The Morning Brew

Another large edition of ‘The Morning Brew’ today as I still have a little catching up to do from being away this week – both on technology articles and sleep 😉

Software

• ExceptionFinder For Reflector – Jason Bock releases his latest Reflector Add-in which will find all the exceptions that a given method may throw.

Information

• Data at the root level is invalid – Mads Kristensen shows a useful tip for dealing with the strange characters due to encoding at the start of your XML files
• Source control is not a feature you can postphone to vNext – Ayende talks about the importance of being able to perform merge and source code control in the output files of developer tools
• ASP.Net MVC Framework pre- Preview 3 – A Step by Step guide to create a simple web app. – Fredrik Normén updates his article featured in yesterday’s Brew to cover the recently released ASP.NET MVC pre-preview 3 code release.
• Help! My Web Application Throws an Insane Amount of TypeLoadExceptions! – Omer van Kloeten highlights an interesting problem and offers a solution in the form of the well known @Register directive.
• WPF 3D : Part 2 of n – Sacha Barber continues his 3D programming in WPF series
• Testing a Membership Provider – Tony Rasa looks at creating an in memory Membership provider for test use.
• A fluent repeater – Adrian Aisemberg offers a method using a fluent interface to repeatedly run some code until a criteria is met.
• Searching for derived types in an assembly – Yoav Sion crafts an extension method to help with finding derived types using reflection.
• CHAPTER 3 (continued) : 3.4 Collaborating – Dan Bunea continues the gradual release of his Agile MiniBook
• A Gentle Introduction to Mocking – K. Scott Allen talks a little about his recent talk on this subject and gives some code examples.
• Pattern Matching in C# – Part 8 – Bart De Smet continues at a pace with his series on Pattern Matching, this time looking at translation of patterns into executable forms
• Designing Efficient Immutable .Net2.0 Objects – Adil Akhter looks at creating immutable objects in C#, along with the reason that you might want to do this.
• LINQPad as a Code Snippet Execution Engine – Rick Strahl takes an appreciative look at this LINQ Expression testing and visualisation tool

Community

• Introducing Stackoverflow.com – Jeff Atwood announces his and Joel Spolsky’s new Joint Venture – an ‘anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming) meets wikipedia meets programming reddit. It is by programmers, for programmers, with the ultimate intent of collectively increasing the sum total of good programming knowledge in the world.’. Sounds interesting to me!

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