The Morning Brew

So, Silverlight 2 was released yesterday, and you’ve probably seen the hundreds of announcements already, so if that is the case skip over today’s special ‘Silverlight 2’ section, and on to the usual content.

Silverlight 2

• Silverlight 2 Released – ScottGu makes his announcement of the Official Silverlight 2 release.
• Silverlight – The Song – This one is from a few months back now, but seems fitting today. Dan Wahlin and Spike Xavier sing about Silverlight.
• Silverlight 2 Released: New controls, tools, announcements! – Tim Heuer talks about the Silverlight 2 release, looking at the tools available and the new features.
• Silverlight 2, Expression Blend 2 SP1 & Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview – ‘An ASP.NET Blog’ shares some installation tips for the latest release of Silverlight and its associated tools.

Software

• Free copies of SharpWidgetsUI – Aflava are offering free copies of their SharpWidgetsUI library to MVPs and Bloggers (assuming you meet some basic criteria)

Information

• Mono 2.2 Feature: Mono.Options – Miguel de Icaza talks about a nice command line options parsing library that is going to be included in Mono 2.2
• Pex gets a Stubs framework (I said stubs, not mocks) – Jonathan ‘Peli’ de Halleux talks about the new stub functionality coming in the next release of Pex.
• Exit Mocks. Enter Stubs! – The ‘Being Cellfish’ blog gives some code samples for the new Pex Stubs based on an internal only release.
• The law of demeter – Chrissie1 at Less Than Dot talks about the Law of Demeter, giving some simple code examples which highlight it in operation.
• Per Request Activation With Ninject – Joel Ross looks at using Ninject’s IOC container to manage the lifecycle of his NHibernate sessions.
• Functional C# – Implementing Async Computations in C# – Matthew Podwysocki looks at using a number of F# libraries from C#3 to implement Asynchronous Computations in C#
• If… – Jeremy D. Miller talks about the possibilities when all your tests pass first time. The comments on this post add more information to the discussion.
• T4 (Text Template Transformation Toolkit) Code Generation – Best Kept Visual Studio Secret – Scott Hanselman, prompted by Rob Conery’s post yesterday, takes a brief look at T4 Templates in Visual Studio 2008. Scott’s post contains a number of useful links to T4 resources.
• Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition: Order Yours Now! – Brad Abrams announces that the second edition of Framework Design Guidelines is now available for order. I’m a really big fan of the first edition, and I’m looking forward to having a leaf through the new edition when it hits the shelves.

Community

• Announcing UK.NET Events – Gojko Adzic has set up a calendar for .NET events in the UK – currently the list is heavily London based but this may well prove to be a good resource once it fills out a little more.

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