CodeGuru Newsletter (Feb 2, 2009)

Tuesday February 2, 2010

This Week's Topics Comments from the Editor Recently Published Books New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Handy List Selection Control that We Use Every Day Microsoft Azure Goes for the Gold What's new in ASP.NET MVC 2.0? Failed Request Tracing with IIS 7 [Updated] SHAREPOINT 2007: Integrating the Google Chart API Cover Blown on Windows 8 Release? URL Routing in ASP.NET 4.0 Lambdas in VC++ 2010 Hottest Discussions New Articles on Internet.com Five Common Mistakes Made in Moving to Agile Development Successful Agile Planning: An Iteration How-To, Part I Creating a Business Intelligence Steering Committee Comments from the Editor One thing about the Web is that it evolves. With time, things change. Of course, on Codeguru things haven't changed all that much over time. But the lack of change is likely to change going forward! In fact, you are going to see a number of changes over the next week. On Wednesday — if all goes well — we are planning to do an update to Codeguru. You're going to see changes to the home page, the navigation, and the presentation of articles. These are a lot of other changes you'll see as well. These are not revolutionary changes, but rather incremental. These changes are a step towards the future. I'm sure there will be some changes you don't like. In fact, there are a few I don't find as great improvements. However, these changes set us up to be able to do more going forward. Hopefully you'll find that it is a step in the right direction. I'm sure if you don't, you'll let me know! One thing you'll see we did was to move the navigation to the top. This gives more space to articles and content. This should help a lot on the article pages. We've also added a new tag that can be used in our article pages. This is the LANG tag. You can use this with your code to get automatic color formatting in your listings. There will be more on the LANG tag in the help files that Rich is creating. I'm sure that there will be some bugs and issues with the site changes that get launched. Please feel free to post comments in the Feedback forum on the site, or to email me directly if you have comments. One other change that is coming is a change to this newsletter. In the near future, we will be revamping this newsletter. This will include dropping my editorial ramblings. I've been rambling since early 2001, so it is time to try something different! Of course, if you like my ramblings, then subscribe to the Codeguru Blog. I'll continue to ramble there and in the forums! Until next time... Brad! --------------------------- Bradley L. Jones www.CodeGuru.com webmaster@codeguru.com -- Blog -- --------------------------- Get Ready for Windows 7! Pros and Cons? Learn What Our Experts Think Download Free eBook Now. Click Here. Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here   Recently Published Books For those of you keeping up by reading books. The following are just a few of the new books that have been recently released. If you've read any of these, feel free to write a review to be posted on CodeGuru. See the submission guidelines. Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum By By Craig Larman and Bas Vodde for Addison-Wesley 624 pages for $49.99 Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers By Bradley L. Jones for Wiley 288 pages for $24.99 (Hardbound) This has been out for a while, but I thought I'd do one last a shameless plug! New & Updated Articles on CodeGuru Following are short descriptions of new articles on CodeGuru. If you are interested in submitting your own article for inclusion on the site, then you will find guidelines here. Handy List Selection Control that We Use Every Day By Mark Strawmyer .NET Developers may not recognize the terms invariance, covariance, and contravariance, it is likely they have been impacted by them and left wondering. This article will explain the concepts and the changes being introduced as part of .NET Framework 4.0. Microsoft Azure Goes for the Gold By Stuart Johnston February 1 was the date the company had named to begin charging for Azure services. What's new in ASP.NET MVC 2.0? By Jani J�rvinen Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET framework 4.0 bring many new exciting features for developers. One of them is the improved ASP.NET MVC 2.0. This article focuses on the new and improved characteristics in this popular web application framework from Microsoft. Failed Request Tracing with IIS 7 By Jani J�rvinen Solving ASP.NET web application problems can sometimes be difficult even if you are sitting next to Visual Studio. Luckily, IIS 7 and later contain features to help you uncover the troublemakers. [Updated] SHAREPOINT 2007: Integrating the Google Chart API By Gatika Patel Discover how to use Google Charts in SharePoint 2007. Cover Blown on Windows 8 Release? By Stuart J. Johnston Did a former Microsoft employee post projected ship dates for upcoming key products like Windows 8? URL Routing in ASP.NET 4.0 By Scott Mitchell Scott Mitchell explores the enhancements to URL Routing made in ASP.NET 4.0. Lambdas in VC++ 2010 By Marius Bancila Explore lambda functions, a new feature available in C++0x, as implemented in the new C++ compiler from Visual Studio 2010. Discussion Groups Check out the CodeGuru discussion forums Forums include Visual C++, General C++, Visual Basic, Java, General Technology, C#, ASP.NET, XML, Help Wanted, and much, much, more! ... HOT THREADS ... Custom data binding, how should I implement it? (C#) SCTP protocol support on MS Windows, looking for help (Network) Templates and forward declarations (C++) New Articles on Internet.com Five Common Mistakes Made in Moving to Agile Development By Herman Mehling We explain the top 5 and how to overcome them. Successful Agile Planning: An Iteration How-To, Part I By Ken Clyne Agile development practices, when performed correctly, are lightweight and inexpensive, avoid wasted cycles, and ensure that just the right features are built Creating a Business Intelligence Steering Committee By David Leininger Implementing BI through a committee positions all areas of a company to contribute.

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