The Morning Brew

Its been a busy weekend in the .NET space - two major releases this weekend (MVC and F#) and lost of other good content. A few of the weekends posts that I still have left to read will creep into tomorrows post I think.

Software

• F# Releases September 2008 CTP! - Matthew Podwysocki highlights the release of the F# September 2008 CTP, wich contains lots of new things, including better IDE integration. Matthew also links to the best of the posts about the new functionality.
• Silverlight Spy – See what that Silverlight application is really all about… - Greg Duncan highlights a great looking tool for seeing what is going on inside a SilverLight application.
• NetMassDownloader 1.5 Has Complete Support for VS 2008 SP1 - John Robbins announces the update of .NET Mass Downloader, now with support for the .NET 3.5 SP1 Sources.
• ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 5 Released - Phil Haack announces the release of ASP.NET MVC Codeplex Preview 5, alos be sure to read his article (linked from this post) on How a Method becomes an Action.
• Testing Sites Against IE 6, IE 7, and IE 8 (beta 2) - Microsoft have updated the downloadable Virtual PC images with Browsers of different version. The latest crop expire in January 2009

Information

• MSDN Low Bandwidth Bookmarklet - Jon Galloway shares a useful tip which allows you to get a lighter weight page on the MSDN documentation site.
• How to use the ASP.NET MVC ModelBinder - Melvyn Harbour examines the ASP.NET MVC ModelBinder a new feature of the latest release of the ASP.NET MVC
• C# 3.0 Query Expression Translation Cheat Sheet - Bart De Smet shares a useful table of conversions for LINQ expression translation
• SQL SERVER - 2008 - Introduction to Merge Statement - One Statement for INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE - Pinal Dave examines one of the new features of SQL Server 2008
• Working With Linq’s Expression Trees Visually - Rob Conery looks at the expression trees that underpin his linq expressions using the Expression Tree Visualizer
• Factory Method + Reflection: Achieving better extensibility in applications - Caio Kinzel Filho shows how using a factory method and reflection allows you to create plugin object creation functionality allowing your applications to be extended.
• Custom Enumerators. - Jaime Olivares shows how you can create custom Enumerators which modify the behaviour of any enumerator to make it circular, reversible, constrained or stepped
• Partial Rendering View Engines in ASP.NET MVC - Brad Wilson talks about the new Partial Rendering View Engine in ASP.NET MVC PR5
• Microsoft StyleCop - Release: StyleCop 4.3 - The StyleCop team have released the StyleCop 4.3 SDK, which show how you can customise and extend StyleCop
• FREE AppDev Training CD-ROM - AppDev are offering free Training CD’s for mail order or download on topics ranging from ASP.NET Ajax through to Java