The Morning Brew

Monday is a Bank Holiday here in the UK, so inkeeping with Morning Brew tradition there will be no edition on Monday, with normal service resuming on Tuesday – Enjoy the long weekend.

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• C#/.NET Little Wonders: The Enumerable.Repeat() Static Method – James Michael Hare continues his Little Wonders series looking at less well known parts of the .NET Framework and C# language. This part takes a look at the Enumerable.Repeat method to take single values and turn them into sequences.
• .Net Implementation of a Priority Queue (aka Heap) – Carl Nolan looks into implementing a priority queue data structure using a heap, sharing his implementation, and comparing it to types available in the .NET framework.
• Subterranean IL: The ThreadLocal type – Simon Cooper continues his Subterranean IL series looking at the internal implementation of certain types in the .NET Framework, exploring the ThreadLocal type in this part.
• Help! How Do I Detect When a Client Thread Exits? – Mike Hadlow is also making use of ThreadLocal and is looking at how he can clean up these resources when the thread ends. Be sure to check out the linked StackOverflow question in the comments for further discussion.
• Less Than Dot – Blog – Simple.Data and complex types: many to one – Christiaan Baes presses on with his series looking at the use of the Simple.Data MicroORM for working with data from VB.NET, digging into the Many to One relationship.
• Unit Test a project having external dependency(WCF Proxy) using Fakes & Visual Studio 11 Beta – Atul Verma works through using the new Visual Studio 11 Beta Fakes functionality to create unit tests for a project which takes an external dependency on a WCF Proxy.
• From Code-Behind to MVVM, a three part series… – Greg Duncan highlights a nice series of posts over on CodeProject from Shenwei Liu looking at how you can take your development of WPF and Silverlight applications to the next level by making the jump from Code-Behind to MVVM
• Coding guidelines for HTML and CSS – Jens O. Meiert shares Google’s latest public coding style guide for HTML and CSS, a useful and lightweight style guide for these often forgotten about types of ‘code’
• HTML5 Development For ASP.NET Developers – Burke Holland introduces a new series of posts and videos looking at development using HTML5 for ASP.NET based developers, with the first part being posted up today (giving you something to enjoy over the long weekend)

Community

• WPUG presents WPBarCamp – The London based Windows Phone User Group are running a 6 hour all day Saturday Bar camp event on Saturday 19h May, aimed at the more experienced Windows Phone Application Developer. The event is running using the bar camp style, where attendees are encouraged to present, and the agenda will be decided on the day by the participants.
• Skills Matter : In The Brain of Phil Trelford: F# for Commodities Trading – Phil Trelford will be presenting an ‘in the brain of’ session at Skillsmatter on Monday 14th May, looking at the use fo F# in finance.
• NxtGenUG – Event: EF5 Preview – New Features – The NxtGenUG in Hereford welcome Geoff Lombardi for a session on the new features included in Entity Framework 5, in a session aimed at those who have previously used EF which will explore Enum Support, Code First Migrations, Spatial Data Types, and table valued functions.

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• Task Parallel Library and Servers, Part 4: TaskHelpers – Brad Wilson presses on with his series looking at the use of the Task Parallel Library (TPL) from server based applications written particularly in ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web API. In this part Brad discusses the use of the TaskHelpers class to help make the use of tasks easier in code.
• MSDN Magazine: May 2012 – The May edition of MSDN Magazine is now available online, with articles integrating media in Windows Phone applications, HTML5 based Windows Phone apps using Apache Cordova, Web sockets, Mobile Development in ASP.NET MVC 4 and much much more.
• PragPub for May, 2012 – The Pragmatic Bookshelf announce the release of PragPub Magazine’s May 2012 edition, as usual available in a variety of electronic formats. This month sees articles on Scala, the storage of data structures, professionalism in email, command line applications, along with the usual columns.
• More PetaPoco: Id’s and Multi-POCO queries – Eli Weinstock-Herman digs deeper in his exploration of the PetaPoco micro ORM, following the themes laid out by Christiaan Baes is in his exploration of Simple.Data. In this article Eli takes a look at adding columns and tables and querying across multiple objects.
• Interested in the dirty depths of Windows 8? Check out this 83 page Windows 8 Forensic Guide – Greg Duncan highlights an 83 page guide to a variety of aspects of Windows 8 features from Amanda Thompson, looking under the hood at folder structures, registry values that underpin the functionality.
• Kata – The only way to learn TDD – Peter Provost discusses learning to develop in a Test Driven Development (TDD) way, discussing the role of the Kata exercises in getting a handle on doing TDD, and highlighting a number of Kata exercises in detail, and providing links to further ones.
• Connecting to WCF RIA Services in a Windows 8 Metro Style App using Upshot.js and Knockout.js – Dave Isbitski looks at creating a Metro stile application using Upshot.js and Knockout.js to present data retrieved from a WCF RIA Services based service
• Setting Up an Offline Production Debugging Environment – Sasha Goldshtein discusses creating a complete offline environment for debugging production issues, useful if you work in a restricted environment. In the article he looks at the tools and set up required to build a fully working debugging environment.
• From Zero to Proficient with MEF – Tim Corey gives an introduction to the Managed Extensibility Framework in this CodeProject article, looking at how you can create extensible applications and extend existing applications using MEF.
• More fun with DateTime – Jon Skeet discusses more fun and games with dates and times in your code, discussing the effect timezone changes, daylight savings, and conversions of time can result in.

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• A New Look for CodePlex – Mark Groves discusses the work the CodePlex team have been doing, and announces the release of a new look site, styled in the new Metro Look and feel.
• Entity Framework 4.3.1 Migrations and non English locale – Simone Chiaretta discusses an issue he ran into working with Entity Framework Migrations when using a non-English locale, sharing a workaround for the issue.
• ASP.NET MVC3 Using Code First Entity Framework Without Database Generation – Phil Fresle discusses the use of Entity Framework Code First in situations where you are not generating the database from the model, and in the updates to the post discusses tooling which can help if you are working in this way.
• Introducing Workspace Reloader – A Visual Studio AddIn to save your open files across project reloads – Scott Hanselman creates his first Visual Studio Add-in to scratch an itch the StackOverflow guys were having with project file edits outside the environment (from Version control) causing the project to reload and lose all their open windows.
• Query Optimizer Deep Dive – Part 4 – Paul White wraps up an interesting series of posts looking at the SQL Server Query Optimizer, and based around his presentation on the subject. This is well worth reading if you deal with SQL Server.
• F# for game development: Portable Class Libraries: Are they worth the trouble? – Joh discusses the Portable Class Libraries discussing some of the difficulties he’s having getting his code to work as a portable library, and wondering if it is worth the effort.
• More Simple.Data with VB.Net: adding fields and tables – Christiaan Baes continues digging into the Simple.Data MicroORM library looking at further columns and tables, and creating relationships between objects.
• Persisting enumeration classes with NHibernate – Jimmy Bogard discusses the use of Enumeration classes in C# and looks at how NHibernate provides hooks to allow persisting them to the database, and how the convention can be applied across your code base.
• ASP.NET MVC: Adding aria-required attribute for required fields – Stuart Leeks – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Stuart Leeks discusses how you can extend ASP.NET MVC to provide additional helpers which customize the markup generated further, looking at how you can apply the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) attributes to inputs.

Community

• Event Exclusive: DDD Reading Announced – Sara Allison shares an announcement from Dave Sussman that the next DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper event to be held at Microsoft’s Reading campus will be held on Saturday 1st September.

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