The Morning Brew

Software

• xUnit.net 1.5 CTP 1 – Brad Wilson announces the release of xUnit.NET 1.5 CTP1 which includes a new test runner, support for ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM and moves the ReSharper integration into xUnit.net Contrib
• Announcing FsCheck 0.6.1 – Kurt Schelfthout announces an updated release of FsCheck 0.6.1 which has been rebuilt against the latest F# release
• MockingBird- Beta 2 – Santosh Benjamin announces the release of MockingBird Beta 2 – the latest beta of this web service mocking tool, with a number of fixes and improved documentation
• SQL Server 2008 May Books Online Available – Greg Low shares the news of a new SQL Server Books Online release, and Aaron Bertrand shares some More info on the May 2009 update to SQL Server 2008 Books Online –
• TestApi v.0.2 Released! – Nitya announces the latest release of TestAPI a set of tests and utility APIs that aim to help with the testing of WPF applications

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• U is for… unchecked – Jim O’Neil continues his A to Z of .NET with a look at checked and unchecked arithmetic
• Mapping a Twitter like domain with Fluent NHibernate – ‘Bengtbe’ explores Fluent NHibernate through an example of mapping the entities involved in a twitter like application
• .NET 4 Cancellation Framework – ‘mikelid’ explores the new Cancellation functionality of the .NET Framework 4, looking at how it supports common use patterns for cancellation of long running events.
• Windows 7: What’s there for Developers? – Mike Taulty gives a round up of the new features of Windows 7 what are of particular interest for Developers, along with a collection of related video and non-video resources
• ‘Methodist’: Make .NET Reflector come alive with IronPython – Ben Hall introduces ‘Methodist’ a .NET Reflector add-in which brings the power of IronPython and the DLR to the .NET Reflector, allowing you to call methods and explore types as you would in your IDE. Ben also talks about the development of Methodist.
• Publisher/Subscriber… practical benefits from event-driven patterns – Michael Ballhaus explores the importance of publish subscribe events in Object Oriented code.
• SOLID and DRY – Jeremy Likness explores the SOLID and DRY principles in this two part series for Code Project. Part 2 is here
• Refactoring: Removing duplication more safely – Mark Needham talks about a technique he used when refactoring and removing code recently, with the aim of making it easier and safer to remove duplicated code.
• Tuple, a new type on .Net 4.0 – Hernan Garcia introduces the Tuple type which is being introduced in .NET 4.0, looking at what it is and when you should use it
• ASP.NET MVC Opinionated Software – Tony Rasa talks about how ASP.NET MVC conforms to the concept of Opinionated Software by enforcing a structure on your code.

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