The Morning Brew

Software

• Windows Azure Training Kit October 2012 Release – Dr. Z highlights the October 2012 release of the Windows Azure Training Kit which now includes an impressive 47 Hands on Labs, 24 demos and 38 Presentations, covering all aspects of the Windows Azure Platform.
• IE10 on Windows 7 available in November – Rob Mauceri of the Internet Explorer gives an update on Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7, which is now planned to be at a preview release in mid-November, and will feature the same standards compliant platform as IE10 on Windows 8
• CSLA 4 version 4.5 release candidate – Rockford Lhotka announces the first Release Candidate release of his CSLA 4 framework version 4.5, available via NuGet and as an installer, with the full release planned next week.
• ALM Rangers ship the new Branching and Merging Guide v2.1 – The ALM Rangers have completed and released version 2.1 of their Branching and Merging guide for Visual Studio ALM . TFS

Information

• .NET Framework 4.5 – Off to a great start – Brandon Bray shares a post from Varun Gupta discussing the uptake of the .NET Framework 4.5, sharing some of the statistics, successes and taking a look at a couple of the new features.
• Metro/Modern UI CSS/HTML Frameworks – The Code Inside Team takes a look at the range of HTML and CSS implementations of the Metro/ModernUI look and feel, discussing Metro-Bootstrap, BootMetro, Metro UI CSS, and MAdmin.
• How to Create Mobile-Ready WebForms Applications 101 – Carl Bergenhem takes a look at at creating Mobile ready applications using WebForms on ASP.NET discussing the various approaches and exploring some techiniques to help make your pages more mobile friendly.
• Windows Azure Mobile Services Preview Walkthrough – Part 6: Authentication with Third-Party Identity Providers – Roger Jennings continues his series of posts exploring the use of the Windows Azure Mobile Services, in this post taking a look at the new support for authentication through 3rd party providers such as Google and Twitter.
• Troy Hunt: She did WHAT in school?! The mechanics of a Facebook worm – Troy Hunt takes an interesting look at another area of Web Security, exploring the anatomy of a Facebook worm, looking at how it is able to replicate itself through the user base.
• Multi threaded design guidelines for libraries: Part I & Part II – Ayende kicks off a series of posts looking at best practices for multi-threading when creating libraries, initially looking at not doing it at all, and then moving on to looking at how you can write libraries which deal with shared state.

Community

• Event: Fresh round of Windows Azure Camps announced in the UK – Planky reveals some additional dates for the Windows Azure Camps for Developers and IT Pros. Three new Developer dates for sessions in London on 16th, 28th Novembers and 7th December, and an IT Pro event in 23rd November

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