The Morning Brew

Quite a lot of software in today’s edition

Software

• MassTransit 0.4 Released – Chris Patterson announces the release of version 0.4 of Mass Transit, a lean service bus implementation. This new release adds a bunch of new features along with a number of improvements and fixes.
• Karvonite – Agile Persistence Framework – Karvonite is a persistence framework for the .NET Compact Framework and XNA Framework, and aims to help developers in moving in memory objects to the data store. This project has just reached its first CTP (September 2008)
• Clean that Project – Ron Jacobs releases a little utility to clean out your solution ready to zip up and send to other developers, focusing on removing bin and obj directories, along with test results, etc.
• SubSonic MVC Scaffold Addin – Rob Conery releases a Visual Studio Add-in which generates scaffolded views and controllers for ASP.NET MVC using Linq to SQL for the data connections. Rob plans to add support for SubSonic to this tool at a later date. Both MSI installer and Binary zip are available, along with a screen cast so you can see what its all about before installing yourself.
• Announcing the Test Driven Development Productivity Plugin for Resharper – Eric Hexter releases a neat ReSharper plugin which allows you to move classes between projects, and talks a little about how his need for this came from test driven development where classes that didn’t exist were being created by resharper in his test projects rather than his actual implementation project.

Information

• Reducing SQL Lookup Tables and Function Properties in NHibernate – Steve Smith talks about moving lookup data from the database into your application as objects. This is an interesting solution to a common problem, and the article and comment discussions are well worth reading.
• ActiveRecord and a Custom NHibernate PrimitiveType – Patrick Steele follows on from Steve Smith, by looking at implementing these status / lookup POCO objects as NHibernate Primitive Types.
• Rhino Mocks Challenge: Implement This Feature – Ayende challenges the community to get involved with the Rhino Mocks project by contribution a new feature for Rhino Mocks based on Type Mock’s fluent mocking.
• (Breaking) Changes Coming in xUnit.net 1.1 – Brad Wilson gets the news out about some breaking changes taht will be in xUnit.net 1.1, and shares the rationale behind these changes.
• If the .Net BCL is drywall, Extension Methods are spackle – Jeremy D. Miller talks about the good aspects of Extension Methods, and gives examples of places he finds their use indispensable.
• Check out the New Look for CodePlex Projects – CodePlex projects gain the ability to customise the appearance of their projects pages.
• All you need to know about .NET Remoting – A nice introduction to Remoting, covering the common uses of remoting technology, accompanied by some sample code.
• Introduction to LINQ and the Entity Framework – A quite wordy Code Project article on the components of the Entity Framework and how they all connect together.

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