The Morning Brew #409

Software

• SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP Available Today – The SQL Team announce the availability of the SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP now available to Technet and MSDN subscribers, with general availability from Wednesday
• StyleCop update 4.3.2.1 is released – An updated release of StyleCop the Source Code Style and Consistency tool from Microsoft is now available which addresses a number of bugs, and a new feature which allows you to insert attributes to suppress rules in your source like FxCop.

Information

• Precedence vs order, redux – Eric Lippert looks at the relationship (or lack there of) of operator precedence and the order of operations dispelling some myths along the way
• Debugging, Profiling and Analyzing Parallel Applications – Soma Segar looks at some of the new features for debugging and profiling parallel applications in Visual Studio 2010
• Building a Hybrid C# / IronPython App Without Dynamic Type – Harry Pierson talks about how you can build applications across C# and IronPython at the moment even though we don’t yet have the dynamic keyword in C#, and also talks about Compiling Python Packages into Assemblies using the CLR CompileModules fuction and some custom script
• Improved type safety when dealing with generic types, generic methods and reflection – Daniel Cazzulino shares a neat strongly typed reflection technique which will work in .NET 2
• NerdDinner with Fluent NHibernate Part 1 – The domain model – ‘Bengtbe’ sets out to fit NHibernate and FluentNHibernate into the Nerd Dinner ASP.NET MVC sample application to replace the Linq to SQL implementation there. First of a three part series.
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 21: Hierarchical Data – Brad Abrams continues his monster series looking at Silverlight and the Rich Internet Applications Services with part 21 looking at how the RIA services allow you to work with hierarchal data, and along the way looks at computed properties
• Expression Trees, Take Two – Introducing System.Linq.Expressions v4.0 – Bart De Smet takes an indepth look at Expression Trees in .NET 4.0, looking at examining expression trees when compiled using the SOS debugger extension.
• Why doesn’t String.Format throw a FormatException if you pass too many parameters? – Raymond Chen turns his attention to the CLR for this week, and talks in this first post of the week about why it is that String.Format throws exceptions if you give it too few parameters, but not if you give too many.
• Refactoring Day 10 : Extract Method – Sean Chambers month of refactoring posts takes a look at the extract method refactoring.
• Implementing A Multi-Tenant ASP.NET MVC Application with S#arp Architecture – Bobby Johnson talks about how he sought advice on creating a multi tenancy application using S#arp architecture, and outlines the solution.