The Morning Brew #959

Chris Alcock

13 years ago

Software

Announcing WCF Data Services Oct 2011 CTP for .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 – Abhiram Chivukula of the WCF Data Services Team announces the October 2011 CTP release of WCF Data Services. This release targets .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 introduces new and updated features to the platform including Vocabularies, ODataLib .NET client and server, Actions and Spatial primitives
Nancy: v0.8.1 just out the door – Andreas Håkansson highlights a service release of Nancy which addresses some of the high priority bugs found in the 0.8 release
Windows Azure Autoscaling Block BETA is out – Grigori Melnik announces the availability of a beta release of the Windows Azure AutoScaling Block, available via NuGet as both binary and source distributions. This release adds new features and improvements including support for email notifications for scaling operations, Application throttling rules and improved configuration.
Web Workbench 2.0 – Faster, Minification and Pro – Mindscape announce the release of their second edition of their Web Workbench Visual Studio Extension which adds support for Sass, Less and CoffeeScript to the Visual Studio IDE. Version 2 introduces a pay for model with the ‘Pro’ edition along with a commitment to keeping all the previous V1 functionality available for free.
Woohoo! We’re pleased to announce the Microsoft acquisition of Skype has closed – Eric Ligman highlights the completion of the Microsoft acquisition of Skype, an almost 6 month in the making deal

Information

New Free book about WP7 Development! – ‘MSJordanTech’ highlights a free e-book looking at working with Silverlight and the Windows Phone platform, along with the Windows Phone Toolkit August 2011 release. The book, by Boryana Miloshevska, is voer 240 pages and contains full source for examples, available as a free download (with option to donate towards the costs)
C#/.NET Little Wonders: Searching Strings With Contains(), StartsWith(), EndsWith(), and IndexOf() – James Michael Hare continues his Little Wonders series with a look at some more of the string methods, looking at those which relate to searching inside strings with a look at Contains(), StartsWith(), EndsWith(), and IndexOf(),
Vocabularies in WCF Data Services – Turker Keskinpala shares a look at the new Vocabularies feature of the WCF Data Services latest release.
ASP.NET 4.5 Preview: Using model binding to display data & ASP.NET 4.5 Preview: Using model binding to update data – Gunnar Peipman takes a look at the new ASP.NET 4.5 model binding features looking at how you can use it to display and update data in your applications.
JavaScript OMG #26 to #30 – Mike Taulty continues his series of posts looking st some fo the things he has learnt about JavaScript from reading a number of books, some vital to understanding and others surprising features.
Rendering PDFs with pdf.js using HTML5 and JavaScript – Dean Hume highlights a neat project sponsored by Mozilla labs which makes use of JavaScript and HTML5 to render PDF documents.
Using a gmail account as a production bug tracking server – Patrick Smacchia discusses how he uses a GMail account to manage his applications error reporting, allowing him to easily query and learn about the unhandled exceptions his application generates.
The D in DVCS – Jimmy Bogard discusses the true meaning of the D in DVCS looking at how DVCS allows you to work in a different manner to more traditional versioning systems
Git Beyond the D in DVCS – Keith Dahlby joins in the discussion highlighting some of the key features of the Git DVCS and how he uses them.

Community

The Stack – Liverpool .Net User Group – November 2011 – The Stack Usergroup in Liverpool (UK) are hosting two sessions from Gill Cleeren on the evening of Monday 21st November. Gill will be delivering a session on Windows 8 Development and WinRT and will also be showing how to build a Windows Phone 7 application from start to finish.
Upcoming Free VS ALM Webcasts – Dave McKinstry highlights a series of web casts he will be delivering with Ed Blankenship and Anna Russo looking at the testing features of Visual Studio ALM. Sessions run at the end of this month and during December between 1 and 2 PM CST.