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Software

• Small Basic : The newest, leanest and the meanest is here! – The Small Basic team announce the release of v0.5 which adds in their most requested features along with bugfixes
• MVVM light toolkit (Silverlight edition) posted – Laurent Bugnion announces the release of his Model-View-ViewModel toolkit for Silverlight. This article also gives a run through it in use

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• First look at debugging .NET 4.0 dumps in Visual Studio 2010 – Tess Ferrandez takes a good look at the support for working with .NET 4 debug dumps in the new Visual Studio Beta, looking at the pros and cons of working in VS over windbg
• Resisting Dependency Injection – Patrick Kua looks at a number of things that code can do which makes it harder to do Dependency injection
• LLVM – the future? – Granville Barnett starts off a new blog focusing on lower level things with an opening post on Low Level Virtual Machines
• Announcing FabrikamShipping, in-depth semi-realistic sample for Geneva Framework – ‘Vibro’ shares the announcement of a Geneva sample application which has a more real world slant
• The Joel Test – Updated for 2010 – Bill Tudor suggests an updated set of criteria for the Joel Test in 2010
• Functional Programming Battles GOTOzilla – K. Scott Allen responds to a recent post from Steve Wellens and some of the comments to that post surrounding the use of GOTO in code
• System.Data.OracleClient Update – ADO.NET team talks about their future roadmap and where the System.Data.OracleClient does (or more accuratly, does not) fit in
• Isolating Dependencies in Tests Using Mocks and Stubs – Claudio Lasalla talks about how you can ensure that your unit tests are real unit tests by using mocks and stubs. Code samples included with the article
• You can do the TODOs today too! – Bertrand Le Roy talks about the TODO comments, a much used, and often much forgotten about, feature

Community

• Easy deadlock detection- get a free license for Typemock’s Racer launch – Typemock are offering bloggers free licenses for their new product TypeMock Racer, a deadlock and concurrency testing tool. All you have to do is review their product.

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• Life After Loops – Justin Etheredge takes a look at the evolution of the humble for loop looking at the improvements in syntax and introduction of features such as lazy evaluation
• Introducing F# – Four part webcast series – Tomas Petricek shares his 4 part web cast series on Introducing F#, exploring the functional programming concepts, consuming and creating .NET libraries, and performing async operations. In total about 1.5 hours of video content
• Mocking indexer setters with Moq – Bertrand Le Roy looks at using the Moq Mocking framework to mock indexed properties.
• Joining NHibernate Transaction with ADO SqlTransaction – Derik Whittaker looks at how you can drop right down to ADO.NET when working with NHibernate, and here talks about a problem he had with transactions, along with a solution to the problem
• Speeding up the build – ditch the SSD and go for the RAM drive – Jeffrey Palermo attempts to gain the most performance increase he can in his build times, exploring SSD and Ram drives along the way
• F#: Using C# extension methods – Mark Needham is experimenting with using C# built libraries in F#, and when trying to use Rhino Mocks came up agains the fact that extension methods are not available where you might expect them to be in F#
• Struct vs class and immutability – David Blomqvist looks at the differences between structs and classes, especially surrounding immutability
• Code Contracts Primer – Part 4: Utilizing Pre & Post Conditions – Derik Whittaker continues his series of posts on the new Code Contracts functionality which will be included in Visual Studio 2010 / .NET 4, in this part exploring Pre and Post Conditions
• 7 hours of free .NET learning for any INETA member! by InnerWorkings – Jose Rolando Guay Paz highlights a great offer of 7 hours of free training materials on Silverlgiht, MVC, Threading and ADO.NET Data Services.

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I’ve had a surge in traffic and (twitter followers) over the weekend due to Scott Hanselman including ‘The Morning Brew’ in his Bytes by MSDN video interview – thanks for the plug Scott!

Software

• Caliburn v1 Release Candidate – Rob Eisenberg announces the Release Candidate of Caliburn, an application framework for WPF and Silverlight which provides implementations of a number of common UI patterns
• CHESS release v0.1.30610.2: Data Race Detection, ChessBoard, Refinement Checking – The CHESS team announce the latest release of CHESS a tool for finding concurrency bugs managed code. This release includes a number of new features as well as the usual bugfixes from the previous version
• Mono Tools for Visual Studio Preview Released – The Mono team announce a closed preview release of Mono Tools for Visual Studio, bringing integration Mono into Visual studio allowing you to run your code through mono, both locally and remotely and also debug

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• Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework – Microsoft Windows SDK Blog highlights some of the features of the Windows API Code pack for .NET, including screenshots which show each of the features that the SDK exposes.
• WPF Bindings and CurrentCulture Formatting – Rick Strahl discovers an interesting issue with localization in WPF applications, along with the fix.
• Reducing Code Coupling – Service Locator – Grant Palin takes a look at Service Locator implementation, showing how it can help you to decouple your code in this real world example
• Auto Quote Table/Column names – Fabio Maulo talks about a recent improvement to NHibernate which deals with automatially quoting table names to avoid problems with reserved words
• How PLINQ processes an IEnumerable<T> on multiple cores – ‘igoro’ looks at the ways that you could divide up work when processing an enumerable list using PLINQ, arriving on the final solution that is used in the framework
• I love 100% coverage! – Patrick Smacchia shows the types of bugs you will catch in your code when you get towards 100% coverage – showing that it is important to cover your code well.
• Opinionated Input Builders Part 6 – Performance of the builders – Eric Hexter continues with his Opinionated Input Builders series with a look at the performance of the builders. Be sure to read back through the posts in this series, and also check out Chad Meyers posts and Eric’s reply all linked from this article
• ASP.NET AJAX testing made easy using Visual Studio 2008 Web Test – Omar Al Zabir takes a look at using the Visual Studio 2008 Web Test functionality to test ASP.NET Ajax functionality in his applications
• ref on Reference Type?! – Chris Eargle looks at why you might want to pass reference types into your methods using the ref keyword
• X is for… XML Literal – Jim O’Neil takes a look at one of the most interesting and different features of Visual Basic .NET, the XML Literal syntax
• JavaScript: Not your father’s inheritance model – Part 1 – Sergio Pereira continues his JavaScript Demystified series with a look at inheritance JavaScript style. Continued in Part 2

Community

• Scot ALT.NET: An Evening of O/RM – Colin Angus Mackay highlights the forthcoming Scotish Alt.Net event on 7th July, where Chris Canal will be talking on FluentNHibernate, and Colin Gemmell will be comparing NHibernate to the Entity Framework
• When agile goes bad: how to stay calm and move forward with Sebastien Lambla – Seb Lambal discusses his first hand experiences of agile methods in this VBUG event to be held in Nuneaton on 14th July

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