The Morning Brew

The Microsoft ‘Heros Happen {here}’ launch events kicked off yesterday, so lots of people are talking about that. I have to wait until the middle of next month for the Birmingham, UK event

Software

• XML Pathfinder: a Visual Basic Utility – A usefult looking utility to help build XPath statements
• TypeMock Isolator 4.2 released – The TypeMock Team ship version 4.2
• Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition – February 2008 – Microsoft release the latest build of thiese resources to help build web services to best practices and patterns
• New: ShellRunas v1.0 Updates: Autoruns v9.13, Process Explorer v11.10, Sigcheck v1.52 – Updates of some old friends and a new release from the SysInternals team

Information

• Be Careful of Your Passion – David Starr talks about the dangers of getting carried away when writing the bits of an application that you find most interesting.
• Continuous Environment Validation – Some interesting thoughts on testing the environment your application is running in to ensure the best conditions for your application
• Creating objects – Perf implications – Ayende compares a few techniques for creating instances – interesting reading
• Prism is alive ! – Ohad Israeli announces Prism, a Composite UI Application Block designed specifically for WPF
• How should you layout code? – Tony Davis talks about code formatting and layout tools and best practices
• Sandcastle and API Documentation – Brian Peek shows how you can create good API documentation using SandCastle
• Common console commands for the typical ASP.NET developer – A collection of console commands to manage and work with IIS
• Retrofitting Code for the Web – Joel Ross shows how code can be refactored to make it usable in more than one situation – in this case making it possible to use on the web

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