August 2009
Monthly Archive
The Morning Brew #419
Posted by Chris Alcock on 25 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- How about a StoryTeller Preview Release! – Jeremy D. Miller introduces his StoryTeller project and announces a preview release. The post also gives some background to the use of the StoryTeller tool for creating executable requirements tests for .NET development
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- Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Out Of The Box CRUD Functionality – Davy Brion continues his series of posts looking at building a Data Access Layer which aims to give a view on what ORM software does. In this part Davy focuses on the basic Create Read Update Delete functions.
- A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: Mapping – Ayende is running a complementary series to Davy’s following the themes of each post with some additional and NHibernate specific notes. This post matches with Davy’s post from yesterday, and A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: CRUD – follows on from today’s edition
- Itterator Blocks Part Seven: Why no anonymous iterators? – Eric Lippert continues looking at iterators with an elaboration based on a comment submitted to part 5 of this series. This part looks at why you can’t have anonymous iterator blocks
- Writing Great Unit Tests: Best and Worst Practises – Steve Sanderson looks at the spectrum of test ranging from true integration tests through to true unit tests, highlighting that the area in the middle is the bad place for tests to be, and looking at some things you can do to improve your unit tests
- Browse NHibernate metadata to validate property Length – Alkampfer shares a chunk of code that reads the NHibernate mapping metadata and creates validation rules to verify the length of properties using a validation framework
- Building a StackOverflow inspired Knowledge Exchange – Build automation with NAnt – Andrew Siemer runs through the implementation of a build script using NAnt, integrating tools like NUnit to run tests as part of the build along the way.
- Building .NET coverage tool – Sergiy Sakharov talks about the building of a NCover like code coverage tool which allows you to view the amount of code which has been run using the .NET Profiling API and parsing the PDB files
- Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 24: Stored Procedures – Brad Abrams continues his huge series of posts looking loosely at Silverlight 3 and the RIA services with a look today at encapsulating his data access in stored procedures and integrating those stored procedures with the entity framework
- Refactoring Day 24 : Remove Arrowhead Antipattern – Sean Chambers’ refactoring series takes a look at reducing cyclomatic complexity by removing the arrow head of nested ‘if’s and loops showing one such example refactoring
Community
- LIDNUG: Free Online Virtual Chat with Me Tuesday Morning – ScottGu will be the ‘speaker’ at this weeks Linked In .NET User Group event to be held this evening for us in the UK (morning for those in the US). By my calculations this will be a 5pm start in the UK and promises to be an interesting event
- One Free Ticket to my UK TDD Master class – Roy Osherove highlights a competition to win a place on his TDD Master class training session. All you have to do to enter is post a specific paragraph of text on your blog before 1st September
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The Morning Brew #418
Posted by Chris Alcock on 24 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, 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
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- 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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The Morning Brew #417
Posted by Chris Alcock on 21 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
Software
- ANN: ELMAH 1.1 released – ELMAH (Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET) has reached its v1.1 RTM release with a number of changes to its email functionality and additional rules based filtering support along with a few bugfixes.
- HawkCodeBox – Harry Pierson shares a syntax highlighting text box implementation in WPF utilising the DLR TokenCategorizer to tokenize the code to highlight
Information
- Open-generic support in MEF Contrib – Glenn Block talks about the implementation of Open Generic support in MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) which he has added to MEFContrib with the help of a number of his colleagues. This new functionality allows imports of specific instances of a generic type to be used without having to declare them individually.
- A total n00b’s guide to migrating from a custom data layer to NHibernate: so many choices – Bertrand Le Roy continues his series on migrating to NHibernate from Custom data access with a look at the key decisions you need to make, ranging from objects or database first to making a decision about the querying style to use.
- Using NHibernate Validator 1.0 with NHibernate 2.1 – Ricardo Peres shows how you can get NHibernate Validator 1.0 working with the latest NHibernate 2.1 without needing to recompile it (or wait for the official release) by using assembly redirection
- Internet Explorer Cookie Internals (FAQ) – Eric Law answers a number of common questions about cookies within Internet Explorer
- Coding: Unused code – Mark Needham talks about the dilemma of what to do with code that is no longer needed, be it replaced or an abandoned partially implemented feature.
- Anonymous Types: An Introduction – Deborah Kurata has a number of interesting posts on anonymous types, one of the .NET 3.5 features I have to admit I’ve yet to make much use of. This post is an introduction, but check the posts surrounding this one for more uses of anonymous types
- Wiring Up Generics In Castle Windsor – John Teague looks at how you have to manually configure the specific typed version of generic types when working in Castle Windsor.
- ASP.NET MVC, TDD and Fluent Validation – Richard Dingwall looks at using FluentValidation to provide validation processing in an ASP.NET MVC application, and looks at testing the rules along with testing the actual implementation.
- UppercuT – Mark an Application Executable to Use More Than 2GB of Memory (Large Address Aware) – Rob Reynolds looks at how you can get UppercuT to mark an assembly as Large Address , but there is also some information and links about doing this manually which is generaly useful information
- Introducing LazyLinq: Queryability – Keith Dahlby looks at implmenting the standard query operators in his LazyLinq implementation
- T4 Tutorial: Generating Code from DSL Models – Oleg Sych shares a nice tutorial on getting started with T4 code generation from a Domain Specific Language definition in Visual Studio
- F# for Architects: Hitting the sweet spot – Chris Smith shares the annotated slides from his F# for architects talk from DevLink looking at why F# is useful and where it can fit into the overall architecture.
Community
- Win a free registration and Hotel for SQLBits V – Simon Sabin announces a competition involving the mugs from SQLBits IV (or a home made equivalent) to win a free pass to the pay-for part of SQLBits V along with Hotel accommodation
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