The Morning Brew

Ack….closed the laptop too quickly again today – thanks to those who reminded it hadn’t gone out yet…

Software

• IE11 Developer Preview for Windows 7: Enabling Next Generation Sites and Apps – Faster – The Internet Explorer Team announce the release of the Developer Preview of Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 users, bringing all the new features of IE11 to Windows 7 desktops.
• Announcing jQuery Mobile 1.4.0 Alpha – The jQuery Mobile team announce the release of jQuery Mobile 1.4 alpha, an earlty preview of the work they are doing on improving the performance and reviewing the widgets available for the next significant release.
• Advise the .NET Framework Team – Rich Lander solicits and discusses what the team do with the feedback you give them on things like the .NET Framework 4.5.1 preview, discussing the split between the ‘real time’ fix now and the ‘forward looking’ feature requests.
• modern.IE is OSS… The HTML/CSS/JS code scanner from Microsoft is free and OSS (oh, and the IE VM’s have been updated too!) – Greg Duncan highlights the latest batch of updates to the Modern.IE web testing site, along with the latest offer for reduced cost virtualisation software for Mac users, and the latest batch of testing VMs.

Information

• What is the type of the null literal? – Eric Lippert discusses the strange and wonderful world of the null literal, and what type it should be considered to be according to the specification, and the difficulty the team had in deciding this.
• C#/.NET Little Wonders: Getting Caller Information – James Michael Hare resumes his ‘Little Wonders’ series with a look at getting method caller information using both the stack object and compile time attributes.
• Drag and Drop with Tasks & Async – ‘BenWilli’ takes a look at one of the examples from Lucian on converting functionality into tasks to allow easy composition, exploring the drag and drop example.
• Stupid Question 223: How do you do type forwarding in C#? – Iris Classon follows on from her previous question of the day with a look at how you actually go about performing type forwarding in C#

Community

• New Windows Azure Benefits for MSDN Subscribers! – Channel 9 – Scott Guthrie announce a competition to win an Aston Martin V8 Vantage by taking up the free Windows Azure benefit included in MSDN Subscriptions. I wonder if there is any significance in the fact that this is ScottGu and the car is red?!?

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