The Morning Brew

Software

• Introducing RockScroll - Scott Hanselman introduces the world to RockScroll, a Visual Studio scroll bar replacement which swaps the scroll bar for a visual representation of the current code file
• IronXSLT v0.3 released - An update to IronXSLT, which adds dynamic XSLT intellisense to Visual Studio, and has improved VS2008 compatibility.

Information

• Delegating Action Result - Phil Haack follows up with a generic ActionResult which allows you to support many other cases by using delegates.
• ASP.NET MVC - Using Post, Redirect, Get Pattern - Matt Hawley looks at the basic patterns that underpin ASP.NET MVC - HTTP GET, POST and redirects
• TypeConverters: There’s not enough TypeDescripter.GetConverter in the world - Scott Hanselman extols the virtues of TypeDescripter.GetConverter to convert from one type to another.
• Computers are dumb - Eric Lippert looks at a few cases where computers are stupid when it comes to large collections of objects - a few things to watch out for here
• Slightly Different Way To Assert That Exceptions Are Thrown - Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo shows how he has been testing that exceptions are thrown in his code using extension methods and lambda expressions.
• Read-only properties using automatic properties in C# 3.0 - Sandor D has a nice quick tip for read only properties using the C#3 automatic properties
• The easiest way to start with ASP.NET 3.5 Dynamic Data - Carlos Figueroa gives a step by setup guide to getting up and running with the ASP.NET 3.5 Dynamic Data
• Fast ASP.NET web page loading by downloading multiple javascripts in batch - Omar AL Zabir looks at improving site performance by gathering together all the ScriptResource.axd requests into one call.
• Implement MetaWeblog API in ASP.NET - Keyvan Nayyeri looks at implementing the MetaWeblog API in the simplest way he can.