The Morning Brew

We must be reaching the (ASP.NET MVC RTM Date) + (Time it takes to update and publish Book) time, as today’s edition contains details of a couple of ASP.NET MVC book releases (in their own special section)

Software

• VS2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions – Somasegar announces the release of the Visual Studio 2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions which let you measure the performance of the client side interactions of your Web Applications using any browser.
• YSlow Release – The Yahoo! Developer Network announce a new release of YSlow their website performance analyser for Firefox, which now includes the ability to create custom rulesets allowing you to tailor the rules to those that are suitable for your application
• All-In-One Code Framework : 2009-4-27 release of All-In-One Code Framework – ‘colbertz’ announces an updated edition of the All-In-One Code Framework, a one stop shop for bas implementations of many Microsoft Technologies (in many Microsoft Technologies too). This update contains changes to/additions of 17 projects

ASP.NE MVC Books

• ASP.NET MVC NerdDinner Walkthrough – Phill Haack announces the release of his (and Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery and Scott Guthrie’s) book on ASP.NET MVC on Amazon
• Now Published: Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework (Apress) – Steve Sanderson announces the release of his book ‘Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework’ covering the RTM release of the ASP.NET MVC framework
• Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Sample Chapter Available – Keyvan Nayyeri shares a sample chapter from the Beginning ASP.NET MVC bok he is writing with Simone Chiaretta.

Information

• Ten Reasons to Try NUnit 2,5 – Charlie Poole shares his top 10 reasons you should check out NUnit 2.5
• S#arp Scaffolding with Ext JS – Billy McCafferty shares a CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) outline project which uses the S#arp Architecture Project and the Ext JS Grid control.
• Let us burn all those pesky Util & Common libraries – Ayende talks about why Common Function libraries / Util Libraries can be considered evil
• What’s new in Beta 1 for Parallel LINQ (PLINQ)? – The Parallel Programming with .NET blog highlights the changes from the CTP in the Parallel LINQ implementation in the Parallel Extensions Beta.
• Practicing patterns : how to build an outlook style application with prism v2 – Part 2 – Erwin van der Valk continues from a post in early March looking at some of the things not mentioned in the previous post about building an Outlook style application using the Prism V2 Framework
• Events and Races – Eric Lippert looks at a useful technique for calling Events to ensure that you don’t calla null delegate, and that you get thread safety of the event handlers you call. Eric goes on to look at the possible race conditions these techniques can cause.
• NHibernate IPreUpdateEventListener & IPreInsertEventListener – Ayende looks at the NHibernate Before Update and Before Insert events and how they can usefully be used

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