The Morning Brew

Software

• Win 7 beta download stopping 10th Feb – A quick reminder that the extended deadline for Windows 7 beta downloads is tomorrow – if you haven’t yet grabbed a copy you’ve got a few more hours.
• Vista Bridge v1.4 Released – Now with custom controls for Common File Dialogs, BreadCrumb control and Aero Glass – Greg Duncan highlights the 1.4 release of Vista Bridge, a library that brings Vista features to your applications

Information

• The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend- Intro – Lesson 1 – Bruno Terkaly starts a substantial series fo posts on Debugging in .NET, with a ten part series including looks at the tools available and some of the more complex debugging (involving threads and garbage collection) – see his February content page for the rest of the posts
• The basic syntax of F# – keywords and constructs – Brian McNamara gives a nice simple and quick guide to some of the common elements of F# programming, along with some links to some more detailed information
• Back to Basics: Optimizing reference counting garbage collection – Abhinaba Basu continues his garbage collection series with a look at some of the challenges the Reference Counting GC encounters.
• A little love for nhforge.org – Tobin Harris highlights some of the recent changes made to the NHForge site
• Switching IoC Container with LINQ Expressions – Sean Feldman looks at how you can combine LINQ expressions with your Inversion of Control Container to make switching implementation easier
• Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard shortcut posters – Swami K provides links to keyboard shortcut posters for Visual Studio 2008 for both C# and VB developers. These are quite old, but this is the first time I’ve seen them mentioned.
• NH2.1.0: New generators – Fabio Maulo talks (slightly disapprovingly) about the new Idenrity Generators that are included in NHibernate 2.1.0
• IoC libraries compared: Windsor Update – Chris Brandsma takes another look at Castle’s Windor Inversion of Control library, focusing in on a few of the positives about this particular library
• Take Charge of Your Security – Phil Haack examines the myth that ASP.NET WebForms gives lots more security protection that ASP.NET MVC, exploring a few common misconceptions.
• VsDoc for jQuery 1.3.1 now available – Bertrand Le Roy highlights the availability of the Visual Studio Documentation file for jQuery 1.3.1
• WPF Application Quality Guide – Kate Gregory highlights the release of the WPF Application Quality guide, a document which details getting started with WPF, best practices and advice on both developing and testing WPF apps.
• 8 ways to be a better programmer in 6 minutes. – Leon Bambrick gives 8 tips that take very little time to implement but may well help you to become a better programmer
• IPrincipal (User) ModelBinder in ASP.NET MVC for easier testing – Scott Hanselman looks at how the model binder functionality of ASP.NET MVC allows you to write methods which are more testable.
• Immutable Data Structures in C# and F# – Tomas Petricek explores Immutable data structures in F# and looks at how these can be implemented in C# using a tuple as an example.
• Quality is what I work for – Inspired by the current debate between Jeff Atwood/Joel Spolsky and the likes of Uncle Bob Martin and Ron Jeffries, Mark Needham explores what he considers to be the traits of High Quality Software

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