The Morning Brew

Another Morning Brew Milestone edition today, marking the 300th daily post of links. I had hoped to include a few little extras in today’s post but a lack of time has meant that they will have to wait for a less auspicious post number.

Software

• January 2009 "Oslo" SDK Refresh - Chris Sells announces the release of a refresh release of the January 2009 Oslo SDK, which fixes a few issues in the Jan 2009 release

Information

• Back to Basics: Interfaces - Karl Seguin resumes his Back To Basics series with a look at the use of Interfaces, from the core concepts to some of the choices available when implementing classes.
• DDD: Validity, Consistency and Immutability - Casey Charlton continues his DDD series with a look at three more concepts, validity and maintaining a valid state in the entity, consistancy of state of entities and briefly talks about immutability
• New ASP.NET MVC Validation Tutorials Posted at www.ASP.net/MVC - Stephen Walther announces the release of 3 more tutorials on Validation in ASP.NET MVC on the official ASP.NET site.
• Cast to the rescue! - Nizar Noorani highlights a useful method on IQueryable which allows you to cast the the collection to another type.
• Use jQuery to catch and display ASP.NET AJAX service errors - Dave Ward looks at handling errors from ASP.NET AJAX services when using JQuery to call and work with the service methods.
• Test and Sample Data - Darren Fieldhouse shares shis test and sample data creation tool which builds real looking test data for use when testing or demoing applications
• Thinking about C# 4.0, VB 10 and Dynamic - Mike Taulty explores the ideas behind the dynamic keyword in C#4, looking at VB and how it has supported this type of thing in the past. Mike then explores what dynamic really means illustrating with examples.
• Practical LINQ #2: Reporting duplicate names - Samuel Jack looks at a useful use of linq to identify if names have been duplicated
• (Almost) Frictionless Testing: Specifications - Erik Peterson explores the use of Specifications in Testing to help make the testing easier, borrowing ideas from J.P. Boodhoo work in this area
• T4 Tutorial: Making code generators extensible - Oleg Sych looks at implementing extensibility in your T4 templates for code generation.
• Choose .Concat() over .Union() if possible - Frans Bouma talks about two similar linq operators and how choosing the right one for your situation can give a performance boast in certain circumstances
• Silverlight 2.0 Walkthrough - Creating a "Traffic Jam" game - Tess Ferrandez takes a break from her usual topic of Debugging with a series of posts creating a simple game in Silverlight exploring usercontrols, Linq to XML, drag drop and isolated storage along the way.

Community

• DDD Belfast - 4th April 2009 - Register - Another day, and another Developer Developer Developer Community event registration has opened, this time for the event to be held in Belfast in April.