The Weekly Links 2

This is the 2nd post in an ongoing series of weekly roundups of links useful to developers.  Given the release of Visual Studio 2010 earlier this week, there is a definite VS2010 theme in today’s post.

Update

Just to make aware, it looks likely that the BarCamp Belfast event will be postponed from the 17th to the 22nd of April.  Check the twitter account for the latest news.

Tools

• Visual Studio 2010 Released – Scott Hanselman highlights the new features in the latest Visual Studio release.
• Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta – Following this week’s release of VS2010, the Visual Web Developer Team Blog announce the release of the latest release of the Web Developments Project
• SPServices – A jQuery library that wraps wraps the SharePoint web services in an AJAX wrapper for use in JavaScript.  Available from CodePlex.
• AllMargins – A VS2010 extension that replaces the excellent add-in Rockscroll for VS2005/2008.
• Ninite – A great website that allows you to build a bulk installer of a number of great (freeware or open source) applications for Windows. [I used the installer generated by the website this week to help pave my new developer machine, and I really recommend it!]
• CodeRush Xpress for C# and VB – The refactoring toolset is now freely available to all Visual Studio 2010 developers.
• PSake 4.0 – An updated version of the PowerShell Build library for .NET 4.0 is announced by James Kovacs.

Information

• Moving to Visual Studio 2010 - A free eBook is made available by Microsoft for developers on how to move to VS2010.
• Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 – A free eBook from Microsoft Press, useful to database developers who are already using SQL Server.  Link courtesy of Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day.
• My History of Visual Studio – Rico Marian gives his personal history of Visual Studio, as he leaves the Developer division in Microsoft.
• Visual Studio: Why is there no 64 bit version? (yet) – Another post from Rico Marian on why there isn’t a 64 bit version of Visual Studio.
• Same Markup: Writing Cross-Browser Code – A blog post form the IE blog on how to write cross-browser compatible HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
• Rethinking the User Interface Paradigm of IDEs – Niall Doherty highlights the Code Bubbles project that could be the future of the developer user interface.
• How to Refactor the Helper Class – John Sonmez blogs on how to go about refactoring a helper class.  The second in a two part series of posts.

Events

• NW-MTUG Lightening Session – Alan Bradley from NW-MTUG calls for local speakers for a planned event later in teh yaer.
• C# 4.0: What's New? – The next NW-MTUG event in Derry/Londonderry is announced for 17th May.
• LIDNUG: .Net Code Protection with SecureTeam – A online event from the LIDNUG on how to protect proprietary software.
• Introduction to Application Development With Silverlight 4 – NIMTUG host Jesse Liberty in Derry on 22nd April.

Careers

• Northgate IS – Various technical positions are currently available from Northgate IS in Belfast.
• Liberty IT – Software Professionals, Database Developers and Associate Software Engineer/Graduates roles in Belfast.
• Kainos - Infrastructure Services Engineer, based in Belfast.
• Acorn IT Solutions (via NIJobFinder)– Software Developer, based in Maghera.
• Allstate – Oracle DBA, based in Belfast.