October 2009

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The Morning Brew #466

Posted by on 30 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

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  • The HornGet Project: Bringing "apt-get install" to .NET Projects – Billy McCafferty highlights the HornGet Project, an excellent utility which enables you to get the latest versions of dependencies for various .NET OSS projects. I first saw this in operation at the Alt.NET UK conference this year, and agree with Billy, it really is great.
  • ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates, Part 4: Custom Object Templates – Brad Wilson presses on with his series of posts on ASP.NET MVC2 Template with part 4 looking at Custom Object Templates, and part 5 exploring
  • Master Page Templates
  • LINQ Overview, part three (Anonymous Types) – ‘.NET Nomad’ picks up a slow burning series with a new post on typing, the var keyword and anonymous types, looking at how these support Linq
  • HTML5, a 3 minute guide – Leon Bambrick shares a simple example of HTML5, showing how it compares to the HTML we are familiar with and summaries some of the key differences.
  • Running Mono – an Overview – Pedro Santos gives an overview of how a recent project which was deployed on Mono worked, talksing about the setup of the server, and some of the issues they ran into with the applications
  • Coding: Consistency when invariant checking – Mark Needham cals for consistency in the way we go about checking invariants in our code, and talks about situations which can give rise to inconsistencies in these checks
  • It’s all about the delivery – Hadi Hariri talks about how important the delivery of the ideas and concepts of programming can be in influencing how developers adopt and react to new techniques, exploring an alternative way to introduce dependency injection
  • Mentoring Juniors – A Juniors view – Sara Stephens talks about her experiences as a junior developer being mentored by more senior staff, explaining what worked well / not so well in the process. Its nice to see this from the other side as so many articles are from the Point of view of the senior staff member, not the junior
  • Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 2 – Chris Patterson continues his series looking at building a service gateway implementation using C#, MassTransit, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC
  • I have a Fit, but a lack of Focus. – Eric Lippert talks about ReferenceEquals with a real work illustration of how it works

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  • Next European VAN on 18 November 2009 – The next European Virtual Alt.Net meeting will be 18th November 2009 featuring Mark Nijhof looking at DDD/CQRS/SOA principles with a deep dive into the code of his CQRS sample application

The Morning Brew #465

Posted by on 29 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

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  • ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates, Part 1: Introduction – Brad Wilson kicks off a series (already up to part 3) looking at the ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates functionality, exploring Model MetaData in part 2 showing how you can annotate your model classes, and takes a look at Default Templates in part 3
  • Verify JavaScript syntax using C# – Mads Kristensen shares a useful technique for verifying that your JavaScript files are valid as a part of your Application unit tests by utilising JScript to check they parse correctly
  • 12 ASP.NET MVC Best Practices – Simone Chiaretta shares12 ASP.NET MVC best practice tips, along with a slide deck which complements these tips
  • MVPs Contribute to Free Developer eBook – Jas Dhaliwal highlights a free ebook being offered by Microsoft which was created by Derek Hatchard and contains 17 articles by Microsoft MVPs and Regional Directors
  • Visual Studio 2010 – Functional Testing – Balagans gives a tour round the Functional Testing capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 Team Test, looking at the CodedUITest showing how tests can be created, recorded, developed and maintained
  • Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) – Scott Guthrie continues is VS2010 / .NET 4 series of posts with a look at the latest batch of enhancements to the Add References Dialog in the latest release. These changes do sound as though they will finally give this often maligned piece of functionality the speed it truely needs
  • ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (5 in a series) – What the Frig is a View Model? – Sara Chipps takes a look at what View Models are all about showing a simple example in use with a little dose of humour along the way
  • An epic bug story – Ayende tells a good tail of a fictitious bug in a substantial system, a story which will be familiar to many of us, and is interesting reading
  • Building A Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 1 – Chris Patterson begins a series of posts looking at using MassTransit, C#, StructureMap, ASP.NET MVC and NHibernate to create a Service Gateway implementation. This first part looks at some of the exchanges that occur within Web services
  • Multiple Strongly Typed Partial Views in MVC – Garry Pilkington demonstrates how you can use a CombinedViewModel to join a number of types together allowing you to have multiple strongly typed partial views feed off the parts of the CombinedViewModel
  • Attach a Debugger When a Process Starts – Sasha Goldshtein shows how you can use the Global Flags application to add flags to other applications to have the debugger (or another process) start up and attach when ever that application is started, very useful for debugging applications that are impossible to start from the debugger such as services

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The Morning Brew #464

Posted by on 28 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew

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  • Free WPF, Silverlight and 3.5 SP1 training for UK Developers – Eric Nelson highlights an offer from Microsoft which enables UK based developers to gain access to 3 training programmes covering RIA with Silverlight, .NET 3.5 SP1 Changes, and Rich User Interfaces using WPF, each with between 5 and 12 hours of content for free

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