The Morning Brew

Software

• NHModeller – An tool created using an Oslo based DSL which aims to make working with NHibernate easier, allowing you to define your entities inthe DSL and have your classes, mapping files and database schema created for you. The DLS includes intellisense when used within Intellipad

Information

• 10 commandments for creating good code – Alberto Gutierrez offers his suggestions for 10 commandments for creating good code – these are mostly the conventional wisdoms, but often worth reminding ourselves (and others) of the importance of some of these rules
• Using NUnit to check your IoC container is set up right – Richard Dingwall shows a technique which will allow you to write a test to verify that your IoC Container configuration contains implementations for all your interfaces
• Using Request inside Actions: why it is a bad idea – Simone Chiaretta talks about the importance of not having direct dependencies on the environment inside your controller actions (and any where else for that matter)
• June 7th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio – Scott Guthrie provides another of his Link Round ups of a number of interesting things going on in the Microsoft web technolgoies space
• W is for… WeakReference – Jim O’Neil’s alphabet reaches W and takes a look at the Weak Reference, which provides a means to hold onto a reference to an object while still making that object available to the garbage collector to be collected
• In-Process Side by Side Part 2 – Common in-proc SxS scenarios – Luiz Fernando Santos continues looking at the In Process Side by Side functionality of .NET 4.0 with a look at how it works in a number of different scenarios
• Multi-targeting of web projects using Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 – Bala Chirtsabesan looks at the changes and improvements to the multi targeting capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 when applied to web projects
• That old friend Binary Compatibility – and a FREE eBook on COM Interop – Eric Nelson shares a tip for anyone working with mixed VB 6 and .NET projects, along with the very useful information that the book COM and .NET Interoperability has been made available as an e-book over at serverside.net
• Free eBook on what’s new in SQL Server 2008 – Dave Oliver highlights a free e-book which covers the changes in SQL Server 2008
• NHibernate- Get Thou Out Of My Database – Ayende shares the code which he demoed at the recent NHibernate training from Skills Matter – we were talking at lunch about preventing people from working directly in the database, and this was one (slightly extreme) method which he showed was possible
• MSDN Updates – and RFC for you – Scott Hanselman talks about some of the changes afoot at MSDN, with a look at some of the new features and some possible changes
• A T4 based approach to creating ASP.NET MVC strongly typed helpers – David Ebbo takes a look at using T4 Templates to build strongly typed helper methods for ASP.NET MVC. Its also worth checking out David’s previous posts to get some more context on what he is doing

Community

• Recording of Udi Dahan on SOA @ E-VAN 01 June 2009 – Jan Van Ryswyck provides a link the Udi Dahan’s session at the Europen Virtual Alt.Net meeting – I’m glad there was a records of this as I missed the actual event

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