The Morning Brew

Software

• TestDriven.Net 2.22 RTM – What’s New? – Jamie Cansdale announces the RTM release of TestDriven.NET 2.22 which includes support for VS2010, NUnit 2.5, TypeMock, NCover, F#
• NSyntheis 0.1.1 has escaped! – Stuart Caborn announces his first release of NSyntheis, a port of the Ruby project Syntheis which aims to provide a means of joining tests which call mock expectations with tests which call actual implementations. This release works with Nant, NUnit 2.5 and Rhino Mocks.
• VS Addin: Fast Add Reference Dialog – No more Coffee Break! – Tuna Toksoz shares a new Visual Studio Add-in which aims to provide a much faster Add References dialog. This is something I will be checking out, as despite the efforts made by the VS team the dialog in 2008 is still far too slow

Information

• Manning offers Alt.Net book series and 42% discount on them all – Jeffrey Palermo highlights a great offer on a great series of books from Manning
• Session Attacks and ASP.NET – Part 1 – J.Monty takes a look at the security aspects of the ASP.NET Session, in this part looking at the Architecture and implementation of ASP.NET Sessions
• NHibnerate : Handling the Special Cases – Karl Seguin takes a look at some of the 5% type of data access operations you need to perform which don’t fit nicely into the NHibernate model, looking at how NHibernate allows you to do things and the features provided to make it nicer
• Performance differences in the ASP.Net MVC View Engine when using two View Engines versus a single Composite View Engine – Eric Hexter talks about some strange performance he encountered whist working with multiple view engines in ASP.NET MVC
• How do ASP.NET Application_ Events Work – Rick Strahl digs down into the ASP.NET framework to reveal the answer to a question about the Application_events in defined in you Global.asax.cs
• Understanding Garbage Collection in .NET – Andrew Hunter gives some lowdown on how the .NET Garbage collector works, along with some of the limitations of the GC
• Architecture Journal Addresses Turbulent Times – Since the demise of the paper edition of the Architecture Journal I’ve been keeping my eyes peeled for announcements of new editions, so here is the heads up for everyone else
• Determine Whether an Assembly was compiled in Debug Mode – Steve Smith shows how in a few lines of code you can work out if a .NET DLL was compiled in Release or Debug mode
• Going Controller-less in MVC: The Way Fowler Meant It To Be – Chad Myers takes a look at the Front Controller and Controllerless MVC

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