The Morning Brew

Today’s post is a milestone of sorts – one third of the way to the magical 1000 post mark!

Software

• VSDB 2008 GDR R2 Released or DataDude for 2008 GDR++ RTM’ed or Latest and coolest version of Data Dude now available – Greg Duncan highlights the latest release of DataDude which seems to include a significant number of bugfixes along with a few enhancements

Information

• Stubs: Comparison with other mocking frameworks – Jonathan "Peli" de Halleux compares the lightweight mocking library, Stubs, with some of the others that are available, talking about how and why it is different, and looking at the performance of the Stubs mocks.
• Code Injection With CCI – Part 1 – Jason Bock looks into the use of the Common Compiler Infrastructure to inject code into an assembly
• Challenges of Multi-Tenant, Enterprise ASP.NET Applications – Travis Illig talks about some of the challenges surrounding creating good Multi-Tenant large scale applications
• Test Code Is Just Code – Ian Cartwright talks about a number of Anti-patterns which can make dealing with Test Code much more difficult
• Dynamic base classes in C# 4 – Chris Burrows looks into an interesting use of the new Dynamic functionality in C#4 to provide base classes based on dynamic types.
• NHibernate Tidbit – using <set/> without referencing Iesi.Collections – Ayende shares a useful NHibernate 2 Tip which allows you to remove a dependency on the Isei Collections library when working with NHibernate
• I Spose I’ll Just Say It: You Should Learn MVC – Rob Conery links to and responds to a number of recent post on ‘if you should learn ASP.NET MVC’
• Running Asp.Net websites outside of IIS – Ritesh Ramesh provides a means of running ASP.NET applications without using IIS with a simple application that implements a web server for ASP.NET in this Code Project article
• Life and Times of an ASP.NET MVC Controller – K. Scott Allen highlights his latest MSDN magazine article exploring how ASP.NET MVC controllers work
• Thread Pool Engine in MS CLR 4, and Work-Stealing scheduling algorithm – Haytham El-Fadeel talks about the changes to the Thread Pool in .NET 4 and looks at the Work Stealing algorithm which is used to schedule the work across worker threads
• Silverlight Animation Part II: Sprites – Charlie Calvert continues his series on Silverlight animation with a look at Sprites

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