Software
- Final version of WiX v3.0 now available for download – Aaron Stebner announces the release of the production build of WiX 3.0, the Windows Installer Xml Toolset which enables you to make MSI Installers using XML source
- Json.NET 3.5 Beta 4 – JsonSerializer Improvements Part Deux – James Newton-King announces the release of the 4th Beta of his .NET JSON Serializer bringing in reference tracking support, amongst a number of other new features and fixes
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- From Microsoft: C# and CLI under the Community Promise – Miguel de Icaza shares some important and significant news on the licensing of the ECMA specifications for C# and the CLI
- AutoMapper in NerdDinner – Matt Hinze looks at applying AutoMapper to mapping between the Domain Model and the View Model in the ASP.NET MVC NerdDinner Sample application
- Upgrading from "Weigelt" GhostDoc to "SubMain" GhostDoc – Roland Weigelt shares some important information for anyone thinking of upgrading GhostDoc to the new SubMain owned version. If you are going to do this and value your Visual Studio settings check this post out.
- By Design bugs – Sean Hederman talks about an issue he found when comparing XML Documents, and how XNodeEqualityComparer conforms to what most people expect is the specification for XML and not what it actually is
- Service Architecture Using Spring.NET – Adam McKee takes a look at creating web serivices using REST Principles and the Spring.NET Dependency Injection framework
- Domain Driven Design: Anti Corruption Layer – Mark Needham explores the place of the Anti Corruption layer in Domain Driven Design
- Join the CLUB (Coding Like Uncle Bob) – Jurgen Appelo suggests an approach to solving the problem of low quality code production by reading Clean Code and then converting other developers to those principles
- Refactoring challenge – Jimmy Bogard turns to the community for some help refactoring a relatively short but complex method from AutoMapper
- Refactor ForEach to Join – Chris Eargle looks at how you can tidy up code to create CSV data from IEnumerable sources by some use arrays and of lambda expressions
- Improving the AJAX Control Toolkit with the Lightweight Test Automation Framework (LTAF) – Stephen Walther looks at the Lightweight Test Automation Framework for testing the AJAX control tool kit, and along the way providing a useful getting started guide
- Looking Inside Windows Azure! – David Lemphers shares a technique which allows you to peer inside the Windows Azure hosting environment
- Color Color – Eric Lippert delves into some more obscure areas of the C# compiler, starting with an example to make you think.