The Morning Brew

Things seem to be a little quiet, so not a lot to report today…

Software

FastSharp – Write it, Execute it – Matthew Manela shows off his quick code testing utility which allows you to quickly run a few lines of code. This looks like a light weight version of snippet compiler, and I can see it being very useful

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Video.Show 1.0 Released to Web – Tim Sneath announces the availability of a Ready to Run solution for creating a video based website.

Computer Measurement Group offers past papers to the public! – Rico Mariani points to lots of freely available performance related papers – there looks to be a lot of interesting information in these, I’ll have to find a bit of time to read a few.

Building an MVP Framework for .NET. Part 3: Designing a Windows Forms Views Engine. – Part three of this series looks at the construction of winforms UI

Project White: Automated UI Testing – Ben Hall goes on a voyage of exploration with Project White for testing Winforms UI

Adventures in F# – F# 101 Part 1 – Matthew Podwysocki starts an introductory series on F# – looks like a good place to start if you havn’t seen much about F# before

ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update – ScottGu reveals the plans and features of the forthcoming ASP.NET MVC framework preview

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Why I Love being a Software Developer – Derik Whittaker talks about why he loves his job

Lock Down SQL Server 2005 – A good rundown of the steps involved in making Sql 2005 nice and secure

CRUD operations in Siverlight using ADO.NET Data Service – I first came into contact with ADO.NET Data Services (Project Astoria) last year at a VBUG talk but since then I’ve not heard much about it. This article talks about how you can use it from Silverlight

Building an MVP Framework for .NET. Part 1: The Basics of MVC and MVP – A new series which covers building an MVP framework – this first part introduces the concepts of MVP/MVC

Building an MVP Framework for .NET. Part 2: Implementing Core Functionality – And part two of this series continues with the core MVP functionality

Is ORM a Dead End? – An interesting discussion of the differences between the Object Relational Mapping Domain Driven Design methods vs Relational Data Model.

Use Custom Generic Collections Rather Than Generic Lists in Public API – Keyvan Nayyeri talks good sense about not using Generic Lists as part of a public API

jQuery Intellisense in Visual Studio – One of the fixes in the VS2008 rollup allows for intellisense for jQuery (pre hotfix it couldn’t parse jQuery), and Rick Strahl talks in length about this, and Javascript intellisense in general

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit – A pointer to a free Microsoft Training Kit for VS2008 and .NET 3.5 which was released back in November

Hang caused by GC – XML Deadlock – An interesting analysis of a particular (now hotfixed) problem with the Garbage Collection – if huge stack traces scare you, this one isn’t for you

Pimp my ASP.NET web application – Part One – Phil Winstanley talks about the many facets of making your ASP.NET applications perform, and also about the dangers of premature optimisation.

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No policy type posts this weekend – mainly because it was nice and sunny for the first time this year, so I went out and took some photos.

Software

SQL Editor for Database Developers – A simple yet effective SQL tool – GPL’d source code too, which is interesting too me as some of the stuff in it looks like it might be very useful for a project I’ve had on the back burner for a while

VS 2008 Web Development Hot-Fix Roll-Up Available – ScottGu announces the availability of a hotfix that resolves a number of performance problems in VS web development

Microsoft XSLT Profiler – A short review of the new XSLT profiler lanuched last week – its a shame it only works in Team System edition though

Microsoft Team System NUnit Adapter – Exact Magic Software, release a free NUnit addin to run Team System unit tests

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Capturing the Screen Contents in .NET 2.0 – I never knew it was this simple to take screen captures!

WPF: A Beginner’s Guide – Part 4 of n – Sacha Barber continues his series, this time covering Dependency Properties

Using delegates – a simple sample – A nice simple sample of how delegate methods can really help make your code more reusable

Who’s On First? Solving the Top per Group Problem (Part 1: Technique) – Adam Machanic reviews a few techniques to solve one of the common SQL problems.

C# 4, part 4: My manifesto and wishlist – Jon Skeet continues his series on C# 4 features with the contents of his wishlist

Start With Something Simple – J.D. Meier talks about one of my favourite principles to apply to software development

Beattie’s First Rule of Application Development – Russell Beattie talks about the most important thing in application design – make it look pretty.

Community

ASP.NET Wiki – Latest Microsoft .NET site – a wiki! Its still in beta, but already looks promising

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