The Morning Brew

Software

• xUnit.net 1.5 CTP 1 – Brad Wilson announces the release of xUnit.NET 1.5 CTP1 which includes a new test runner, support for ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM and moves the ReSharper integration into xUnit.net Contrib
• Announcing FsCheck 0.6.1 – Kurt Schelfthout announces an updated release of FsCheck 0.6.1 which has been rebuilt against the latest F# release
• MockingBird- Beta 2 – Santosh Benjamin announces the release of MockingBird Beta 2 – the latest beta of this web service mocking tool, with a number of fixes and improved documentation
• SQL Server 2008 May Books Online Available – Greg Low shares the news of a new SQL Server Books Online release, and Aaron Bertrand shares some More info on the May 2009 update to SQL Server 2008 Books Online –
• TestApi v.0.2 Released! – Nitya announces the latest release of TestAPI a set of tests and utility APIs that aim to help with the testing of WPF applications

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• U is for… unchecked – Jim O’Neil continues his A to Z of .NET with a look at checked and unchecked arithmetic
• Mapping a Twitter like domain with Fluent NHibernate – ‘Bengtbe’ explores Fluent NHibernate through an example of mapping the entities involved in a twitter like application
• .NET 4 Cancellation Framework – ‘mikelid’ explores the new Cancellation functionality of the .NET Framework 4, looking at how it supports common use patterns for cancellation of long running events.
• Windows 7: What’s there for Developers? – Mike Taulty gives a round up of the new features of Windows 7 what are of particular interest for Developers, along with a collection of related video and non-video resources
• ‘Methodist’: Make .NET Reflector come alive with IronPython – Ben Hall introduces ‘Methodist’ a .NET Reflector add-in which brings the power of IronPython and the DLR to the .NET Reflector, allowing you to call methods and explore types as you would in your IDE. Ben also talks about the development of Methodist.
• Publisher/Subscriber… practical benefits from event-driven patterns – Michael Ballhaus explores the importance of publish subscribe events in Object Oriented code.
• SOLID and DRY – Jeremy Likness explores the SOLID and DRY principles in this two part series for Code Project. Part 2 is here
• Refactoring: Removing duplication more safely – Mark Needham talks about a technique he used when refactoring and removing code recently, with the aim of making it easier and safer to remove duplicated code.
• Tuple, a new type on .Net 4.0 – Hernan Garcia introduces the Tuple type which is being introduced in .NET 4.0, looking at what it is and when you should use it
• ASP.NET MVC Opinionated Software – Tony Rasa talks about how ASP.NET MVC conforms to the concept of Opinionated Software by enforcing a structure on your code.

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Monday is a public holiday here in the UK, and so as tradition dictates there will be no edition of The Morning Brew on Monday, with the usual daily posting schedule resuming on Tuesday. Have a good weekend everyone!

Software

• IronRuby 0.5 Released – Jimmy Schementi announces the release of IronRuby 0.5, with a bunch of enhancements and new features included in the release, the most notable is a significant performance improvement which makes a drastic difference for those running rails on IronRuby

Information

• NHibernate – Help us see who is using it – Ayende appeals to the NHibernate userbase to register their use of NHibernate so that the developers and wider community can see how widely and how people are using NHibernate.
• A quick analyze of the .NET Fx v4.0 Beta1 – Patrick Smacchia does his now usual comparison of the latest .NET framework release from Microsoft using NDepend. Looking at the first pictorial representation you can see that .NET 4 is a significant change to large parts of the framework
• The Architecture Journal – Nick MacKechnie highlights the last 5 editions of the (now online only) Architects Journal from Microsoft.
• Demo Dashboard and IDE Extensions – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 – Scott Hanselman continues his tour round the new VS2010 and .NET 4 features of the beta release with a look at the extensibility capability of VS, and talks about how much easier it has become to work to extend the IDE
• Don’t use Response.End() with OutputCache – Rick Strahl talks about the problems that Response.End calls cause for the Output Cache
• ASP.NET MVC Domain Routing – Maarten Balliauw digs down into the innards of ASP.NET MVC with the hope of achieving routing capabilities using the parts of the domain name as well as the path.
• POCO in the Entity Framework: Part 1 – The Experience – Faisal Mohamood explores the new POCO (Plain Old CLR Objects) support in Entity Framework 4.0, and starts running through a demo of the functionality
• What’s new in the Concurrency Runtime and the Parallel Patterns and Asynchronous Agents Libraries – Rick Molloy highlights some of the new features of the .NET Framework in the areas of Parallel Patterns, Concurrency, Async Agents
• Protecting against XML Entity Expansion attacks – Tom Hollander talks about a Denial of Service type attach which originates from a seemingly innocent XML document
• Using The Guid.Comb Identifier Strategy – Davy Brion looks at the Guid.Comb NHibernate Identity strategy which helps avoid index fragmentation in the database due to the traditionally random nature of GUID values.

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Software

• Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 with F# is now available, plus matching F# CTP Update for VS2008 – Don Syme talks about the F# included in Visual Studio 2010, and also about the release of a CTP for VS2008 users
• IronPython 2.6 Beta 1 – Harry Pierson announces the release of IronPython 2.6 Beta 1, with the major new features that you can now call into unmanaged DLLs from IronPython, and the ability to explore the callstack from code.
• FireAtlas – Firebug for ASP.NET Ajax – Joe Stagner highlights a tool from Laurent Chesnais which brings added support for seening what is going on in ASP.NET Ajax from the browser using Firebug.
• Released: CodeIt.Right version 1.6.09139 – now fully compatible with VS2010 Beta 1! – SubMain announce the latest release of their CodeIt.Right product, which now supports Vs2003 through to VS2010 Beta 1

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• Two free e-books available in May – Microsoft Press continues their 25 year celebrations with another 2 free e-books, this time the Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit and The Practical Guide to Defect Prevention
• Indian MVP Releases Free SQL Server Ebook! – Jacob Sebastian has published a free E-Book on SQL Server and usig XSD for powing XML Schema Collections
• A First Look at Moq – Brett Schuchert’s latest role has involved a different testing and mocking setup from his previous roles, which has lead to him taking a look at the Moq mocking framework.
• Announcing Pablo’s E-Books! Book #1: Pablo’s SOLID Software Development – Derick Bailey announces the release of Los Techies first E-Book – titled ‘Pablo’s SOLID Software Development’ it explores the SOLID principles which were the topic of the month for March on Los Techies.
• Back to Basics: Using Fusion Log Viewer to Debug Obscure Loader Errors – Scott Hanselman continues his Back To Basics series with a look at how you can debug loading issues with .NET assemblies.
• Art Of Unit Testing (The Samurai Book) – Get it now, it’s done. – Roy Osherove announces the release of his book – ‘The Art of Unit Testing’ – Chapters 1,2 and 3 are freely available, with the e-book available to purchase now. Printed copies will be available, but are currently still pre-order (with a price that reflects)
• The state of Open Source in the .NET ecosystem: A five year summary – Ayende reflects back on his 5 years of Open Source on the .NET platform experience, suggesting that things have come a long way and are looking promising, but we still have a way to go.
• Program to an interface, not an implementation – Mark Jensen explores one of the fundemental OO principles, that of programming to an interface rather than an implementation.

Visual Studio 2010 & .NET 4

• Samples for Parallel Programming with the .NET Framework 4 – ‘toub’ highlights the availability of some sample code for the new Parallel features of .NET 4.0
• Parallel Stacks – another new VS2010 debugger window – Daniel Moth gives us a tour of one of the new debugging features of VS2010 which allows you to visualise the call stack of your threaded/parallel code.
• IronPython 2.6 CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 1 – Harry Pierson talska bout the IronPython CTP which is included in the Visual Studio 2010 / .NET 4 beta 1 release, and how this is equivalent to the Alpha 1 release (not to be confused with the beta 1 release mentioned in the software section)
• C# 4 and the dynamic keyword – Whirlwind Tour around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 – Scott Hanselman continues his series of posts exploring the .NET 4 and VS2010 Beta 1 release, this time looking at the how and why of the dynamic keyword
• A little VS2010/.Net 4 Training Kit with your Beta 1? – Greg Duncan highlights the May Preview of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Training kit from Microsoft, a great way to get some training in on the new releases.

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