The Morning Brew

Software

• ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2 – Phil Haack announces the second release candidate of ASP.NET MVC. This release takes a dependency for install on .NET 3.5 SP1 while maintaining the ability to deploy to .NET 3.5 without the service pack. There is also a server only install which doesn’t have the Visual Studio dependency.
• An Editor for Communicating with RESTful Services. – A simple little application which makes it easy to issue REST requests and see what the responses looks like.

Information

• ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2: I declare myself to be declarative! – Eilon Lipton highlights the ASP.NET MVC RC2 release, and also examines the MVC Controls feature of the MVC Futures package
• How to Learn ASP.NET MVC – Keyvan Nayyeri talks about learning ASP.NET MVC, highlighting some of the key concepts and principles along with the breadth of supporting technologies needed.
• ASP.NET MVC Domain Driven Design – Nathan Stott starts a series of posts on building an application using DDD and ASP.NET MVC. In this part Nathan sets up the project, gathers the supporting tools and looks at some base implementations of the system.
• ASP.NET MVC Tip: Add a new T4 template for making MVCContrib Grid Helper Component – Shiju Varghese shows how you can create your own templates for common ASP.NET MVC tasks using T4 Templates.
• CRUD with ASP.NET MVC (screencast) – Maarten Balliauw shares a 15 minute screencast showing the construction of simple ASP.NET MVC powered Create Read Update Delete functionality.
• Dynamic log fileNames with log4net – Rohit Gupta shows how you can programatically set the log file name using log4net, along with other uses of the log4net properties. Rohit also explores the Rolling File Apender in this related post.
• Triggering events on UI components (WinForms) – Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo shows how he is currently testing his WinForms UI, using an event trigger to fire UI events from his tests.
• 43,439 reasons to use append() correctly – Josh Powell looks at the performance of the jQuery append method, and shows how if used incorrectly it can really ruin your javascript performance.
• Love the Dot: TaskManager – The Range Rover of the .Net 4 Parallel Extensions – Paul Jackson looks a the Parallel Extensions Task Manager class, and shows how using it can actually slow down the performance of your parallel code.
• Building a WeakReference Hashtable – Jared Parsons looks at the implementation of a Hashtable holding weak references to objects,

Community

• What do you think of when you hear DDD? (UK) – Eric Nelson talks about the DDD (Developer Developer Developer) series of UK Community Events highlighting all the currently planned events.
• DDD South West Registration Is Open! – Guy Smith-Ferrier announces that the registrations for DDD South-west are officially open.
• Registration (DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Scotland) – Registrations also opened for the Developer Developer Developer event to be held in Scotland on 2nd May.

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