Posted by Chris Alcock on 30 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
We must be reaching the (ASP.NET MVC RTM Date) + (Time it takes to update and publish Book) time, as today’s edition contains details of a couple of ASP.NET MVC book releases (in their own special section)
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- VS2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions – Somasegar announces the release of the Visual Studio 2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions which let you measure the performance of the client side interactions of your Web Applications using any browser.
- YSlow Release – The Yahoo! Developer Network announce a new release of YSlow their website performance analyser for Firefox, which now includes the ability to create custom rulesets allowing you to tailor the rules to those that are suitable for your application
- All-In-One Code Framework : 2009-4-27 release of All-In-One Code Framework – ‘colbertz’ announces an updated edition of the All-In-One Code Framework, a one stop shop for bas implementations of many Microsoft Technologies (in many Microsoft Technologies too). This update contains changes to/additions of 17 projects
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 29 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Update – SQL Blocked Process Monitor – Jonathan Kehayias announces an updated release of his SQL Blocking Process Monitor for SQL Server 2005 and 2008, which are now split into two downloads to avoid dependency problems.
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- The asp.net <deployment retail="true" /> attribute – Lasse Eskildsen highlights a useful Machine.Config setting which overrides the standard ‘debug’ attribute in web.config to force all ASP.NET Applications out of Debug mode
- Free ASP.NET MVC "NerdDinner" Tutorial Now in HTML – ScottGu announces a new format for the ASP.NET MVC NerdDinner Tutorial from the Professional ASP.NET MVC book, now available as multi part HTML (and also as a PDF, but then you already knew that)
- NHibernate Unit Testing – Ayende talks about testing NHibernate based code by using an in-memory database to persist to, allowing you to test quickly with (almost) the full stack.
- What’s been happening in Fluent NHibernate land? – James Gregory gives an update on the state of the Fluent NHibernate Project, and talks about the danger of possible regressions due to the amount of change being made.
- The Weekly Source Code 41 – Searching Code, Sharing Code, and Reading Code (and Comments) – Scott Hanselman continues with his Weekly Source Code series with a look at code search engines, easy means of sharing your code snippets along with some of the interesting comments he’s encountered in code.
- JavaScript for C# developers: date basics : Algorithms for the masses – Julian M Bucknall takes a look at dates in JavaScript with a view from the side of a C# Programmer
- How I handle JSON dates returned by ASP.NET AJAX – Dave Ward looks at how to work with dates reutned from ASP.NET AJAX calls in JavaScript.
- What developers should be doing in readiness for Windows 7 – Eric Nelson talks about Application compatibility with Windows , along with shareing some great links on the subject. Also worth checking out some of Eric’s other posts on the subject from the last few days, including details of UK compatibility workshops.
- Validation – Part 3 – Server-Side – Karl Seguin continues with his series on from the ground up validation with a look at the server side portion, and also releases a sample application in his post Presenting CodeBetter.Canvas
- JQuery: Die 22 besten Modal – Fenster Plugins – Dennis S shares a list of 22 implementations of Modal Popups in jQuery. Don’t let the German in the title put you off, the post is screenshots and links.
- Singletons vs. Static Classes – Lee Dumond compares and contrasts the Singleton and the simple static class to see what and why there are differences.
- WPF Application Quality Guide v0.5 Released! – Ivo Manolov announces the 5th CTP release of the WPF Application Quality Guide, with both new and updated content, including some good content on building test suites in a range of frameworks
- Creating Visual Studio Templates from your Web Projects – Rick Strahl talks about the process of taking a Web Project and making it into a template web project for use in Visual Studio
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 28 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Introducing Html Utilities for Silverlight – Brian Genisio announces HTML Utilities for Silverlight, a library which in this version aims to improve the testability of some of the Silverlight HTML functionality.
- New Codeplex Tool – SQL Blocked Process Monitor – Jonathan Kehayias shares a tool to help monitor blocking processes in SQL 2005/2008. Shame there is no Sql2000 support as I could really do with a tool that does this for some work I’m doing at the moment.
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- Next European VAN on 06 May 2009 – Jan Van Ryswyck announces the next European accessible Timezone Virtual Alt.Net Event, which will include a presentation on Front Controller style MVC
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