The Morning Brew

Software

• Nancy v0.8.0 – Best Laid Plans.. – Steven Robbins announces the release of Nancy v0.8.0, a .NET framework similar to Sinatra. This new release brings a significant number of new features along side bugfixes and tweaks. This release has taken the team longer than planned, mainly due to the strong community uptake
• MVVM Light Toolkit for Windows 8 (preview) #mvvmlight #win8 – Laurent Bugnion announces the first preview of his MVVM Toolkit running against Windows 8, available as an MSI installer from CodePlex and can be installed alongside MVVM Light V3 or V4 beta. As this is an early preview, there are a few things which may not be working correctly, or are missing from this release – check the blog post for full details.

Information

• New articles on async/await in MSDN Magazine – Stephen Toub highlights the October 2011 MSDN Magazine, now available online. This Month the magazine features a significant focus on the new Async / Await features of C# and Visual Basic, along with LightSwtich, F#, Silverlight, Sharepoint, data modelling and HTML5, and the usual collection of columns from recognisable names.
• Squish your CSS and JS files in your ASP.NET web apps – Hajan Selmani takes a look at the use of the SquishIt library to minify CSS and JavaScript resources used in your applications in both ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC.
• Large Object Heap Improvements in .NET 4.5 – Brandon Bray discusses the improvements in Garbage collection and the Large Object Heap in the preview release of the .NET Framework 4.5
• CTP Version of The Developers Guide to AppFabric – Alan Smith share a CTP release of his Developer Guide to AppFabric, a 117 page eBook, available in PDF and Windows Help (CHM) formats along with a web browsable version. Alan would love to hear your feedback on the EBook.
• Book Free PDF – Practical .NET2 and C#2 – Patrick Smacchia shares the 850+ page Practical .NET2 and C#2 2nd edition as a PDF. Patrick worked on this book back in 2006 and now is able to release it to the community for free – a great addition to your virtual bookshelf.
• Silverlight 5 in Action Book Excerpt: Using the Accelerometer from Silverlight 5 via Native Extensions – Pete Brown shares another extract from his forthcoming book on Silverlight 5. This partial chapter excerpt looks at the use of Native Extensions to interface with an Accelerometer
• Tell us what you think of Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview – Michael Alberts highlights a survey for developers who have experimented wth the Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview to provide some feedback to the team at Microsoft.
• Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework Sample Browser v4 Released – A New Way to Enjoy 700 Microsoft Code Samples – Jialiang highlights the new Sample Browser (V4) for the All In One Code Framework which makes use of a Metro like UI.
• TPL Dataflow- An overview – nmarun takes a look at the Task Parallel Library DataFlow introduced in .NET 4.5, looking at a couple of simple samples which illustrate how it differs from working in previous versions, sharing recordings of the applications to demonstrate the behaviour.
• Developing multiple packages in one go – Sebastien Lambla continues his series of posts looking at OpenWrap 2.0, sharing the details of the ability to build wraps from the command line

Community

• SQL Dark Arts & Asynchronous C# – DevEvening welcome Dave Morrison and Lian Westley for session on SQL Server performance tuning and Aysnc in C# on Wednesday 26th October in Woking Surrey
• RavenDB Webinar #2 – Modeling – Ayende announces the next RavenDb Weninar, to be held on Thursday 6th October, looking at modelling with Raven DB, registration is required, and there are 100 spaces available, with those who get in decided during the webinar.

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