The Morning Brew

Software

• ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 Released – Phil Haack announces the release of the second ASP.NET MVC2 RC (ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2). This is an additional RC release than was originally planned, and the major change is to the Validation based on user feedback, along with the usual bugfixes and performance improvements
• StructureMap 2.6 (and 2.5.4) is Released! – Jeremy D. Miller announces the 11th release of StructureMap, taking the version number to 2.6. 2.6 isn’t a major change from the previous (unpublicised) 2.5.4, just a few bug fixes and improvements, but represents a year of work over the 2.5 version.

Information

• Editor’s Note – Not Your Father’s MSDN – The February edition of MSDN Magazine is now available, and with the start of a number of changes to the format and column lineup taking place this month, Keith Ward talks about some of those changes. Other content in this months edition include:
  • Managed Extensibility Framework – Building Composable Apps in .NET 4 with the Managed Extensibility Framework
  • Dynamic .NET – Creating Interactive Bing Maps with Silverlight and IronRuby
  • Integrating Windows Azure – Windows Azure Platform for Enterprises
  • and much more
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 9. Configuring fluently registered components with XML – Mike Hadlow presses on with his ten (or more) part series looking at some of the more advanced Castle Windsor functionality, taking a look at providing configuration via XML to components registered through the fluent interface for registration
• MSpec is Fantastic! – Eric Lee shows the benefit that a BDD framework like MSpec brings to writing BDD style tests in terms of brevity and clarity
• ASP.NET MVC Quick Tips – let’s get this rolling – Nuno Silva has a number of posts on tips for developing with ASP.NET MVC including taking a look at Pass(ing) data to your master page – and exploring changing the standard templates in Can I change the templates?. For the full list of posts check out his February 2010 – Posts index.
• .NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentQueue – Justin Etheredge continues his exploration of the Concurrent colections with a look at the ConcurrentQueue, showing it in simple operation, along with talking about how its actually implemented under the hood.
• Implement custom Claim based Authorization in ASP.NET MVC Web Application – Shahed Khan takes a practical look at implemeting claims based authentication in a sample ASP.NET MVC application, walking through the code and concepts
• Reporting In NoSQL – Rob Conery talks about his increasing preference for NoSQL databases, looking at where they sit in the evolution of technology, and addressing a common question on reporting in systems using NoSQL databases.
• Unit Testing Simple ASP.NET MVC Controllers – Chris Missal shows the setup and a couple of example tests for testing simple ASP.NET controllers using either the Rhino Mocks mocking framework or Moq.
• Multi-tenancy in ASP.NET MVC – Breaking it down – Rob Ashton presses on with his Blog Post series on ASP.NET MVC Multi-tenancy applications, in this post exploring some of the areas that need to be considered in an ASP.NET MVC application

Community

• Europe Virtual ALT.NET – The European Virtual ALT.NET community resumes its talks this coming Monday (8th Feb) with James Gregory talking about using Git for version control of source code. The talk kicks off at 7:00PM GMT
• Free UK Azure Training Workshops in Reading and Edinburgh in February – Eric Nelson highlights some Mocrosoft Partner events on developing on the Windows Azure Platform to be held in Reading and Edinburgh at the end of the month.
• Dr. Don Syme – Introduction to F#;, 1 of 3 – Don Syme, a researcher at Microsoft Research who created the F# programming language begins a series of Channel 9 Lectures on F# available as video.

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