The Morning Brew

Software

• IronPython Beta 5 – IronPython 2.0 Beta 5 is out, ans is the last planned beta release – judging by the mailing list announcement there are a lot of fixes that have made it into this release.
• XNA Game Studio 3.0 beta – Microsoft launch the Beta of their XNA Game Studio game development framework, allowing game development for XBox and Zune. This beta will run side by side with the V2 release.
• Functional C# – Matthew Podwysocki has updated his Functional Programming in C# examples library to V0.5

Information

• ASP.NET Dynamic Data – Gunnar Peipman gives a quick run through of the new (.NET 3.5 SP1) feature ASP.NET Dynamic Data
• Test Driven Development With Parameterized Unit Tests – Jonathan ‘Peli’ de Halleux talks about the differences between doing Traditional TDD, and doing TDD with Parameterized unit tests (using the Pex framework).
• Introduction to ADO .Net Sync Services – Vishal Shukla gives a simple run through of the ADO.NET Sync Services, with an example in VB.NET (Source provided), and a slide deck to accompany.
• Web-Application Framework – Catharsis – part III – Roles – Radim Kohler continues his tour through the Catharsis Web Application Framework, looking at roles and users in this part.
• Implement Observer Pattern in absolutely easy example – Nguyen Anh Vu gives a simple implementation of the observer pattern, useful for the people who like a concrete example rather than the abstract definitions.
• Using Moq ExpectSet – Damian Mehers gives a nice simple example of using the Moq Mocking Framework ExpectSet functionality.
• Back To Basics: Algorithms and Going Back To Virtual School – Scott Hanselman talks about school, Algorithms, and some of his personal traits, along the way highlighting some great resources for learning the more traditional Computer Science content.
• Normalization for databases is like Dependency Injection for code – Mladen Prajdi? makes an interesting claim, which on the surface doesn’t seem to be the case, however his argument is good in that both support the same aims.
• SharePoint for Developers: 2. Development Environment – Gunnar Peipman continues his SharePoint for Developers series by looking at what you need in order to have a god working environment for Share Point development.
• DLR Namespace Change Fire Drill – Harry Pierson talks about some internal changes to the DLR
• Q&A Reader emails about .NET memory leaks and random questions – Tess answers some emailed in questions, mainly on memory leaks and debugging – including some good links to Debugging Resources
• Ajax quick start FAQ – A useful looking FAQ on AJAX development, using the ASP.NET Ajax (Atlas), answering a number of common issues.

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