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  • Deploying ASP.NET MVC on ASP.NET 2.0 – Scott Hanselman talks about his attempts (and successes) at getting ASP.NET MVC running on ASP.NET 2.0. Key phrases appear to be ‘No support from me or Microsoft’ and ‘ASP.NET MVC seems to work ‘ – looks interesting and may prove to be a way to get out of a deployment jam.
  • The Missing .NET #6: Version Tolerant Serialization – Jason Kemp talks about the potential pitfalls of versioning and binary serialisation, looking at some ways of avoiding falling foul.
  • Super Models, Part 2: Avoid Mutators – Dave Laribee talks about his preference for methods over setters to improve the DDD’ness of his code. I suspect there will be interesting discussion in the comments.
  • HTTP request flow diagram – Simone Chiaretta highlights the availability of a very useful diagram detailing the HTTP request flow – This is pure HTTP and therefore applicable to all technologies.
  • Tips for Unit Testing – Ben posts a collection of good tips on unit testing
  • Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls – Joe Stagner plugs a new book on the ASP.NET Ajax controls – I really like this series of Addison-Wesley books – although at 648 pages it is one of the longer ones in the series.
  • Keeping LINQ Code Healthy – K. Scott Allen looks at using functions to help make LINQ code more readable and maintainable.
  • Call Virtual Functions From Constructors – Shahar Y talks about the danger of calling virtual methods from constructors – this is a gotcha that it is worth being aware of.
  • BlogEngine.NET memory leak fix – Mads Kristensen talks about hunting down a memory leak in the BlogEngine.NET platform, eventually traced to an event handler not allowing an object to be garbage collected
  • A sneak Preview of Typemock Racer : Thread Deadlock Finder – Roy Osherove shows off some upcoming functionality of Typemock for helping to detect possible deadlocks in your methods under test.