The Morning Brew

Yesterday I was a bit quick posting about the Reflector Update - so fast in fact that the upgrade hadn’t yet been made available. I’ve checked this morning and the Help-Check for Updates is now issuing V5.1. Thanks to Patrick for commenting yesterday to let me know.

Software

• EfTidyNet :- Dotnet Wrapper for Tidy library - An update to this HTML Tidy wrapper library, now with an x64 specific version
• ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 - Daniel Moth announces the latest ASP.NET MVC Preview
• Unity - Release: March 4 Weekly Drop - The Microsoft IoC project, Unity gets its latest weekly update

Information

• Unity IoC API Changes Affect Code Samples - March 4, 2008 Weekly Drop - David Hayden talks about some of the significant API changes in the latest update to the Microsoft IOC tool
• patterns and practices Complete Catalog - J.D. Meier gathers together a useful index of all the patterns and practices team’s wares.
• The Cost Of Breaking Changes - Phil Haack talks about why braking changes in a framework are bad - you might be happy to rebuild, but there is no way to be sure that all you 3rd party component vendors will do the same
• Silverlight Samples Update - Lutz Loeder updates his Silverlight samples to work with Silverlight 2 beta 1
• Virtual or non-virtual by default, do we really have to choose? - Hans-Eric Grönlund outlines a halfway house solution to this raging debate