The Morning Brew

Software

• Updates: Process Explorer v11.20, ZoomIt v2.0, Sigcheck v1.53, Handle v3.4 and introducing Sysinternals Live beta. - Sysinternals update a few tools, and provide a new way of getting them - a WebDav enabled site which will allow direct access to the .EXE for all the tools to make i much easier to get the tools on a particular machine.
• xUnit.net 1.0.1 Released - Brad Wilson announces the release of xUnit.net 1.0.1 - a bug fix release, with support for ASP.NET MVC preview 3, and Support for newer builds of F#

Information

• Fluent Interfaces And Readability - Joel Ross considers the implementation and readability of Fluent interfaces.
• Foundations of Programming - pt 8 - Back to Basics: Exceptions - Karl Seguin continues his series on programming basics with a look at exceptions
• nHibernate many-to-many collections. (OR mapping is not one table one class) - Peter Van Ooijen talks about collection mapping in NHibernate.
• The Unit Testing Story in F# Revisited - Matthew Podwysocki looks at unit testing in F# again, reviewing the changes in the testing frameworks (xUnit.net and Gallio) that make F# testing work again.
• Ways of Performance in .NET - Part1 - Tao Wang starts a series on performance techniques in .NET
• What’s Wrong with this? - Alan Mendelevich argues for the use of ‘this.’ before any field of the object to allow distinctions from local variables.
• Community Call to Action: NOT Northwind - Scott Hanselman is fed up of the Northwind sample database and is now looking to create a new example database.
• Cool ScriptManager stuff I missed… - Jay Kimble highlights some of the aysnc functionality of the Script Manager
• .Net Equality - Will Smith reminds us all that there are multiple ways of testing equality.
• ActiveLinq - Scott Watermasysk prototypes an active record like implementation using Linq to Sql

Community

• Call for Party with Palermo RSVPs. Reserve your spot now for the Tech Ed party - Jeffrey Palermo announces his latest event at TechEd 2008