The Morning Brew

Software

• PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 – An Add=in that contains a number of useful extensions to the IDE, adding things like open folder from solution explorer, Copy/Paste Class, etc
• JMPInline: C# OpenID library DotNetOpenID 2.0 released – Update to this Open ID implementation adding full support for Open ID 2.0 while maintaining support for 1.x
• Spec# for Visual Studio 2005 – Microsoft Research release version 1.0.20411 of the C# Design By Contract extensions.

Information

• How to share configuration files between projects – Derik Whittaker looks at sharing application config files between projects in a solution
• Printing PDF documents in C# – Most of us are concerned with creating PDFs but printing them from code is non-trivial
• Creating a AutoMockingContainer with Microsoft Unity – Pretty darn simple. – Roy Osherove puts together an auto mocking container implementation using the new Unity IOC Container
• Thoughts on Testing an API – Derik Whittaker thinks about testing API implementations – and comes up with some good advice.
• Pattern Matching in C# – Part 6 – Bart De Smet continues his series on Functional Programming techniques in C# – so quickly I keep missing parts!
• Problems with the MVC Framework RenderComponent helper method – Mike Hadlow looks at sone of the less nice(with respect to their own design goals) bits of the ASP.NET MVC framework
• 30K application lines + 110K testing lines: Evidence of…? – Larry O’Brien talks about the ratio of program code to test , code and if anything can be deduced from that
• Unity Community Contributions and Interception – Matthew Podwysocki recaps where he’s up to, and continues on looking at unity – covering the Unity Community Contributions and taking a look at Interceptions.

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