The Morning Brew

Yesterday was Service Pack 1 day - I think every other post I read this morning was people telling me that, so I suspect the first few links won’t be that new to you…

Software

• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 Release to Manufacturing - As outlined in the release timetable following the SQL 2008 release, yesterday was Service Pack 1 day for .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Peter Provost has the details from the press release and the download links to the key components. From what I’m reading it is well worth running the Service Pack Preparation Tool , and also bear in mind that you may need your original installation media for VS2008 too.
• ASP.NET in .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 - Details of the changes to ASP.NET in .NET 3.5 SP1 - this is not a separate install, it comes as part of the SP1 install.
• NArrange .NET Code Organizer Adds StyleCop Compatibility - James Nies announces the latest release of NArrange, the code organiser. New in this release is support for StyleCop member ordering.
• A WPF taskboard for Scrum\VSTS - Andrew Stopford highlights a neat looking set of addins that enable Scrum in Visual Studio TS, including a really nice looking task board - shame I don’t run TS though

Information

• Representing dependencies in code - Kirill Osenkov talks about dependencies in code, and how they can be represented - interesting reading.
• A question of Scale - Ayende talks about when to scale and when not to scale, and the reasons to be wary of unnecessary scaling.
• Introduction to D3DImage - A number of major new feature in WPF were included in the .NET 3.5 SP1, and D3DImage is just one of them - this article runs through all the getting started aspects of D3DImage
• ASP.Net Load Testing and Optimization Toolkit - So you want to be a hero - A nice run down of 9 types of tool for performance and load testing and optimization, complete with recommended tools with a mini review.
• .NET Framework Assistant - Julian M Bucknall highlights one of the new features of .NET 3.5 SP1 for users who use FireFox 3 - now you get a helper for click once applications!
• ISO-11179 Naming Conventions - SQLDenis highlights the ISO-11179 standard for database naming conventions - might be worthy of consideration when creating coding standards documents.
• C# Refcard Available - A nice Reference Card for C# created by C# MVP Jon Skeet, covers all the important areas.