The Morning Brew

Typically, on a day where I’m aiming to be early the Ma.gnolia web service is broken again, meaning I’ve had to spend time manually wrestling with HTML(again)

Software

• SDEdit – Free Sequence Diagram Editor – Shahar Y highlights the availability of this free, open source, and feature rich tool for creating Sequence Diagrams.
• – Karl Shifflett announces a new update release of his Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Add-In which generates WPF XAML code for common tasks
• Release: IronSmalltalk v0.1 – SmallTalk joins the Iron family of languages with this first release of an implementation built on the DLR
• StyleCop Plugin for ReSharper – Release: 0.0.14136 – An interesting sounding plugin for ReSharper, which allows StyleCop 4.3 to run as you type, meaning you will have warnings for rule violations available almost immediately. I’ve not tried this (yet) but I do wonder how processor intensive it will be.

Information

• MVC Storefront Part 21: Order Manager and Personalization – After a bit of a break, Rob Conery resumes his screencast series on building an ECommerce Shop using ASP.NET MVC. This part deals with some more Windows WorkFlow, and Rob also looks at an alternative approach.
• Lambdas – Know Your Closures – Jason Olson looks at one of the potentially confusing aspects of Lambda expressions
• XAML Power Toys v2 Released (finally) Code Name: Hawaii – Karl Shifflett announces a new update release of his Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Add-In which generates WPF XAML code for common tasks
• Web-Application Framework – Catharsis – part II. – Radim Kohler continues his series looking at the features of the Catharsis Web Framework, which is based on ASP.NET MVC and NHibernate 2
• SQL Server 2008 eBook from MSPress (and free) – Greg Low highlights the availability of a Free EBook from Microsoft Press on SQL Server 2008 (of which he is one of the co-authors)- Chapter one is completely free, for the rest of the book you will have to give your details, but its still free.
• Resolving arrays with Windsor – Mike Hadlow looks at resolving dependencies which are an array of a specific interface using the Windsor container, and also comments how other frameworks function in this regard.
• Functional C# – Pattern Matching – Matthew Podwysocki recaps Pattern Matching concepts in C# in preparation for a talk he will be giving at the beginning of next month
• Integrating StructureMap and NHibernate with WCF – Jimmy Bogard, inspired by other tutorials on using WCF, NHibernate and the Windsor container, has compiled a similar tutorial on using StructureMap to manage his NHibernate Session creation when used in WCF Services.

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Thankfully things are working again, so no delays in today’s posting. Due to the problems yesterday there were a number of links from the weekend that didn’t make it into the post, but any that missed out are included today, hence its a slightly longer than usual edition.

Software

• Xml Visualizer v.2 – Lars Hove Christiansen shares V0.2 of his XML Debug Visualiser for Visual Studio, allowing better exploration of XML at debug time
• NUnit 2.5 Alpha 4 Released – Charlie Poole announces the latest alpha release of NUnit.
• CodePlex.Snippets – Release: 1.0.0.0 Production (VS2008) – This collection of snippets for Visual Studio 2008 contains 50 snippets many based on snippets used by developers within the Visual C# team at Microsoft.
• Data Structures and Algorithms 0.6 released! – Granville Barnett announces the release of version 0.6 of his data structures and Algorithms library. This release adds three major new features, and a number of minor fixes and changes.
• XML Explorer – XML Explorer, a nice simple and lightweight XML file viewer, has reached version 2. Notabale features include a small memory foot print, even when working with big documents, schema validations, and the evaluation of XPath.
• SharpWidgetsUI version 1.0 released – Aflava announce the release of ShapeWidgetsUI, their UI control library. Licenses start at 299 Euro, which includes a 12 month updates subscription.

Information

• .NET Memory Management – Resources – Scott Dorman shares a great collection of resources about memory management in .NET
• Simple aspect for NHibernate and virtual keyword – Michal Dabrowski shares a PostSharp Aspect which aims to assist NHibernate developers, by ensuring all public members are marked as virtual, thereby allowing NHibernate to do its Lazy Load magic.
• Use INFER.EXE to Create XML Schemas – Eric White highlights a useful rool from Microsoft for creating schema documents from example XML documents.
• nAML: A New Revolutionary Way to Model Your .NET Applications! – Mohammad Ashraful Alam gives the lowdown on what nAML is really all about, following on from the release of the Spec and Visio tools last week.
• Web-Application Framework – Catharsis – part I – Radim.Kohler shares the details of Catharsis, a web application framework, distributed and implemented as a Guidance package, with full source available on CodePlex.
• Creating a Silverlight Layout Panel – Ray Houston shows how simple it is to create your own layout controls for SIlverLight
• SharePoint for Developers: 1. Introduction – SharePoint is one of those technologies I really don’t know enough about, and this series by Gunnar Peipman looks like it might solve my ignorance.
• Closures – Eric White looks at closures in LINQ, giving a nice explanation of where the closure is, and how we as developers are often able to use a concept without even noticing it.
• Scripting in F# – Chris Smith looks at F# for scripting on the desktop, looking at some of the integration and language features which make it a good scripting language, complete with some starting blocks for you to write your own scripts.

Community

• Then a Miracle Occurs – Public Beta – Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky throw open the doors on Stack Overflow, their new Developer Q&A community site.

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Well the Ma.gnolia web services still seem to be down, so I’ve put together a small edition of the Brew manually. Normal Service should be restored tomorrow – I’ll be ready tomorrow for there to be no webservices so the brew will go out as usual

Information

• The Two ALT.NET Criterion – Having just returned from the second UK Alt.Net Conference, this summary of what Alt.NET is all about by Dave Laribee hits the nail on the head
• Are .net interfaces required – Chris Brandsma hosts an interesting discussion about the use of interfaces and tDD. The comments are well worth checking out on this one.
• Interfaces and Testing – Steve Smith follows up on Chris Brandsmas post about interfaces as a requirement for TDD
• Still trying to figure out what DI/IoC is but afraid to speak up? – Greg Duncan highlights a nice Code Project article introducing concepts of Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control.
• Some IoC Container guidelines – Jimmy Bogard shares his guidelines for using IOC Containers
• Critical .NET Security Vulnerability – Jeroen Frijters talks a little about an exploitable security issue he discovered in the Rotor source.
• Targeting the .NET runtime version 2.0 matters – Patrick Smacchia talks about the care that needs to be taken when deciding to take a dependency on a component, and how sometimes that can have a large effect on your deployment.
• Side Effects and Functional Programming – Matthew Podwysocki takes a look at the imperative side of programming in F# with a look at exceptions, resource handling and lazy evaluation.
• Object Oriented F# – More Extension Everything – Matthew Podwysocki looks at some of the other types of extension that can be performed in F#
• F# for game development: Introduction – The introduction to a 6 part (so far) tutorial about using F# for game development – the other parts of the series are linked in the side navigation of the site.
• Exploring the F# Language Series Part 4 – Imperative Features – Kevin Hazzard also explores the imperative side of programming in F# in the forth part of this series.

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