The Morning Brew #157
Posted by Chris Alcock on Wednesday 13th August 2008 at 07:18 am | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
The dust is still settling following the double Service Pack release on Monday – I’ve obtained the service pack now, but have yet to have the time to install. Last night I upgraded this Blog to WordPress 2.6, so if any one notices any bugs please let me know.
Also, Thanks to Davy Brion for recommending the Morning Brew in his recent post on Link Blogs.
Software
- SQL Server Express 2008 is now available – Aaron Bertrand reminds us that the 11th was not just VS SP1 and .NET SP1 day, it also marked the release of the Express Edition of SQL Server 2008
- Open source WPF Grid from the WPF Toolkit project released (CTP/Preview) – Greg Duncan points out the release a CTP of a Open Source WPF Grid control from Microsoft – This is good stuff, shame its goign to get lost in the SP1 Hype.
Information
- ASP.NET Performance: High CPU Utilization Case Studies And Solutions – Alik Levin gives three case studies of things that can cause high CPU Utilisation on an ASP.NET web server.
- System.Data.Services – Marcelo Lopez Ruiz gives a brief overview of the parts of the System.Data.Services name space.
- Most Common Performance Issues in Parallel Programs – The Parallel Extension Framework Team share some interesting thoughts on the factors that dictate how much speed up developers can expect to see by applying parallelism their programs.
- Microsoft Sync Framework : 2 New Sync Samples – The Microsoft Sync Framework team announce the release of two sample projects to the code gallery illustrating down load only sync and use the SQLSyncAdapterBuilder with Sync Services for ADO.NET V2
- Forms Framework with Validation for ASP.NET MVC – Nathan Stott shares his newly created forms framework which deals with the creation and validation of forms in the MVC framework preview 4. Not currently open source’d, but judging by the discussion in the comments it will be soon
- Encapsulating Test Data and Expectations – John Teague shares his recent experience of adopting the Object Mother / Test Data Builder patterns to help improve his testing code.
- On Fluent NHibernate – Ayende shares his thoughts on the Fluent NHibernate project, looking at ways it can be used to give an advantage over the native XML mapping files. Looks like a good discussion is starting in the comments too.
- .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: LINQ perf improvements (LINQ to Objects and LINQ to SQL) – Dinesh Kulkarni talks about some of the changes to LINQ in SP1, including a breaking change to the Cast<T> extension method.
- ASP.NET Browsers Filter!! – Web Dev And Stuff – A neat little trick which allows you to send different content for properties of controls to different browsers – I’d never heard of this feature before, but its been about since .NET 2.0 apparently.
- Update for viewstate issues – The ASP.NET Debugging blog has some information on a change to viewstate ins SP1 which fixes a known problem.
- Released: .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit – Charlie Calvert highlights the release of an updated .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit, which has presentations, hands on labs and demos of new features in .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio SP1.
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