The Morning Brew

Software

• ThreeSharp – Version 1.3 – This library for accessing Amazon S3 from C# reaches version 1.3
• SCSF April 2008 Alpha for Visual Studio 2008 Published to CodePlex – Blaine Wastell announces the availability of the latest Smart Client Software Factory alpha release – this version supports VS 2008 only

Information

• Design for Performance Up-Front? – Scaha Goldshtein muses on the topic of performance, sparking further some interesting debates
• The cost of abstraction – Ayende has three posts in this series, talking about the relative performance costs of putting operations behind an interface
• ".NET 3.5 Enhancements" Training Kit Available (Hands on Labs) – Greg Duncan notes the availability of a new training kit covering the enhancements of the .NET 3.5 Framework – topics inclde MVC, Dynamic Data, Entity Framework, and a whole host more.
• Simpler Code Add-In for Visual Studio 2008 – In support of his book, Keyvan Nayyeri shows how you can build a simple Visual Studio Add-in
• NHibernate and the Unit of Work Pattern – Gabriel Schenker looks at implementing the Unit Of Work pattern using NHibernate – with good helpings of TDD, Unit Testing and Mocking – interesting reading.
• MVC: New Membership Starter Kit Release – Troy Goode announces an update to his Membership Starter Kit based on ASP.NET MVC
• A NET Cryptography Primer, Part Two – This part looks at hashing passwords and salt generation
• TDD: The Road So Far – Rob Conery expresses more of his thoughts on Test Driven Development.- Lots of interesting comments too
• CHAPTER 3: Communicating and Collaborating – Dan Bunea continues his agile mini books series looking at communication and requirements

Comments Off on The Morning Brew #72

Software

• xUnit.net 1.0 RC3 Released Today – Brad Wilson announces the latest Release candidate of the xUnit.net testing framework – including CruiseControl.NET and ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 support.
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview Available – ScottGu breaks the news of a new preview of the ASP.NET Dynamic Data library which allows automatic creation of rich Date editing UI for ASP.NET Web Forms apps backed by LINQ to SQL or LINQ to entities
• Paint.NET v3.30 — Final release now available! – Paint.NET 3.30 goes gold – this release has a number of new features over 3.22, so looks well worth the upgrade.
• Visual Linq query builder for Linq to Sql: VLinq – Some how I managed to miss this one first time – This Visual Studio 2008 Addin allows you to construct LINQ queries in a visual way
• Json.NET 2.0 Beta 3 – Turkey Test Approved – James Newton-King announces that the latest beta of Json.NET 2.0 is culturally aware in that it passes the Turkey Test – along with a number of other fixes

Information

• Framework Design Guidelines Digest v2 – Krzysztof Cwalina releases an offline copy of the slimmed down version of the book ‘Framework Design Guidlines’
• Make the most of your test coverage data – Patrick Smacchia talks about a new NDepend feature to obtain test code coverage information
• WCF REST Configuration for ASP.NET AJAX and plain REST Service – Rick Strahl looks at WCF and ASMX web services configuration, and the best decisions for REST and ASP.NET Ajax web services.
• How to Expose Your Collections Safely – A useful reminder of the ability to expose collections safely as read only using the ReadOnlyCollection class
• Pattern Matching in C# – Part 4 – Bart De Smet continues his series on this functional programming principle in C#
• Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity – Clean Up ICompositionContainer – Part three of this series on changing the Composite web application block to work with Unity IOC
• Upcoming Changes In Routing – Phil Haack explains some of the changes that are being made to ASP.NET MVC’s request routing
• Putting ASP.NET Dynamic Data into Context – One Scott announces the release, another fills in the details. Scott Hanselman delves into the details of the newly released ASP.NET Dynamic Data
• The Importance of Writing the Test First – Ben Scheirman talks about TDD, with some feedback on the discussions surrounding Rob Conery’s MVC store front series.
• ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 3 – Rob Conery responds to feedback, and continues development with the pipes and filters pattern

1 Comment »

I received my recently ordered copy of Keyvan Nayyeri’s book on Visual Studio Extensibility yesterday – First impressions are good – looking forward to digging into deeper it to assist with one of my personal projects.

Software

• Json.NET 2.0 Beta 3 – Turkey Test Approved – James Newton-King announces that the latest beta of Json.NET 2.0 is culturally aware in that it passes the Turkey Test – along with a number of other fixes

Information

• InternalsVisibleToAttribute and Strong Named Assemblies Step by Step – Using specific attributes it is possible to expose the internal classes of one assembly to another – a useful technique for unit testing if you like separate projects for tests
• Prism: Third drop published – Ezequiel Jadib announces the latest release of Prism, a set of tools for developing Composite WPF applications.
• Unit Test Project Structure Poll – Phil Haack puts out feelers for how people organise and structure their unit tests.
• Entity Framework & ADO.NET Data Services to Ship with VS 2008 SP1 & .NET 3.5 SP1 – The ADO.NET Team announce when two of the big post release 2008 features will ship – sort of.
• Unit Test Projects or Not? – Bil Simser responds to a Phil Haack post about the organisation of unit tests.
• Functional programming – Is it worth your time? – The Wandering Glitch looks at the reasons to look into Functional Programming.
• Soft Deletes – The NHibernate FAQ Blog shows how you can implement deletes via a deleted status rather than removing the record from the DB using NHibernate
• Unity 1.0 EventBroker Sample CAB Style – Scott Nichols highlights the Event Broker that comes with Unity and shows how you can integrate it with your applications.
• How to: Use strings in a secure manner with SecureString class – An oft forgotten .NET 2.0 Framework class to allow you to store strings in memory more securely.

1 Comment »