I had an absolutely fantastic time at the Alt.Net UK Conference this weekend, lots of interesting discussions and some great new people met, thanks to everyone involved in the organisation, and to all the other attendees for bringing so much to the proceedings.
Software
- ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 Released – ScottGu anounces the release of ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Preview 1 with one of his traditional software release posts, going into all the details of the new bits. The good news about the release is taht V2 Preview 1 runs side by side with V1, so you can safely try it out.
- ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 Released – Phil Haack also announces the new release, along with thanking his team and providing some related links, including the source for the preview release on CodePlex.
Information
- Hanselminutes on 9 – ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 Released – Scott Hanselman shares a video he took last week while in Redmond talking with Phil Haack and taking a look at the new ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview Release
- Single Project Areas With ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 – Phil Haack talks about one of the new ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 1 features which allows you to break your ASP.NET MVC Project apart into separate areas as individual projects which can then be combined together.
- Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 16: Exposing a WCF Service – Brad Abrams completes his series of posts on Silverlight 3 and the Rich Internet Application Services with a look at exposing a WCF Service version of your RIA service, and provides a Summary of the series which lists the various features that he has looked at
- 31 Days of Refactoring – Sean Chambers declares August to be a month of Refactoring with a new series of posts looking individual refactorings each day. The first two days are Encapsulate Collection and Move Method
- Stable Composition in MEF Preview 6 – Glenn Block takes a look at a new feature of MEF Preview 6 which looks at what types are included in the catalog, and only supplies those that have all of their dependencies satisfied, and also prevents additional types which satisfy a particular dependency to be added
- Your domain model isn’t in the Entity Relationship Diagram – Ayende highlights an article by Udi Dahan and explains why he why he considers ERD diagrams to be a bad way of defining a domain as the focus on data not behavior and therefore tend towards delivering an anemic domain model
- Just Isolate It Already – Justin Etheredge talks about hiding code to improve the readability of methods by removing a lot of the noise associated with simple procedures such as sorting lists into separate methods, making the code more understandable after the face
- Common Intermediate Language and its role in .NET/Mono – Granville Barnett starts a 3 part series on the Common Intermediate Language (CIL), in this first part looking at what it is, how it is created and how it is structured.
- Fluent Domain Methods – Jan Van Ryswyck explores builiding domain objects with Fluent interfaces and takes a look at the structure of the fluent builder.
- Macto, Authorization decisions – Ayende continues his series on building a Macto, a Prison Management sample applicatio with a look at some of the decisions the be made about Authorisation
- The spirit of MVVM (ViewModel), it’s not a code counting exercise. – Glenn Block talks about the MVVM pattern, and argues that it shouldn’t be about having no code in the UI, but should be about having the right code in the UI
- C# method overload resolution can play tricks on you – David Ebbo talks about an interesting confusion he encountered while building the T4MVC Templates all to do with global scope, using statement location and overloads
Community
- Brighton ALT.NET Beers: Tuesday 4th August, 7pm at The Prince Albert – A quick reminder about the Alt.Net Brighton Beers event to be held tomorrow evening at The Prince Albert – I’m sure there will be plenty of good discussion following on from the UK Alt.Net Conference
- Alt.NET UK society announced – Gojko Adzic shares the news from the Alt.Net UK Conference of the foundation of the Alt.Net UK Society, a legal entity allowing the Alt.Net UK movement to be able to seek sponsorship and obtain better venues, along with providing members with pre-registration for conferences and the right to vote at the AGM.