The Morning Brew

Software

• XNA Game Studio 3.1 – Coding4Fun announces the release of XNA GameStudio 3.1, the latest version of the SDK for building XBox games in C#. Lots of new features in this much anticipated release
• Pex 0.14.040610.2: Fix Suggestions for Invariant Methods and Natural properties for Stubs. – Jonathan "Peli" de Halleux announces the latest release of Pex and runs through the significant new feature, Suggestions for Invariant Methods and Natural properties for stubs

Information

• Brad’s Sure Guide to Indexes – Brad McGehee gives a very interesting and detailed exploration of indexing in SQL Server, looking at the more tradiional features, right through to some of the new bits in 2008
• Integration Testing Your ASP.NET MVC Application – Steve Sanderson explores ways of performing integration testing on your ASP.NET MVC applications using the MvcIntegrationTestFramework
• Getting Started With Selenium For ASP.NET Developers – Robert Johnson gives a brief introduction to the Selenium testing platform working in C#
• ASP.NET MVC TDD using Visual Studio 2010 – Maarten Balliauw shows how you can apply Test Driven Design principles in ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio 2010 to create a new Controller. Plenty of screen shots in this quick run through
• What does the optimize switch do? – Eric Lippert explores some of the optimisations that the C# compiler can perform when the optimize switch is specified
• Entity Framework Design : Code Only – Alex James talks about the Entity Framework Team’s ideas for Code First model production in the Entiry Framework. None of this is set in stone and they are looking for your feedback on the ideas, so this a fantastic opportunity to help shape the final product
• LINQ to NHibernate, part IV – Steve Strong gives another update on the progress being made with the full NHibernate Linq To NHibernate implementation
• Playing With SQL Server CLR Integration Part I – Paulo Morgado starts a series on working with the .NET CLR within SQL Server, and quickly follows up with Part II and Part III
• You’re Not Your Data Access – Rob Conery talks about simplicity and the importance of keeping things simple and not following every complex technique in every project

Community

• Internet Explorer 8 – Better Browser – Microsoft are running a campaign to increase adoption of Internet Explorer 8, with the added incentive that if you download it from this site they will donate 8 meals to the charity ‘Feeding America’ – if you are planning to upgrade your browser this is a great opportunity to do some good in the world in the process
• London AltNetBeers #9 – At the glass house – Seb Lambla announces the 9th London Alt.Net Beers event, to be held on 17th June

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