The Morning Brew

Another day, another significant Microsoft Announcement, so today we have a special section dedicated to the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 announcements.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0

• Microsoft Unveils Next Version of Visual Studio and .NET Framework – The official Microsoft Press Release regarding VS2010 and .NET framework 4, focusing on what seems to be a key area, Application Lifecycle Management.
• What’s next for Visual Studio and .NET FX? – Somasegar talks about the key focuses and priorities of the Visual Studio and .NET framework teams looking forward to VS2010 and .NET 4
• Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2010. Developers Respond. – CIO.com has a great article about VS2010 and .NET 4.0, getting responses from a number of Developers about the news.
• Visual Studio Team System 2010 Week on Channel 9! – The agenda for a week of all things Visual Studio 2010 on Channel 9, starting with the announcement, and moving on to Business Alignment, Software Quality and Team Foundation Server on Friday.
• Visual Studio Development and Database Edition are one – Grant Holliday focuses on one part of the VS2010 announcement – it looks like anyone who owns Visual Studio 2005/2008 Team or database edition will get to use both products from 1st October
• Shining the Light on Rosario – Brian Harry talks about the details of the VSTS plan, and about the three pillars and how the new product supports them.

Software

• NHibernate 2.0.1.GA is released – A point release of NHibernate, fixing a few bugs, making a few improvements and including some patches.
• A Web Based Sequence Diagram Editor – Dev102.com highlight a useful looking Web Based Sequence Diagram Editor, which generates sequence diagram images from simple textual representations.

Information

• My MVC Starter Template – Rob Conery shares his own version of the default ASP.NET MVC site template, with slightly different organisation and some useful features out of the box it looks like it might be a good starting point for new sites.
• Common issues found in code review – Ayende shares some interesting pieces of code, showing how each can be improved by using language features better or making the code clearer.
• Object Oriented F# – Creating Classes – Matthew Podwysocki goes back to F# Basics, starting new series on the object oriented features of F#, looking at creating classes in this part.
• IComparer vs IEqualityComparer – Keyvan Nayyeri thinks about searching and sorting collections, and looks at the two interfaces involved, IComparer and IEqualityComparer
• Introducing Lucene.Net – Andrew Smith gives a brief introduction to using Lucene.NET for full text indexing

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50 editions of the Morning Brew already – time flies when you are reading far too many TechBlogs! I’m still playing catchup from the weekend so today is a little lighter than planned.

Software

• Firefox 3 beta 4 now available for download – Latest Beta of Firefox 3 is now available – I wonder how it stacks up agains IE8
• Graphics Debugger Visualizer. – A neat CodeProject sample, wich gives a functional Visual Studio Debugger visualiser for Graphics objects

Information

• Professional Visual Studio Extensibility – Finally Released – Keyvan Nayyeri announces the official release of his book on Extensibility
• Constructor Chaining – C# 411 shows a nice way of making all your constructors share code.
• Fitting Linq To Sql into a real world datalayer – Justin Etheredge looks at using Linq to Sql in his data tier, highlighting some of the common pitfalls
• A Question of Programming Ethics – Coding Horror highlights a horrific abuse of user supplied information
• Inside Vista Sidebar – A nice overview of the functionality provided in the Vista Sidebar for developers.
• Visitors and Multiple Dispatch – K. Scott Allen looks at implementing multiple dispatch with Expression<T>, but doesn’t get a particularly great outcome.
• Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 and Beyond – Phil Haack reviews the latest MVC beta, and looks towards future enhancements

Community

• Liverpool .Net Usergroup – 1st Meeting – Tonight marks the first meeting of the newly founded Liverpool .NET usergroup

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The Liverpool members of the team (Myself, Mike, Derek,  and Thom)assembled at Lime Street station with blury eyes  for the 6:07 train to Euston.  Reports indicate that Sunny has made it to his train from Manchester too, so hopefully we should all converge at Euston.

Attempts on the train to get us all networked and sharing a single Internet connection failed abysmally, mainly due to my laptops refusal to see any one elses.  Some of the guys managed to get  in a little bit of gaming along the way, lighting up the carriage with the sounds of Grand Theft Auto – I’m sure that the other occupants really enjoyed the sounds of their mega violence. 

Yesterday, we got our hosting for our Hack set up ready, and the team blog is also configured.  Hopefully by the time we arrive the domain will have successfully registered and be pointing to the right place. 

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