website Performance using ASP.NET 4.5 – Kalyan Bandarupalli takes a look at the ASP.NET 4.5 support for bundling together static CSS and JavaScript resources to improve website performance.
• WPF 4.5- Part 4 : the new Binding’s ‘Delay’ property – Jonathan Antoine continues his exploration of WPF 4.5 released as a part of the Developer Previews at //Build/ . In this 4th part in the series he takes a look at the new ability to delay the updating of a Binding so the value displayed is update after a specified timespan, allowing for a more responsive UI by not overwhelming the system with updates.
• Empowering Enums – Chris Eargle takes a look at adding some useful functionality to your existing uses of Enums by using Extension methods and some of the concepts from the Enum Class pattern.
• WCF in Win8 Metro styled apps? Absolutely supported – Piyush Joshi takes a look at consuming Services through WCF in the new Windows 8 Metro Style applications, showing where it is similar and where there are differences, such as configuration, walking through a simple example.
• Why no ForEach method on IEnumerable interfaces – Mark Zhou discusses the reasons why there is no ForEach method available as a part of the IEnumerable interface, discussing how the C# foreach keyword is actually implemented against IEnumerable.
• Raising the right PropertyChanged with C# ‘s Caller Info Attributes – Rob Fonseca-Ensor discusses a part of C#5 which did not make it into the //Build/ released Developer Previews, a useful feature allowing the calling member name to be automatically passed as a parameter, which will make implementing things like RaisePropertyChanged much easier.
• Core .NET Types Usable from a Metro Style Application – Jeffrey Richter shares a list of all the Core .NET types that are available in the new Windows 8 Metro Style Applications
• Premature Optimization – Keyvan Nayyeri discusses the meaning of the often used phrase ‘Premature Optimisation’, looking abck at the orignins and original meaning of the phrase and discussing how it can affect the software being delivered.

Community

• Europe Virtual ALT.NET: Recording of Mike Murray on Compositional and Convention-based Web Development With FubuMVC @ E-VAN 20 September 2011 – Jan Van Ryswyck shares the recording of Mike Murray’s session for the European Virtual Alt.Net UserGroup from Tuesday this week. Mike explored the various aspects of the FubuMVC project, along with the concepts and design goals, and took a nice route (no pun intended) through the project, starting with a nice getting started guide.
• HTML5 WebSockets with Brad Drysdale – The ‘London Web’ user group are meeting on the evening of Thursday 20th October where Brad Drysdale will be giving a session on the WebSockets API in HTML5.

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