March 2009
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #315
Posted by Chris Alcock on 26 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition GDR v2 RC1 available (Previously called QFE) – The Visual Studio Team Systems DB Team announce the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition GDR v2. This is a short life release candidate intended to be used to verify fixes are in place before the final release which sounds like it will be in weeks rather than months time
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- Obsolete Members and Compiler Warnings – Jason Bock investigates some strangeness with the Obsolete members attribute and compiler warnings only being generated in certain circumstances in VS 2008/C#3
- Running Tarantino With MSBuild – Rob Reynolds continues exploring the Tarantino database change framework with a look at running the changes using MSBuild, and provides a MSBuild sample
- Problems mixing functional and object-oriented paradigms: NHibernate – Alex Scordellis looks at the differences between functional programming style and more traditional OO programming when it comes to persisting with NHibernate
- Verify JavaScript with JSLint during build using Nant – Greg Gigon looks at adding JSLint to the NAnt build process to validate and verify the JavaScript component of the project. With more and more reliance being placed on custom JS in out web apps this is a very useful technique
- Introducing CodePlex Tips – Hot on the heels of last years Visual Studio Tips series, Sara Ford has started a new series of posts on Code Plex Tips, looking to bring some of the features of CodePlex to light, along with giving a sneak peek at some future features
- NHibernate and TooManyRowsAffectedException – Alkampfer shares a useful reminder about triggers in the database causing problems with Data Access code, in this case NHibernate, due to them returning extra ‘rows affected’ counts. The solution and and a contender for your best practice guide is of course useing NO COUNT in triggers
- My 100th blog post: Top 5 development practices you should care for! – Patrick Smacchia celebrates is 100th blog post with a look at 5 best practices for Software development that were applied to the development of NDepend
- Implementing A Value Object With NHibernate – Davy Brion looks at the specifics of implementing value objects when using NHibernate as your persistence framework
- Coding: Isolate the data not just the endpoint – Mark Needham suggests that you should also isolate the data returned from services as well as the service implementation in your code, illustrating with an example ased on a service returning the items for a drop down list
- An Extensive Examination of LINQ: The Ins and Outs of Query Operators – Scott Mitchell looks at query operators in Linq which are defined as extension methods on IEnumerable<T> which perform some work on the collection to return a result
- $(document).ready() and pageLoad() are not the same! – Dave Ward looks at the differences between jQuery document ready and the ASP.NET Ajax pageLoad, and looks at creating an ASP.NET AJAX equivalent of Document.Ready
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The Morning Brew #314
Posted by Chris Alcock on 25 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- AgDLR 0.5 – Harry Pierson highlights the release of AgDLR 0.5, which is an integration between the Dynamic Language Runtime languages and Silverlight. These languages are currently IronRuby and IronPython, and this release includes support for Silverlight 3 beta
- Spice up your IE with spicIE – Writing IE7/8 Plugins in managed code in minutes (beta) – Greg Duncan highlights spicIE, a framework that makes it easy to create plug-ins for Internet Explorer 7 and 8 in Managed code
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- The Tarantino Project – Database Change Management – Rob Reynolds takes a look at the Tarantino Project, a tool for use from NAnt which deals with database changes allowing you to keep your databases up to date easily
- ViewState 101 – Tony Lombardo goes back to first principles on a classic pain point for Web Forms applications, the viewstate, looking at why it exists, how it works and what can be done about making it smaller
- Entities: Required Properties And Properties That Shouldn’t Be Modified – Davy Brion looks at a common mistake that gets made with NHibernate mappings, having getter and setter properties for all persisted properties, and looks at how you can improve your entities by avoiding this
- Persistence Patterns in MSDN Magazine – Jeremy D. Miller plugs his latest MSDN Magazine column which takes a look at the less well understood data acess patterns such as active record, data mapper, repositories, etc
- Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Silverlight Application – Tim Sneath shares his notes from Seema Ramchandani’s MIX09 talk on creating high performance graphics applications in Silverlight, including discussions of testing using XPerf
- Dime Cast # 95 – Building a Progressive Fluent Interface – Derik Whittaker picks up on the article featured yesterday and looks at creating a Progressive Fluent Interface in his latest screencast at Dime Casts.
- Building Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 Beta applications on the same machine – Jeff Wilcox – Jeff Wilcox talks looks at how you can keep your development environment able to build Silverlight 2 while also being able to build Silverlight 3 beta projects
- Silverlight Cream – I’m not going to be covering Silverlight in huge detail, just linking to the od article I find interesting. If Silverlight is something you care about I suggest you also subscribe to this Blog which does an excelent daily post rounding up all the best Silverlight news and articles
- Tip of the Day #9 (The Project Location Is Not Trusted) – Colin Angus Mackay shares a useful tip about not trusted locations and how Windows uses the alternate file stream to store information about the security of items downloaded from the internet
- SQL SERVER – 2008 – SCOPE_IDENTITY Bug with Multi Processor Parallel Plan and Solution – Pinal Dave talks about an issue with SCOPE_IDENTITY() and multi processor systems on SQL 2008, offering a few solutions to the problem
The Morning Brew #313
Posted by Chris Alcock on 24 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio April 2009 CTP – The April 09 CTP edition of the Live Framework Tools for Visual Studio gives you the latest tools for creating Live Mesh enabled application in both .NET and Silverlight, along with JavaScript completion for Live Framework code and a number of bugfixes since the last release
- WPF Toolkit – March 2009 Release – An update to the already released WPF Tool Kit March Release as the previous release was missing one of the bugfixes it was meant to have. This release contains a number of controls from the Jan09 release along with a huge number of bugfixes and improvements
- One gets you Ten. One DLL, Ten free WCF Debugger Visualizers – Greg Duncan highlights the WCF Debugger Visualizers from E4D Learning, which bring 10 debugger visualizers including visualizers for Message, ClientRuntime, Binding, Security Context, Security, and a few more.
- Json.NET 3.5 Beta 3 – The latest beta release of this JSON serialization framework brings with it a few new features and a few bugfixes to existing functionality
- Krypton 3.5 Released – ComponentFactory announce the release of Version 3.5 of their Krypton Control Library, new date time and calendar controls. Also, this release now includes over 40 free controls
- asp:menu fix for IE8 problem available – Bertrand Le Roy announces a fix for the built in ASP.NET Controls which makes the Menu control render correctly for Internet Explorer 8.
- Hotfix for "Design view does not update HTML" and to "Designer inserts a lot of " – The Visual Web Developer Team announce the release of a Visual Studio / Office 2007 hotfix which patches shared components of both products to resolve an anoying problem with the HTML Desiger
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- The Dangers of the Large Object Heap – Andrew Hunter talks about the way that .NET allocates memory for our objects to live in in this interesting post on the Large Object Heap, the place any object with a size of >85000 bytes goes to live.
- Exploring the CoreCLR Inside Silverlight – Tim Sneath shares some notes from MIX on the refactoring of the CLR into the CoreCLR used within Silverlight
- My Visual Studio Twilight theme – Sean Biefeld shares his current Visual Studio theme, a rather nice dark looking theme, and one I think I’ll give a try at some point
- An Evening with Fluent NHibernate – Howard Dierking shares his first thoughts on Fluent NHibernate
- NHibernate POID Generators revealed – Tuna Toksoz expands on Fabio Maulo’s post on the generation of Persistant Object Identifiers and the drawbacks of native/identity generation
- .NET MVC vs Ruby on Rails – Simon Tokumine shares thoughts on ASP.NET MVC from the point of view of a Ruby on Rails Developer,
- ASP.NET MVC for RoR developers: do as locals do – Simone Chiaretta follows up on Simon’s post with a look at the things that Ruby on Rails developers need to know for ASP.NET MVC to make as it would do to seasoned .NET developers
- Core ASP.NET | Refcardz – A nice looking ASP.NET Web Forms Quick Reference Card from DZone written by Holger Schwichtenberg
- RESTful Services and Business Exceptions – Ron Jacobs talks about how you can include Soap Fault equivalents in REST based services using HTTP status codes
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