The Morning Brew

I’ve had a busy weekend, with a Charity walk up Snowdon in aid of the Wales Air Ambulance which has left me with slightly aching legs – all for a very good cause though. Looks like the .NET world has been busy this weekend, so a few of the weekends links will flow into tomorrows brew too.

The post time of The Morning Brew may be a little more erratic this week as I’m on leave from work, so have no pressing ‘must get out of bed’ reason this week.

Software

• 60 Free WinForm and WebForm Controls from DevExpress – Reg-ware, yet usable in commercial, biz, etc, applications – Greg Duncan highlights a great offer from DevExpress

Information

• The Most Funny Interface Of The Year … IQueryable<T> – Bart De Smet looks at the implementation of the IQueryable<T> interface in this swift overview of what is quite a complex beast.
• Proceedings of the 2008 Canadian ALT.NET Open Space Conference – This weekend was the Alt.NET Canada Conference, and this page on the AltNetPedia contains videos of a few of the sessions. There is about 2 hours of content there discussing DDD and Build Files
• What do you think about using a presentation model for presenting your domain model? – Fredrik Normén canvases opinion on creating presentation classes for your domain classes using the Presentation Model pattern.
• ASP.NET MVC Tip #33 – Unit Test LINQ to SQL – Stephen Walther shows how you can fake the LINQ to SQL DataContext to help make unit testing LINQ to SQL code better.
• Introducing Table-Valued Parameters – Part 1 – Himanshu, from the ADO.NET team talks about one of the most interesting features of SQL 2008 (in my mind), table valued parameters, at last we are free from having to encode tables of data as binary to pass lists into the database via a parameter on a stored proc.
• The ABCs of Alpha, Beta, CTP – Phil Haack decodes the alphabet soup that is release terminology with this handy guide to the key terms.
• Async Computation Expressions – Resource and Exception Management – Matthew Podwysocki looks at working with resources (such as text files) and handling exceptions using Async Computation Expressions, and how they make this stuff quite simple.
• Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition Available today on Rough Cuts – Brad Abrams announces the release of they updated edition of the Framework Design Guidelines as a ‘Rough Cut’ PDF – I look forward to seeing what has changed as the first edition is a classic .NET book in my mind.
• An example of bad test, part 1 – Ayende posts two posts about some things to watch out for when writing tests – the second part is linked at the top of the article
• Developing Client Components with ASP .NET AJAX – Xun Ding shows how the ASP.NET Ajax Framework can be used to create client side components in this DotNetSlackers article.
• MVC Storefront Part 19: Processing Orders With Windows Workflow – Rob Conery spikes within his MVC Store Front project looking at using Windows Workflow for handling the order processing part of the system.
• .NET Memory Management – Davy Brion looks at Garbage Collection, Finalisation and and the dispose pattern

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