The Morning Brew

The .NET community is knee high in April Fools pranks – hopefully none of this mornings links were jokes…

Software

• Enterprise Library 4.0 March 2008 CTP released – Grigori Melnik announces the release of the March 08 CTP of the Enterprise Library
• NUnit 2.4.7 Releases – Latest point release of NUnit offers improved performance and logging, along with the RowTest extension for parametrized units test
• Visual Studio® Team System 2008 VSTS VPC Image (Trial) – An updated release of this Virtual PC image – this one expires on 31st December 2008, , so gives you 9 months to try out the most expensive version of Visual Studio.

Information

• Inline XML Code Documentation using Sandcastle – Scott Nichols gathers together a collection of links for XML documentation and using SandCastle
• WPF Business Application Series Part 3 of n – Business Object Declarative Programming; How To Implement Object Validation & Logging – Latest part in this series on building Busines WPF applications covers a lot of ground
• xUnit.net RC2 Released – Matthew Podwysocki takes a look at the features of the recent RC2 release of xUnit.net
• Reflector Add-in Starter Kit (C#) – Jason Haley release an Addin for Visual Studio to make creating Reflector Add-ins easier to write by templating the common stuff. C# Only at the moment
• SQL Server 2008 – HierarchyId – How do you move nodes/subtrees around – Simon Sabin goes into some detail on HierarchyId – I recently saw Simon present at my local Community Launch Event and he briefly touched on this new feature – so some more information is welcome.
• PTOM: The Dependency Inversion Principle – Jimmy Bogard looks at Dependency Injection in the latest post in the SOLID series.

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