The Morning Brew

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• MEFUnit – Prototype of a MEF Unit Testing Framework – Ben Hall explores using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to identify extension points, and construct a Unit Testing Framework from this extensibility
• Are Master Pages too complex? – Bertrand Le Roy explores MasterPages, giving an introduction to their use, along with looking at a number of the places where they can be confusing
• Pushing the Limits of Windows: Processes and Threads – Mark Russinovich continues his series of posts on the boundaries of Windows, with a look at what happens when you create too many threads, and how that translates into limits on how many processes you can have
• Domain driven reports: adding custom code – Peter Van Ooijen continues his series of posts on building reports from your domain model, looking at some framework to allow you to run reports in both Winforms and WebForms applications
• Preventing Cross-Site Scripting attacks using Microsoft Anti-XSS Security Runtime Engine! – Syed Aslam Basha takes a look at how the Anti=XSS Security Runtime Engine HTTP Module allows you to defend your application from cross site scripting vulnerabilities
• Santa checked his list, do you? – Wayne Wilkerson explores casting larger data types into smaller data types, and some of the compiler features which will warn you about possible overflows
• WebForms And MVC In Harmony – Almost… – ‘webdev_hb’ looks at a couple of different technique for rendering tags and web forms controls in ASP.NET MVC
• Deployment and Updates of Desktop Applications: WiX, ClickOnce and Other Scenario – Rinat Abdullin looks at some of the options available for the quick and easy deployment of desktop applications which are simple enough to fit into the shorter development cycles promoted by agile methodologies

Community

• The Europe Virtual ALT.NET Blog – Jan Van Ryswyck highlights the new European Virtual Alt.Net events blog and twitter, which will be the official home of the European VAN announcements.
• LIDNUG: Advanced developer features in Visual Studio 2010 – ‘AngelaB’ highlights the Linked In .NET Usergroup event for July 26th where Daryush Laqab and Andrew Hall will talks about some of the more advanced features in Visual Studio 2010. This is a virtual (and free) event, and is also timed nicely for viewers in the UK

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