The Morning Brew

Software

• Win 7 beta download stopping 10th Feb - A quick reminder that the extended deadline for Windows 7 beta downloads is tomorrow - if you haven’t yet grabbed a copy you’ve got a few more hours.
• Vista Bridge v1.4 Released - Now with custom controls for Common File Dialogs, BreadCrumb control and Aero Glass - Greg Duncan highlights the 1.4 release of Vista Bridge, a library that brings Vista features to your applications

Information

• The Art of Debugging - A Developer’s Best Friend- Intro - Lesson 1 - Bruno Terkaly starts a substantial series fo posts on Debugging in .NET, with a ten part series including looks at the tools available and some of the more complex debugging (involving threads and garbage collection) - see his February content page for the rest of the posts
• The basic syntax of F# - keywords and constructs - Brian McNamara gives a nice simple and quick guide to some of the common elements of F# programming, along with some links to some more detailed information
• Back to Basics: Optimizing reference counting garbage collection - Abhinaba Basu continues his garbage collection series with a look at some of the challenges the Reference Counting GC encounters.
• A little love for nhforge.org - Tobin Harris highlights some of the recent changes made to the NHForge site
• Switching IoC Container with LINQ Expressions - Sean Feldman looks at how you can combine LINQ expressions with your Inversion of Control Container to make switching implementation easier
• Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard shortcut posters - Swami K provides links to keyboard shortcut posters for Visual Studio 2008 for both C# and VB developers. These are quite old, but this is the first time I’ve seen them mentioned.
• NH2.1.0: New generators - Fabio Maulo talks (slightly disapprovingly) about the new Idenrity Generators that are included in NHibernate 2.1.0
• IoC libraries compared: Windsor Update - Chris Brandsma takes another look at Castle’s Windor Inversion of Control library, focusing in on a few of the positives about this particular library
• Take Charge of Your Security - Phil Haack examines the myth that ASP.NET WebForms gives lots more security protection that ASP.NET MVC, exploring a few common misconceptions.
• VsDoc for jQuery 1.3.1 now available - Bertrand Le Roy highlights the availability of the Visual Studio Documentation file for jQuery 1.3.1
• WPF Application Quality Guide - Kate Gregory highlights the release of the WPF Application Quality guide, a document which details getting started with WPF, best practices and advice on both developing and testing WPF apps.
• 8 ways to be a better programmer in 6 minutes. - Leon Bambrick gives 8 tips that take very little time to implement but may well help you to become a better programmer
• IPrincipal (User) ModelBinder in ASP.NET MVC for easier testing - Scott Hanselman looks at how the model binder functionality of ASP.NET MVC allows you to write methods which are more testable.
• Immutable Data Structures in C# and F# - Tomas Petricek explores Immutable data structures in F# and looks at how these can be implemented in C# using a tuple as an example.
• Quality is what I work for - Inspired by the current debate between Jeff Atwood/Joel Spolsky and the likes of Uncle Bob Martin and Ron Jeffries, Mark Needham explores what he considers to be the traits of High Quality Software