Pex 0.8 Released, featuring Code Digger and Stubs – One day after showing off the interesting forthcoming functionality of Pex, Nikolai Tillmann announces that Pex 0.8 is released. This release includes the Code Digger (mentioned in yesterday’s Brew), along with Stubs, and a number of bug fixes.
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Debugging Large ViewState – Zach Kramer look into dealing with large ASP.NET viewstate, working out what is in there any why it is so large
.NET Reflector: Soup to Nuts – Andrew Clarke gives a comprehensive run through of the features and techniques for working with Reflector, the tool originally by Lutz Roeder, now acquired by RedGate.
Singletonitis – Sean Feldman talks about a common affliction, having singletons / static classes when you don’t really need them, and shows how you can remove them from your application, along with the benefits of doing so.
DDD and Complexity – Colin Jack talks about the complexity of DDD, and how you can gain many of the advantages of DDD by adopting parts of the process / not following it to the letter.
Astoria futures: offline-enabled data services – Pablo Castro, software architect for the Astoria project at Microsoft talks about some of the early planning and thinking for offline functionality.
Developer Day Registration is open – Ian Cooper announces that registrations for DDD 7 are open, and within 4 hours all the places were gone. They are still accepting registrations for reserve list places, which is worth registering for as there are usually a number of people who register and drop out.