The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing the NuSoft Framework 3.0 - Joel Ross announces the release of the NuSoft Framework 3.0 - a business object and data layer framework built using Code Smith templates
• xUnit.net RC2 Refresh - Brad Wilson announces an updated release of the xUnit.net RC2
• CSLA .NET version 3.5 is now available - Rockford Lhotka releases an updated version of his business object framework with support for C#3 and Visual Studio 2008

Information

• UITestBench, a lightweight UI testing library - A run through of how a simple UI testing framework can be made for Win Forms applications
• My NHibernate 2.0 Supa’ Layer - Rob Eisenberg takes some LINQ and some NHibernate and mixes the two, with an interesting looking result
• How do Extension Methods work and why was a new CLR not required? - Scott Hanselman talks about how it was possible to achieve one of the cool C#3 features without releasing a new CLR
• What to do about the slow startup of web services - Johan Straarup highlights 2 things you can to do improve the startup of your web services
• We’ve shipped! C# in Depth is out now (ebook) - Jon Skeet - who’s thoughts on the future of C# have made interesting reading - announces the completion of his ‘C# In Depth’ book - now available in e-book format
• String Format - Made Simple - A nice Silverlight tool to help building String.Format format strings.