The Morning Brew

Another shorter post today - Google Reader was acting up this morning, giving me more errors than posts to read. Assuming things are working well tomorrow will b a catch up post.

Software

• Retina.NET 2.0 Core & Designer Released - Andres G. Vettori announces the Version 2.0 release of his ORM library
• Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.1 Beta - Keyvan Nayyeri talks about the latest beta release of the Visual Studio SDK. Download links are provided in the post

Information

• Creating cross platform GUI’s with IronRuby - Steve Eichert talks about Shoes, a DSL based library for creating GUI applications easily in code.
• The Weekly Source Code 27 - Suck Less Libraries - Scott Hanselman highlights three interesting libraries in this week’s Weekly Source Code - Umbrella (A helper layer over the BCL), Ukadc.Diagnostics (additional support in the Diagnostics space for logging to SQL, etc - created by the Microsoft UK Application Development Consulting team), and the IIS7 Hostable web core.
• MVC Storefront: Brainbender Intermission - Rob Conery runs into problems with his lazy loading in LINQ to SQL - here he explains the problems.
• MVC Storefront: Intermission’s Over, Made Some Changes - Rob Conery resolves his current issues with LINQ to SQL in the MVC Shop Front
• F# and Unit Testing - Some New Developments - Matthew Podwysocki looks at unit testing F# code, and explains a problem getting tests to run in the latest F# due to static classes being created. Thankfully, he also shows a work around for this problem.
• How Do I Get Started with the Entity Framework? - You can watch this 9 minute video… - Greg Duncan highlights this introductory video on the Entity Framework