The Morning Brew

I think the midweek slump has hit – not a lot to report this morning.

Software

• ‘Prism’ RI first drop – Glenn Block announces the first release of Prism, a composite client framework for WPF applications. This first release all about generating visibility for the project, as the code is still undergoing large changes, and therefore not yet CTP or Beta worthy.
• IIS 7 Remote Manager for XP, Vista and Windows Server 2003 – Greg Duncan highlights the release of the IIS manager application for IIS7

Information

• Objects have dependencies. Methods don’t – Jeffrey Palermo talks about at technique to do separation of concerns on legacy code to increase testability.
• Enum With String Values In C# – A means applying string values to enums using Attributes, Reflection and extension methods.
• PTOM: The Liskov Substitution Principle – Chad Myers kicks off the series on SOLID Principles with a post on handling polymorphism and the Liskov Substitution Principle
• The Agile Micro ISV Blog: Executable Specifications – Part 2 – Tim Haughton looks at creating code based specifications with NSpec
• XmlWriter design flaws – Ivan Mitev runs into problems with the XMLWriter – I’ve encountered this issue before although my run in was in the context of web service serialisation – Its a very frustrating issue.

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