January 2010
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 13 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Castle Windsor 2.1, Dynamic Proxy 2.2 and more released! – Krzysztof Kozmic announces the release of Castle Windsor 2.1 and Castle Dynamic Proxy 2.2, Castle Core 1.2, one of the significant new features is the inclusion of Silverlight versions 3 versions of a number of components
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- DDD8 – Vote for Sessions – The Session voting for the 8th DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Event to be held at Microsoft Reading at the end of the month. You have a few days to help filter down the proposed sessions by voting for the ones you’d like to see.
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 12 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- Entity Framework in .NET 4 – Soma Somasegar takes a high level look at the new features of the Entity Framework 4 due for release in the .NET 4 release in March this yesr
- HTTP Error Codes in WatiN 1.3 – Keith Dahlby talks about adding a new feature to the WatiN Web application testing framework that will allow the HTTP Status code to be obtained and tested
- Accelerator and F# (IV.): Composing computations with quotations – Tomáลก Pet?í?ek continues his series looking at the Microsoft Research Accelerator project looking at using the quotations functionality to implement image manipulation
- F#: Refactoring to pattern matching – Mark Needham talks about his F# programming development, and how he is still finding himself writing F#
like C#, and in this post takes a look at moving from ‘if’ to pattern matching.
- Lightweight Task Scheduling Library for .NET / Silverlight – Philipp Sumi shares his implementation of a lightweight task scheduling framework which is configured via a fluent interface, supports re-scheduling and will operate within Silverlight.
- Map NHibernate using your API – Fabio Maulo shares a look at a new mapping capibility for NHibernate which allows you to create your NHibernate configuration without using the dreaded XML, and allowing for Dynamic mapping to be created.
- Subversion seems to be losing favor among version control users – Jeffrey Palermo takes a look at the changing landscape of version control and the shift to distributed version control tools like Git and Mercurial and the change in work flow associated with these new version control tools.
- Ordering fields in ASP.NET MVC 2 templated helpers – Maarten Balliauw takes a look at templated helpers in ASP.NET MVC2 and how you can control the ordering of the fields in the output UI.
- 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 2. Auto Registration – Mike Hadlow continues his series looking at the more advanced usage of the Castle Windsor IOC Container, in this part exploring the auto registration, and the fluent interface which allows it to be configured.
- Continuing to an outer loop – Eric Lippert takes a look at loop control and a number of techniques which allow you to control (continue/break) an outer loop from within an inner loop.
- Patterns in Practice: A Retrospective – Jeremy D. Miller talks about his final Patterns in Practice column for MSDN Magazine, and reviews the series and what he hoped to achieve. Sounds like there is quite a shake up at MSDN Magazine, I do hope it continues in the more open direction its been taking these last few months,
- Silverlight 4 Beta & MEF – Experimenting with an alternative Programming Model – Mike Taulty takes a look at how the Managed Extensibility Framework provides an alternative to configuring via attributes (as it does out of the box) showing how the Programming Model provides for you to do the configuration in other ways
- ASP.NET Performance – Part 3 – Cache Busting – Karl Seguin continues his series looking at performance of ASP.NET Applications with a look at how you can control the caching of files by controlling the URL they are called on, providing an easy means of ‘expiring’ cached items when you change them
- Checking Whether A Method Is Overridden – Davy Brion shows a technique you can use to detect if the implementation of a method has been overridden in the type you are calling it on.
- Generating Documentation with Sandcastle – Grant Palin takes a look at the options for generating documentation from your code in .NET using Sandcastle, and how it can be configured as a part of your build process.
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Posted by Chris Alcock on 11 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: .NET, Development, Morning Brew
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- January’s Toolbox Column Now Online – Scott Mitchell highlights his last Toolbox Column for MSDN Magazine’s January Edition, available online now. Other articles this month discuss the Cloud, Software Transactional Memory, T4 Templates, DSL Patterns, and all the usual .NET, ASP.NET , ASP.NET MVC, etc
- ASP.NET MVC 2 – Scott Guthrie kicks off a series of posts on ASP.NET MVC 2 in the build up to the final release, with the first part discussing Strongly Typed Html Helpers – which help you achieve better type safety in the view templates.
- 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – Introduction – Mike Hadlow starts off a 10 post series on IOC / DI tricks using Castle Windsor. This series is his preparation for a talk on Windsor at the DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper (DDD) event to be held in Reading at the end of the month. Part one of the series looks at Registering Delegates – looking at some tricks you can use when registering types to achieve powerful effects
- Virtual Method Performance Penalty – Davy Brion talks about the alleged penalty in performance when working with Virtual methods in .NET, and tries some simple benchmarks which appear to show that there is little or no actual penalty in hi use case.
- Covariance and Contra-variance in C# 4.0 – Abhijeet Patel takes a look at one of the interesting (and confusing) new features of C#4, co- and contra- variance, illustrating with examples based on animals.
- TekPub’s Mastering LINQ Challenge – Justin Etheredge talks about his LINQ series of video casts for TekPub, and sets a competition with a LINQ Question (Competition now closed). In a follow on post The TekPub LINQ Challenge Part 2 – Faster Algorithms – Justin examines a more performant implementation than his simple solution.
- Why You Don’t Need ModelMetadata.Attributes – Brad Wilson feeds back on why the ASP.NET MVC2 team won’t be including an attributes collection on ModelMetadata, and highlights two techniques which answer the same requirements,
- NHibernate, polymorphic associations and ghost objects – Ayende talks about NHibernate’s support for Lazy loading via Proxy / Ghost objects, and shows how you can work round any problems caused by them by choosing eager fetching to ensure that the real object gets loaded rather than the proxy
- Roy Osherove’s TDD Kata: An F# attempt – Mark Needham continues his explorations of Roy Osherove’s TDD Kata exercise implementing in F#
- Async and Parallel Design Patterns in F#: Parallelizing CPU and I/O Computations – Don Syme talks about the parallel and reactive nature of F# and explores techniques for performing computation and I/O in parallel
- 16 Ways To Create IObservables without implementing IObservable – Scott Weinstein shows 16 different ways of making observables using the Reactive Extensions which do now involve implementing the IObservable interface yourself.
- Learning in the Open: I – Starting with ActiveRecord – Krzysztof Kozmic takes a look at Castle ActiveRecord as a part of a new series, looking at a real world use of active record, and the steps involved in getting up and running.
- What’s After Unit Testing? – Martin Rue talks about a next stage of testing after your unit tests using a framework to perform UI tests. Martin runs through the basics of the Selenium Web Application UI Testing Framework.
- Who takes care of my database connection when I don’t close it in my code? – ‘Snehadeep’ of the SQL Server team talks about what happens in your applications when you don’t close your database connections manually, and how this can be a real performance problem is left unchecked.
- ASP.NET Performance – Part 2 – YSlow – Karl Seguin looks at how a number of the YSlow website performance recommendations can be met with the help of a simple ASP.NET HttpModule
- QBasic on Javascript – Ajaxian highlights a QBasic implementation crafted out of JavaScript and using the Canvas element for its output. The post linked to by Ajaxian gives some in-depth details of how all of this is made to work.
- Image Blitting in Silverlight with WriteableBitmapEx – Adam Kinney shows how some interesting image effects can be achieved using Image Blitting in Silverlight
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