The Morning Brew

With Today being Thanksgiving Day in the US (Happy Thanksgiving folks) I expect tomorrows edition will be a small one due to a lack of content.

Software

• T4MVC now has a real home and a dedicated forum! – David Ebbo announces the new official home of his T4 Template project for ASP.NET MVC, making use of CodePlex and ASP.NET Forums
• GraffitiCMS Going Open Source – Lee Dumond highlights an announcement from Telligent that GraffitiCMS will be being released under an open source license on 11th December

Information

• The client script loader is cool – Mike Ormond highlights a nice dependency graph of the various parts of the ASP.NET Ajax library, and shows how the script loader makes it easy to get just the bits your need
• ASP.NET 4.0 ScriptManager Improvements – Dave Reed talks about the ASP.NET 4.0 ScriptManager, looking at the various new features introduced in the .NET 4 time frame, including Content Delivery Network support, the ability to disable the Microsoft.Ajax requirement, simple assembly name support and ScriptResourceMapping
• Silverlight and RIA Services: Implementing Search – Brad Abrams follows on from his PDC talk with a look at adding the search functionality to his PDC demo application, implementing search against the backend data store, along with bookmarkable URLs for search results
• Handling 64-bit assemblies during obfuscation – Paul Mason continues his series on obfuscation and his NCloak project with a look at a problem he encountered using his existing work with 64bit assemblies
• Taking advantage of Table Variables NOT being transactional – application logging files within a transaction and keeping what’s happened – Tony Rogerson shares a useful tip for logging your actions in SQL Server when you roll back transactions, by taking advantage of table variables which are not subject to rollback you can still get your logging out after rollback
• Temporary procedures : T-SQL – ‘jamiet’ highlights the ability to create temporary stored procedures in much the same way you can create temporary tables in SQL Server. This is a useful trick for those helper procedures we all write and often forget to remove after use
• Including custom client-side validations in your ASP.NET MVC app – Thomas Weller posts a sidebar about including your own custom client side JavaScript for validation, looking at how you can map that back to the domain model via a custom validation
• Git’s guts: Branches, HEAD, and fast-forwards – James Gregory talks about commonly understood version control principles such as branches and shows how GIT handles them slightly differently than most people expect
• Going Interactive with the Reactive Extensions – Matthew Podwysocki continues his series on the Reactive Framework with a look at the System.Interactive assembly and how this aims to port much of the functionality of IObservable to IEnumerable via extension methods
• Introduction to TestApi – Part 5: Managed Code Fault Injection APIs – Ivo Manolov talks about TestApi’s support for altering the behaviour of executable code to make simulation of certain faults possible showing a sample use of this technique
• The Purpose, Revealed – Eric Lippert follows on from his previous posts talking about the reason this work was needed and how the compiler handlers semantic analysis of calls with named arguments
• Looking Around at Circular References in MEF – James Eggers explores the way the the Managed Extensibility Framework handles dependencies which have circular references which are injected into a constructor

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