The Morning Brew

Software

• CC.NET Community PlugIns - Release: 1.0.430.10581 Beta - An update to this collection of plugins for the CruiseControl.NET Continuous Integration Server.
• WPF performance profiling tools - The WPF Performance Suite is a small collection of performance monitoring tools specifically for WPF applications. Includes support for monitoring the rendering, profiling of services, and many other standard monitoring featues

Information

• Journal 15 - Issue 15 of the Architects Journal is now online - This edition looks at the role of an Architect, and a number of the supporting skills needed
• The Weekly Source Code 25 - OpenID Edition - Scott Hanselman takes a look at OPenID implemenations in DasBlog, ASP.NET Webforms and ASP.NET MVC, and how Cardspace fits in with all this.
• Model-based Client-side Validation for ASP.NET MVC - Steve Sanderson looks at validation in ASP.NET MVC applications, with the validation being handled in the model classes rather than the View or controller as often happens
• New Date and Time types in SQL Server 2008 - Chris Brandsma looks at two of the new datatypes in SQL 2008
• Sexagesimal Conversions in .Net - Dan Rigsby looks at the importance of Sexagesimal - a base 60 number system- and how it relates to time (60 minutes in an hour) and more significantly Longitude and Latitude.
• Unit Testing Denial Pattern #1: Pretending the test is no longer valid - Roy Osherove talks about the danger of ignoring a problem bacause you don’t think its relevant any more..
• Unhandled Exception handler (UnhandledExceptionEventHandler) to collect more information about unexpected exceptions - Thottam R. Sriram looks at how you can handle your unhandled exceptions
• Why .NET IEnumerable predicates are cool - A nice simple example of how the new IEnumerable predicates help with code readability.
• Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ - Part 4 - Keyvan Nayyeri has the last part of his ASP.NET MVC follow along series on building a simple blog engine published. His blog post includes links to the earlier parts in case you missed them
• LINQ To XML: I’m hooked! - Luis Abreu starts looking at the LINQ to XML object model
• LINQ To XML: building documents with a functional approach - Luis Abreu continues looking at the new XML API, building documents
• MSDN Updates - Craig Andera talks about the recent changes at MSDN - most notably the switch over the the new MSDN on the main host.
• Generic reordering - Mike Hadlow looks at creating orderable lists in MVC
• The Cardinal Rule of Automated Testing - Alan Keefer discusses an important premise of testing. His tests seem to be more like integration tests than unit tests, byt a lot of the principles discussed apply to both