September 2012
Monthly Archive
Posted by Chris Alcock on 26 Sep 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Hi everyone – Today’s edition is going to be late (I got stuck in bad traffic this morning, so my preparation time was cut to zero). I will be posting an edition around lunchtime today.
Regards
Chris
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 25 Sep 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Announcing the F# 3.0 Open Source Code Drop – Visual F# Team Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs – Don Syme announces the open source code drop of the F#3.0 source code, released under an Apache License. The code is included in the F# PowerPack CodePlex Project, and by releasing it open source it is hoped that it will assist tools vendors to create exciting tooling and libraries for working with F#
- jQuery Mobile 1.2.0 Release Candidate 2 – The jQuery Mobile Team announce their second release candidate release of jQuery Mobile 1.2.0, addressing reported issues, and rounding out features prior to the next release which will be the final 1.2.0 release.
- CSLA 4 version 4.5 beta 1 released – Rockford Lhotka announces the first beta release of his CSLA 4 version 4.5 Application Framework, a release which supports .NET 4, .NET 4.5, WinRT, and Silverlight 5, and bei9ng a first beta introduces a number of new features
- Open Sourcing POSH-NPM, a set of Powershell scripts to enable tab-completion for NPM command – Claudio Caldato highlights a new open source release from Microsoft which adds better integration for npm into PowerShell, enabling tab autocompletion for npm commands
Information
- A Bug Report is a Gift – Scott Hanselman discusses the issues surrounding getting good bug reports from people using your software, looking at some approaches taken by larger software companies which you can adopt into your own software
- Control the Complexity of Your JavaScript Functions with JSHint – Elijah Manor takes a look at how you can explore the complexity of your JavaSCript code using JSHint to provide you with metrics about your code, and takes a look at what those metrics mean.
Community
- Windows Azure Community Conference CloudBurst 2012 will be streamed Live! – Magnus Mårtensson highlights the Community Windows Azure Conference CloudBurst 2012, which is now practically fully booked, and announces that the conference will be streamed live, giving those not able to attend access to 2 days of great Azure content.
- DunDDD – DunDDD is a DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper community event being organised in Dundee, Scotland on the Saturday 17th November. This is a free community conference, and the call for speakers is currently open, as too are registrations.
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 24 Sep 2012 | Tagged as: .NET, ASP.NET, C#, COM Interop, Database, Development, Links, Morning Brew, SysAdmin
Software
- jQuery 1.8.2 Released – The jQuery Team announce the release of jQuery 1.8.2, a bugfix and performance regression fix release. As usual the files are available from the jQuery site, and should be making their way to the various content delivery networks.
- IE 9.0.10 Available via Windows Update – The Internet Explorer Team have released a high importance security patch for Internet Explorer 9 to address recently reported security issues. Additionally there is an update for Internet Explorer 10 to address a Adobe Flash issue.
Information
- New TaskCreationOptions and TaskContinuationOptions in .NET 4.5 – Stephen Toub discusses soem new options introduced to help further control the creation and continuation of tasks in .NET 4.5, taking a look at the use of DenyChildAttach, HideScheduler, and LazyCancellation.
await is not ALWAYS your friend – (Looks like the author has removed this post on MSDN, but it can be found here – thanks to @westleyl for letting me know) Julien Dollon discusses how, as with all things, you should use async/await in a responsible fashion to avoid harming your applications performance.
- Adding NuGet Support to F# Interactive in VS2012 – Daniel Mohl follows up the technique for getting NuGet support in Visual Studio 2010’s F# Interactive window with a look at achieving the same in Visual Studio 2012
- The F# 3.0 Freebase Type Provider Sample – Integrating Internet-Scale Data Sources into a Strongly Typed Language – Don Syme highlights a new F# 3.0 Sample Pack Sample which implements a Freebase Type provider in F#, and highlights an academic research paper which discusses the background on working with this entity graph model.
- An Introduction To F# Type Providers – F# tutorial – Keith Battocchi discusses the new Type Provider feature in F# 3.0, looking at what they are, and how they are implemented and used.
- ASP.NET 4.5 ScriptManager Improvements in WebForms – Pranav Rastogi discusses some of the key improvements to the Script Manager in .NET 4.5 WebForms, looking at the improved jQuery support, Remapping of Framework scripts, and script manager registration.
- .Net CLR Injection : Modify IL Codes on Run-time – Jerry Wang takes a look at manipulating .NET IL at runtime to provide injection capabilities
- IlPad – icemanind shares a neat looking utility for taking C# and compiling it to IL, providing a useful reference for dynamic compiling (and decompiling to IL), and also a way of learning more about the IL that underpins language constructs.
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