The Morning Brew

Software

• Pex and Moles become Visual Studio 2010 Power Tools – Nikolai Tillmann gives an update on some exciting news for the Pex project, the move to becomming a Visual Studio 2010 power tool including a re-grading of which versions / dditions of Visual Studio it will run in, and updated licensing.
• New drop of the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) available – Bart De Smet announces a new release of the Reactive Extensions for .NET which includes support for the .NET 4 RC as well as .NET 3.5
• Introducing Typemock Test Lint – Roy Osherove highlights a new tool from TypeMock which provides as you type lint style warnings for your test code. Operating against all the common .NET testing frameworks and running on VS2010 this free tool will help you write better tests.

Information

• BSON Serialization – Karl Seguin discusses BSON a Binary encoding for JSON-like documents which is gaining acceptance in the world of document databases.
• Don’t Expose IList<T> Just So You Can Assert Against Its Contents – Derick Bailey talks about controlling the interface of the items returned from your collections to make it so that your collections can still be used for read only operations in consuming code, but cannot be modified.
• NET basics – Difference between the stack and the heap – Steffen Jørgensen talks about the differences between the Stack and the Heap in terms of the types of data they store.
• Additional WPF Text Clarity Improvements – The WPF Text Blog talks about some recent improvements in the text rendering of WPF4, which should be of great interest to anyone who has worked with the now WPF based Visual Studio 2010 editor and had issues with text clarity.
• Unit testing with Microsoft Moles – Kristofer Liljeblad gives a brief tour of the Moles functionality of the former Microsoft Research project Pex, showing an example of them in use in a realworld test
• The Power of Blue Books for Platform Impact – J.D. Meier talks about the range of titles available in the Patterns and Practices series of books, talking about the use of the types of advice they contain
• A Few Thoughts on DDD, DTOs, View Models, Repositories and Separation of Concerns – Billy McCafferty talks about some of the principles and ideas he has adopted based on discussions surrounding his Open source projects and communities.
• Providing Metadata to you MEF exports – Derik Whittaker follows on from his introductory MEF post from a while back with a look at easily providing metadata parameters to MEF based exports.
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – jQuery Integration – Matthew Podwysocki continues his series on the JavaScript Reactive Extensions with a look at combining them with the jQuery library making it easier to move between libraries when needed.

Community

• Next European VAN on 06 April 2010 – The next European Virtual Alt.Net usergroup meeting looks set to be a good one. Covering the topic of Software Craftsmanship will be ‘Uncle’ Bob Martin, David Starr, Mark Nijhof, Scott Bellware and Corey Haines, with the screencast event kicking off at 7:00PM GMT on 6th April. Be sure to tune in for an interesting discussion.
• Introduction to OpenRasta – developer Fusion – ASP.NET, C# Programming, VB.NET, .NET Framework, Java and Visual Basic Tutorials – If screencast events aren’t your thing and you are London based, the evening of 6th April also offers you the ThoughtWorks London Geek Nights event, and will be covering the Open Rasta REST/HTTP Framework.
• A few announcements for those in the UK – Scott Guthrie is visiting the UK again, and will be presenting at a couple of fre events over here in Birmingham and Glasgow, as well as attending the UK MIX party.

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