May 2009
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #345
Posted by Chris Alcock on 12 May 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- .NET RIA Services May 2009 Preview – Brad Abrams shares the announcement of a minor update to the .NET Rich Internet Application Services. This release provides a great many bugfixes over previous releases
- Microsoft code-name "Geneva" Beta 2 Now Available – The Forefront Team announce the availability of the latest beta release of Geneva the Microsoft Identity and Access Management Platform.
- Azure MVC V1 – CSharp – Community for ASP.Net MVC release their first ASP.NET MVC Template for running ASP.NET MVC on Windows Azure.
Information
- Microsoft Tech-Ed Online – Its that time of year again, with the Tech-Ed conference kicking of yesterday. You can catch some of the sessions, and other interesting interviews, etc on this Tech-Ed online site.
- Our Next Engineering Milestone – The Engineering Windows 7 Blog has an interesting post on the route to RTM for Windows 7. At the end of the article they hint on a ‘Holiday Season’ availability of computers running Windows 7 RTM
- 10 cool things about f# that aren’t functional-specific – Alex Pedenko talks about 10 things in F# which make it a great language but aren’t specifically Functional Programming things.
- AutoMapper and IoC – Jimmy Bogard talks about the Inversion of Control friendly features of his AutoMapper project, and shows how they can be used with StructureMap
- BigInt – Stephen Swensen provides an implementation of an unbounded integer type for use in C# which supports most common operations in this CodeProject article
- Sneak Preview: Persistence Ignorance and POCO in Entity Framework 4.0 – Faisal Mohamood talsk about one of the new features of the Entity Framework 4, allowing you to obtain persistence ignorance in your entities by using Plain Old CLR objects (POCO).
- Reserved and Contextual Keywords – Eric Lippert talks about the careful consideration that has to go into adding new keywords and reserved words in programming languages.
- The Open Closed Principle – Zakir Hoosen talks about the Open Closed Principle (which states that an object should be open for extension but closed for modification) by way of examining an example.
Community
- AltNetConf UK London August 2009 – Ian Cooper announces the plans for the next London UK Alt.NET Conference, to be held over the 3 days at the weekend of 1st August 2009. Registrations open today at 13:00(BST presumably), and based on previous experience spaces will go quickly.
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The Morning Brew #344
Posted by Chris Alcock on 11 May 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Building Parallel Applications using Axum – Somasegar announces the release of Axum, a new .NET language for building Parallel applications. According to Mathew Podwysocki, Microsoft has no yet decided if this project should be a real product, so want feedback.
- Service Pack 1 for SQL Server Express 2008 is Available – SQL Server Express team announce the availability of Service Pack 1 for SQL Server Express 2008
Information
- Isolation, Agents, and Message-passing in .NET – The blog for the Team producing Azum, and where all the Azum information seems to be centered at the moment.
- Making the untestable testable with Anonymous Methods and Dependency Injection – Karl Seguin looks at a technique which helps making untestable code more testable making use of DI and Anonymous Methods.
- TDD: How to supersede a single system library call – Richard Dingwall follow up on Karl’s piece looking at a formalisation of the technique
- Calling private methods from Unit Tests – Patrick Smacchia looks at using some features of NDepend to make it easier to test private methods
- Custom Controller Factory in ASP.NET MVC – Keyvan Nayyeri continues his series of ASP.NET MVC extension points with a look at the ability to provide Custom Controller Factories to the framework
- MEF and MAF Resources – Kathleen Dollard provides some good links to further information about MEF and MAF (which she will be talking about at Scottish Developers next month – see below)
- Using Behaviour-Driven Development with ASP.NET MVC Part 2 – Tim Ross continues his series on Behaviour Driven Development with a further look into the executable specifications for his sample project
- Integrate FxCop 1.36 & VS 2008 – Vadim Kreynin shows how you can integrate FxCop 1.36 into your Visual Studio 2008 Builds with some simple instructions.
- ASP.NET MVC book: Chapter 1: Plumbing – Jeff Putz shares a pre-release version of Chaper 1 of his book on ASP.NET MVC from the point of view of a Web Forms Developer
- Entity interface anti-pattern – James Gregory talks about interfaces like ICustomer, etc on entities which he considers to be an anti-pattern
- "XYZ Is Bad For Performance" – Sasha Goldshtein reminds us that when it comes to performance there aren’t hard and fast rules, and that it all depends on the context we are using something in.
Community
- SQL Usergroup starting in Cambridge – Simon Sabin announces the formation of a new SQL Server User group in the Cambridge area. The first meeting is scheduled in for the 20th May.
- Your Application in Pieces – MEF and MAF – Scottish Developers host a talk from Kathleen Dollard on the Managed Extensibility Framework and the Managed Add-in Framework on 23rd June – spaces for this session are going quickly, so sign up quickly if you are intending attending.
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The Morning Brew #343
Posted by Chris Alcock on 08 May 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Dynamic Data in Regular Websites/Web Applications – David Fowl highlights the latest release of ASP.NET Dynamic Data (Preview Release 4) and gives a taster of how Dynamic Data works, and what benefits it gives
- TNValidate – A Fluent Validation Library for .NET – Tore Nestenius releases the first version of TNValdiate, a fluent validation library for .NET which aims to provide a way of writing validation that feels like natural language. Currently the library has error messages in English and Swedish.
Information
- .NET MF moves to Developer Division – Colin Miller, Product Unit Manager for the .NET Micro Framework, clarifies the reports about its future
- Using NHibernate to Test Your Query Logic Without Touching The Database – Lee Brandt shares the technique he and his team used to allow testing of their query logic using NHibernate without touching the database by using a common Interface for repositories and mocking their implementation
- Difference between AreEqual and AreSame – Garry Shutler highlights the difference between two assert methods that often look very similar to beginners in unit testing
- A Developer’s Guide to Preparing for Windows 7 – Tim Sneath gives the low down and a big bunch of links regarding the important bits of Windows 7 for Developers
- Introduction to MapReduce for .NET Developers – Eran Kampf talks at length about the Map Reduce algorithm, which is known to be at the heart of Google’s search routines, and provides a native .NET Implementation to illustrate
- In The Brain of Mike Hadlow – Rhino Mocks and Automocking – Alvin Ashcraft over at .NET Zone shares a video of Mike Hadlow presenting at Skills Matter earlier this year on Mocking using Rhino Mocks, and Auto Mocking.
Community
- DDD South West Agenda Is Up Now – Guy Smith-Ferrier announces that the Agenda for Developer Developer Developer South West has now been published. This event, to be held in Taunton, Somerset on 23rd May is another event in the fantastic series of regional Developer Developer Developer events, and the agenda looks great.
