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• 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.

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• SubSonic 3.0 is Released – Rob Conery announces the release of SubSonic 3.0, a mature ORM project, which with this new release brings in a number of great features such as Linq Support, templating, a simple respository implementation, and plenty of new documentation
• WSCF blue: Beta-1 – Santosh Benjamin announces the first Beta release of WSCF-Blue, a WCF version of the well known WSCF (Web Services Contract First) tool, enabling you to more easily create WCF web services from WSDL/XSD
• DinnerNow.net 3.0 for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is here! – Habib Heydarian announces the release of the DinnerNow.net 3.0 SampleApplication, updated for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1, including some code clean up, a number of bugfixes, and some updates for support of latest updates

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• Why Do We Keep Building Tightly Coupled Software? – Justin Etheredge looks into why we are still building software in a tightly coupled fashion, looking at the different viewpoints which contribute to this.
• WPF Multithreading: Using the BackgroundWorker and Reporting the Progress to the UI. – Brian Lagunas looks at how you can use the Background worker to run long running tasks and have your WPF based user interface updated with progress
• Evil code of the day – Jon Skeet looks at and interesting ‘feature’ of the C# 4 language and named parameters in derived classes. Take a close look at the code, it took me a moment to see what was going on
• Lessons in Software from James Waletzky – James Waletzky shares 10 lessons about building software he has learnt over his years as a developer
• Porting DinnerNow.NET to Azure – Vishwas Lele talks about his experience of porting a part of the DinnerNow sample application to run on the Windows Azure platform
• PhyreSharp runs on the PS3 – Mono really is getting everywhere, as Miguel de Icaza briefly shares the news that the Mono bindings to the Sony PhyreEngine game engine have now run successfully for the first time
• How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner – Jimmy Bogard discovers a common Dependency injection anti pattern in the NerdDinner sample application, and set about showing how it can be fixed
• Protecting Your Application From Remote Problems – Davy Brion talks about the importance of insulating your applications from problems in the remote systems they call, and looks at the concept of the Circuit Breaker.
• Testable software is good software – video is online – Gojko Adzic shares the video footage taken at the Agile Testing Event held at SkillsMatter of Dave Evans and Mike Scott talking on Testable Software. Gojko also shares the video of his talk ‘DDD in a distributed world‘ from the DDD Exchange 09 event
• Screenshot in 2 Clicks using .NET – Shoban Kumar shows how you can easily take screen shots in your windows based applications

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• IronRuby 0.6 Released! – Jimmy Schementi announces the release of IronRuby 0.6, which brings further improvements to performance and Ruby compatibility, along with a bunch of new features and a return for Silverlight support
• Sandcastle Release – The SandCastle team announce the latest code release, releasing the source for the version of the SandCastle Documentation Generation tool that was used to build the VS2010 documentation

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• Pretty Code #1 – Building SelectListItems – K. Scott Allen launches a code beauty contest, this time looking at the most ‘pretty’ way of translating from a list of product objects into a list of SelectListItems
• Changing Windows Service Runtime Behavior with Typemock Isolator – Travis Illig talks about a rather unorthadox use of TypeMock’s Isolator product, which is typically employed as a mocking framework, but in this case is being used to change the internal behaviour of a windows service.
• HandleUnknownAction in ASP.NET MVC – Be Careful – David Hayden highlights some additional factors which might result in an action call being deemed to be an Unknown Action in ASP.NET MVC, which you may want to take into account in your HandleUnknownAction implementation
• Samples for the Undo Framework – Kirill Osenkov shares some samples for his recently released Undo/Redo framework providing a minimal implementation and a WinForms example
• Data Access Guidance Drops available – Michael Puleio announces the second public release of the Data Access Guidance from Patterns and Practices that he has been working on.
• Preventing SQL Injection Attacks with Visual Studio Team System 2010 – Habib Heydarian talks about how the Code Analysis features of Visual Studio 2010 help identify possible SQL Injection attacks in your code.
• Not blocking the UI in tight JavaScript loops – Stuart Langridge looks at a few techniques you can use to avoid locking up your users browser when your JavaScript is performing looping operations
• Firebug Network Monitoring Quick Reference Guide – Renso Hollhumer has a couple of posts on FireBug, the FireFox JavaScript (and more) debugger. This post looks in detail at the Network Monitoring aspects of Firebug, and be sure to check out his other post ‘Firebug Console Quick Reference Guide‘ for a reference of how to work with the console in FireBug
• Fluent NHibernate and Linq2NHibernate – Demo Project. – ’emiaj’ shares a simple but complete sample to illustrate the concepts of using FluentNHibernate to easily map a domain to the database using NHibernate, and also looks at using Linq to query the model

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• Looking For A Mental Challenge? Here It Is. – Jeff Blankenburg announces ‘The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever’, a 30 level puzzle aimed at software developers, geeks and nerds, and the perfect thing to while a way a few minutes on a Friday afternoon!

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