The Morning Brew

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• MVC Storefront Part 14: Ajax With Shawn Burke – The latest part in Rob Conery’s screen cast series on creating an ecommerce site with ASP.NET MVC. In this part Rob teams up with his boss to insert some ASP.NET Ajax into the store front
• SubSonic 3.0: IQueryable Update – Rob Conery talks about the development of the IQueryable interface support in Subsonic.
• Waltzing Through the Parallel Extensions June CTP: Synchronization Primitives – Sacha Goldshtein begins a monster series (All posted in one day) looking at the latest release of the Parallel Extensions – this first part discusses the new synchronisation primitives
• Waltzing Through the Parallel Extensions June CTP: Tasks – In part two Sacha looks at the Task support in the Parallel Extensions framework, with task continuations and the new scheduler.
• Waltzing Through the Parallel Extensions June CTP: Collection Classes – in Part three of his series, Sacha looks at the new System.Threading.Collections namespace, and discusses the different collection classes available.
• Waltzing Through the Parallel Extensions June CTP: Known Issues – Sacha Goldshtein continues by looking at the know issues in the latest release of Parallel Extensions
• Parallel Extensions and Native Code? – Sacha Goldshtein follows up on his series with a look at the parallel options for C++ developers.
• InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of Type ‘X’ to ‘X’ – Henning Krause encounters a strange looking issue of not being able to cast an object to the type of the object when assemblies are loaded in different ways (from different places)
• The Language of Mocks (or is that Test Doubles) – Casey Charlton discusses the correct terms for the various types of ‘mock’
• Windows UX Taskforce – A digg like site for people to record their gripes with the Windows Vista UI – interesting to the programmer a it provides a great resource of things to avoid doing when developing a UI – as all of these are real things that annoy users.
• TDD : Introduction to Moq – Stephen Walther takes a look at Moq, one of the newest mocking frameworks on the scene. This article is a nice getting started guide.
• Two Loosely Coupled Code – Part 2 – Sean Feldman follows up with an example of some loosely coupled code and talks about its advantages.
• Neat Tricks with StructureMap – Chad Myers shares his good fortune of working with StructureMap’s author by giving a sneak peek at some of the new v2.5 functionality

Community

• Giveaway!!! Visual Studio Team Suite 2008 with MSDN Premium – Alvin @ Vapor Blog has 3 Visual Studio Team Systems with MDSN Premium licenses to give away to the community – to enter send in 2 paragraphs detailing why you should be considered.

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