The Morning Brew

Software

• Updates: Process Explorer v11.20, ZoomIt v2.0, Sigcheck v1.53, Handle v3.4 and introducing Sysinternals Live beta. – Sysinternals update a few tools, and provide a new way of getting them – a WebDav enabled site which will allow direct access to the .EXE for all the tools to make i much easier to get the tools on a particular machine.
• xUnit.net 1.0.1 Released – Brad Wilson announces the release of xUnit.net 1.0.1 – a bug fix release, with support for ASP.NET MVC preview 3, and Support for newer builds of F#

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• Fluent Interfaces And Readability – Joel Ross considers the implementation and readability of Fluent interfaces.
• Foundations of Programming – pt 8 – Back to Basics: Exceptions – Karl Seguin continues his series on programming basics with a look at exceptions
• nHibernate many-to-many collections. (OR mapping is not one table one class) – Peter Van Ooijen talks about collection mapping in NHibernate.
• The Unit Testing Story in F# Revisited – Matthew Podwysocki looks at unit testing in F# again, reviewing the changes in the testing frameworks (xUnit.net and Gallio) that make F# testing work again.
• Ways of Performance in .NET – Part1 – Tao Wang starts a series on performance techniques in .NET
• What’s Wrong with this? – Alan Mendelevich argues for the use of ‘this.’ before any field of the object to allow distinctions from local variables.
• Community Call to Action: NOT Northwind – Scott Hanselman is fed up of the Northwind sample database and is now looking to create a new example database.
• Cool ScriptManager stuff I missed… – Jay Kimble highlights some of the aysnc functionality of the Script Manager
• .Net Equality – Will Smith reminds us all that there are multiple ways of testing equality.
• ActiveLinq – Scott Watermasysk prototypes an active record like implementation using Linq to Sql

Community

• Call for Party with Palermo RSVPs. Reserve your spot now for the Tech Ed party – Jeffrey Palermo announces his latest event at TechEd 2008

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• Secure Persistent ASP.NET Forms Authentication – Brant Burnett improves the security of Forms Authentication by implementing two cookies, one for secure hosts and one for insecure hosts (which does not allow you onto the secure host without re-authenticating).
• Dependency Injection using Spring.NET – Niranjan Kumar looks at implementing dependency injection using the Spring.Net library
• Another C# Idea: Interface Method Chaining – Matt Hamilton considers the possibility of allowing interfaces to have method chaining – an interesting idea, not sure how often you would use it though.
• Extended LINQ: additional operators for LINQ to objects – Igor Ostrovsky offers a collection of extension method operators for LINQ to objects
• The Open/Closed Principle on MSDN – Jeremy D. Miller’s latest article has been published in MSDN Magazine, covering the open/closed principle – a nice interesting read
• PetriDish: Multi-threading for performance in C# – Nick Butler looks at some advanced concurrent programming techniques
• Multiple File Upload User Control – SAMir Nigam offers a useful file upload user control which allows the use to upload multiple files using a nice interface.
• Static versus Dynamic Languages – Attack of the Clones – Matthew Podwysocki weighs in on the classic Static vs Dynamic debate
• MVC Storefront Challenge Kickoff – Jimmy Bogard starts his MVC Storefront challenge – to switch out the tools Rob Conery is using with Open Source alternatives.

Community

• PDC2008 Professional Developers Conference October 27-30, 2008 – Microsoft PDC 2008 registration has opened, with savings of $200 for early registrations.

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I had a thoroughly enjoyable evening last night at the monthly GeekUp Liverpool meeting – if you are in the North of England I encourage you to take a look at GeekUp – there are groups operating in many of the larger cities in the North and its a great place to meet people with like minds (and some others who look at the world from a whole different angle).

Software

• ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Release – The ASP.NET MVC reaches an official Preview 3 release. This replaces the interim source release as the most up to date release of the MVC framework, and, as usual, ScottGu has the low down on the new features

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• [ANN] Dimecasts.net is Alive and Kicking – Derik Whittaker announces his latest project – A screen cast site with screen casts aimed to be 10 minutes in length, covering a range of topics at a range of levels (beginner to advanced). Currently there are 4 episodes, but the plan is for 1-2 a week, so one to watch for sure
• Entity Framework: The Cribsheet – Amirthalingam Prasanna gives an overview in Crib sheet form with samples of the whole Entity Framework development process
• RhinoCommons, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC Part 4 – The MVC Application – Ryan Lanciaux continues his ASP.NET MVC with castle and Rhino tools series with a look at the application
• Envy Code R preview #7 (scalable coding font) – Coding Font is a very personal choice, but one that seems to be very popular in the communuty is Envy Code R, which has just had an update
• Authenticating with ADO.NET Data Services – Mike Taulty looks at securing the REST-ful interface of ADO.NET data servvices, considering a number of standard ways of doing authentication
• Updated Northwind Demo For ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 – Phil Haack updates his Northwind ASP.NET MVC sample to work well with Preview 3
• The future of .NET, Visual Studio and more – Joni Moilanen attempts to predict the future direction of the Microsoft Development world by looking at what Microsoft are recruiting developers for – interesting idea

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