The Morning Brew

Software

• JetBrains TeamCity 4.5.2 Available – Jose Rolando Guay Paz shares the announcement of the release of JetBrains TeamCity 4.5.2, a second bugfix release which focuses in compatibility of integrations and stability.
• Free, for MSDN Subscribers/reg-ware, WPF Controls from Telerik (Limited time only!) – Greg Duncan highlights a special offer for MSDN Subscribers to get a free developer license for Telerik’s WPF controls

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• Visual Studio: Why is there no 64 bit version? (yet) – Rico Mariani talks about some of the reasons we don’t yet have a 64bit version of Visual Studio, and some of the things that have to be considered before making a program 64bit.
• Breaking All The Rules with WCF – Scott Hanselman talks about some interesting real-world problems he encountered working with a web service produced in a non .NET language which supposedly confirmed to WS-Security, and shows how the extensibility of WCF lets you work with dubious service implementations
• Subversion 1.6, Tree Conflicts, and the Incompatibility of Subversion 1.5: What You Need to Know – Rob Reynolds highlights some of the issues surrounding mixing Subversion 1.5 and 1.6 – worth being aware of
• More on Structs – Chris Eargle digs down into some of the details of Structs following on from his post from earlier in the week
• SubSonic 3.0: The SimpleRepository – Rob Conery talks about the simple repository implementation in SubSonic
• SubSonic 3.0: ActiveRecord – Rob also explores the use of SubSonic as an ActiveRecord implementation achieved using T4 Templates
• Coding: Keep method/variable names positive – Mark Needham talks about a few techniques for keeping names of methods and variables easily understandable
• Update on Velocity upcoming release – CTP4 – The Velocity distributed cache is nearing CTP4 release and the team give a heads up on some of the new features
• Managed Extensibility Framework 101 (b) – Malisa Ncube continues on from his previous post (back at the end of May) with a look at the Aggregate and Directory Catalogues, and accessing the host application from a plugin.
• NHibernate – query only properties – Ayende looks at a nice technique that allows you to have items in your mappings which do not present in the model classes but are available to query through NHibernate
• NHibernate : Some Naked Thoughts – Karl Seguin shares some thoughts on NHibernate, talking about the need for OR Mappers, the perceived ‘lack of control’, and some of the good and bad bits of NHibernate

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