The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing PostSharp 1.5 RC2 – The PostSharp Team announce the second release candidate release of V1.5, with 10 minor fixes ovoer the previous version, of which they consider two require testing by the community before 1.5 can be called stable

Information

• Three IIS Concepts ASP.NET Developers Should Know – K. Scott Allen highlights a video he produced for Pluralsight which aims to teach the basics of IIS websites, Virtual Directories and applications. If you are an ASP.NET Dev you owe it to yourself to know this stuff
• From NUnit to MSTest – Patrick Weibel looks at the differences between these two testing frameworks as a part of the process of moving from NUnit to MSTest
• WPF Localization Guidance Paper Posted on CodePlex – Rick Strahl announces the publication of his guidance paper on performing Localisation in WPF Applications, looking at the various different ways of achieving localisation using LocBaml and Resx resources along with some custom implementations
• The Videos for NDC 2009 are online – Jeremy D. Miller highlights the availability of the videos of sessions from the recent Norwegian Developers Conference which seems to have attracted a large number of well known speakers, so it’ll be good to watch a few sessions from it after the event.
• Reporting against a domain model – Peter van Ooijen looks at creating reports using his NHibernate backed Domain Model and the client side reporting capabilities introduced in VS2005
• Acceptance Test Engineering Guide Beta 2 Now Available – J.D. Meier announces the second beta release of the Patterns and Practices team’s Guide to Acceptance Test Engineering, a document which over 19 chapters goes through all the planning, creating, measuring and refining of an acceptance test process
• 7 July release of the new .NET Services CTP – Philippe Destoop shares some information on the forthcoming .NET Services CTP release, which includes a temporary removal of workflow services
• Small Basic : Sample of the week: Gorillas – Its great to see Small Basic recapturing (and in this case reimplementing) some of the fun that programming was back in the 8bit and Qbasic era. I was only recently talking with a number of friends about Gorillas and nibbles and the fun that could be had hacking on the source, so its good to have a modern rebuild for the next generation
• Save Some Time With The Right Testrunner – Davy Brion highlights the significant difference in test running speed between different test runners, one of the reasons why I use the NUnit runner for full test runs and the ReSharper runner for individual tests and debugging tests
• ASP.NET WebForms: Taking Back the HTML – Dave Reed takes a look at a technique you can use to get more control over the HTML created by your web forms controls

Community

• Win $10,000 in Silverlight Coding Competition – DevTopics highlights this year’s Summer Silverlight Coding Competition which is being hosted by ComponentArt, but you’ll have to get busy quickly as community voting starts on 7th July
• Win a free PDC 2009 scholarship and more by playing with your favorite .NET controls! – Telerik are running a competition for users of their .NET Controls where you can win one of two expenses paid trips to PDC 2009, along with a number of other prizes

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Impressive thunderstorms here in Liverpool last night, unfortunately it still feels like today is going to be another warm and humid day.

Software

• Firefox 3.5: The fastest fox has landed – Ajaxian highlights the release of FireFox 3.5, a significant upgrade to the FireFox Web Browser, brining with it a number of exciting (for web developers) features including Open Video Support, GeoLocation APIs, Native JSON, etc
• Updated TDD Productivity Plug-in for Resharper – Eric Hexter announces an update to his Resharper based plugin which brings a number of useful features into the IDE for performing Test Driven Development

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• Some Cool Mono Announcements – Miguel de Icaza shares some more exciting news from the Mono Project, with their latest release including the Open Source Microsoft ASP.NET MVC platform integrated, along with a huge number of other announcements. Also interesting is the MonoSpace Conference a recently announced 3 day event to be held in Austin Texas in October.
• What is Unit Testing? – Justin Etheredge talks about the actual definition of a Unit test, and how it differs from many of the other types of test, and urges you to give writing proper unit tests a try on your next project
• One Public Type Per File – Chris Eargle urges us to remember one of the rules layed out in the Framework Design Guidelines book by Krysztof Kwalina and Brad Abrahams of only having one public type per code file. I have to confess that not following this rule is one of my biggest annoyances when exploring other peoples projects
• 20 Most Interesting Silverlight Tutorials – AjaxLine pulls together links to 20 varied Silverlight tutorials, ranging from line of business style applications right through to a tetris clone
• 23 features of an enterprise data access layer – Tim Stall looks at the kind of features that you need in an Enterprise Data Access layer, breaking them into must have, good to have, and Wow levels
• Running development from a RAM disk – options and products – Jeffrey Palermo continues his discussions of working from a RAM disk for performance in testing and running the test database, looking at how this can be achieved
• The Four Pillars of Maintainable Software – ‘rsriley’ addresses the 4 key pillars of development, in this Code Project article

Community

• Want to see ScottGu talk ASP.NET MVC? [UK] – Mike Ormond highlights two events this week that ScottGu (yes, the real ScottGu) is talking at in the south of the UK. The first is tomorrow on Silverlight at the London.NET User group, and the second on ASP.NET MVC is Friday afternoon at Microsoft’s Reading offices
• Alt.NET Bristol Beers #1 – Guy Smith-Ferrier shares the announcement of the first Alt.NET Beers event to be held in Bristol, UK. The First event is on Tuesday 21st July, starting at 6pm

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