The Morning Brew

Last double digit edition of the Morning Brew today – Tomorrow I enter the triple digits!

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• Entities, Value Objects, Aggregates and Roots – Jimmy Bogard gives some excellent definitions of a number of key Domain Driven Design concepts and terms.
• C# 3.0 Implicit Type Declarations: To var or not to var? – Dare Obasanjo looks at the use of the var keyword for implicitly typed variables, and considers if they really are a good idea in the the cases ReSharper suggests
• Implementation of the Visitor pattern using .NET Generics – Derek Fowler implements the Visitor Pattern using .NET generics.
• The Functional Subset of D – Hans-Eric Grönlund looks at functional programming in the D programming language. I’m getting quite interested in functional programming of late, and I always like to see the same concepts in other languages.
• Red, Green, Chris – Darrel Carver show a refactoring session he had with Chris Brandsma, showing the stages from his first cut to the final code – Its always nice to see how others do this sort of thing.
• Creating a custom ViewEngine for the ASP.NET MVC framework – Maarten Balliauw looks at implementing a alternative View Engine in the ASP.NET MVC
• MVC Storefront: Client Progress Meeting – Rob Conery explains the aims of the MVC Store Front project, both his own and that of his ‘client’
• Rob’s Not So Lazy MVC Storefront – K. Scott Allen takes a look at some of the issues Rob Conery encountered with LINQ to SQL and the number of queries being issued.
• The MVC Storefront Challenge! – Jimmy Bogard considers putting together a crack team of two to pair program a conversion of Rob Conery’s MVC Storefront from LINQ to SQL to NHibernate
• VSX Survey (Spring 2008) invitation – The VSX Team Blog appeals for participants for a survey on Visual Studio Extensibility.
• Thoughts on writing quality test code vs writing quality application code – Derik Whittaker looks at factors that give you an idea that your tests are good quality code, and considers what that might mean for your application code.
• The Fluent Interfaces or DSLs Conundrum – Sergio Pereira questions whether fluent interfaces are a good idea in C#.
• Directory.Copy In .NET – A useful tip if you need to copy directories in your code and you don’t mind adding references to Microsoft.VisualBasic
• SQL Server 2005: Immediate Deadlock notifications – Mladen Prajdi? talks about how you can monitor deadlocks in your SQL Server 2005 databases.

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