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• Pex 0.11 Released: Delegates, Exception Trees, and Stubs – Nikolai Tillmann announces the release of Pex 0.11 which adds the ability to work with delegates as parameters, a new Exception tree view, and stubs for Recursion and events, along with a few fixes os issues with the previous releases.
• TestDriven.Net 2.20: Improved NCover Integration – Jamie Cansdale announces V2.20 of TestDriven.NET which improves the integration with NCover and TypeMock, along with better support for 64 bit Windows, and a few more features too.

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• ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) – Maarten Balliauw looks at combining the ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to have controllers served from plugins via MEF.
• Silverlight 3 – Out of Browser Applications on the Mac – Mike Taulty screencasts to show the new Silverlight Out Of Browser application experience for Mac users
• NHibernate Mapping – <many-to-any/> – Ayende continues his series of NHibernate Mapping elements with today’s post looking at the <many-to-any> mapping, the logical extension of yesterday’s post on the Any mapping
• Extending ASP.NET MVC – Hernan Garcia looks at extending the ASP.NET MVC to make it behave exactly as he want it to.
• Functional Solution for the Shortest Path Problem – Matthew Podwysocki looks at re-writing one of his previous algorithms for calculating the shortest path using only immutable collections and pure functional code
• "Vice" Testing – Sean Chambers talks about a testing technique that can possibly help to bring some level of tests to a legacy (and not easy to test) system without making significant changes to the code, allowing you to establish a baseline for the system to allow you to start doing safe refactoring

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• NBuilder – Gareth Down makes his first significant release of NBuilder, a tool which uses fluent interfaces to generate test instances of your objects with the properties automatically populated. Both binary and source releases are available.

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• FREE MSDN Flash eBook with 13 technical articles spanning dynamic languages to game development to cloud computing – Eric Nelson announces the release of a collection of articles which have been featured in the UK MSDN Flash newsletter, now to be released as an e-book
• To mock or not to mock, that is the question – Part 1 – Gabriel Schenker explores two of the most popular mocking frameworks, Rhino and Moq, looking at why you would want to mock, and how you go about using the frameworks to achive this.
• SharpLife.NET – ASP.NET MVC Free eBooks – Mahdi Taghizadeh shares a collection of links to free chapters of ASP.NET MVC books. There seem to be a lot of books on this subject coming up, so this is a really good opportunity to try a bit of each before you buy.
• NHibernate Mapping – <any /> – Ayende continues his tour of the NHibernate Mapping elements with a look at Any, which allows data for objects to come from any of a number of tables.
• CodeBox 2: An extended and improved version of the CodeBox with line numbers – Ken Johnson shares an article about CodeBox2, a WPF based syntax highlighting code editor.
• Fluent NHibernate and Linq2NHibernate – Demo Project. – ’emiaj’ shares a sample project which uses NHibernate along with the FluentNHibernate for mappings, and Linq2NHibernate, giving a simple ‘demo code’ introduction to these technologies
• Mailbag: Do I need still need older versions of the .NET Framework on my system after installing .NET Framework 3.5 SP1? – Aaron Stebner answers an interesting question I’ve heard people asking before about the need for older versions of the .NET Framework.
• JavaScript Unit Testing Part 2: JSSpec – Elijah Manor continues his series on Javascript Unit testing with a look at the JSSpec testing framework.
• P is for… Partial Method – Jim O’Neil explores Partial Methods as part of his A-Z series of posts on .NET.

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I had an enjoyable time at WebDD this weekend, it was nice to catch up with some old contacts, as well as meeting a couple of readers of The Morning Brew.

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• Deep Zoom Composer – Microsoft release a tool for easily creating Silverlight 2 powered deep zoom pictures and deploying them to the web.
• Your next text editor is… MetaNote! – secretGeek shares a seemingly simple text editor with a useful feature – you can customise the whole application from withing, changing the behaviour, etc by editing the code for the app inside the app.

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• Constructor Injection for ASP.NET MVC Model Binders – Fredrik Kalseth has been looking into integrating IOC Containers with ASP.NET MVC, and in this post explores using them to construct Model Binder implementations
• Repository is the new Singleton – Ayende shares an opionion on the Repository Pattern, going back to the original definition, and looking at it in use with NHibernate
• Keep Your IQueryable In Check – Justin Etheredge follows up on Ayende’s post with a look at the query object pattern and IQueryable
• Silverlight Layouts Part 1 – Charlie Calvert continues his introductory series to Silverlight with a look at the way things get laid out in a Silverlight App.
• Microsoft Technology Roadmap Links and Resources – dasBlonde shares a huge list of the latest Microsoft CTP releases, ideal if you are rebuilding a demo machine and need all the latest and greatest bits.
• Minimize Code by Using jQuery and Data Templates – Dan Wahlin explores templating output using JQuery and Data Templates
• NHibernate Mapping -<one-to-one/> – Ayende continues his series on NHibernate Mapping elements with a look at the One-To-One mappng, and <join/>
• Micro- optimization tips to increase performance – Patrick Smacchia shares some tips which can help you gain the most performance possible from your code, and follows up by asking/answering the questionDo we need Micro-Optimization?
• jQuery Leaking Memory:-Be careful while using in big applications – Aashish identifies a memory leak within jQuery on Internet Explorer and shares some details on how it can be reduced by commenting part of the library out – my team encountered this same issue last week, and these kinds of problem are going to be an increasing problem as more development uses these libraries
• How to improve the performance of ASP.NET MVC web applications – Simone Chiaretta shares some information on optimising the performance of ASP.NET MVC powered applications

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