The Morning Brew

Software

• SubSonic 3.0 Preview 2 - Rob Conery announces Preview 2 of Version 3 of his SubSonic Data Access layer, and in this post gives some details about how it all works and how tto use it. Download link is towards the end of the post.
• NCover v3.0.6 is now available. - NCover have been busy, with an update to NCover 3.0 beta and a minor improvement and bugfix release of NCover 2.1.2
• RichText Builder (StringBuilder 4 rtf) - seeblunt shares a useful looking string builder equivalent for building RTF documents using a nice simple fluent looking interface.

Information

• Breaking changes to the String class - David Kean talks about some of the recently announced breaking changes to the string class which will be released in .NET 4.0
• Oslo’s Modelling Language ‘M’ To Be Published Under Open Specification Promise - Bruce Kyle talks about Microsoft’s aim to publish M, the Oslo Modeling Language, under the Open Specification Promise so that it may be integrated with other industry standards.
• Azure Services Training Kit Available - Ronan Geraghty highlights the first preview release of the Azure Services Training Kit which covers Windows Azure, .NET Services, SQL Services and Live Services in 11 hands on labs.
• KaizenConf’08 Functional Programming Presentation Video - Matthew Podwysocki shares the video of his recent talk at KaizenConf’08
• Inside F#: On lambdas, capture, and mutability - Brian, of the F# Team at Microsoft, continues his series of posts in F#, picking up where he left off with his C# puzzle, and looks at hos that relates to F#
• The two interceptors: - HttpModule and HttpHandlers - Shivprasad Koirala talks about the two means you have of getting involved in the ASP.NET request process in this Code Project article
• ASP.Net MVC - inpractical web.sitemap in a dynamic context - Patrice Calve looks at implementing a more dynamic site map in ASP.NET MVC using attributes
• MVP with MEF - Glenn Block looks at implementing the MVP Triads using the Managed Extensibility Framework
• Where did CLR 3.0 Go? - mdavey asks an interesting question - where did CLR V3 go since we are going to get V4 in the .NET 4 release.
• Autocompletion Textbox in MVC Using jQuery - Jeremiah Clark puts together a simple implementation of a JQuery Autocomplete textbox using ASP.NET MVC

Community

• DDD Scotland 2 - 2nd May 2009 - Criag Murphy announces the dates for DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Day Scotland’s second event. DDD is a great free event (I’ve attended the Reading based event a number of times), and I hope to attend the Scottish incarnation this time round.