The Morning Brew

I relaxed and watched two DVD’s last night – its been a long time since I managed that. Anyway, on with today’s links:

Software

• SubSonic 2.1 Released – Rob Conery announces the release of SubSonic 2.1, with an appeal to any early adopters to write about the new features to aid with the documentation for this release.

Information

• MVC Controller Action Security Hole – Troy Goode looks at a potential security risk in ASP.NET MVC applications which pass request and cookie values straight into the controller as action parameters.
• User Input In Sheep’s Clothing – Phil Haack responds to the same issues by being technology agnostic and reminding everyone of one of the golden rule of programming – Never trust user input – no matter how you get given it.
• Signing an Unsigned Assembly (without Delay Signing) – OJ Reeves looks at signing third party unsigned assemblies in this step by step article with some nice diagrams.
• C# Mixins – Craig Andera looks at creating mixins using C# Extension Methods.
• EasyHook – The reinvention of Windows API hooking – Christoph Husse writes about the EasyHook CodePlex project in the code project article. EasyHook is a support library for hooking into Windows APIs and this detailed article shows its use in a number of ways.
• Classes that show up in every project – Jeremy D. Miller talks about the classes he ends up with in every project. One thing he doesn’t mention is if these are all created fresh each time, or if they are the same across all of his projects.
• Waegis – The Web Cleaner – Keyvan Nayyeri announces the official launch of his Waegis blog spam protection service, with free accounts for smaller sites, and plugins for the common .NET blogging products.
• Use this NHibernate wrapper to keep your repository classes simple – Jeffrey Palermo shares his SessionBuilder NHibernate Helper class. I think everyone who works with NHIbernate has something similar to this, but as always its good to see how others are going about it.
• Response.Redirect and Response.End – Gunnar Peipman talks about two of the survivors from the Classic ASP Days, and how they can be used to redirect a user to a page and continue processing the old request.

Community

• Alt.Net UK September – Ian Cooper announces the dates and venue for the next Alt.Net UK (un)conference. Registration opens on Friday (11th July) at 7am, and I suspect places will go quickly

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Software

• Release of Microsoft Application Request Routing for IIS 7 CTP1. – An announcement of the release of the IIS7 routing/rewriting module first CTP – now if only I had some IIS7 servers 😉
• NUnit 2.5 Alpha 3 – The NUnit Team release the latest alpha of NUnit 2.5 – more details of the changes in the release notes behind the link.

Information

• 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.

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Yesterday’s Brew was a little later than intended – mainly because I forget to click ‘post’ in the back-end until I discovered the window buried below a number of others later in the morning. Hopefully I’ll remember to post this edition!

Information

• Scale Cheaply – Memcached – Karl Seguin takes a look at Memcached for improving the scalability of your applications.
• Entities and the Law of Demeter – Jimmy Bogard looks at the application of the Law of Demeter (principle of least knowledge) by identifying the ‘Inappropriate Intimacy’ code smell.
• Integration testing demonstrated (a data access testing with NHibernate) – Jeffrey Palermo looks at integration testing, giving some examples of the types of things to test when testing your repositories.
• Lite ORM library (v2) – Sergey Busel takes second stab at writing an Object Relational Mapper from scratch. I like these types of article as I believe that a simple ORM allows people to see what is actually happening in the much more complex ORM like NHibernate
• .NET Developers’ Reference Card Roundup – Alvin Ashcraft shares a useful list of quick reference cards covering a diverse range of subjects
• Inclusion of JavaScript Files – Rick Strahl looks at a number of different ways of including javascript in your ASP.NET pages, examining the pros and cons of the different methods
• TDD and Hard to Test Areas, Part1 – Ian Cooper looks at test driven development, and some of the areas that prove difficult for the newcommer to TDD.
• Recursing into Linear, Tail and Binary Recursion – Matthew Podwysocki continues his series on Recursion with a look at Linear, Tail and binary recursion, with samples in both C# and F#.
• Some RichTextBox tricks – Patrick Smacchia gives some tips for using a RichTextBox as a syntax highlighting code editor.

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