The Morning Brew

Software

• Paint.NET v3.30 Release Candidate 1 is now available! - The title says it all - latest update to this free .NET based Paint application is now available as a Release candidate.
• AjaxView - An interesting Microsoft Research project for monitoring AJAX requests between the client and server remotely. Prototype version available.

Information

• TechEd Eilat 2008: Keynote and Brainteasers - Two interesting .NET brainteasers to get your brain warmed up this morning.
• Security Principles - J.D. Meier puts together an excellent (and comprehensive) list of security principles - very worth while reading.
• ASP.NET MVC: Introducing The MVC Storefront Series - Rob Conery starts a series of webcasts which work through the creation of a real world eCommerce store. This introductory part looks at the core pattern (Repository) and gets started writing tests. Also includes guest appearances by a few big names.
• Mocking nested methods - Chris Brandsma illustrates a technique that can allow you to create tests for methods without dependency on the returns of nested method calls - at the expense of increasing the code complexity
• Tackling the F# Productization - Don Syme talks about the productization work that the F# team have been doing.
• Linq and Delayed execution - Derik Whittaker takes a look at deferred execution of LINQ queries.
• Replace your Collections with IEnumerable<T> - Tony Rasa looks at moving from concrete collection classes in his API to IEnumerable<T>