The Morning Brew

Software

• Web Deployment Tool Beta 1 (Go Live) just released - The Microsoft Web Deployment Team Blog announces the release of Beta1 of the Web Deployment Tool - and this looks like it includes a go live license too, so can be used in production now!
• First Moonlight Release - Miguel de Icaza announces the first release of Moonlight, the Mono SilverLight implementation. This release supports Silverlight 1.0 functionality

Information

• Beyond Mocks - the Partial - Karl Seguin gives one of the best explanations of partials in mocking terms I’ve ever read
• MVP & MVC simply put - Andrew Stopford explains the difference between MVC and MVP in a succinct way.
• Lambda Expression and Object Mappers - Claudio Lassala looks at a few techniques for mapping from one type of object to another type of object.
• Castle demo App #2: Monorail basics - Gojko Adzic turns his attentions to the MonoRail MVC framework in the second part of this series
• The Power of Programming With Attributes - K. Scott Allen has some joking commentsin this post, but ends with a good question - I’m hoping for some interesting discussions in the comments on this one.
• DefaultDotAspx.com - A newly launched ASP.NET knowledge base
• The Why and How of .NET Profiling - Amirthalingam Prasanna discusses profiling c# code using the CLR Profiler and Performance Monitor
• Using the unit of work-per-request pattern in ASP.NET MVC - Andrew Peters looks at implementing a testable unit of work per request in ASP.NET MVC. The article has example using MindScape’s Lightspeed ORM, however the principles apply across most other ORM products.
• DataContracts without attributes (POCO support) in .NET 3.5 SP1 - Aaron Skonnard looks at a new .NET 3.5 SP1 feature - the ability to serialise types in WCF which have not been decorated with the usual [DateContract] [Serialisable] types of attributes.
• Behavior Driven Development: As Human As Possible - SecretGeek talks about naming conventions for Behaviour Driven Development , and proposes how the test runner could be improved to make the process friendlier
• The Big Finale - Jonathan Pobst announces a very important milestone for the Mono Project - API completeness for the Winforms public API
• FullTrust on the LocalIntranet - The .NET Security Blog talks about a change I’ve been waiting a long time for which occurs with SP1 of .NET 3.5 - allowing applications full permissions when launched off a network share.
• .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta: Changes Overview - Patrick Smacchia continues on from Scott Hanselman’s post yesterday by analysing the .NET 3.5 SP1 beta changes using NDepend.

Community

• Liverpool Users of .NET 15th May - Tomorrow evening I will be giving an introductory talk on F# at the Liverpool .NET user group - pre-registration for the event is required, so get your name on the list if you are interested in attending