The Morning Brew

Software

• WikiPlex v1.1 Released – WikiPlex, the wiki engine which is used on CodePlex gets a new release, bringing in Mono Compatibility, internal changes to the syndication feeds, ands some changes to the macro parsing.
• Continuous Testing In .NET – Tim Ross introduces his project AutoBuild which monitors a source directory, and runs a NAnt build script when ever a file changes, allowing you to run your unit tests with every save of a file, thus enabling the idea of Continuous Testing

Information

• Improvements to the Generated SQL in .NET 4.0 Beta1 – Kati Iceva of the Entity Framework Team shares some of the details of the way they have been improving the SQL generated by the Entity Framework, looking at before and after queries showing the improvement.
• Late-Bound Invocations with DynamicMethod – Jimmy Bogard talks about the use of light weight code generation using the DynamicMethod approach which he utilised in his recent improvements to AutoMapper
• Glass Effect Extender Library for your Applications. – Raghed Al-Tayeb explores how you can obtain the Glass UI effect in your applications by using a simple library to handle the underlying API calls
• New .NET Attributes – Morgan Skinner gives a simple example explaining the two new .NET 4 attributes for optional parameters and default values
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 19: ASP.NET Dynamic Data – Brad Abrams continues with his Mix 09 Business Application Demo update, with a look at creating an admin back end for the site using the ASP.NET Dynamic Data functionality
• Testing Tool Tour : QuickNet Preview – ‘kilfour’ shares a preview of a poor mans C# version of QuickCheck, the functional property based testing tool, illustrating an example of it in use against that of more traditional unit testing.
• Community Convergence LII – Charlie Calvert links to a number of great C# related articles, a few of which I’ve already linked to, but there are a good number of new ones worth checking out.

Community

• AltNetBeers #13 – StackOverflow edition – Seb Lambla announces the plans for the 13th AltNet Beers event which will be being held in the evening of 28th October, to coincide with the StackOverflow Conference in London.
• NRWConf.de/09 – The largest German Community Conference is scheduled to take place on 28th August in Wuppertal, Germany, and will consist of 4 tracks spread over 11 hours. The site and conference are to be held in German, and from my limited German comprehension skills it looks like there is a 15 Euro cost to cover hospitality, but other than that the conference is free – but please correct me if this is wrong.

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