The Morning Brew

Finally caught up with my reading thanks to a quiet day of posts due to Thanksgiving.

Software

• xUnit.net 1.1 Released – Brad Wilson announces the release of xUnit 1.1. This updated release contains breaking changes, so be sure to read the blog posts about the release before upgrading.
• Are You Fussy About Markup? – Derek Hatchard highlights a usefult code formatter Visual Studio Add-in for ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight developers which improves the formatting of your markup.

Information

• Back to Basics: Delegates, Anonymous Methods and Lambda Expressions – Karl Seguin continues his Back To Basics series with a detailed look at delegates, anonymous methods and lambda expressions, along with how, when combined with generics, they can be used to solve very complex problems.
• Controlling Your Festive Lights with the .NET Micro Framework – Rob Miles runs through a nice festive project for the .NET Micro Framework to control a set of festive lights based on pulling data from an RSS feed – a nice introduction to working with the .NET Micro Framework
• Volatile fields in .NET: look inside – Vitaliy Liptchinsky talks about how Volatile fields work on the processor, and gives a simple example to show why you might want to use them
• Nullable Structs – An interesting ‘Gotcha’ – Jason Crease explores nullable types, and shares an interesting case which occurs when you use structs with nullable types.
• Transactions Made Simple with Windows Communication Foundation – Steve Stefanovich looks at how WCF makes it easy to implement Transactional Serices
• Creating a Custom View Engine in ASP.NET MVC – Timothy Khouri shows how easy it is to create your own view engine for ASP.NET MVC
• Slightly Different Way To Write Unit Tests – Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo proposes a new way of writing tests inspired by MSpec, and discusses the merits of this style. Good discussion in the comments too.
• Lambda in C#: Conciseness v Readability – Mark Needham talks about his initial dislike of Lambda expressions in C#, and how they can be more difficult to understand for less experienced programmers
• C# quiz – try-finally – Changhong shares a little C# puzzle about try finally blocks, explaining why the output might not be what you expect by looking at the IL of the program
• Working With Large Models In Entity Framework – Part 1 – Srikanth Mandadi, of the Entity Framework Team, looks at some of the problems you can encounter when working with a large Entity Framework model, and offers some solutions to those problems.
• Event Handlers returning Values – Pedro M. Pinheiro explores C# event handlers which return values

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