The Morning Brew

The big news from the last 24 hours is the release of Windows 7 /Windows 2008 R2 Release Candidates to MSDN subscribers – by all accounts demand has been hight and the MSDN site has been correspondingly slow, but I believe some folk have managed to obtain the release.

This weekend I’m really looking forward to Developer Developer Developer Scotland, so as with WebDD, if you are at DDD Scotland and spot me please do come over and say Hi.

This weekend is also a Bank Holiday Weekend in England, so this means that there will be no edition of The Morning Brew on Monday, posting will resume as usual on Tuesday.

Software

• Windows 7 Release Candidate – Scott Dorman shares some information on the Windows 7 RC release, currently available only to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Public release is May 5th
• Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 released to TechNet and MSDN subscribers – Nick MacKechnie talks about the release of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows 2008 – once again this one is for MSDN/Technet subscribers only
• Announcing Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate (RC) – Nick MacKechnie also has a nice post on the Windows 2008 R2 RC Release with a good selection of links relating to this R2 release
• TestDriven.Net 2.21: Now includes NUnit 2.5 RC – Jamie Cansdale announces the release of Test Driven .NET 2.21 Beta, which adds in support for the NUnit 2.5 Release Candidate

Information

• Introduction to Mixins For the C# Developer – Justin Etheredge explores the concept of the ‘Mixin’ and looks at how you can implement this idea which is common in SmallTalk, Ruby, Python, etc in your C# code.
• 7 Valuable Visual Studio Hidden Features – Hatim gathers together 7 of the less well known features in Visual Studio – I particularly find the ruled column ijn the editor and the Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- tricks useful.
• NHibernate – The difference between Get, Load and querying by id – Ayende looks at the different ways of getting a single object by ID and explains why certain ways are better than others for performance reasons.
• Clarification on SQL Server Deadlocks being Unavoidable – Jonathan Kehayias talks about the dreaded SQL Server deadlock error, and how it can occur naturally due to no fault of the application or database, and how as developers we should be handling this kind of failure.
• IIS 7 Error Pages taking over 500 Errors – Rick Strahl looks at the solution to a problem with IIS7 which resulted in it swallowing up his custom application level error responses and replacing them with a standard IIS error message.
• Challenge to MS Evangelists: Real Examples. Tests, Even – Jim Holmes sparks some interesting debate in the comments on this post suggesting that samples should be real examples, well produced with tests, etc to help to avoid the problems associated with people taking sample code as gospel.
• Using SQL Functions in Criteria Restrictions – Davy Brion shows how despite the slightly unfriendly syntax it is possible to build criteria based queries in NHibernate that use the the built in functions of the database.

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