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• Ms-PL Source Release for System.Web.Mvc 2 - Phil Haack announces the source code release of ASP.NET MVC2, which as usual is released under the Open Source Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL)
• NHibernate symbol & source server support - Ayende highlights the inclusion of Symbols for NHibernate on the SymbolSource Servers to allow you to debug into NHibernate source code more easily.

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• A reminder of the usefulness of Git - Mark Needham talks about an interesting local use of Git to allow him to easily switch to a setup which allows him to debug through the source of libraries used in his projects.
• A better way to auto-run T4MVC when you build - David Ebbo talks about a better solution to determining when to run T4 templates during the build process, and polls the community on if the T4MVC project should keep the hacky solution now that there is a better alternative.
• Bidirectional Integrity: IEnumerable and read only Entity properties - Sean Blakemore follows on from Jimmy Bogard’s recent post on Encapsulation of Collections to strengthen the domain model, with a look at the potential for an explosion of internal methods, and looks at adding items to IEnumerable collections without the need of the internal methods in Jimmy solution.
• ASP.NET 4.0 Part 12, Routing Helper Functions - Dan Maharry continues his series on ASP.NET 4 new features with a further look at routing, and the new Routing helper functions, making it easier still to work with routes
• Map / Reduce - A visual explanation - Ayende gives a worked example of the famous Map / Reduce method of working, illustrating with diagrams to explain the technique
• Visual Studio 2010 Concurrency Profiling And Parallel Programming - ‘SQLDenis’ takes a look at some of the concurrency and parallel support in Visual Studio 2010 / .NET 4 illustrating with some example pieces of code to calculate Pi (as yesterday was Pie Day (3.14).
• Happy Pi Day and Monte Carlo Method - Can Erten also highlights Pi day with a look at using the Monte Carlo Method to calculate Pi in F#
• Moles: Dig It? - Martin Rue talks about the Microsoft Research Project Moles and their use in improving the testing of a system, by way of a story of strange behaviour in an imaginary banking system.
• Asp.Net MVC 2 Areas - Chris Brandsma takes a brief look at the ASP.NET MVC 2 Areas functionality, showing how they are hooked up and discussing their use.
• New, But Not So Obvious, Features in .NET 4.0 - Galilyou highlights a few of the less well known about new features being introduced to the .NET Framework in V4, including new string functions, and lazy loading support.
• ParallelWork: Feature rich multithreaded fluent task execution library for WPF - Omar AL Zabir shares a parallel work library for use in WPF projects which provides a fluent interface for queueing work to be run in parallel, including support for running work immediately, running work after a time period elapses, and allowing you to stop parallel work.
• C# 101: Virtual Function Members Vs Abstract Function Members - ’silvercrux’ shares a nice simple clear definition of the difference (and similarity) or abstract and virtual methods.
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript - From Blocking to Async - Matthew Podwysocki continues his series on the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript with a look at changing to an asynchronous way of working using the library to make this transition easy, and hinting at when the library may be released.

Community

• UK AzureNET User Group: Phoenix from the Flames - The UK Azure Usergroup revive themselves for an evening of talks attached to the end of the UK TechDays event being held in Thursday 15th April in the Fulham Broadway, London Vue Cinema. The UK TechDays week is shaping up to be a real good one with lots on offer beyond the official content.
• Watch Microsoft MIX10 Live Keynotes March 15 & 16 - ‘Dr. Z’ highlights the live streaming of the Keynote presentations from MIX10 from speakers Bill Buxton, Scott Guthrie, Dean Hachamovitch and Joe Belfore. The keynotes kick off at 9am PDT (GMT-9)
• Measuring real-world application usage in Visual Studio 2010 - Tomorrow sees the next Linked In .NET User Group virtual event which sees Terry Clancy and Sebastian Holst talking on the application analytic capabilities of Visual Studio 2010, and related 3rd party projects. The event starts at 11am PST

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• ASP.NET MVC 2 Released! - Phil Haack announces the RTM release of ASP.NET MVC 2. This release will work for both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 RC (although it a little more tricky to install there). Scott Guthrie also weighs in on the release with his announcement post ‘ASP.NET MVC 2 Released‘ talking about some of the key features of the V2 release, and Scott Hanselman highlights a number of resources to help you learn more in his ASP.NET MVC 2 Released announcement post.
• WikiPlex v1.3 Released - Matt Hawley announces the latest release of WikiPlex, the Wiki engine that runs the Wiki on CodePlex. This release comes with all new and improved documentation, along with support for embedding Channel 9 videos and syntax highlighting for PowerShell code.
• Policies for PostSharp 1.5 Legacy - Gael Fraiteur outlines the support plans for the existing free PostSharp 1.5 release now that the PostSharp library is moving to being a commercial library.

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• Code Bubbles - A very interesting coding UX - John V. Petersen highlights a research project from Andrew Bragdon looking at an alternative ‘way’ for the IDE to operate. Check out the video demo of ‘Code Bubbles’ for a glimpse of a possible future for the programmers best weapon the IDE
• A Visual Look At The LINQ SelectMany Operator - Justin Etheredge takes a look at the very powerful SelectMany LINQ operator illustrating the way it works using a series of simple diagrams, and talking about how it is different from other LINQ operators
• IHttpModule Gotchas - The Init() Method Can Get Called Multiple Times
  - Dominic Pettifer talks abotu the HttpModule implementation in ASP.NET and highlights the fact that multiple instances of a single HttpModule can exist in your applications, meaning that the Init method may be called multiple times, and shows how you can use a double check locking strategy to avoid doing unnecessary Init work multiple times.
• A Thoroughly Modern Developer - Peter Gillard-Moss discusses what he considers to be the key traits for a good developer in this new decade, casting out the stereotypes of old and introducing his ‘Thoroughly Modern Developer’
• Advanced Castle Windsor - generic typed factories, auto-release and more - Krzysztof Kozmic takes a look at a simple example of a Command-Handler messaging application to explore having generic typed factories returned from the Windsor container, and discusses automatic releasing of transitive components.
• WebForms vs MVC (again) - Karl Seguin discusses the points made in the latest ASP.NET Website video on choosing between ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC, discussing each of the benefits put forward for both technologies in the videos
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part Two - Eric Lippert continues his discussion of why it is bad to have a type with the same name as its containing namespace with an example about generated code, and how the code many generators create can easily be broken by bad naming.
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript - Composing Callbacks - Matthew Podwysocki continues his exploration of the JavaScript Reactive Extensions with a real example building on the concepts previously discussed. This worked example looks at combining Ajax calls using callbacks and the Reactive Extensions to perform translations using the Microsoft Translator API.
• Entity Framework 4 - Modified Self-Tracking Entity framework that supports Code-Only and Persistence Ignorance - Adriaan de Beer shares some extended templates based on the Entity Frameworks standard Self Tracking templates, which add a number of extensions to the base offering, and shows them in use in a sample project

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• Visual Studio 2010 Professional - $250 off and get an MSDN Essentials subscription offer - Eric Ligman highlights the online availability of a good offer to get you Visual Studio 2010 and a 12 month MSDN Essentials subscription for $549, which seems like a pretty good deal, although I’m unsure if you can order it from outside the US.
• Start-PowerShellPoint - John Robbins shares a neat looking PowelShell script which provides the core functionality of presentation software (ala PowerPoint) from the comfort of your console window.
• Migrating ASP.NET MVC 1.0 applications to ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM - Eilon Lipton announces the release of his ASP.NET MVC Application Project Upgrader tool which will now take your ASP.NET MVC project up to the ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM level (which has yet to be released).
• Deleporter: Cross-Process Code Injection for ASP.NET - Steve Sanderson shares a neat experimental library which provides a means for an external process to feed code into an ASP.NET application, intended for integration testing to allow the tests to set up mock data, etc in the ASP.NET from the test runner process.

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• We moved your ASP.NET website cheese, in a good way - Scott Hanselman announces the first in a series of updates to the ASP.NET Website, refocusing the site on the core concepts of getting started, getting the software, hosting your application and participating in the community. Another Microsoft website to get a make over yesterday was theMicrosoft TechNet site
• When "Activator" is just to slow - ‘JoeGeeky’ takes a look at the relative performance of the Activator for creating new instances of objects, a common use case in IoC container, and other reflection based code, and shows how better performance can be obtained using lambda expressions.
• Strengthening your domain: Encapsulated collections - Jimmy Bogard continues his discussions on building better domain models with a look at why in general you don’t want to expose collections as it affords the consumer of your code too much flexibility, and shows how you can better express your domain model’s intent by encapsulation.
• Getting Started With CI Using Hudson For Your .NET Projects - Bob Cravens talks us through the process of getting up and running using the Java powered Husdon Continuous Integration Server to build and manage .NET projects in this nice screenshot rich step by step post.
• POCO Template Code Generation Options - Sheetal Gupta of the Entity Framework Design Team talks about the recent release of templates for working with Entity Framework and Plain Old CLR Objects (POCO), and set out various options for taking these template forward, soliciting community feedback on the team’s ideas.
• FluentPath: a fluent wrapper around System.IO - Bertrand Le Roy sharse a Fluent interface implementation which wraps the common and dated System.IO API functions. Full code is available and licensed under a BSD license.
• Debugging .Net framework source code within Windbg - Naveen shows how you can debug into the .NET Framework source from your own applications using the Windbg debugger, allowing you to set breakpoints in the framework code
• Programming Practices: Part 1 - Watching from a distance - Brian Harry begins a series of posts talking about how he codes, in this first part talking about the way he tends to work and some of his core principles and techniques, and in his second post ‘Programming Practices: Part - Thoughts on TDD‘, he shares his thoughts on Test Driven Development, discussing how he dislikes Test Driven Development mechanisms, however likes the overall aims of TDD. Despite its seemingly inflammatory statement this is a very interesting read to hear one of the other sides to the argument.
• Guest Post: Using IronRuby and .NET to produce the "Hello World of WPF" - Eric Nelson hosts another guest post on his blog, this time from Edd Morgan who talks through creating a simple WPF application using IronRuby

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• Open Source WPF UML Design tool - Omar AL Zabi shares a WPF based editor for the plantuml UML diagram generation tool which allows you to create nice UML diagrams using a simple language. The editor contributes with a text editor, and easy creation and management of the graphic representation generation. Full details of the implementation and source are available in his Code Project article PlantUML Editor: A fast and simple UML editor using WPF

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• Profiling Apps 1 of N: The MVC ActionLink - Hadi Hariri starts a new series on performance and profiling applications, talking about some of teh dangers of premature optimisation, and moving on to looking at profiling a simple ASP.NET MVC Action Link sample using the dotTrace profiler
• Analysing and measuring the performance of a .NET application (survey results) - Laila Lotfi shares some results from a survey published in December which looks at how developers monitor performance of their applications in development
• .Net, Native, P/Invoke marshaling just like magic… "Marshaling with C# Pocket Reference" (Think ‘Marshalling Guide for the Busy Dev Guy’) - Greg Duncan highlights a great resource on Marshalling and interop between managed and unmanaged code in C#. The first 3 chapters of this e-book are currently available in HTML with the rest to follow shortly, and also be available in PDF/XPS format too.
• Creating a Lazy Sequence of Directory Descendants in C# - Chris Sells shows that Lazy Sequences implemented in clear simple code is not just the preserve of the functional languages, showing a simple implementation in elegant C# making use of the Yield statement.
• ASP.NET 4.0 Part 11, Configuring Routing Is Easier - Dan Maharry continues his voyage round the new features of ASP.NET 4 with a look at the introduction of Routing to the WebForms, showing the process of getting up and running with routing in web forms applications.
• State Pattern Misuse - Greg Young takes a look at a common misuse of the state pattern using polymorphism, compares it to an implementation using individual classes, and shares a simple rule for deciding which implementation is right for your situation.
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part One - Eric Lippert takes a look at one of the Framework Design Guidelines about type and namespace naming, looking at why the advice is given, the types of problems you can get into and something of a work around.
• Versioning REST Services - Scott Seely takes a look at various strategies for providing versioning in REST based web services looking at version parameters, and URL versioning
• The 8th Phase - Karl Seguin follows up on a post from early last year adding in a further phase of unit testing, which talks about life beyond the ‘unit’ test, and how integration tests add a lot of testing value to your tests.
• Video of My Last Iteration Planning Meeting with CodePlex - Sara Ford share a valuable insight into how the CodePlex team do agile development in this video recording of her last iteration planning meeting before moving on to pastures new.

Community

• Videos of developer sessions at Oredev (including mine on .net debugging) - Tess Ferrandez highlights the availability of the Oredev conference session videos from last year’s conference, including the video of her session on .NET Debugging.
• LinkedIn .NET User Group Online Presentation Tomorrow - Gaiaware are presenting their Gaia Ajax framework to the Linked In .NET User Group today (10th March) at 11am PST, and are also giving away 5 full annual subscriptions to Gaia Ajax to randomly chosen attendees.
• Edge UG @ UK TechDays: Functional Programming on .NET with Oliver Sturm - The EDGE Usergroup are tacking an event of their own onto the end of the Tuesday Microsoft TechDays event. This session is open to both TechDays attendees and non-attendees, and is to be hosted at the same venue in the evening, and sees Oliver Sturm present on Functional Programming on the .NET Platform.
• Douglas Crockford: "Crockford on JavaScript - Episode IV: The Metamorphosis of Ajax" (93 min.) - The Yahoo User Interface blog share the latest instalment of Douglas Crockford’s talk series on JavaScript, with this 4th episode talking about the DOM and Css and how it leads into Ajax.

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• T4MVC 2.6.13: now officially in MvcContrib, with a few new features - David Ebbo announces a new release of his T4 MVC project and also shares the news that it is now a part of the MvcContrib project, bringing more exposure to the project and easier means for others to contribute. This new release also contains a number of new features which further improve the usability of the templates.
• WF Migration Kit CTP 1 Now Available - Ron Jacobs highlights the release of a migration kit to help aid the process of migrating code from Windows Workflow 3 to the new and significantly updated Windows Workflow 4 included in .NET 4
• Some VS 2010 RC Updates (including patches for Intellisense and Web Designer fixes) - Scott Guthrie highlights more updates for the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate to resolve problems with IDE performance on XP/Vista/Windows Server 2003/2008, along with a designer fix and a fix for problems with tool tips.
• FluentNHibernarte.Search 0.3 Beta Released Now Support Fluent XML-Less Configuration - Yoann. B has been busy building a Fluent Interface for use with the NHibernate Search functionality. The library is on a 0.3 beta release currently, with progress being made quickly on this one as this is the 3rd release this month for the project already
• RedGate - Conducting ‘ANTS 6′ UX Testing - Rory Becker helps RedGate to find developers to test their forthcoming version of ANTS profiler. If you match the requirements for the study get in touch via Rory

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• Developer Certification WTF? - ‘Uncle’ Bob Martin discusses the thorny issue of Developer Certification, talking about some of the inherent problems with the current model of certification in our industry, comparing with other industries, and considering if internships actually may provide a solution.
• Using Copy-On-Write In Multi-threaded Code To Reduce Locking Overhead - Davy Brion explores the ‘copy on write’ method of making a thread safe collection with lower locking overhead than the traditional lock on read and lock on write approach, discussing some of the more difficult issues with this way of working.
• VcsSurvey - Martin Fowler follows on from his recent Version Control discussions by sharing some survey results on peoples satisfaction with the various version control systems in common use currently, giving some idea of wider feelings on the subject.
• WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity - Scott Hanselman talks about the improvements to text clarity in the latest WPF build, comparing its graphical output to that of the .NET 3.5 edition showing that while the differences in text rendering are small, they do make a big difference.
• CQRS Performance Engineering: Read vs Read/Write Models - Derick Bailey looks at one of the useful side effects of Command Query Responsibility Separation, that in addition to providing easier to work with single purpose code, it also makes engineering the application for performance much easier.
• Introducing the Earthquake Locator - A Bing Maps Silverlight Application, part 1 - Bobby Diaz looks at consuming Bing Maps in a Silverlight application and combining it with a data feed of earthquakes and volcanoes. Full source is provided for this worked example.
• How to Create a Powershell 2.0 Module and Cmdlet with Visual Studio 2010 (Screencast included) - Saveen Reddy shares a step by step blog post and screen cast exploring building a module for use in Powershell 2, illustrating with a simple example module which shows the core concepts.
• Building Hello MEF - Part IV - DeploymentCatalog - Glenn Block continues his series of posts looking at building his PDC HelloMEF dashboard with part 4 upgrading to the latest Silverlight 4 MEF bits and looking at the DeploymentCatalog, and Part V takes a look at moving the application to a View Model pattern.

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• "Leading-edge Web Development with ASP.NET MVC" with Steven Sanderson - Tuesday 11th May sees Steve Sanderson deliver his talk on Web Development in ASP.NET MVC at DotNetDevNet hosted at The University of the West of England in Bristol. Steve is a well known speaker and author on the ASP.NET MVC framework, and this is sure to be a useful event.
• Lessons learned from building the NHibernate Profiler - Ayende shares the video recording of his recent SkillsMatter session on ‘Lessons Learned from building the NHibernate Profiler’ giving some insight on the product, his development methodology, and the design of the products infrastructure

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• Pex and Moles become Visual Studio 2010 Power Tools - Nikolai Tillmann gives an update on some exciting news for the Pex project, the move to becomming a Visual Studio 2010 power tool including a re-grading of which versions / dditions of Visual Studio it will run in, and updated licensing.
• New drop of the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) available - Bart De Smet announces a new release of the Reactive Extensions for .NET which includes support for the .NET 4 RC as well as .NET 3.5
• Introducing Typemock Test Lint - Roy Osherove highlights a new tool from TypeMock which provides as you type lint style warnings for your test code. Operating against all the common .NET testing frameworks and running on VS2010 this free tool will help you write better tests.

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• BSON Serialization - Karl Seguin discusses BSON a Binary encoding for JSON-like documents which is gaining acceptance in the world of document databases.
• Don’t Expose IList<T> Just So You Can Assert Against Its Contents - Derick Bailey talks about controlling the interface of the items returned from your collections to make it so that your collections can still be used for read only operations in consuming code, but cannot be modified.
• NET basics - Difference between the stack and the heap - Steffen Jørgensen talks about the differences between the Stack and the Heap in terms of the types of data they store.
• Additional WPF Text Clarity Improvements - The WPF Text Blog talks about some recent improvements in the text rendering of WPF4, which should be of great interest to anyone who has worked with the now WPF based Visual Studio 2010 editor and had issues with text clarity.
• Unit testing with Microsoft Moles - Kristofer Liljeblad gives a brief tour of the Moles functionality of the former Microsoft Research project Pex, showing an example of them in use in a realworld test
• The Power of Blue Books for Platform Impact - J.D. Meier talks about the range of titles available in the Patterns and Practices series of books, talking about the use of the types of advice they contain
• A Few Thoughts on DDD, DTOs, View Models, Repositories and Separation of Concerns - Billy McCafferty talks about some of the principles and ideas he has adopted based on discussions surrounding his Open source projects and communities.
• Providing Metadata to you MEF exports - Derik Whittaker follows on from his introductory MEF post from a while back with a look at easily providing metadata parameters to MEF based exports.
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript - jQuery Integration - Matthew Podwysocki continues his series on the JavaScript Reactive Extensions with a look at combining them with the jQuery library making it easier to move between libraries when needed.

Community

• Next European VAN on 06 April 2010 - The next European Virtual Alt.Net usergroup meeting looks set to be a good one. Covering the topic of Software Craftsmanship will be ‘Uncle’ Bob Martin, David Starr, Mark Nijhof, Scott Bellware and Corey Haines, with the screencast event kicking off at 7:00PM GMT on 6th April. Be sure to tune in for an interesting discussion.
• Introduction to OpenRasta - developer Fusion - ASP.NET, C# Programming, VB.NET, .NET Framework, Java and Visual Basic Tutorials - If screencast events aren’t your thing and you are London based, the evening of 6th April also offers you the ThoughtWorks London Geek Nights event, and will be covering the Open Rasta REST/HTTP Framework.
• A few announcements for those in the UK - Scott Guthrie is visiting the UK again, and will be presenting at a couple of fre events over here in Birmingham and Glasgow, as well as attending the UK MIX party.

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• Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 codename “Eaglestone” - Brian Harry announces the first beta release of Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 codename “Eaglestone”, a plug-in for Eclipse which allows access to TFS 2010 backends. This release is based on the product acquired from Teamprise, updated to match the features and functionality in TFS 2010
• Free PDF Book Download: A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control powered by thinktecture - Christian Weyer highlights the release of the eBook edition of A Guide To Claims-Bsed Identity and Access Control, a title from the Microsoft Patterns and Practices group contributed to by Dominick Baier of Thinktecture, along with other recognisable Microsofties in the Identity and Access control space.

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• Creating and Sharing Project & Item Templates - Aaron Marten of the Visual Studio Platform Team talks about new features of Visual Studio 2010 which allow for easier use and sharing of Template for Projects and items
• Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Part I: Locks - Chris Burrows talks about a C#4 language change to how events are handled by the language / framework, showing how locks used to be used when attaching and removing event handlers, and talks about how it has changed in C#4
• Too much reuse - Eric Lippert gives some background on why rethrowing exceptions using ‘throw ex’ is bad due to the way exceptions are not completely immutable.
• ASP.NET 4.0 Part 10, A Handful Of Little Things - Dan Maharry looks at a number of the smaller changes in ASP.NET 4 as a part of his series, exploring new Redirects, Inline HTML Encode, and the inclusion of the chart controls.
• ASMX and JSON - Common mistakes and misconceptions - Dave Ward talks about the ASMX web service, and how, despite preconceptions, it can be used to serve JSON formatted data for use in JavaScript. Prashant Khandelwal illustrates this quite nicely with a look at consuming an ASP.NET Web Service in his post ‘Calling ASP.NET Web Service Using Jquery - Part I‘
• There’s no such thing as a "JSON Object" - Ben Alman sets the record straight about the meaning of JSON, what it is, and how its defined
• MEF will not get easier, its’ cool as ICE - Maarten Balliauw talks about the three key concepts / keywords in the Managed Extensibility Framework , Import, Export and Compose, which make up the initials ‘ICE’, showing simple examples of each phase.
• NHibernate: Mappings path - Fabio Maulo illustrates the NHibernate Mapping structures showing how they interact with each other and the various functionalities of NHibernate in this useful diagram
• Tamper Proofing - an implementation (Part 3) - Paul Mason gives a recap of the work he undertook to add tamper proofing to NCloak, and talks about some of the problems he ran into when debugging
• Using Mongo With LINQ - Rob Conery talks about the work he has been doing (with some help from others) on creating a Linq supporting C# driver/provider for the MongoDB Document Database, showing off the features of the provider with a simple example
• Using Reactive Extensions in Silverlight - Pencho Popadiyn explores the use of the Reactive Extensions in Silverlight, as possible in the .NET 4 release. This post covers some of the theory behind, along with showing Silverlight related examples to illustrate the concepts.
• Combining Higher Order Functions in C# - Mike Hadlow performs some functional programming gymnastics with C# functions which gets him under way with his Windsor CurryFacility implementation
• Poll: IoC Containers for .NET - Oliver Sturm is canvassing the community on their choice of and opinions of Inversion of Control containers for .NET via a simple poll - spare him 2 minutes to fill it in, and then have a read of the results if you are interested

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• Video of C4MVC talk on MvcContrib Portable Areas - Jeffrey Palermo highlights the availability of the video of his C4MVC virtual event presentation from late last month on ASP.NET MVC MvcContrib Portable Areas.
• Community For MVC.Net - March Meeting - The Community For MVC.Net (C4MVC) also have their next virtual event planned for 17th March at 1PM CST where Brad Wilson will be presenting on Templated Helpers and Testing in ASP.NET MVC

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• Second VS2010 RC UI Automation Hotfix/patch released - If you needed/installed the first, you’ll want the second one too. - Greg Duncan highlights a further hotfix for Visual Studio 2010 RC to resolve problems with Intellisense in the RC when you have certain types of hardware attached to your machine.

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• Message-Based Systems for Maintainable, Asynchronous Development - Billy McCafferty looks at the concepts and techniques behind message passing and looks at how it is a natural fit for asynchronous problems.
• Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with SpecFlow and ASP.NET MVC - Steve Sanderson talks about the history and background to Behaviour Driven Development, the types of specifications that you can create using these techniques, and looks at using SpecFlow, WatiN, NUnit and ASP.NET MVC to provide a pure .NET BDD solution.
• Challenge: Robust enumeration over external code - Ayende posts an interesting (and simple looking) problem base on enumeration, which seems to be significantly more complex than it appears based on the comments - interesting reading.
• 1 Simple Step for Commanding in Silverlight - Christopher Bennage talks about the Silverlight 4 implementation of Commanding, a technique borrowed from Silverlight’s Big Brother WPF, and shows how this same technique can be implemented using his Caliburn framework.
• What is Projection? - Chris Missal puts a pattern name to a code implementation face with a look at projection from one list of types to another, showing a traditional C# implementation along with a LINQ based example.
• Lambda Expressions: Join - Deborah Kurata takes a look at the Join methods use in Lambda expressions allowing an easy way of combining two lists of items into one, illustrating with an example in both C# and VB.NET
• Is MSpec an Internal DSL?…And is that okay? - Richard Cirerol follows on from a comment on a recent post of his, discussing the types of Domain Specific Language, looking at what type of DSL MSpec is, and looking at other examples of DSLs we probably use without noticing.
• .NET Remoting Events Explained - Silic0re09 takes a look at implementing events over a .NET Remoting interface, showing a code example illustrating both server and client, along with some best practices for eventing over remoting.
• Tips to Optimise asp.net Web Applications - Prasenjit Das gathers together a number of tips for improving the performance of your applications, focusing on Web Applications, but there are plenty of tips there which are relevant for most types of application.

Community

• UK Events Of Interest (March\April 2010) - Dan Maharry highlights a number of interesting .NET related events occurring across the UK this and next month.
• Ok official call for inter … - Rory Becker uses Twitter to identify is there is demand for a .NET Usergroup in the Poole / Bournemouth area - If you are, or know people who might be please help him spread the word.

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