The Morning Brew

Software

• NCover v3.2 Released! – The NCover team announce the release of NCover 3.2 now with .NET 4.0 support along with a feature which allows you to ignore any assemblies which don’t have PDB files (allowing you to focus on just your code). There are also bugfixes and improvements to the NCover Explorer
• Announcing a new product line – Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC – Telerik announce the release of their first Open Source product, released under the MS-PL license, which offers a number of ASP.NET MVC enhancements, and UI controls working with JQuery and JQuery UI
• ASP.NET MVC: DevExpress Mail Demo – Not to be left out, DevExpress Evangelist Mehul Harry announces official support for ASP.NET MVC byt the DevExpress ASP.NET Controls, and shares a sample application based on these controls running in ASP.NET MVC

Information

• First Class Composable Events in F# – Matthew Podwysocki begins a new series of posts looking at event processing in F#, and this first post explores the concept of first class events in F# and looks at how these are able to be composed together
• Invoking Python Functions from C# (Without Dynamic) – Harry Pierson continues his series of posts on combining C# and IronPython code with a look at actually making the call to the IronPython functions from C#
• Command Query Separation? – Greg Young sets about demystifying Command Query Separation, looking at the two slightly different definitions for the same name
• Why can’t I pass a reference to a derived class to a function that takes a reference to a base class by reference? – Raymond Chen looks at the reasons behind some seemingly strange behaviour with References in .NET
• Did you know? – SQL 2008 Management Studio shows missing indexes for a query in human readable format? – Balmukund Lakhani shares a useful tip for anyone developing SQL queries against a SQL Server 2008 database which allows you to have the database engine recommend indexes for the statement
• Mobile DB Performance Testing – Chris Brandsma looks at the performance of four of the most common embedded database engines performing common operations such as creating tables, inserting, updating, selecting, iterating and joining.
• Unit Testing and NHibernate – Quick Start – Sebastian shares a pre-setup project for unit testing with NHibernate and SqlLite

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