The Morning Brew

Software

• SharpDevelop 3.1 Beta 1 – The Team over at ic#code announce the release of Beta 1 of SharpDevelop 3.1. Its been a while since I last used SharpDevelop, but this release with a fully featured profiler included is certainly something I’m going to be checking out
• CodeRush Xpress for C# and VB is Live! – Dustin Campbell shares teh news that DevExpress have released an updated CodeRush Xpress which now supports both VB.NEt and C# providing numerous refactoring and productivity improvements for developers on both platforms.
• All-In-One Code Framework : 2009-5-10 release of All-In-One Code Framework – ‘colbertz’ shares the news of the latest release of the All-in-one code framework which provides sample implementations of a vast array of Microsoft Technologies. This new release brings 16 more samples ranging from integrating with Outlook to printing from Winforms applications

Information

• The Stripper Pattern – Ayende describes why sending full rich business objects over the wire is an anti-pattern, and how you should use DTO (Data Transfer Objects) to move data across the wire.
• CoverFlow – built using Silverlight 3’s ‘Projection’ feature – Jose Fajardo looks at using one of the new Silverlight 3 features to create an elegant ‘cover flow’ animation effect
• How Do You Deal With Exceptions? – Justin responds to some email questions on exceptions, how and when he uses them and how he organises them. There seems to be a good discussion going on in the comments of this post too.
• Kona 3: Learning Behavior Driven Development (BDD) – Rob Conery resumes his Kona (formerly MVC storefront) screen cast series with a look at Behaviour Driven Development
• Open XML Format SDK 2.0: Getting Started Best Practices – Erika Ehrli shares some getting started tips for working with the Open XML SDK 2.0 for working with documents for Word 2007, Excel 2007 and Powerpoint 2007
• Axum – Ping Pong with Dataflow Networks – Matthew Podwysocki refines his previous example of Axum by improving the communication using Dataflow Networks
• Commercial Suicide – Integration at the Database Level – Jak Charlton looks at the disadvantages and difficulties of using the database as your integration point.
• Why is AppDomain.AppendPrivatePath Obsolete? – CLR Team Blog start a new series of posts looking at why they make some APIs obsolete
• Multithreading: introducing Kernel objects – Luis Abreu explores ways of controling Multi Threaded code using Kernel objects, discussing the basics in this first post, and moving on to Multithreading: the Mutex kernel object – LA.NET [EN] looking at the Mutex object in more detail

Community

• Alt.Net UK Conference 2009 – After some problems yesterday with opening the registrations for the UK Alt.Net Conference, registrations will open today at 13:00 BST

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