The Morning Brew

It looks like the .NET world has been busy over the weekend, lots of good content. I suspect a few of the weekends links will spill into tomorrows posting too.

Software

• First preview of Mono 2.0 is out – Miguel de Icaza announces the release of the first Preview of Mono 2.0. Follow the Release Notes link for the download.
• New Tools for Framework Designers Published – Brad Abrams posts about a set of tools release by Mircea which his team have been using to review the .NET Framework.
• Rhino Queues – Ayende has been busy creating a simple, XCopy Deployable, fast queue which runs over HTTP – this is his V1 release.
• NHibernate Entity Generator – Release: 0.1.0.0 – A useful looking tool the creates classes from your NHibernate Mapping files via a customisable template.

Information

• I’ll get to your application in a week – First, we need to build the framework – Ayende talks about Framework paralysis, spending a long time developing a framework without delivering any client facing features. Some interesting discussions in the comments
• Four Ways to Test Expected Exceptions – Charlie Poole looks at four different ways of testing exceptions thrown in code under test, ranging from no framework support to using the latest NUnit 2.5 functionality
• Task Parallel Library and Async Computation Expressions – Matthew Podwysocki looks at using two different methods of performing concurrent async processes.
• Query Objects with the Repository Pattern – Chad Myers looks at querying repositories using expression trees. This is the first of two posts from the weekend, the second part is here
• ADO.NET Data Services: Creating a custom Data Context #1 – The first post in a series of three (so far) from Mike Hadlow on creating Custom Data Context for the ADO.NET Data Services. Check out the other posts on his blog.
• Howto: Set custom Visual Studio Addin menu icons without a satellite dll – Roy Osherove has been posting great content about Visual Studio extension all weekend. The linked post is just one of the posts that caught my eye, check out his blog for the rest.
• Recursing into Recursion – Memoization – Matthew Podwysocki looks at a technique to improve the performance of compute heavy work.
• Pure and Deterministic Functions – Justin Etheredge follow up from Matthew Podwysocki with a look at Pure and Deterministic functions.
• Creating Testable Applications Using the MVP Pattern – Avi Pilosof looks at Model View Presenter in ASP.NET to create more testable applications
• The Weekly Source Code 31- Single Instance WinForms and Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll – Scott Hanselman talks about pushing past the fear of using the Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll assembly from C# to create single instance applications.

Community

• NxtGenUG Silverlight Manic Miner – Richard Costall and Pete McGann have been working on recreating the classic 80’s game Manic Miner using Silverlight, and have release their first version beta on the NxtGenUG website. They will be speaking about the development of the game at the August 11th meeting in Coventry.

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