The Morning Brew

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• Rendering A Single View Using Multiple ViewEngines – Phil Haack looks into an interesting aspect of the ASP.NET MVC view rendering which allows you to use a different engine to render partial views to that of the main view.
• Windsor Components, the ASP.NET MVC Framework, and Bug Verification Tests – Tim Barcz talks about a real world problem he encountered and how introducing a test ensured it was fixed
• Update on the GDR that is coming for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 – Scott Hanselman gives an update on the General Distribution Release of .NET 3.5 SP1 over Windows Update.
• .NET Code Contracts and TDD Are Complementary – Matthew Podwysocki looks Code Contracts and TDD and shows how they can be combined to make a much more powerful whole.
• What Does that .NET Namespace Mean: System.* and Microsoft.* – Brad Abrams asks the community what they believe to be the logic behind the System.* and Microsoft.* namespace divide, offering three plausible reasons for the difference asking which you believe to be true.
• The fallacy of IRepository – Ayende follows up on Rob Conery’s post about using Object Relational Databases to reduce development friction
• RESTful Live Search Service – Nikhil Kothari looks at the new REST API for Microsoft Live Search
• An Overview of C# 4.0. – Buu Nguyen gives a nice overview of the new functionality of C# 4 in this Code Project article.
• C# Dynamic and Multiple Dispatch – Curt Hagenlocher shows how the new dynamic functionality in C#4 can allow an easy way of implementing multiple dispatch
• Styling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend 2 – ScottGu shows off the power of Expression Blend 2 by showing how a simple Silverlight application can be visually improved
• Amazon EC2 on Windows – Brian Desmond highlights two articles he has written on Amazon EC2 for Microsoft Developers, one covering ASP.NET on EC2 and the other SQL Server
• Common Interfaces for Tool Families – Colin Ramsay talks about the idea of having common interfaces for standard types of tool, allowing developers to choose their favourite tool for a job and use it with all components of their application.

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