The Morning Brew

Software

• SQL Server 2005 SP3 is available! - Aaron Bertrand highlights the Release of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3, which will take your database engine to version 9.00.4035.
• patterns & practices - Unity for Silverlight - ‘lchong’ announces the release of Unity 1.2 for Silverlight, a port of the Unity project to Silverlight 2.0
• IE8 Readiness and IETester - Sergio Pereira highlights a very useful utility that allows you to see the same page rendered sid by side in the last 4 majore Internet Explorer releases (5.5, 6,7, 8b2)

Information

• Silverlight 3 - What we Know So Far & What We Can Predict (Part 1 of 2) - Bart Czernicki looks towards the next release of Silverlight and explores the features that will be included (and have been announced) and muses on some others that he thinks will be included.
• Redirect Routes and other Fun With Routing And Lambdas - Phil Haack explores some of the interesting things you can do with delegates and lambdas in ASP.NET MVC Routing.
• Functional Programming Unit Testing - Part 3 - Matthew Podwysocki builds on the previous two parts of this series with a look at pulling QuickCheck and HUnit (and FSCheck and xUnit.net) together
• Loops, Conversions and Lambdas - Patrick Steele explores how conversion of types has become easier with each framework release.
• How to use a 32 bit DLL in ASP.net page which is hosted on 64 bit IIS - ‘Irfanahm’ taks about the different ways in which you can use 32bit dlls in a 64 bit environment. I have suffered this pain far too many times, so its good to have a reference of the different techniques available
• Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 1) - The Model-View-Controller Pattern - Nick Berardi starts sharing the latest chapter from his book on ASP.NET MVC with a view to getting feedback on it
• XSS Follow Up: Search Suck - Rob Conery follows up on his post about XSS and Spamming with a discussion of just how dangerous this stuff can be with a look at a vulnerability in his own site.
• Improve your code: Regex creation is expensive - Corneliu talks about how you can use the fact that the regex class is thread safe to dramatically improve the performance of your code by avoiding paying the regular expression creation tax more than once.
• My Quick Take On Oxite - The recent release of Oxcite, an ASP.NET MVC based CMS has sparked a number of reactions suggesting its not quite ready for use. This one is Chad Myers view, and there are others out there including this one from Karl Seguin, and LazyCoder collects a number of them together here

Community

• MIX09 - Save 40% (Hurry) - Derek @ Ardent Dev highlights a good promotional offer for anyone planning on attending MIX 09