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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Today is the 200th Edition of The Morning Brew – many thanks to all of you who read daily. I’d like to claim that the release of Silverlight 2 later today was timed to coincide with this publishing milestone, but I suspect that its unrelated really 🙂

Software

• FileMap now on GitHub – Tomas Restrepo announces some minor updates to his FileMap library, a wrapper for .NET to acess the Win32 Memory Mapped Files API.
• SequenceViz 0.11 :: Reflector Addin support – Nauman Leghari announces the release of SequenceViz 0.11, now including an addin for Lutz Roeder / RedGate Reflector, allowing you to obtain sequence diagrams within Reflector.

Information

• Silverlight 2 RTM – Guy Barrette has the links to the different parts of the Silverlight 2 release announcement.
• Microsoft Silverlight 2 Released – RealWorld Software Development have a nice write up on the Silverlight 2 release announcement.
• Client Templating with jQuery – Rick Strahl explores the power of templating in jQuery, with a look at the more traditional way of doing client side templates followed by a look at the jQuery way.
• Functional .NET – LINQ or Language Integrated Monads? – Matthew Podwysocki looks at the implementation of Monads in .NET with some background and examples of the Identity Monad, the Maybe Monad, the collection monad and the Asynchronous monad in both C# and F#
• Survey Time: What .NET Framework features do you use? – Scott Hanselman is running a simple 1 question poll to help Microsoft get an idea what technologies people are using in their projects. It takes all of 15 seconds to fill out, so go and help out.
• Mass Transit – Part 1 of N – Tim Barcz starts a series of posts looking at the messaging passing framework Mass Transit. This introductory piece talks about some of the background to products like Mass Transit.
• Custom Selection Heuristics in Ninject – Nate Kohari talks about some of the new features of the forthcoming NInject 1.5, focusing on how NInject decides what to inject where.
• IE8 and the horse’s mouth – Alan highlights a Technical Chat about Internet Explorer 8 beta where you can ask your questions and get answers from the IE8 product team.
• Make Visual Studio Generate Your Repository – Rob Conery looks at T4 templates for code generation in Visual Studio 2008 as a means of generating repositories for his SubSonic MVC Addin
• Architecture Journal 17 – Distributed Computing – Mike Walker announces the availability of the 17th edition of the Microsoft Architecture Journal, this month focusing on Distributed Computing. Looks like they’ve redesigned the cover too this month – I look forward to getting my paper copy in the post shortly.

Community

• Agenda for the 7th DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! Day – After months of session submission and voting, the final agenda for Developer Developer Developer Day 7 has been announced – as usual the line up looks great – now I wonder when you will be able to sign up – watch this space and I’ll let you know as soon as I do.

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Slightly later posting than usual today – I’m on leave from work this week so this might be a recurring pattern this week as I can have lie-ins 😉

Software

• Tinyject – IoC in an Evening – Lars Wilhelmsen had a need for a simple IOC container, so crafted a simple implementation in an evening. Lars hints at a version 2, and I look forward to seeing how this project progresses.
• Mocking and stubbing easier than ever with Moq 2.6 – Daniel Cazzulino announces the release of Moq 2.6 and talks about Moq 2.6’s new features, including recursive mocks and mocked default values

Information

• NotImplementedException and the Interface Segregation Principle – Jimmy Bogard talks about the Interface Segregation Principle, and how not applying it can result in lots of method implementations which simply throw NotImplementedExceptions.
• My 10 common mistakes in ASP.NET – Mads Kristensen posts a list of ASP.NET things that he needs to do better – and I think that most of these things will apply to any ASP.NET Developer.
• Thoughts On Domain Validation – Part 1 – Justin Etheredge starts what looks to be a very interesting series on validation of Domain entities. Justin starts by drawing on the work of others to build a validation interface and forms this into a full solution.
• Microsoft F# and TestDriven.Net 2.16 – Jamie Cansdale talks about adding F# support into TestDriven.NET
• ASP.NET MVC and the new IIS7 Rewrite Module – Scott Hanselman looks at moving from ISAPI_Rewrite and Apache modrewrite rules to the new IIS7 Rewriter module, and also considers the SEO implications of this and ASP.NET MVC
• Request for comments: Changing the way dynamic mocks behave in Rhino Mocks – Ayende polls for opinion on a change to the way Rhino Mocks dynamic mocking works with multiple calls to the same mocked method.
• An Unexpected Benefit of Using an IoC Container – Joel Ross had been questioning the need for IOC and DI, but, with some refactoring has rediscovered why its such a powerful technique that enables conformance with a number of development best practices
• Parallel Programming and the .NET Framework 4.0 – The Parallel Programming with .NET Blog announces that the Task Parallel Library and PLINQ will both be parts of the forthcoming .NET 4.0 release.
• Migrator.NET – Bart Merchtem takes a look at Migrator.NET a .NET based database migrations framework that aims to make maintaining your database easy as you develop.
• Using the ASP.NET MVC Framework as a JSON Service Provider for Richer Web Applications with MS Ajax Templates and jQuery – Corey J Gaudin looks at using a collection of technologies to expose model objects as JSON to a JQuery front end
• MVC Storefront Part 22: Restructuring, Rerouting, and PayPal – Rob Conery continues his excellent screencast series on building a real world ecommerce store using ASP.NET MVC. In this part Rob restructures some of the site and improves his routing structure, and finishes by adding PayPal payment integration.
• How To Write Testable ASP.NET UserControls – Davy Brion follows on from a past post about writing testable webforms, with a look at doing the same with User Controls
• October 10th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, IIS – ScottGu continues his series of ASP.NET related links – a few of his links this week have already been featured in The Morning Brew, but there are plenty of other good links there too.

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