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• Why is ASP.NET encoding &’s in script URLs? A tale of looking at entirely the wrong place for a cause to a non-existing bug – Bertrand Le Roy looks at how a wrong assumption can cause you to start chasing bugs that don’t exist – in this case due to incorrect assumptions about encoding of ampersands
• Generic Value Object – Jan Van Ryswyck looks at the implementation of a generic base for a value object, implementing all the important parts which can be shared between implementations
• How to test WF4 Workflows with Microsoft.Activities.Simulation – Ron Jacobs takes a look at implementing automated tests for his workflow based code
• Stop Using Structs Everywhere – Chris Eargle appeals to the developer community to only use structs where appropriate based on a list of critiera in this post.
• High Test Coverage Ratio is a good thing, Anyway! – Patrick Smacchia talks about High Test Coverage, and how this is can be a very good thing if you have method contracts as this automatically implies that your methods are doing what they should.
• When Do I Use Interfaces? – K. Scott Allen looks at one of the key OOP principles, ‘Program to an interface, not an implementation’, and explores where and when he uses interfaces
• ASP.NET MVC HttpModule Registration Under IIS Integrated Mode vs. Classic Mode – Jeffrey Palermo highlights one of the more subtle differences between IIS6 mode and IIS7 mode in IIS7 when it comes to registering HTTPModules
• Analyzing a performance problem – Is a prisoner dangerous? – Ayende look at some badly performing NHibernate based code, and takes a look at what can be done about it. He also revisits the database obsfucation idea with some slightly more better names his his post NHibernate- Get Thou Out Of My Database- 2nd Edition
• Git For Windows Developers – Git Series – Part 3 – Jason Meridth continues his series of posts on GIT for Windows with a look at the meanings of the files in the .git folders where GIT stores all its configuration and version information
• Fluent Silverlight- Part 3 – Binding Events to Commands – Gabriel Schenker continues his series of posts on the work he has been doing to create a fluent interface for Silverlight, with a look at command event bindings

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Software

• NHModeller – An tool created using an Oslo based DSL which aims to make working with NHibernate easier, allowing you to define your entities inthe DSL and have your classes, mapping files and database schema created for you. The DLS includes intellisense when used within Intellipad

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• 10 commandments for creating good code – Alberto Gutierrez offers his suggestions for 10 commandments for creating good code – these are mostly the conventional wisdoms, but often worth reminding ourselves (and others) of the importance of some of these rules
• Using NUnit to check your IoC container is set up right – Richard Dingwall shows a technique which will allow you to write a test to verify that your IoC Container configuration contains implementations for all your interfaces
• Using Request inside Actions: why it is a bad idea – Simone Chiaretta talks about the importance of not having direct dependencies on the environment inside your controller actions (and any where else for that matter)
• June 7th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio – Scott Guthrie provides another of his Link Round ups of a number of interesting things going on in the Microsoft web technolgoies space
• W is for… WeakReference – Jim O’Neil’s alphabet reaches W and takes a look at the Weak Reference, which provides a means to hold onto a reference to an object while still making that object available to the garbage collector to be collected
• In-Process Side by Side Part 2 – Common in-proc SxS scenarios – Luiz Fernando Santos continues looking at the In Process Side by Side functionality of .NET 4.0 with a look at how it works in a number of different scenarios
• Multi-targeting of web projects using Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 – Bala Chirtsabesan looks at the changes and improvements to the multi targeting capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 when applied to web projects
• That old friend Binary Compatibility – and a FREE eBook on COM Interop – Eric Nelson shares a tip for anyone working with mixed VB 6 and .NET projects, along with the very useful information that the book COM and .NET Interoperability has been made available as an e-book over at serverside.net
• Free eBook on what’s new in SQL Server 2008 – Dave Oliver highlights a free e-book which covers the changes in SQL Server 2008
• NHibernate- Get Thou Out Of My Database – Ayende shares the code which he demoed at the recent NHibernate training from Skills Matter – we were talking at lunch about preventing people from working directly in the database, and this was one (slightly extreme) method which he showed was possible
• MSDN Updates – and RFC for you – Scott Hanselman talks about some of the changes afoot at MSDN, with a look at some of the new features and some possible changes
• A T4 based approach to creating ASP.NET MVC strongly typed helpers – David Ebbo takes a look at using T4 Templates to build strongly typed helper methods for ASP.NET MVC. Its also worth checking out David’s previous posts to get some more context on what he is doing

Community

• Recording of Udi Dahan on SOA @ E-VAN 01 June 2009 – Jan Van Ryswyck provides a link the Udi Dahan’s session at the Europen Virtual Alt.Net meeting – I’m glad there was a records of this as I missed the actual event

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• Announcing Sync Framework 2.0 CTP2 – Nina Hu of the Microsoft Sync Framework Team announces the release of their second CTP of Version 2, with a number of new features, improving support for different editions of SQL Server, better conflict management, etc
• Download details: F# PowerPack for .NET 4.0 Beta1 – Microsoft Release the F# Powerpack for .NET 4.0 Beta 1, which contains a number of tools and libraries for F# developers, including charting and Math libraries, Lexers and Parser building tools, a bridge to LINQ, and a whole bunch more.
• bistro f# extensions go beta! and move to codeplex – Alex P announces the release of a beta of BistroFs, an add-in for Bistro MVC which allows you rto build applications and services using F#

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• Introduction to NHibernate, pt. 7 – Ian Cooper resumes his series on NHibernate with a look at Active Record based on NHibernate, and how it relates to NHibernate in terms of mappings, session management and repositories
• Developing Cross Platform application with MonoDevelop – Miguel de Icaza gives an update on the progress being made with MonoDevelop, which now runs under Windows where it will use the .NET framework and the .NET managed debugger
• ASP.NET MVC Roadmap – Phil Haack and the ASP.NET MVC team outline their roadmap for the Version 2 release
• Git For Windows Developers – Git Series – Part 2 – Jason Meridth continues his series on Git with a look at all the Git commands and what they do, along with the account setup process for GitHub
• Why would someone put business logic in a stored procedure? – Tim Stall looks at some of the more legitimate reasons for pushing business logic down into the database, along with some of the other less legitimate reasons often given.
• From LINQ to XPath and Back Again – K. Scott Allen looks at using extension methods to regain some of the brevity and clarity of XPath while still using Linq when working with XML documents
• Agile acceptance testing tools roundup videos – Gojko Adzic provides video links to the sessions on Agile Acceptance Testing held at SkillsMater last week.
• List of Microsoft training kits – Gunnar Peipman collects together links to all the current Microsoft Training Kits
• Retrying Operations – Tony Rasa investigates a reusable way of performing operations which you expect may fail and require retrying
• Writing Clean Code is a Process – Brendan Enrick talks about the process behind creating clean code. I especially like the ‘Boy Scout rule’, and think that, within reason, all developers should aim to achieve this by leaving the code they do work on in a better state than it was when they started

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