The Morning Brew

Software

• Web Deployment Tool Beta 1 (Go Live) just released – The Microsoft Web Deployment Team Blog announces the release of Beta1 of the Web Deployment Tool – and this looks like it includes a go live license too, so can be used in production now!
• First Moonlight Release – Miguel de Icaza announces the first release of Moonlight, the Mono SilverLight implementation. This release supports Silverlight 1.0 functionality

Information

• Beyond Mocks – the Partial – Karl Seguin gives one of the best explanations of partials in mocking terms I’ve ever read
• MVP & MVC simply put – Andrew Stopford explains the difference between MVC and MVP in a succinct way.
• Lambda Expression and Object Mappers – Claudio Lassala looks at a few techniques for mapping from one type of object to another type of object.
• Castle demo App #2: Monorail basics – Gojko Adzic turns his attentions to the MonoRail MVC framework in the second part of this series
• The Power of Programming With Attributes – K. Scott Allen has some joking commentsin this post, but ends with a good question – I’m hoping for some interesting discussions in the comments on this one.
• DefaultDotAspx.com – A newly launched ASP.NET knowledge base
• The Why and How of .NET Profiling – Amirthalingam Prasanna discusses profiling c# code using the CLR Profiler and Performance Monitor
• Using the unit of work-per-request pattern in ASP.NET MVC – Andrew Peters looks at implementing a testable unit of work per request in ASP.NET MVC. The article has example using MindScape’s Lightspeed ORM, however the principles apply across most other ORM products.
• DataContracts without attributes (POCO support) in .NET 3.5 SP1 – Aaron Skonnard looks at a new .NET 3.5 SP1 feature – the ability to serialise types in WCF which have not been decorated with the usual [DateContract] [Serialisable] types of attributes.
• Behavior Driven Development: As Human As Possible – SecretGeek talks about naming conventions for Behaviour Driven Development , and proposes how the test runner could be improved to make the process friendlier
• The Big Finale – Jonathan Pobst announces a very important milestone for the Mono Project – API completeness for the Winforms public API
• FullTrust on the LocalIntranet – The .NET Security Blog talks about a change I’ve been waiting a long time for which occurs with SP1 of .NET 3.5 – allowing applications full permissions when launched off a network share.
• .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta: Changes Overview – Patrick Smacchia continues on from Scott Hanselman’s post yesterday by analysing the .NET 3.5 SP1 beta changes using NDepend.

Community

• Liverpool Users of .NET 15th May – Tomorrow evening I will be giving an introductory talk on F# at the Liverpool .NET user group – pre-registration for the event is required, so get your name on the list if you are interested in attending

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