Fluent NHibernate 1.0 RTM – James Gregory announces the Version 1.0 RTM release of Fluent NHibernate, the easy way of creating your NHibernate mappings using a fluent interface and convention over configuration principles. This release has a number of changes (some significant) so check out the release notes before you try to use it.
CodeRush Xpress 9.2 Ships – Charlie Calvert announces the news that the free edition of CodeRush (CodeRush Xpress) 9.2 from DevExpress has shipped. This new release features better perforamnce, reduced memory consumption and support for pre-processor directives.
ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP2 – Now Available for Download – The ADO.NET Data Services Team announce the release of their second CTP release of ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 (Previously known as Astoria). This release brings a number of new features (projections, data binding, row count, etc) along with the usual bugfixes.
Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Executing Custom Queries – Davy Brion continues his series of posts on building a custom data access tier from first principles, looking in this part at how to execute custom queries against the database within the framework, and Ayende follows on from Davy’s post giving the NHibernate perspective on Custom Query execution. In his next part of the series(Bringing It All Together), Davy Brion looks at bringing the whole framework together with a look at the public interface of the DAL, and in the final part, Davy shares his Conclusions on building a custom DAL.
Custom Control Development: Simple code guidelines – Jeff Wilcox shares some best practice guidelines for building custom controls in Siilverlight, however most of his advance holds strong for any code which may be reused or used by others.
What’s the Difference, Part Four: into vs into – Eric Lippert looks at the two uses of the keyword ‘into’ in Linq Queries and shows how the meaning varies depending on where the keyword is used.
Multi-Targeting Support – Scott Gu continues his series looking at .NET4 / VS2010 features with a look a the multi-targeting support allowing support for CLR V2 and V4
Multi-Monitor Support – Scott’s next post furthers the series with a look at the new Multimonitor support in Visual Studio 2010 allowing you to spread the IDE across multiple screens more easily.
Simplify Iteration in Your MVC Views – Steve Sanderson shares a simple tip and extension method to help clean up your iterative code inside your ASP.NET MVC views.
Avoid Soft Deletes – Ayende talks about (and sparks good discussion of) Soft Deletes in applications. Be sure to check out the comments to this post, well worth a read.
Community
VBUG London: An Introduction to NHibernate – Mike Hadlow will be speaking at the London VBUG user group next Tuesday (8th) on NHibernate. The event is free, starting at 6:30 sharp.
The Inaugural Edge UG – September 14th sees the first meeting of the newly named Edge User Group (formerly VistaSquad) and sees John Skeet talksing on Parallel Extensions and Code Contracts, and Liam Westley talk on Hyper-V
