The Morning Brew

Software

• AutoMapper 1.0 RC1 released – Jimmy Bogard annouces the release of AutoMapper 1.0 RC1, his library for easily mapping data between object graphs. This release brings some significant improvements and new features, and from here to the 1.0 release Jimmy will be making only bugfixes
• MonoTouch 1.0 goes live – Miguel de Icaza shares thw news of the release of MonoTouch 1.0, a commercial library for the Mono platform which makes it possible to work with the features found on the IPhone and IPod Touch. Licenses stare at $399 for a personal license.
• Announcing Gallio and MbUnit v3.1! – Jeff Brown announces the release of Gallio and MbUnit 3.1, a complete testing platform. Jeff’s post gives a really comprehensive run through of all the new features including such gems as video capture (useful for UI Testing), a bunch of enhancements to MbUnit such as new asserts, retry support, and details lots of platform improvements in Gallio.
• Object Hydrator fills your objects with random data…on purpose! – Ryan Smith talks about his Object Hydrator project, a testing tool which allows you to pass objects in and have them filled with test data using some predefined generators. A useful sounding tool, and something I can see being really useful for building demo data.

Information

• XmlSerializer in Action or why does my application start csc.exe processes? – Alois Kraus looks at what goes on behind the scenes in a .NET application when it tries to XML Serialise objects, and looks at how you can pre-prepare the serialisers and hook them into your code via an attribute
• Introducing PostSharp 2.0: #1 – NotifyPropertyChanged – Gael Fraiteur shows off the new PostSharp 2.0 with a look at creating an AOP implementation of NotifyPropertyChanged, showing the ease of use of the new version.
• What’s the difference between a partial method and a partial class? – Eric Lippert continues his ‘What’s the difference’ series with a look a the application of the partial keyword to classes and methods
• Object Overhead: The Hidden .NET Memory Allocation Cost – Andrew Hunter talks about the cost in memory terms of creating lots of objects, looking at some of the theoretical maximum numbers of objects on different hardware platforms due to these allocation limits.
• AOP can save you tons of repetitive code – Thomas Weller highlights the power of Aspect Oriented Programming to help reduce the clutter and common code. In his example he shows how validation logic can be reduced to simple attributes leaving the implementation of ou business objects very clear
• S#arp Architecture has Moved to GitHub (this ain’t yo momma’s SCM) – Billy McCafferty announces the move of his S#arp Architecture project to GitHub (where all the cool Open Source .NET projects seem to be moving their SCM), and talks a little about the future of the project.
• Append Only Models with NHibernate – Ayende talks about some of the differences when working with an append only model of data over the more common updateable model.
• ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (4 in a series) – Sara Chipps continues her series looking at ASP.NET MVC from the point of view of an ASP.NET Web Forms programmer with a look at how ASP.NET MVC uses GET and POST rather than the postback model.
• Adventures in System.Diagnostics – The Sequel – Ralph Wheaton follows up on his previous post about System.Diagnostics with a look at using the Trace in production applications.

Community

• Scott Guthrie, Manchester (UK), 29th September PM – Mike Taulty shares the news of a Scott Guthrie visit to the North West of England (Manchester). Registration for this event is open, and If all 233 places have not been taken yet I encourage you to register now for what promises to be a great 4 hour event!
• Community For MVC – Virtual Meeting – Wednesday 9/16/2009 12:00 – 1:00 PM CST ; T4MVC presented by David Ebbo – David Ebbo will be speaking about the work he has been doing using T4 Templates in ASP.NET MVC to do some quite incredible things at this virtual user group meeting.
• Upcoming .NET events at Skills Matter: MassTransit, Future of Web development and Mono – Gojko Adzic highlights the next 3 months worth of free events to be held at Skills Matter, with three great speakers lined up to to talks about Mass Transit (Mike Hadlow), HTML5 and ASP.NET MVC 2 (Dylan Beattie) and Mono (Toby Henderson)

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