The Morning Brew #59
Posted by Chris Alcock on 26 Mar 2008 at 08:06 am | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Normal service has been resumed today - I hope everyone has recovered from yesterdays link overload.
Software
- VisualSVN Server 1.1 Released - VisualSVN Server is a commercial windows based SVN server - 30 day trial is available, and licenses are $49 per user, with free licenses for active members of open source projects
- NullObject.For - Paul Stovell has created a tool for unit testing which creates empty implementations of Interfaces to be used when unit testing in the situation where you don’t care about the interactions with that type - i.e Logging
Information
- yield is elegant - Chris Brandsma talks about a real world use of the yield keyword
- The Parable of the Bathroom - A nice set of analogies for different styles of lock - good reading if you are new to this kind of thing
- Developing a Robust Data Driven UI Using WPF - The DataModel - Eran Kampf looks into building a data model especially suited to use with WPF applications
- Handling, throwing - exceptions and Clean up on error - Thottam R. Sriram looks at the different ways of throwing exceptions and how you can clean up after them
- Linq and AutoIncrement on TinyInt - Derik Whittaker highlights a limitation he encountered using LINQ
- A MSN Messenger Library for Construction of Communication Based Applications. - Derek Bartram works through building a MSN Messenger client application in some depth. This looks really good, however be aware of the modified license - you can’t use this code commercially or in commercial not for profit apps without prior approval - shame really
- 10 Tips to Boost Your Productivity with C# and Visual Studio 2008 - John W Powell outlines 10 tips for productivity - although the title says 2008, most of this stuff applies equally in 2005
[...] The Morning Brew #59 (Chris Alcock) [...]
VisualSVN server is free. I agree that the website is confusing about which product it charges money for and I just bought another license to the VisualSVN product which I already have a license for.
Derek Bartram works through building a MSN Messenger client application in some depth. This looks really good, however be aware of the modified license - you can’t use this code commercially or in commercial not for profit apps without prior approval - shame really
Firstly, thanks for the link to my work. I’m a PhD student on a very limited income; selling my work for commercial use will hopefully make it possible to continue studying and give me the time to update these libraries.