The Morning Brew

50 editions of the Morning Brew already – time flies when you are reading far too many TechBlogs! I’m still playing catchup from the weekend so today is a little lighter than planned.

Software

• Firefox 3 beta 4 now available for download – Latest Beta of Firefox 3 is now available – I wonder how it stacks up agains IE8
• Graphics Debugger Visualizer. – A neat CodeProject sample, wich gives a functional Visual Studio Debugger visualiser for Graphics objects

Information

• Professional Visual Studio Extensibility – Finally Released – Keyvan Nayyeri announces the official release of his book on Extensibility
• Constructor Chaining – C# 411 shows a nice way of making all your constructors share code.
• Fitting Linq To Sql into a real world datalayer – Justin Etheredge looks at using Linq to Sql in his data tier, highlighting some of the common pitfalls
• A Question of Programming Ethics – Coding Horror highlights a horrific abuse of user supplied information
• Inside Vista Sidebar – A nice overview of the functionality provided in the Vista Sidebar for developers.
• Visitors and Multiple Dispatch – K. Scott Allen looks at implementing multiple dispatch with Expression<T>, but doesn’t get a particularly great outcome.
• Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 and Beyond – Phil Haack reviews the latest MVC beta, and looks towards future enhancements

Community

• Liverpool .Net Usergroup – 1st Meeting – Tonight marks the first meeting of the newly founded Liverpool .NET usergroup

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