The Morning Brew

There wasn’t massive demand for an ‘almost brewed’ link post, so I’m putting that idea on the back burner.

Software

• Introducing Crack.NET – Josh Smith releases Crack.NET, a tool which allows you to inspect and manipulate the managed objects in the memory of another process. Also it allows you to write scripts in IronPython and have them run in Crack.NET allowing you to do all kinds of manipulations.
• Jack – Jack is a JavaScript library providing mocking capabilities for testing in JavaScript.
• Neptune (personal SMTP testing server) – Donovan Brown releases Neptune, an SMTP server which doesn’t actually relay messages – it simply accepts them, and provides means for you to inspect the content of the messages. This is a really useful addition for anyone who is writing tests for mail sending applications.
• Mono 2.0 OSX Installer Ready – Miguel de Icaza announces the release of an installer for Mono on Mac OSX

Information

• Dependency Inversion: ‘Abstraction’ Does Not Mean ‘Interface’ – Derick Bailey explores the meaning of the term Abstraction, and looks at how it applies to the Dependency Inversion Principle.
• 7 of my favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASP.NET – Dave Ward highlights his 7 favourite JQuery plugins, and talks about using them in ASP.NET Applications, including any difficulties encountered, and links to samples.
• Using Windows SDK Vista Bridge Sample Library – The Microsoft Windows SDK Blog talks about the Windows Vista Bridge which provides access from .NET to some of the new Vista APIs
• Mapping entities to multiple databases with NHibernate – Mike Hadlow talks about working with NHibernate and entities which are spread over multiple databases, and shows how the schema attribute on the hibernate-mapping element allows you to work with this setup when the databases are on the same server.
• NHibernate 2.0, SQLite, and In-Memory Databases – Justin Etheredge looks at getting NHibernate 2 and SQLite working together, and runs into some interesting problems.
• How to Install Windows Service Programmatically – Erwien Saputra shows how you can install a service using .NET code rather than using InstallUtil.exe
• Exploring Database Schemas on SQL Server – Theo Spears shows how you can explore the structure of your SQL Server database using the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.* system views to view the tables, columns, etc.
• WCF vs ASP.NET Web services – Kalyan Bandarupalli looks at the differences between ASP.NET web serices (ASMX) and WCF web services.

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