The Morning Brew

Looking forward to SQLBits IV tomorrow.

Software

• MvcContrib v1.0 Released! Download now – Jeffrey Palermo announces the release of MvcContrib, he library of extensions for ASP.NET MVC v1 including new view engines, controller factories and a whole load of other bits and pieces
• Announcing Gallio and MbUnit v3.0.6 – Jeff Brown announces the release of the latest version of MbUnit and the Gallio framework, giving a detailed run down of the included functionality
• Grommet: Linq, HTTP/1.1 and more for .NET Micro Framework – Blair Leduc announces Grommet, an implementation of many of the missing features of the full .NET framework on the .NET Micro Framework. This release includes Linq and HTTPWebRequest/Response.

Information

• Introduction to NHibernate, pt. 6 – Ian Cooper continues his series of posts on NHibernate, in the part looking at the NHibernate Session, and associated patterns such as Identity Map, Unit of Work and the standard CRUD operations
• MVC Beta to RTW upgrade issue – AddModelError and NullReferenceExceptions – Jimmy Bogard shares some of his pains in upgrading an ASP.NET MVC project from Beta to RTM releases
• The Weekly Source Code 39 – Commodore 64 Emulator in Silverlight 3 – Scott Hanselman explores a Silverlight Commodore 64 emulator in his latest Weekly Source Code post, looking at some of the more interesting parts of the project inlcuding the high performance video stream and the Disk Drive emulation. Scott also talks about this with the developer Pete Brown on his latest podcast. – Hanselminutes Podcast 155 – A C64 Emulator with Silverlight 3 by Pete Brown
• IE 8 Can Profile JavaScript – Steve Wellens highlights the JavaScript profiler available in the Internet Explorer 8 Developer tools
• Free Ebook: Mastering SQL Server 2005 Profiler – Jose Rolando Guay Paz highlights a free E-Book offer from RedGate on the SQL 2005 Profiler
• Database Scale-Out Strategies for Web Apps – Gil Shabat has written an interesting article on the various scale out methods for database driven web applications
• Enterprise Library 5.0 – tentative product backlog published, story/feature prioritization is open – your participation is invited! – Grigori Melnik calls out to the Enterprise Library community to vote for the features that they’d like to see in the Version 5 release of the Enterprise Library
• Why invest in UX? – Scott Barnes talks about why it is important to look at User Experience in your developments and that you should consider User Experience right back to the business processes your system is implementing

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