Now available!: Windows Server AppFabric RC and BizTalk Server 2010 beta – Cliff Simpkins announces the release of the Windows Server AppFabric Release Candidate and BizTalk Server 2010 Beta. the AppFabric is a release candidate, with the final release coming next month, and the BizTalk beta release is the first to seamlessly integrate with AppFabric
Microsoft Announces Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3 – Stathis Papaefstathiou of the Microsoft Robotics team announces the release of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3. R3 brings a consolidation of the product into a single edition, available now free of charge, and introduces support for Visual Studio 2010 along with updated samples available on Codeplex
ReShaper 5.1 Early Access Program is Open – Hot on the heels of the ReSharper 5 release, the team over at JetBrains have already begun addressing issues raised with 5.0, and have started releasing nightly builds of ReSharper 5.1 via their Early Access Program.
Updated PowerCommands for Reflector – Jason Haley has released an updated version of his PowerCommands for Reflector which adds three new commands to working with Resource Files from within reflector
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Enabling XML-documentation for code contracts – Gunnar Peipman continues exploring Code Contracts with a look at generating documentation about the code contracts implemented in your code
Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Data migration – Ayende continues with his series on porting the existing MVC Music Store tutorial application to use his RavenDB Document database. This post shares a simple implementation which will take the data from existing relational database and insert it into the document database.
Extending NerdDinner: Exploring Different Database Options – Scott Hanselman discusses the various options available for data access in .NET, and shares 5 ports of the Nerd Dinner sample MVC application to different data access, 4 of which were created by Chris Sells and Nick Muhonen looking at using ADO.NET Data Readers, Data Sets, LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework, and an NHibernate port from Ayende.
Extending NerdDinner: Adding MEF and plugins to ASP.NET MVC – Scott Continues this series on Extending NerdDinner with a look at some work done by Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira, (aka "Hammett") to introduce the Managed Extensibility Framework into the NerdDinner sample.
The religion of dependency injection – Jimmy Bogard follows on from Scott’s MEF post picking up on the ‘poor man’s Dependency Injection’ starting a discussion about comparing this to full Dependency Injection. Seems to be interesting discussions starting in the comments of this one.
May 20th Links: ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, .NET 4, VS 2010, Silverlight – Scott Guthrie turns link blogger and shares a number of links related to the technologies he cares about. A good number of these links have been included in The Morning Brew already, but there are a few additional ones which are well worth checking out.
Every Program There Is, Part Eight – Eric Lippert continues his series on building every program there is. This part looks at converting the grammar into code, allowing the generation of all the possibilities.
13,000+ Free Icons for Web and Desktop Development – David Vidmar shares a list of free icon libraries he has made use of, which total to around 13000 icons which you can use in your applications freely.
Test-Driven JavaScript – James Shore shares his experiences of doing Test Driven Development in JavaScript gained during a previous venture discussing automating testing in the browser and across multiple browsers.
Unit Testing [Serializable] – Keith Dahlby takes a look at unit testing the ‘serializability’ of classes to ensure that all the types you assume to be able to serialize actually can be.
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New London based .NET User Group – first meeting June 2nd on MEF – Eric Nelson highlights a new London .NET Usergroup based in Canary Wharf which is focusing on technologies utilised by the financial services sector, with their first meeting on Wednesday 2nd June which will be a talk on the Managed Extensibility Framework
