The Morning Brew

Looking forward to WebDD’09 this weekend – if you spot me down there come and say Hi (If you are reading this via RSS click through to this post and there is a mug shot of me so you stand a chance of spotting me)

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• Your very first NHibernate application – Part 2 – Gabriel Schenker continues his article series on DotNetSlackers looking at getting up and running with NHibernate. In this part Gabriel continues implementing and mapping his domain
• NHibernate Mapping- Named queries <query/> and <sql-query/> – Ayende continues his series on the various parts of the NHibernate mapping document with a look at how you can include custom named queries in your mapping files and call them from code.
• NHibernate 2nd level cache and multiple databases – Gabriel Schenker looks at the behaviour of the NHibernate caches when you are talking to multiple databases or using multiple session factories.
• Interfaces vs. Abstract Base Classes – Lee Dumond discusses one of the classic debates, using interfaces of abstract base classes.
• LINQ to NHibernate – Steve Strong gives an update on his progress at implementing LINQ to NHibernate. It sounds like good progress has been made on the HQL AST parser, so good infact that Steve suggests it is now worth having a play with (although not putting into production)…Keep up the good work Steve.
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #50 – Create View Models – Stephen Walther reaches hi half century of ASP.NET MVC tips and take a look at using View Models inspired by the NerdDinner Sample application
• Making Logging Cheaper with Lambda Expressions – Elton Stoneman looks at how you can use Lambda expressions to generate your log messages for log4net, which provides a performance boost if the logging level is not sufficient to log as the message never gets processed
• Code Sample Taxonomy – Phil Haack makes an excellent point with this post on classification of sample code, especially with the latest outcry about a Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Sample application just kicking off…
• Project Kobe community feedback – Masashi Narumoto talsk about some of the community feedbqack they have recieved about the Kobe ASP.NET MVC Sample application. Some others have also been sharing opinions on this:
  • Kobe – MS New Web 2.0 Resource Kit in ASP.NET MVC and My thoughts – Kazi Manzur Rashid
  • Kobe – Oh Dear Lord Why?! – Karl Seguin
• JScript Blog : Versioning Language Features in JScript – Gaurav Seth talks about version detection with respect to some of the new JScript enhancements in IE8
• 5 Useful Visual Studio C# Snippets &ndash; Part 2 – Hatim Rih shares a few more Code Snippets
• Visual Studio 2010 Enhancements for ASP.NET – Mike Ormond talks about some of the new features in Visual Studio 2010 specifically aimed at the ASP.NET Web Developer

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