The Morning Brew

Software

• Update 4.0.2 for the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 – Brandon Bray highlights the .NET 4.0.2 update which adds a number of new features and fixes, along with updated tooling releases.
• What’s new in MEF ‘version 2’ Preview 4? – Nick Alok highlights the 4th preview release of MEF ‘Version 2’, with an official release planned for inclusion in the .NET 4.5 release. This post highlights some of the significant new features, looking at the ue of Open Generic Parts, Convention based part registration, composition scoping enhancements, and much more.
• Unity 3.0 Preview for .NET 4.5 – Grigori Melnik highlights the 3.0.1026.0 Preview release of Unity which adds support for its use on .NET 4.5 with both WinRT and desktop profiles along with some other improvements.

Information

• The Blue Book gets Mango’d! Rob Miles’ "Windows Phone Programming in C#" Blue Book updated for Windows Phone 7.1(5) And so do the lab’s and demo’s too! – Greg Duncan highlights an update to the ‘Windows Phone Programming in C#’ Blue Book from Rob Miles which updates all the content to the Mango Release, available from the Microsoft Faculity Resource Center.
• Windows Phone InfoKit for Public Sector Developers – Joel Reyes has collected together a comprehensive collection of links to help public sector developer get up to speed with Windows Phone Development, also of use to non-public sector devs too – Joel lists the various software components to install, training resources, Blogs and articles, and open data sets you can make use of.
• Building a Calculator using WP 7.1(Mango) – Niladri Biswas walks through the building of a simple Windows Phone 7 Calculator application using the Mango tools, working from File > New Project to having a working application
• Top 100 Utilities & Addins for Visual Studio 2010 & TFS 2010 – David Baliles shares his top 100 Visual Studio and TFS extensions and addins – for full details of the addins there is a spread sheet which includes the links to the project pages for each.
• Stop Asserting Arguments by Name – Sean Feldman discusses an annoyance in a number of areas of .NET Development where parameters take the name of an argument as a string. Sean shares a simple code snippet which alows you to get the name as a string yet keep your code strongly typed (and refactor friendly)
• InternalsVisibleTo, PublicKey and PublicKeyToken – Marko Apfel discusses the use of these three assembly level attributes which allow you to strong name and expose the internal members of one assembly to another.
• Best Practices for Getting Started with SVG – Jennifer Yu shares a nice introduction to the use of SVG graphics in HTML5 applications, looking at the various features of SVG, and how you can interact with it using CSS and JavaScript.

Community

• Free OpenWrap workshop, Cambridge, 5th of November – Sebastien Lambla highlights his visit to the Cambridge Developers’ User Group where he will be running an OpenWrap workshop showing how OpenWrap can be used to solve your dependency needs. The event is on Saturday 5th November

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