The Morning Brew

I’ve had a busy week, and so has the .NET community judguing by the amount of good stuff written this week – more of the weekends links will be posted tomorrow

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• Single-Entry, Single-Exit, Should It Still Be Applicable In Object-oriented Languages? – Peter Ritchie looks at an old software development principle, and considers its worth in OO code. There is some good discussion in the comments – I personally like a single exit from a function
• Write more empty lines! They will be read! – Philippe Leybaert talks about white space to enhance code readability.
• A few reasons to like NHibernate – Ayende reviews his favourite features of NHibernate
• Reasons to like NHibernate and ORM – Darren Stokes replies to Ayende’s post with some more details on some points.
• IoC Container, Unity and Breaking Changes Galore – Matthew Podwysocki reviews the changes in the latest release of Unity
• Recommended reading: IHttpContext and Versioning – Paul Stovell talks about the issues revolving about the recent changes to IHttpContext in the MVC Framework
• Watch out for Collection property Setters in ASP.NET Controls – Rick Strahl runs into a strange problem with collection properties on a server control.
• Caching with HttpContext.Cache and HttpRuntime.Cache – Keyvan Nayyeri talks about how you can easily get caching using System.Web.HttpRuntime.Cache rather than the cache instance in the HTTP Context
• A simple trick to code better and to increase testability – Patrick Smacchia talks about nesting level, and KISS to help make your code clearer, with a few nice examples.
• Advanced mocking: auto-interaction testing – Jimmy Bogard uses Rhino Mocks partial mock capabilities to help test changes to a legacy system with no unit tests
• DebuggerStepThroughAttribute – Craig Andera talks about an attribute to make your debugging a little simplier
• SOLID Principles – The start of a series on OOP principles, this post with some links to documents on the key principles – Single Responsibilities, Open Closed, Liskov Substitution, Interface Segregation, and Dependency Inversion

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