The Morning Brew

The .NET community is knee high in April Fools pranks - hopefully none of this mornings links were jokes…

Software

• Enterprise Library 4.0 March 2008 CTP released - Grigori Melnik announces the release of the March 08 CTP of the Enterprise Library
• NUnit 2.4.7 Releases - Latest point release of NUnit offers improved performance and logging, along with the RowTest extension for parametrized units test
• Visual Studio® Team System 2008 VSTS VPC Image (Trial) - An updated release of this Virtual PC image - this one expires on 31st December 2008, , so gives you 9 months to try out the most expensive version of Visual Studio.

Information

• Inline XML Code Documentation using Sandcastle - Scott Nichols gathers together a collection of links for XML documentation and using SandCastle
• WPF Business Application Series Part 3 of n - Business Object Declarative Programming; How To Implement Object Validation & Logging - Latest part in this series on building Busines WPF applications covers a lot of ground
• xUnit.net RC2 Released - Matthew Podwysocki takes a look at the features of the recent RC2 release of xUnit.net
• Reflector Add-in Starter Kit (C#) - Jason Haley release an Addin for Visual Studio to make creating Reflector Add-ins easier to write by templating the common stuff. C# Only at the moment
• SQL Server 2008 - HierarchyId - How do you move nodes/subtrees around - Simon Sabin goes into some detail on HierarchyId - I recently saw Simon present at my local Community Launch Event and he briefly touched on this new feature - so some more information is welcome.
• PTOM: The Dependency Inversion Principle - Jimmy Bogard looks at Dependency Injection in the latest post in the SOLID series.