The Morning Brew

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Software

• Doloto on DevLabs – Soma Segar announces the release of Doloto o the Microsoft DevLabs site. Doloto is a tool which aims to help mak the initial load size of modern ajax enabled sites smaller, and therefore make the application start quicker
• ASP.NET MVC MvcSiteMapProvider 1.0 released – Maarten Balliauw announces the 1.0 release of his ASP.NET MVC Site Map Provider
• .NET Micro Framework 4.0 Goes to Beta!!! – The .NET Micro Framework team announce the beta releases of the .NET Micro Framework 4.0. There are two beta programmes, one for the SDK and one for the porting kit. This post also summarises some of the new features
• Exploitable Crash Analyzer – Sasha Goldshtein highlights the release of a debugger extension which looks into crash dumps and assesses the security risks associated with the the crash. Sasha also shows an example of the extension in use.

Information

• Code Contracts.Net to Xml Comments! – Jonathan "Peli" de Halleux highlights a new feature of the latest release of the Code Contracts functionality which embeds the contract information into the XML comments in the XML documentation file.
• NHibernate on the cloud: SQL Azure – Ayende talks about the compatibility of NHibernate with the new SQL Azure cloud database, and in his next post,SQL Azure, Sharding and NHibernate: A call for volunteers, discusses some of the limitations, and attempts to rally the troops in completing the port of Hibernate Shards to the NHibernate/.NET platform to work around the limitations of the SQL Azure database size
• LLBLGen Pro and SQL Azure – Frans Bouma has also been testing his ORM solution against the SQL Azure database platform, with good results. This post contains a few things you may need to be aware of when using LLBLGen Pro with SQL Azure
• F# First Class Events – Async Workflows + Events Part III – Matthew Podwysocki completes his series looking at F# events and async workflows with some further discussion of combining the eventing and workflow
• Introducing 5Whys.com – Roy Osherove announces a new website which targets developers and team leads who want to be better offering tips, tricks and techniques to achive this aim
• NHibernate Bidirectional Cascade – when is it appropriate? – Alex Scordellis discusses the use of cascades in NHibernate, looking at single directional cascades and the more complex bidirectional case
• Dynamic type parameter constraints in C# 4 – Chris Burrows digs a little deeper into the possibility for using the new dynamic type as a type parameter
• SharpDevelop now creates projects as 32-bit by default – The SharpDevelop team talk about why they are following Visual Studio’s lead in making the default executable type to be a 32 bit one in order to help eliminate issues from not testing on 64bit platforms.
• Checking invariants in a factory method – Mark Needham talks about the use of the factory method to create objects in a consistent state by having the factory be responsible for ensuring all the invariants are satisfied
• BDD from scratch – Build your own framework (Part 1) – Garry Shutler starts a series looking at constructing a BDD framework on top on NUnit.

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