FluentValidation 1.2 beta 1 available – Jeremy Skinner announces the Beta 1 release of the FluentValidation 1.2 library. This release includes ASP.NET MVC2 support, along with control of the validation cascade, new validation syntax, along with a breaking change in the form of the removal of DefaultResourceManager.
Snippet Designer 1.2 Beta Release with Visual Studio 2010 Support – Matt Manela announces the latest beta release of Snippet Designer, a Visual Studio IDE plugin which makes it easier to construct snippets for us in your code. This release adds support for Visual Studio 2010
Just released System.Web.Mvc.Extensibility Beta – Kazi Manzur Rashid announces the beta release of his ASP.NET MVC library System.Web.Mvc.Extensibility. Available for both ASP.NET MVC 1 and ASP.NET MVC 2, this beta release contains a number of changes and improvements over previous editions.
Service Pack 2 for Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC released – Telerik announce an update to their Open Source ASP.NET MVC library. This release includes an upgrade to jQuery 1,4 which can be considered a breaking change if you are already using 1.3.2 in your sites for your own code.
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CodePlex now supporting native Mercurial – CodePlex now supports the use of the Distributed Version Control System ‘Mercurial’ This is available as a choice at the project level allowing you to choose between Mercurial or TFS / Subversion.
WebForms aren’;t dead – Dave Sussman shares his thoughts on the WebForms vs MVC debate, talking about advantages and disadvantages of each, along with the developments that both are seeing. In The WebForms Rant, Karl Seguin also discusses this theme, coming down more heavily in the MVC camp. Quite a discussion is breaking out in the comments of this one.
Screencast: Visual Studio 2010 – New debugging experience – Sven Vanoirbeek shares a screen cast which looks at the new debugging features in Visual Studio 2010, exploring collaborative debugging, historic debugging, and some new breakpoint features.
Creating a Simple IoC Container – Tim Ross shares a simple Inversion of Control Container example, building the container and showing how it can be integrated into the ASP.NET MVC framework, ans showing how it can be used.
State of VS 2010 Performance – Brian Harry gives an update on the performance changes to Visual Studio 2010, and shares some results from the user experience testing of the latest builds.
Rejecting Dependency Injection Inversion – Ayende follows up on Uncle Bob’s post on Dependency Injection looking at the useage of DI and one of the big wins of DI in handling component lifecycles
Mocking Mocking and Testing Outcomes. – ‘Uncle’ Bob Martin turns his attentions to the use of Mocking Frameworks, questioning when and where they should be used. I expect this one will spark some good debate (especially if the comments are anything to go by)
The paradox of choice: best of breed or cheapest of the bunch – Ayende picks up some tweets from Roy Osherove and talks about the choice between commercial and OpenSource / Free products in the same arena. Good discussion starting in the comments here too.