The Morning Brew

The Microsoft ‘Heros Happen {here}’ launch events kicked off yesterday, so lots of people are talking about that. I have to wait until the middle of next month for the Birmingham, UK event

Software

• XML Pathfinder: a Visual Basic Utility - A usefult looking utility to help build XPath statements
• TypeMock Isolator 4.2 released - The TypeMock Team ship version 4.2
• Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition - February 2008 - Microsoft release the latest build of thiese resources to help build web services to best practices and patterns
• New: ShellRunas v1.0 Updates: Autoruns v9.13, Process Explorer v11.10, Sigcheck v1.52 - Updates of some old friends and a new release from the SysInternals team

Information

• Be Careful of Your Passion - David Starr talks about the dangers of getting carried away when writing the bits of an application that you find most interesting.
• Continuous Environment Validation - Some interesting thoughts on testing the environment your application is running in to ensure the best conditions for your application
• Creating objects - Perf implications - Ayende compares a few techniques for creating instances - interesting reading
• Prism is alive ! - Ohad Israeli announces Prism, a Composite UI Application Block designed specifically for WPF
• How should you layout code? - Tony Davis talks about code formatting and layout tools and best practices
• Sandcastle and API Documentation - Brian Peek shows how you can create good API documentation using SandCastle
• Common console commands for the typical ASP.NET developer - A collection of console commands to manage and work with IIS
• Retrofitting Code for the Web - Joel Ross shows how code can be refactored to make it usable in more than one situation - in this case making it possible to use on the web