The Morning Brew

The end of a very busy week - thank goodness.

Software

• Sandcastle Version 2.4.10520 at MS Download Center - Sandcastle finds a temporary home while the decision as to where to host it for real is made

Information

• A Tale of Two Compilers - Ed Maurer talks about the existence of two compiles on machines with Visual Studio, and explains how VS actually compiles code.
• .NET Coding Guidelines - Joe Stagner shares some .NET coding guidelines
• Script reference profiler - Bertrand Le Roy has created an ASP.NET control that you can place on your page during development to get all the script references that are generated so you can easily make use of the new capabilities of ASP.NET Ajax 3.5 sp1 to combine these scripts.
• SOA: Making The Paradigm Shift Part 9 of N - Sam Gentile continues his SOA series with a look at SOA Design Approaches, and looks in detail at the Middle-Out SOA approach.
• Compound Operators Or How T-SQL Is Morphing Into VB Or C# - SQLDenis show the new SQL Server 2008 Compound Operators
• Compress WebResource.axd in ASP.NET - Mads Kristensen implements a module and handler to compress the WebResource.axd
• UserControls with the MVC Framework - Henry Cordes looks at implementing a data grid using ASP.NET MVC user controls
• Free software from ComponentOne - Joseph Guadagno points to ComponentOne who are now giving away their community editions of their IDE Spell Checker and DemoWorks Screen cast too for free.
• IronRuby and ASP.NET MVC - John Lam talks about his recent Tech Ed demo of ASP.NET MVC working fully with IronRuby
• Functional C# - Unfolding Lists - Matthew Podwysocki continues his experiments with functional programming in C# with a look at list manipulation
• Pain reduction: creating ductile tests - Ayende runs into trouble with a brittle test and shows an alternative way of solving such issues
• My BDD experiment - Ayende is trying BDD, and is requesting that people comment on his list of specifications - I’m hoping for some interesting discussions in the comments of this one.
• Develop for Maintenance - Rob Reynolds offers some good tips on making your deliverables more maintainable