July 2009
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #393
Posted by Chris Alcock on 20 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- Welcome NHibernate 2.1.0 – The NHibernate Team announce the GA release of NHibernate 2.1 GA, along with the news that the NHibernate 2.1.x releases will be the last releases to target .NET 2.0
- IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module 2.0 beta released – Steve Schofield shares the news that the beta release of the IIS7 URL Rewrite Module 2.0 has been released by the IIS team. Available as a standalone install or through the Web Platform Installer this rules based rewriting engine allows you to customise URLs as well as modify the content of responses
- jQuery Ribbon RC 1 released! – Mikael Söderström announces the first official release of his JQuery Ribbon UI Control bringing the Ribbon UI into browser based applications
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- Two ways to use T4 templates: support code vs. one-time generation – David Ebbo looks at the two types of use of T4 Templates, exploring their use in one off code generation to build files you will keep and modify, and support code generation, where you generate code which you will consume, but not modify
- Demeter Helps You Fend Off the One True Constant: Change – John Teague examines one of the advantages of the Law of Demeter, the fact that you end up with less coupling of components, allowing you to respond to change more easily.
- .NET Binding Redirects – Updating Referenced Assemblies Without Recompiling Code – Rob Reynolds takes a look at assembly redirects, which allow you to replace assemblies with different versions using only configuration to make your application continue to function.
- Demystifying the ASP.NET MVC Project Type – Kevin Rohrbaugh digs into the internals of the ASP.NET MVC Visual Studio Project Type, looking at the References, conventions, and configuration
- F# – Succinct, Expressive, Efficient Functional Programming for .NET – InfoQ share video and slides of a talk from Don Syme, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, from QCon on the F# Language, providing an introduction to F# and functional programming along with a look at how functional programming is influencing programming in general
- Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 8: WCF Based Data Source – Brad Abrams continues his series of post on Silverlight 3 RTM and the .NET RIA services with a look at putting a WCF Service in between the database and the application. If you’ve been following this series closely you will notice that part 7 has been skipped, but Brad will be posting this part in due course
- Lessons in Software from Mike de Libero – Mike de Libero shares 10 important lessons in software development. A lot of them are the standard stuff, however some of these touch onto more than just the code and procedure
- StrictMock vs. DynamicMock: What are You Testing Here Anyway? – Jimmy Bosse talks about Pair Programming, and Test Driven Development, and in particular about the choice of Mock object used in tests and the decision about which type to use.
- NHibernate 2.1 and Collection Event Listeners – Jan Van Ryswyck looks at the newly released NHibernate 2.1 new feature of new event listeners for collections which allow you to implement things like one shot delete as shown in this post
- Extension methods – ForEach statement – Sujith K Jagini looks at the uses of extension methods in extending classes and interfaces with custom functionality in this introductory level post with a good worked example
- HTML5 Drag and Drop in deeetail – Ajaxian highlights the work by Les Orchard on the HTML 5 Drag and Drop functionality which can be used today in FireFox 3.5. Drag and drop has always been difficult to get to work in web applications, and from the shortness of the code involved this HTML 5 functionality looks really useful
Community
- Europe Virtual ALT.NET, July 20th – A reminder about the European Virtual Alt.Net event for this week – Ian Robinson and Jim Webber will be talking on REST, SOA and much more from 7pm (UK).
- Alt.NET Bristol Beers #1 – Another quick reminder about the first Alt.NET Bristol Beers event, to be held 6pm tomorrow night at the Portcullis, Clifton, Bristol BS8 4LE
- LIDNUG: Silverlight Ready for Business and .NET RIA Services Presentation – Brad Abrams will be talking on Silverlight for business applications, and the . NET Rich Internet Application Services ‘at’ the Virtual Linked In .NET User Group on 30th July. Sadly the 8pm PDT will make the talk too late for most folk in Europe, but if you are able to watch it should be an interesting one.
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The Morning Brew #392
Posted by Chris Alcock on 17 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- WikiPlex – An Embedded Wiki Engine – Matt Hawley announces the first public release of WikiPlex, the re-write of the original wiki used in CodePlex which is released under the MS-PL license
- Dryad/DryadLINQ and Project Trident Released – Matthew Podwysocki highlights two of the Microsoft Research software releases announced at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Project Trident to scientific workbench for processing scientific data using C# and workflows, and Dryad / DryadLINQ tools for running Linq queries across a large number of machines as Distributed data parallel computing
- Encrypt Your Web.config, Please – ‘Yet Another WebDev Blog’ shares a neat utility which makes it much easier to encrypt your web.config files
Information
- Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 6: Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) – Brad Abrams continues his series on rebuilding his Mix9 Silverlight Demo in Silverlight3, in this part responding to some reader feedback about passing Data Access Layer entities across to Silverlight, and replacing them with pure DTO entities
- Custom XML Serialization of a .NET class – Robert Bogue gives a very simple 5 point guide to implementing your own custom XML Serialisation.
- Google Talk (GTalk) Autoreply using .NET – Shoban Kuma looks at interfacing with the Google Talk Instant Messaging system using the agsXMPP .NET library to write a simple auto responder.
- How to: Use CAT.NET v1.1 as a Visual studio Add-In to identify security flaws within managed code – Syed Aslam Basha looks at how you can use the CAT.NET tool to analyse your code for security flaws, and also provides a code sample which contains lots of flaws which you can use to learn about the tool – also interesting to read the code and play spot the flaw manually
- TDD Anti-Patterns – I came across a couple of people linking to this article from 2006 by James Carr which lists a number of TDD related anti-patterns. Some of the names are rather light hearted, but the problems they describe are quite serious
- Mocking indexer getters with Moq – Bertrand Le Roy, in a follow up to a previously linked post, takes a look at mocking indexer based getters using the Moq mocking framework, which includes an important use of a Lambda to ensure you get the return you want from the mock.
- How to serve the same data in Json, Xml or Html with Asp.Net Mvc revised – Mark Jensen shares some code to allow you to easily return data in a number of different formats in ASP.NET MVC (rather like the way rails does). This code is destined for the mvccontrib project, so expect to see it used in lots of places.
Community
- Presentation Patterns for Virtual ALT.NET in August: You pick the topics – Jeremy D. Miller will be giving presentation on Presentation Patterns to the Virtual Alt.Net usergroup in early August and is looking for the community to shape the talk by suggesting the patterns they would like to hear about
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The Morning Brew #391
Posted by Chris Alcock on 16 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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
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