The Morning Brew #390

Information

• Confirming Commercial Availability and Announcing Business Model – The Windows Azure Team announce the pricing model and Commercial Availability of the Windows Azure Platform with discounts available to partners and MSDN Premium subscribers to receive access to development and testing environments
• The Law of Demeter Is Not A Dot Counting Exercise – Phil Haack digs into the Law of Demeter, looking at what its definition is, and how that law should be applied, calling on a great many posts by others on the subject to re-enforce his point.
• "Geneva" Single Sign On Gets New Names – Bruce Kyle highlights the new names for the various parts of the Microsoft Geneva Identity Framework
• Take the .Net 4 Beta1 survey – The CLR Team are running a survey of developers opinions on the CLR4 in .NET 4 Beta 1, looking to gain insight into satisfaction with the new CLR, and how easy upgrading and creating applications is proving to be
• F#: A day writing a Feedburner graph creator – Mark Needham has been experimenting with using F# to analyse his Feed Burner statistics, and along the way has looked in to Wrapping .NET library calls to make functional composition easier.
• .NET 2.0+ ActiveX Controls Part 2 – Controlling Internet Explorer via IWebBrowser – Rick Minerich picks up his series on .NET 2 and ActiveX controls with a look at using COM interop to gain control of Internet Explorer
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 4: SEO, Export to Excel and Out of Browser – Brad Abrams continues his series updating is Mix09 sample application to Silverlight 3 with a look at the Search Engine Optimisations using Sitemaps and URL links, and looks at creating Export files for use in Excel along with the Silverlight 3 out of browser support
• Bling: a WPF Framework/Declarative Strongly-Typed DSL for Quick Expressive C# WPF Apps – Kirill Osenkov highlights Bling, an open source project from Sean McDirmid of Microsoft Research, which is a C# library which allows you to easily work with images, animations, interactions and visualisations in WPF
• More On SubSonic’s Simple Repository – Rob Conery provides a short screen cast on the SimpleRepository which is included in SubSonic 3
• Just say no to ‘Poor Man’s Dependency Injection’. – Chad Myers weighs in on the use of Dependency injection in sample applications such as NerdDinner with this post recalling a mailing list post on the subject, and in The usual result of Poor Man’s Dependency Injection looks at the effects down the line of taking the poor mans approach to Dependency injection and the decisions you end up having to make. Finally Jimmy Bogard shares his views on when dependency injection is appropriate in his post When is Poor Man’s Dependency Injection appropriate? –
• Lessons Learned: A Grand Post-Mortem – Billy McCafferty shares a very interesting set of real world views on a number of topics relating to development methodology
• LINQ to SQL and Transactions – Rick Strahl takes a look at using transactions in your Linq to Sql code by way of the TransactionScope and the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator

Community

• SQLBits goes West – Martin Bell announces the next and bigest event in the SQLBits conference programme, to be held 19th – 21st November in Newport, Wales, The Thursday and Friday will be pay for days, with the Saturday being the standard free conference
• Online Book Club – Time to vote – Europe Virtual ALT.NET folks are looking to start a virtual online book club, and are looking for a decision from the community as to which book to start with