The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing the NuSoft Framework 3.0 – Joel Ross announces the release of the NuSoft Framework 3.0 – a business object and data layer framework built using Code Smith templates
• xUnit.net RC2 Refresh – Brad Wilson announces an updated release of the xUnit.net RC2
• CSLA .NET version 3.5 is now available – Rockford Lhotka releases an updated version of his business object framework with support for C#3 and Visual Studio 2008

Information

• UITestBench, a lightweight UI testing library – A run through of how a simple UI testing framework can be made for Win Forms applications
• My NHibernate 2.0 Supa’ Layer – Rob Eisenberg takes some LINQ and some NHibernate and mixes the two, with an interesting looking result
• How do Extension Methods work and why was a new CLR not required? – Scott Hanselman talks about how it was possible to achieve one of the cool C#3 features without releasing a new CLR
• What to do about the slow startup of web services – Johan Straarup highlights 2 things you can to do improve the startup of your web services
• We’ve shipped! C# in Depth is out now (ebook) – Jon Skeet – who’s thoughts on the future of C# have made interesting reading – announces the completion of his ‘C# In Depth’ book – now available in e-book format
• String Format – Made Simple – A nice Silverlight tool to help building String.Format format strings.

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Yesterday was one of those days where things just worked – I wish more days were like that.

Software

• Visual Linq Query Builder (VLinq) – A Visual Studio Add-in to help build LINQ to SQL Queries (Think "Access Query Builder for Linq to SQL") – Greg Duncan highlights a useful looking Visual studio Add-in to make building LINQ to SQL queries in a visual way
• Deployer – A useful looking tool to aid deployment of a number of common .NET application types.

Information

• Heavyweight tests == lots of future pain – Derik Whittaker talks about the case when tests do too much work
• Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 from Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 – Jackie Goldstein has an article about getting SQL server 2008 working with the 2005 and 2008 Visual Studio
• Microsoft .NET Assemblies Public Key Names – A useful reminder that there are certain leaks of information even in compiled code – another to watch out for is the stack trace which can also contain path locations to your code.
• Joining to the Next Sequential Row – Paul Alcon shows a few different techniques for performing this task which SQL makes quite hard
• My Statement on Stored Procedures – Looks like the Stored Procedure vs Ad-Hoc query debate is starting again – that said, did it ever end.
• Using the Observer Pattern – Jack Altiere gives a nice detailed example of this design pattern
• Internals are Evil – Ayende shows how you can work round the problem of internal methods by using a little bit of reflection
• Things you MUST dispose – A useful overview of the importance of Disposing and what things you need to dispose.
• Unit Testing with Silverlight – ScottGu looks at the options for unit testing Silverlight applications
• The Past, Present and Future (?) of Mocking – Aaron Jensen looks at the some possible ways of improving mock frameworks interfaces using some of the latest language features

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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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