The Morning Brew

Software

• CSLA .NET 3.6.1 Released (for Windows and Silverlight) – Rockford Lhotka announces the latest release of is Application framework CSLA .NET for both Windows and Silverlight

Information

• Fluent NHibernate – The official website – James Gregory announces the launch of the official Fluent NHibernate website – its great that the project now has an official home, and also some semblence of documentation on the Wiki
• # 83 – Learning to use Fluent NHibernate: Getting started w/ your first mappings – Dime Casts.Net starts a short series of screencasts on using Fluent NHibernate
• Infinite Lists With C# Yield – Justin Etheredge explores the yield keyword for creating infinite lists, looking at applications of this infinite list in processing queues
• Creating a better Wrapper using AOP – Bryan looks at how Aspect Oriented Programming techniques can help you wrap objects more easily, showing how you can map interfaces to objects and intercept method calls.
• Catch, Rethrow and Filters – Why you should care? – Gaurav Khanna of the Common Language Runtime Team talks about the catching of exceptions and how you can filter the exceptions you wish to catch, looking at how this works down to the IL level.
• Simulating INumeric with dynamic in C# 4.0 – Luca Bolognese looks into a method of simualting the existance of an INumeric interface that all number types could implment using the .NET 4 dynamic functionality. One of my favourite annoyances in <= .NET 3.5 is that there is no nice way to handl multiple number data types in one go.
• Html and Uri String Encoding without System.Web – Rick Strahl loos into different implementations of URL and HTML encoding, and shows that just because its valid doesn’t mean it will work everywhere
• Chapter 1 – An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC – Stephen Walther shares a rough draft of Chapter 1 of his forthcoming book on ASP.NET MVC
• Back to Basics – Zip in .NET – Gil Fink give a nice simple post introducing the framework compression support for creating and decompressing .ZIP files.

Community

• DDD Scotland – 2nd May 2009 – Voting Open – Craig Murphy announces the opening of the session voting for Developer Day Scotland – your chance as a potential attendee to shape the conference content.

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