Announcing Portable Library Tools 2 Beta for Visual Studio 2010 – The BCL Team announce the release of Portable Library Tools 2 Beta for Visual Studio 2010. This update to the portable library tooling originally released in June 2011 adds further API features support and an improved UI.
Silverlight 5.1.10411.0 Released Today – Pete Brown highlights an update to Silverlight 5 which most significantly addresses a security issue regarding true type fonts. Pete gives the full details in his post.
Json.NET – Download: Json.NET 4.5 Release 5 – The JSON.NET team announce their latest release of what is fast becoming the most popular .NET JSON library. Release 5 brings a couple of new features particularly in handling loops in object graphs, along with some bugfixes and other improvements.
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The best multi-threading debugging tool is Microsoft Excel – Ayende discusses attempting to debug and fix issues which are multithreaded, and race condition like, discussing how he makes use of logging and uses Excel to help process the output.
Inversion of Control: Overview with Examples – Himanshu Manjarawala gives a nice overview and introduction to the concepts behind inversion of control in this CodeProject article
Help Me Improve The Marionette Wiki – Derick Bailey appeals to the community making use of his Marionette project, which has featured in The Morning Brew on a number of occasions, to help improve the documentation for the project over on the Wiki by helping out answering questions and contributing content.
Cross-Browser Debugging CSS – Nicole Sullivan shares a number of great tips for helping to debug issues with CSS styling of pages across browsers, sharing her process for getting to the bottom of such issues.
MSDN Magazine on your Kindle – Liam Westley shares a tip for getting the online MSDN Magazine content onto your Kindle to facilitate offline reading – a useful tip, and one I’ll probably be making use of.
Speaking at SQLRelay. Will you be there? – Jamie Thomson highlights the SQL Relay event taking place at the end fo the month in Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and London over 5 days, featuring some of the best and brightest SQL Server speakers in the UK