Software
- It is done… S#arp Architecture 1.0 RTM – Billy McCafferty announces the RTM release of his S#arp Architecture 1.0 project which provides a solid foundation to build ASP.NET MVC & NHibernate powered applications
- Security Tools : Anti-XSS Library 3.0 RTM – Anil announces the release of the Anti-Cross Site Scriptiing library 3.0 RTM release, which is binary compatible with the previous releases, but brings a number of new features and supporting materials
- SubSonic 3.0.0.3 Is Released – Rob Conery makes another significant bug fix release to SubSonic 3, and also outlines his plan for how development will continue on the V3 releases
- Pex v0.15.40714.1: Better performance, less Bugs… – Jonathan "Peli" de Halleux announces an updated release of the PEX testing platform. This update is a performance and bugfix release, with no new features included
Information
- Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Introduction – Derick Bailey starts a new series on Source Control, specifically looking at the idea of having a branch of source code for every feature being created. In Part 1: Why he looks at traditional approach, and the many down sides of working this way, and looks at how Branch Per Feature addresses those problems
- Beautiful Windows 7 Reference App – Kate Gregory highlights a Photo Viewer application which exploits the concept of XP2Win7 which allows you to have an application ‘light up’ in Windows 7 and utilise the new features of the OS
- The Anemic Domain Model Pattern – Greg Young explores the cases where the Anemic Domain Model is not an anti-pattern, defining 5 points to consider whose answers may point to the anemic domain being good for the problem you are solving
- Having Fun with the New Editor in VS 2010 – Kirill Osenkov plays with the possibilities what the new WPF editor in Visual Studio 2010 brings, along with highlighting a number of excellent resources about the new editor.
- MOQ Mothers – David Starr talks about using ObjectMother to create test instances of his entities using Moq Stubs, to make it easy to create valid and invalid entities for testing purposes
- Resource Files and ASP.NET MVC Projects – K. Scott Allen looks at some of the sticking points with localization and internationalization in ASP.NET MVC applications
- An Overview of Partial Classes and Partial Methods – Scott Mitchell gives an overview of the Partial Classes and Partial Methods functionality introduced in the last two .NET releases
- Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 5: Astoria, Add Service Reference and WinForms – Brad Abrams continues his series updating his Mix09 sample application to Silverlight3. In this part Brad adds an ADO.NET Data Service, and hooks that into his Silverlight application, and goes on to share the same Application logic an use it in a WinForms app
- Storage Size And Performance Implications Of A GUID PK – Derick Bailey looks at the effects of choosing different size / Data types as a primary key on both the number of unique values and the size they occupy on disk
Community
- Code for Windows 7 contest… – Mithun Dhar highlights a Windows7 based programming competition which could net you a free trip to PDC, a pile of cash and the opportunity to present at PDC
- What’s New in CLR v4 (.NET Framework 4) from the CLR Team – Ramaraju P highlights a live meeting presentation from the .NET 4 CLR team, looking at Garbage Collection, NGEN and Performance. This event is to be held this Friday (17th) at 10AM PST, so it is early evening for any UK / Europe based devs