The Morning Brew

Software

• OpenRasta 2.0 beta 2 is out – Seb Lambla announces the second beta release of OpenRasta 2.0, his resource oriented framework for building MVC applications and REST web services on ASP.NET 2 and beyond

Information

• How Many Secrets do .NET PDB Files Really Contain? – John Robbins talks about the PDB files that accompany out builds looking at what information they contain and how having them on the machine your code runs on can really make identifying problems easier.
• NHibernate Perf Tricks – Ayende provides a great rundown showing the differences in performance that can be achieved for the same operation in NHibernate if you are slightly intelligent about the way you interact with NHibernate, showing that the performance can range from not great to really good with just a few simple changes.
• Build Your Own Data Access Layer Series – Davy Brion starts a series of posts looking at building a Data Acess Layer giving an insight into the types of things that ORM products do for you. The first part of which
• Mapping Classes To Tables – talks about building up some tools to deal with the mapping of classes to the underlying tables of data.
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 23: Azure – Brad Abrams continues on with his series looking at Silverlight 3 and the Rich Internet Application Services with a look at moving the application and data onto the Windows Azure platform
• Refactoring Day 23 : Introduce Parameter Object – Sean Chambers’ series on Refactorings hits number 23 and one of my favourite refactorings. I really hate methods with more than a handful of parameters, much preferring to have a nice parameter object.
• MvcContrib source code has moved to GitHub – Eric Hexter shares the news that the MvcContrib project has moved to now be hosted on GitHub, and also highlights a superb tutorial from Jeremy Skinner showing how to get started with Git and GitHub
• Peeking under the hood : what bits have changed in SQL Server 2008 R2? – Aaron Bertrand highlights some of the significant changes to SQL Server 2008 between the RTM and R2 releases
• F# First Class Events – Creating and Disposing Handlers – Matthew Podwysocki continues his series on Events with a look at how the Dispose pattern can provide a means of subscribing and unsubscribing from events.
• ASP.NET MVC Chained Controller Factory – Maarten Balliauw shares a technique for allowing you to have multiple Controller Factories in ASP.NET MVC by having a master Controller factory which chains other controller factory instances together

Community

• Live Meeting with Phil Haack- MVC 2 – 08/26/2009 9am PST – 10 am PST ( 12pm-1pm EST) – Eric Hexter shares the news that Phil Haack will be speaking in a Live Meeting on Advanced ASP.NET MVC which will cover the new features of the ASP.NET MVC 2 CTP

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