The Morning Brew

Software

• SubSonic 3.0 Preview 2 – Rob Conery announces Preview 2 of Version 3 of his SubSonic Data Access layer, and in this post gives some details about how it all works and how tto use it. Download link is towards the end of the post.
• NCover v3.0.6 is now available. – NCover have been busy, with an update to NCover 3.0 beta and a minor improvement and bugfix release of NCover 2.1.2
• RichText Builder (StringBuilder 4 rtf) – seeblunt shares a useful looking string builder equivalent for building RTF documents using a nice simple fluent looking interface.

Information

• Breaking changes to the String class – David Kean talks about some of the recently announced breaking changes to the string class which will be released in .NET 4.0
• Oslo’s Modelling Language ‘M’ To Be Published Under Open Specification Promise – Bruce Kyle talks about Microsoft’s aim to publish M, the Oslo Modeling Language, under the Open Specification Promise so that it may be integrated with other industry standards.
• Azure Services Training Kit Available – Ronan Geraghty highlights the first preview release of the Azure Services Training Kit which covers Windows Azure, .NET Services, SQL Services and Live Services in 11 hands on labs.
• KaizenConf’08 Functional Programming Presentation Video – Matthew Podwysocki shares the video of his recent talk at KaizenConf’08
• Inside F#: On lambdas, capture, and mutability – Brian, of the F# Team at Microsoft, continues his series of posts in F#, picking up where he left off with his C# puzzle, and looks at hos that relates to F#
• The two interceptors: – HttpModule and HttpHandlers – Shivprasad Koirala talks about the two means you have of getting involved in the ASP.NET request process in this Code Project article
• ASP.Net MVC – inpractical web.sitemap in a dynamic context – Patrice Calve looks at implementing a more dynamic site map in ASP.NET MVC using attributes
• MVP with MEF – Glenn Block looks at implementing the MVP Triads using the Managed Extensibility Framework
• Where did CLR 3.0 Go? – mdavey asks an interesting question – where did CLR V3 go since we are going to get V4 in the .NET 4 release.
• Autocompletion Textbox in MVC Using jQuery – Jeremiah Clark puts together a simple implementation of a JQuery Autocomplete textbox using ASP.NET MVC

Community

• DDD Scotland 2 – 2nd May 2009 – Criag Murphy announces the dates for DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Day Scotland’s second event. DDD is a great free event (I’ve attended the Reading based event a number of times), and I hope to attend the Scottish incarnation this time round.

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Yesterday’s interim measures following the failure of my web host seem to have worked well, and after a little less than a 24 hour outage things are back up and running normally again. Any links to the temporary site/post will redirect to the real site/post.

Software

• New Release of StyleCop for ReSharper – Howard van Rooijen announces an update to his Stylecop for ReSharper plugin which allows ReSharper to show Stylecop violations in-line in your code and also offer fixes for them.

Information

• Writing Tests to Catch Memory Leaks in .NET – Brian Genisio looks at some techniques that you can use in test to help identify memory leaks in managed code (where you have references keeping an object in memory even after you’ve finished using it).
• Introduction to Code Contracts – Melitta Andersen of the BCL Team talks about what aspects of Code Contracts are included in the CTP release, giving some brief syntax examples.
• Choosing the Right Presentation Technology – J.D. Meier highlights the Patterns and Practices team’s cheat sheet for presentation technology choice which considers the pros and cons of the 15 major (Microsoft) presentation technologies available.
• C# 4.0 New Features Part 4 – Generic Contravariance – Justin Etheredge continues his C#4 series with a look at Generic Contravariance
• HTML Stripping Challenge – Phil Haack throws down the gauntlet to the community to attempt to write an HTML stripping method that can pass his battery of tests.
• Creating a WatiN DSL using MGrammar – Torkel Ödegaard looks at creating a DSL for WatiN using the Oslo MGrammar language
• Staying Technically Relevant – Ryan Rinaldi lists the technologies that he feels are things developers should be aware of now – and the good news is they also align with my interests and by extension the content of The Morning Brew 🙂
• Anders C# 4.0 Followup – Ray Jezek highlights a follow up interview with Anders Hejlsberg asking (and getting answers to) many of the questions that the community have been asking since the PDC announcement of C#4 (Note: the video linked in this post is currently timing out – hopefully it will be working by the time you read this)
• Application logging principles – Patrick Kua talks about the importance of good logging within your application, and how good logging can help to dramatically reduce debugging time and provide a better user experience for you application.
• [Demo Code] ASP.NET Dynamic Data Demo – Mike Ormond shares the code for his standard ASP.NET Dynamic Data demo application that he uses in talks
• Do NOT Explicitly Use Threads for Parallel Programming – Daniel Moth continues looking at threading in parallel programming by examining the dangers of creating as may threads as you have tasks to be done in terms of performance and memory cost.
• Did you know… You can press Ctrl+\, D to view the Code Definition Window – #354 – Sara Ford continues her daily Visual Studio Tip Series with a tip about the Code Definition Window (a feature I’d never seen before), and its been a while since I linked to this excellent series
• 10 Ways To Shoot Yourself In The Foot – Part A – Shahar Y highlights a number of common failures caused by common mistakes programmers make.
• Using quantifiers on Code Contracts – luisabreu has a nice series of posts on Code Contracts in .NET 4.0. This post is about quantifiers, but others in the series cover compatibility, contracts on interfaces, checking return values and much more.

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**Update** If you are reading this then things have returned to normal – apologies if you see duplicate entries in your feed reader as I switch the feed back to using the real blog feed.

My web hosting went offline last night and has yet to return, so this is an interim measure, hopefully the hosting will be back up tomorrow, and things can return to normal. Thankfully I upgraded my WordPress installation last week and as a result have a full backup of my important sites and the databases, so if the worst comes to the worst I can restore from that.

Software

• Prism V2 – Drop 5 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) – Erwin van der Valk announces the release of the latest drop of Prism, the composite application guidance for WPF and Silverlight. As usual there are a number of new features, and Erwin gives a quick rundown of the new bits.
• URLRewrite for IIS 7.0 released – Steve Schofield announces the release of the IIS 7.0 URLRewrite module, available in both x86 and x64 versions.
• XSLT Debugging with .NET – Mark Wiggins announces the release of his XSLT Debugger for Visual Studio – not a lot of information, and I’ve not had the time to try it for myself yet, so proceed at your own risk

Information

• Visual Studio | Channel 9 – This week (10th to 14th November) is Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 week on Channel 9, with a whole host of videos and resources going to be published this week.
• What we should know about CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture? – Vitaly Zaiko talks about the differences between CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture in the .NET Framework.
• Using ASP.NET Dynamic Data with the Windows Workflow Foundation Rules Engine – Kirk Evans walks through the construction of a simple application using Dynamic Data with the Windows Workflow rules engine providing the business logic.
• The DBA Script Thumb – Rodney Landrum talks about the most crucial of his library of queries which he uses on a regular basis as a SQL Server DBA.
• CLR 4.0: Managed Languages – Scott Dorman has been hard at work writing a number of nice short articles on different aspects of the CLR 4.0. This particular one is about managed languages, but I urge you to check out the otherrecent posts on his blog
• JSLitmus: Testing JavaScript Performance – Ajaxian highlights JSLitmus a tool for testing the performance of javascript, allowing you to obtain graphs showing the performance of your own javascript tests.
• A collection of great Silverlight Charting resources! – Delay publishes a good collection of resources for getting the most out of the charting capabilities of the Silverlight Toolkit

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