The Morning Brew

Software

• Now available: Small Basic v0.6 – SmallBasic gets another update, taking the version number to 0.6, and adding in German localisation, along with some bugfixes and a number of new features ranging from updates to the manual on Arrays, through to methods to measure time.
• WPF Control Verifier v0.1 Released! – Ivo Manolov announces the release of the WPF Control Verifier 0.1, part of WPF team’s three prong efforts to improve WPF application quality. The WPF control Verifier is a toll to assess the correctness of controls in the form of a number of style tests
• Remember, tomorrow is the last day to download Windows 7 Release Candidate – The Microsoft SMB Community Blog reminds us that today is the last day to get hold of the Release Candidate of Windows 7

Information

• VB and C# enhancements in VS 2010 – Soma Segar talks about some of the key language enhancements in Visual studio 2010 / .NET 4 for both VB and C# Devs
• Adding Syntactic Sugar to the Spark View Engine – Karl Seguin takes a look at the Spark View Engine for using in ASP.NET MVC, from the point of view of a green fields project and previous experience with the WebForms view engine
• Free (reg-ware) SQL Server eBook – "SQL Server Tacklebox" from Red Gate – Greg Duncan highlights the availability of a new free e-book from Redgate which outlines DBA type tasks to help troubleshoot performance issues, ward off data corruption migrate data, etc. Registration is required to get the download.
• Simpler Transactions – Phil Haack looks at simplifying working with the .NET Transaction Scope using a couple of techniques to handle exceptions which should fail transactions
• Disclosing How C#-SQLite Was Ported to .NET – Abel Avram interviews Noah Hart for InfoQ discussing the approach taken to port SQLite to .NET
• Ruminations on Multi-Tenant Data Architectures – Scott Mitchell shares some of his experiences of creating and working with Multi-Tennancy applications of a number of different forms
• The first rule of exception handling: do not do exception handling. – Mike Hadlow talks about how you shouldn’t do exception handling at the micro level, allowing it to be a higher level concern, resulting in better application stability and user experience.
• ASP.NET MVC in Action: two free chapters and all source code online – Jeffrey Palermo’s book co-written with Ben Scheirman and Jimmy Bogard soon to be in print. You can get free copies of two chapters, and also get the (large amount of) sample code from the whole book now. Full E-book editions of the book are also available now.
• FluentMigrator Rising From The Ashes – Josh picks up the FluentMigrator database migrations project, and starts work on a fork to satisfy some more of his requirements. At the moment these changes are a fork, but Josh hopes that they ay make it back into the main project
• TDD: Asserting on test dependency code – Mark Needham talks about assertions on the setup work done for a test, and looks at why this is something of an anti-pattern and some ways to make it less necessary

Community

• Win ReSharper Personal Licenses in the Cool Snippets Code-Off competition! – Web 2.0 ASP.NET are running a competition where you stand a 1 in 100 chance of winning a personal license for ReSharper. To enter, you have to email a genius code snippet to them.

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