July 2008
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #145
Posted by Chris Alcock on 28 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Back to work today after a long weekend full of hot weather and me having a cold – why is it that I always get ill just before taking a break.
Software
- Tier Generator 1.0 – A simple code generator for building business entities and data access objects from the database schema – source code available
Information
- The Data Disconnect – Justin Etheredge continues the (more civilised) discussion stemming from the Entity Framework and now discussion ORM in general.
- Silverlight Problems That Affect Me – Rob Eisenberg talks about a number of issues and gotchas that he has encountered while working with Silverlight.
- Local const strings – do they give better performance? – Chris Skardon takes a look at the performance benefits of using the const keyword with local strings as ReSharper always suggests it.
- The Request/Response Service Layer – Davy Brion looks at building a request response service starting with the messages, and moving on to look at processing the requests, hosting the service and stubbing the service for testing.
- PowerShell for Team Foundation Server – Greg Duncan highlights some Powershell cmdlets for working with Team Foundation Server.
- More fun with ‘yield return’ – Mike Hadlow shows a good use for custom iterators using the yield syntax.
- C# 3.0 and Parallel FX/LINQ in Mono – Miguel de Icaza talks about work being done on Mono to bring the Parallel FX to the Mono world.
- Default Architecture: Layers – Ayende discusses his default architecture model and explains the types of code in each section and gives the benefits of his structure.
- Improve your debugging: Debugging Attributes to make your life easier – Corneliu talks about two attributes that you can apply to your code to help make debugging easier by not having the debugger step into those methods.
- What a C# Coder Should Know Before They Write VB – Updated – Kathleen Dollard updates her post about the differences between C# and VB.NET – interesting reading, even for those who are familiar with VB.NET.
- How to create IronPython objects of types defined in C# – An interesting post which shows two things – How to host a DLR script within a C# application, and also how to access the types defined in the hosting application from the script.
The Morning Brew #144
Posted by Chris Alcock on 25 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
I had a very enjoyable evening over at VBUG Manchester last night where Colin Mackay gave a interesting talk on the new Spatial Data Types in SQL Server 2008
Software
- Using Speech in Visual Studio – Phil Denoncourt shares an interesting little addin for Visual Studio which allows you to use voice commands for activating certain parts of the VS UI
Information
- TypeConverter, Arrays and ASP.NET – Tomas Restrepo talks about the Design Time support for properties of user controls, Type converters and the solution of a problem caused by his type converter.
- How to review NHibernate application – Ayende posts a useful list of things to watch out for when code reviewing an NHibernate based application.
- Impedance Mismatch Reframing – Greg Young posts an interesting response to a post about the Entity Framework debate – thankfully this one focuses on the technical argument, and is interesting reading.
- Introduction on how to use Reflector – A DimeCasts.Net screen cast on using the wonderful tool ‘Reflector’. It still amazes me that there are developers out there who aren’t aware of this tool.
- LINQ Farm: More on the LINQ Aggregate Operators – Charlie Calvert runs through the seven aggregate operators in LINQ
- Arrange Act Assert and BDD specifications – Jimmy Bogard looks at Arrange Act Assert style unit testing in Rhino Mocks, with a particular focus on splitting out his behaviour from the test setup in his BDD tests.
- Preview and Questions on the next Isolator API – The Typemock team show of the proposed new API for Typemock Isolator which is heading in an AAA (Arrange Actt Assert) direction. Now they want your feedback on the ideas to help improve the product.
The Morning Brew #143
Posted by Chris Alcock on 24 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Another slow day in .NET land today – so a shorter than usual post.
Information
- ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Template Example – John Katsiotis looks at one of the new features of ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview – template functionality making it easier to create complex content.
- Help Middle School students learn programming – Microsoft Visual Studio Middle School Power Toy 1.0 released – Greg Duncan highlights a PowerToy for Visual Studio that aims to make the Visual Studio IDE a good environment for teaching/learning programming to middle school students. There look to be some interesting features included.
- What NEW Windows SDK Features do you want? – The Windows SDK team ask the community to rank some ideas for new SDK features by spending a virtual $100 on the items in a list.
- Behind Brian the Build Bunny – Martin Woodward walks through the steps to create a real world build notification for TFS using a s Nabaztag bunny
- Microsoft Source Analyzer (StyleCop) Extensions Controversy – Part Two – Good news for the StyleCop enthusiasts – looks like the confusion over the custom rules has been resolved, and that StyleCop is getting some more development including an SDK to allow extension.
- TDD is how I do it, not what I do – Brett Schuchert talks about the benefits of the results of using TDD as a supporting case for doing TDD in the first place.
- Generate PDF Using C# – Predrag Tomasevic looks into using Open Office from C# to create PDF files
Community
- SQLBits III Cubed – 13th September 2008 – Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK – SQL Bits, the UK SQL Community Conference returns for the third time. Registration is open now, and there are also pay for training sessions running the day before. Unfortunately the conference clashes with the Alt.NET UK Conference, so that weekend we are spoilt for choice of UK tech events.
