The Morning Brew

The end of another week – this weekend you can expect a couple of ‘Morning Brew Policy’ posts, regarding things like reviews, what I will link to, and sponsorship – most of it will be like the policies of ‘The Daily Grind’ as I think that model worked well. If you’ve contacted me directly (and I’ve not yet replied) about any of these things, I will get back to you this weekend too.

Software

.NET Mass Downloader 1.1 Released – Only a few days since its 1.0 release, John Robbins announces the release of v1.1

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Beware the siren of yield return – Fritz Onion talks about the bad side of yield return – and reminds us that its important to make the right choice, not just the exciting new feature choice.

C# 4, part 2: Ideas from other community members – Jon Skeet continues his series by looking at the ideas others have suggested

C# 4, part 3: Ideas from Microsoft – … and in a third part of C#4 wish list features, Jon looks at the ideas from Microsoft

Using Extension Methods in .net 2.0 – Getting extension methods in .NET 2.0 via attribute faking

WPF and Property Dependencies Part I. – The start of a series on WPF databinding and controlling control dependencies

Visual Studio 2008 Performance Issues – If you are experiencing slowness in VS2008 it looks like there is some good news in the form of a hotfix on its way

Transparent Labels in WinForms – Rick Strahl covers a few techniques to make your labels see through

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DotNetBar for Windows Forms 7.2 released – DevComponents release the latest version of their toolbar library with 39 toolbar controls, Free trial is available, and commercial licenses start at $214

DotNetZip, open source ZIP library for .NET applications, revs to v1.3 – Latest update for this open source Zip Component. This version includes better support for Linux, Java and ASP.NET, along with support for comments in the zip file and overwriting files.

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A Naive Bayesian Spam Filter for C# – A reference implementation of Bayesian spam classification

C# Feature Idea: Static Extension Methods – Matt Hamilton calls out for static extension methods to be possible in C#4

How to Handle Null Values in Code – Basil Vandegriend talks about a number of techniques for dealing with null values.

Tell Me Your Unit Testing Pains – Phil Haack plays unit testing councillor – the comments are interesting on this post too

Did you know? – Changing ASP.NET Version restarts IIS – I was aware of this very annoing ‘feature’ of IIS, however there is a way around it, as this post shows.

Download All the .NET Reference Source Code at Once with Net Mass Downloader – John Robbins talks about a tool that allows you to download all the framework source so you can fill the IDE cache (to allow working offline), or simply be able to read the whole lot!

RESTful file uploads with HttpWebRequest and IHttpHandler – Mike Hadlow discusses a way of achieving a RESTful file upload in ASP.NET

Help With MSDN Help » “Hello World” – The SlickEdit Developer Blog – Scott Hackett gives a way of improving the performance of the help system

Visual Studio Gallery – The latest Microsoft Visual Studio sub site – this one is for the Visual Studio Extensibility community to market its wares, and contains both free and pay for addins and extensions.

A gentle geek introduction to Volta – A detailed step by step introduction to MS Volta – the launch of Volta passed me by, so this is a useful catch up

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How to Measure Code Quality – This is a good metric!

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Its the middle of the week – thank goodness – this week seems to be going very slowly.

Software

CodeIt.Right v1.0 Released! – Serge Baranovsky announces the release of this Code Analysis, refactoring and guideline software.

Community Server 2008, Beta 1 – First beta of this widely used community tool – loads of new features – details in this announcement

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TracerX Logger and Viewer for .NET – A detailed introduction to TracerX – a .NET logging framework

Publishing RSS and ATOM Feeds using WCF 3.5 Syndication Libraries – A quick guide to using System.ServiceModel.Syndication to create RSS and ATOM feeds

Multicores/manycores and conventional wisdoms – Linchi Shea confronts many of the traditional views on processors, and gives details from a UC Berkley report about the updated thoughts for multicore processors – Interesting read

Aligning Build Numbers with Assembly Versions in TFS2008. – Martin Woodward outlines a means of keeping them in sync using a custom build task and some MSBuild jiggery pokery

C# 4, part 1: Looking back at the past – Jon Skeet reviews mistakes made in previous versions of c# with a view to making a wishlist for C#4

For Loops: Using i++, ++i, Enumerators, or None of the Above? – Jeff Moser goes under the hood on different looping methods.

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