The Morning Brew

There is nothing worse (or sillier) than being ill with a cold when the weather outside is fair and sunny - but that’s been my weekend - feeling a bit better now though (thankfully)

Software

• Silverlight 2 Beta2 Released - ScottGu gives the lowdown on the new Silverlight 2 Beta 2 release, along with Expression Blend and Visual Studio tools to support it.
• ScrewTurn Wiki Version 2.0.32 + Other News - Latest update to this .NET powered Wiki Engine - This is the last significant release of the v2 line (except for bugfixes)
• Paint.NET v3.35 BETA is now available - Latest beta of Paint.NET, the MS Paint replacement written in .NET.

Information

• Refactoring Legacy Code - Part 1: Dealing with Static Cling - Sendhil Kumar R starts a series on legacy (code without unit tests) code, and in this first part looks at techniques to help work round static code.
• Where to start a new program - Chris Brandsma talks about where to start on a new project, outlining a number of possible ways to get started.
• Upgrading to Silverlight Tools Beta 2 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta - BradleyB gives some detailed instructions for installing the new Silverlight beta on different versions of VS2008
• MVC + Facebook == Wonderful Development Platform - Nick Berardi has been experimenting with the ASP.NET MVC with a view to creating FaceBook applications with it
• LINQ through PowerShell - Bart De Smet takes a look at consuming LINQ through PowerShell - I really need to spend some time playing with PowerShell there is so much good stuff it can do.
• SOA: Making the Paradigm Shift Part 7 of N - Sam Gentile continues his series on SOA, with a look at SOA using Web Services and some of the web service standards.
• Functional C# Revisited - Into the Great Void - Matthew Podwysocki takes a look at Functional Programming in C#, and runs into issues with the way Void is handled.
• Scratching an itch: NMemcached - Ayende has a go at implementing a native .NET version of Memcached - source available
• The Art of Assembly Versions - Tony Rasa talks version numbers, and why its important to ensure that they get updated.
• Why Developers should Do Testing - Soon Hui talks about the importance of getting developers to do a bit of testing to make them a better developer.