The Morning Brew

This morning’s Morning Brew has been plagued by technical difficulties – First FireFox, next my utility for assembling the post, and now my laptop battery is about to run out – so I’m dreading what else will go wrong today.

Software

• Announcing the Community Server 2008 Release Candidate! – The well known blogging and community platform, Community Server 2008, moves to release candidate
• Web Client Development Download Day from Microsoft – Greg Duncan gathers together a number of recently released Web Client Application and reference blocks.
• Silverlight 1.0 – New Maintenance Release Available – Tim Sneath tells of an update to Silverlight 1.0 – there are a few different fixes in this release.
• Updates: Process Explorer v11.12, Process Monitor v1.30, Handle v3.31, and a new blog post from Mark – Updates to a few of the much used SysInternals tools.
• CPU Scheduling Simulator 1.0 released! – Granville Barnett announces the 1.0 release of his tool for helping design and analyse CPU Scheduling Algorithms

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• 4 Key Differences Between Implicit and Explicit Interface Implementation – An interesting post about the differences between the two says of implementing interfaces.
• Disconnected N-Tier objects using EntityFramework – Ruurd Boeke looks at using the Entity Framework for disconnected applications – including Silverlight
• Pattern Matching in C# – Part 2 – Bart De Smet continues his series with parts 1 and 2 of his series on Pattern Matching in C#
• Try/Finally Pattern – Take a different path when an exception has occurred. – Alois Kraus shows a neat trick to establish if an exception has occurred and allow you to do different clean up in your finally handler.
• Removing Duplicate Code in Functions – Alex Mueller looks at a few techniques (delegates and AOP) for eliminating duplication of code – examples include logging on start and end of functions.
• Improve scalability in ASP.NET MVC using Asynchronous requests – Steve Sanderson takes steps to add Asynchronous Processing to ASP.NET MVC by implementing Async versions of the Controller and handlers
• ASP.NET MVC: MVC Storefront, Part 2 – Rob Conery continues his screen cast series on building a Store using MVC. This part adds significantly to the unit test and repository
• Partial Mocks explained – Chris Brandsma takes a look at partial mocks, following on from his previous post about mocking nested methods.

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Software

• Paint.NET v3.30 Release Candidate 1 is now available! – The title says it all – latest update to this free .NET based Paint application is now available as a Release candidate.
• AjaxView – An interesting Microsoft Research project for monitoring AJAX requests between the client and server remotely. Prototype version available.

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• TechEd Eilat 2008: Keynote and Brainteasers – Two interesting .NET brainteasers to get your brain warmed up this morning.
• Security Principles – J.D. Meier puts together an excellent (and comprehensive) list of security principles – very worth while reading.
• ASP.NET MVC: Introducing The MVC Storefront Series – Rob Conery starts a series of webcasts which work through the creation of a real world eCommerce store. This introductory part looks at the core pattern (Repository) and gets started writing tests. Also includes guest appearances by a few big names.
• Mocking nested methods – Chris Brandsma illustrates a technique that can allow you to create tests for methods without dependency on the returns of nested method calls – at the expense of increasing the code complexity
• Tackling the F# Productization – Don Syme talks about the productization work that the F# team have been doing.
• Linq and Delayed execution – Derik Whittaker takes a look at deferred execution of LINQ queries.
• Replace your Collections with IEnumerable<T> – Tony Rasa looks at moving from concrete collection classes in his API to IEnumerable<T>

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Once again the weekend seems to have escaped from me.

Software

• Unity Application Block – The Unity IOC application block has reached RTW (Release to web)
• NCover 2.1.0 – The NCover team announce V2.1.0 of this well know code coverage tool. Now with full support for .NET 3.0 and 3.5 (amongst other new features)
• MSBuild Sidekick 2.1 is available – Updated version of this Gui for working with MSBuild Project files. 14 Day trial available, and single user licenses for $55

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• Framework Design Studio Published – Brad Abrams highlights a tool Krzysztof Cwalina (and team) has created to help review and comment on API design.
• Setting up Subversion on Windows – Jeff Atwood (CodingHorror) posts up a great step by step guide to setting up Subversion on Windows – now there is no excuse for not having good version control.
• Pattern Matching in C# – Part 0 – Bart De Smet shows how the functional programming pattern match technique can be implemented in C#
• The new data types in SQL Server 2008 – Sergio Pereira rounds up the new datatypes in SQL 2008 in this nice quick reference post.
• Using Spring.NET and NHibernate with ASP.NET MVC – Billy McCafferty posts a taster of a future article he’s working on.
• The static Keyword – Shay Friedman takes a look at the static keyword and what it cand do in different contexts.
• The NHibernate FAQ – A really good new Blog on NHibernate – I’ve enjoyed a few of the posts already – one to watch.
• CHAPTER 2: Agile methodologies – Dan Bunea releases chapter 2 of his mini book on agile methods.
• Relooking at xUnit.net RC2 – Matthew Podwysocki takes another look at xUnit.Net following the recent RC2 updates.
• Why add more memory won’t fix your Out of Memory error ? – A useful reminder that simply throwing hardware at a problem won’t always get you out of a performance hole.
• Fast page loading by moving ASP.NET AJAX scripts after visible content – Omar AL Zabir looks at a technique to move the automatically generated Javascript further down the page.
• Collection Classes supported by .Net Framework – A brief look at a few of the core collection classes in the .NET framework
• Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity – Intro – The start of what could be a very interesting series on migrating the CWAB to use the newly released Unity IOC
• Adventures in F# – F# 101 Part 7 (Creating Types) – Matthew Podwysocki looks at creating types covering Tuples, Records and unions.
• Validating .NET/RESX translations easily with LINQ-to-XML – A neat use of LINQ to XML to check for mistakes in resource files

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