The Morning Brew

Software

• ASP.NET MVC 2 (Release Candidate 2) Now Available – Scott Guthrie highlights the release of ASP.NET MVC 2 RC2, giving a summary of the new features of this release.
• Where to find the jQuery 1.4.1 vsdoc file – Jeff Putz highlights one of the locations you can find the jQuery 1.4.1 vsdoc file which brings jQuery intellisense to Visual Studio.
• MVC Turbine v2.0 for MVC2 RC2 (.NET3.5) – Javier G. Lozano announces the availability of his MVC Turbine project compiled against the new ASP.NET MVC 2 RC2 build running on VS2008/.NET 3.5 sp1
• Spell check enable your WinForm TextBoxes/RichTextBoxes via a nHunspell based IExtenderProvider – Greg Duncan highlights a neat extension for the .NET Textbox / Rich Text Box which provides spell checking easily within your applications. I might have to add this one to the tool I use for compiling the Morning Brew

Information

• Built-in Charting Controls – Scott Guthrie continues his series on Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 features with a look at the new charting components for ASP.NET and WinForms which are included ‘in the box’ as of .NET 4
• NoSQL – A Practical Approach, Part 1 – Rob Conery begins a series of posts exploring moving to NoSql data stores, talking about the shift in thinking needed to move from an ORM based application to using an object database like DB4O.
• On the importance of checking inputs – Barry Dorrans highlights the importance of verifying and validating in addition to encoding your output, illustrating with a real real-world example where someone got it really wrong.
• Mapping Out the Microsoft Application Platform at a Glance – J.D. Meier gives a nice overview of the various technologies offered by Microsoft, breaking them into top level categories, and providing links to MSDN references about a number of them. A useful resource when you’ve forgotten the name of a particular technology.
• Find it faster amongst the collection – ‘JoeGeeky’ shares a neat trick to more quickly establish if a collection contains a certain set of items using the Intersect method on IEnumerable.
• 10 Advanced Windsor Tricks – 10. Configuration with type converters – Mike Hadlow hits number 10 in his series on Advanced Windsor Container usage patterns, exploring in this post how TypeConvertors help with the configuration of the container.
• MVC 2 Editor Template with DateTime – Steve Michelotti explores the ASP.NET MVC2 Editor For functionality, and shows how you can create a custom editor for date time fields which includes jQuery calendars
• Performance: Using LCG to copy property values of two objects – Gunnar Peipman looks at the performance of using Light Weight Code Generation to construct mappings between two objects in a performant way, and provides neat samples of each technique tried in his post Writing object to object mapper: first implementations
• Using IIS Rewriting with MVC Routes to Keep Your Routes Simple – Jon Galloway looks at how you can utilise the IIS Rewriting module to make your ASP.NET / ASP.NET MVC routes easier to construct, leaving the complicated URL manipulation to the Web Server.
• Using and Abusing the F# Dynamic Lookup Operator – Matthew Podwysocki explores the F# Dynamic Lookup operator, showing how F# leaves you to implement it any way you want
• Recursion Is The New Iteration – Ashley Nathan Feniello explores the origin of iteration and recursion, showing how tail call optimisation in languages such as F# allows recursion to be utilised in applications.

Community

• SQLBits Videos available now available – SQLBits goes West – 19-21 Nov 2009 – Newport – The SQLBits team announce the availability of the session videos from the SQLBits V conference held back in November 2009. This is a great opportunity to get a look at the sessions you missed out on either by being in other sessions or by not attending (Shame on you)

Developer Developer Developer 8

• A developer’s guide to encryption – Barrie Dorrans highlights the availability of the video of his (partially hijacked) DDD8 session on encryption, and shares some of the feedback he received on the talk
• Multi-tenancy in ASP.NET MVC – DDD8 Video – Rob Ashton also points out the video of his session on building multi-tenancy applications using ASP.NET MVC
• Phil Winstanley’s DDD8 – Phil Winstanley has been busy putting up video of a number of the DDD8 sessions hosted on vimeo. These include some already linked to, along with Mark Needham’s Functional Approaches session, Ian Cooper’s Real World MVC, Liam Westley’s Commercial Software Development, along with a few session videos from Web DD 09
• DDD8 – post-event commentary #DDD8 – Craig Murphy has a great wrap up piece on DDD8, including a plethora of links to other round up pieces, along with links to video and photos of the event, a Barry Dorrans tribute, and some pointers to future events.

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