The Morning Brew

The new blogs.MSDN.com went live yesterday, and this morning I had problems with a number of links in RSS feeds and blog posts to existing posts on the site, so its possible that there may be problems with links to posts hosted on MSDN, especially in previous editions of The Brew. I’m sure this will only be a temporary thing and will be sorted soon. Hopefully all the links in today’s edition will work OK.

Software

• Fluent NHibernate 1.1 Released – James Gregory announces the release of FluentNHibernate 1.1, bringing the official release up to date with the numerous bugfixes and new features which have been comitted over the last few months, along with upgrading the NHibernate dependency to the latest 2.1.2GA release)
• Two open source projects to facilitate interoperability with Outlook .pst data files – Jean-Christophe Cimetiere highlights two new CodePlex hosted Open Source projects from Microsoft which provide means of viewing the internals of Outlook PST files and an SDK for programmatic access to the contents of the PST file.

Information

• Tekpub ASP.NET MVC 2 Starter Site 0.5 Released – Rob Conery releases the 0.5 release of the TekPub ASP.NET MVC2 Starter site, a framework based around Inversion of Control to allow you to quickly get up and running in a way which won’t close off possibilities later in development. Rob also shows how you can use this starter site to build an ASP.NET MVC powered Music Store application.
• What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 2 Wrox Blox available for purchase – Simone Chiaretta announces the release of his latest book, a 35 page ‘Wrox Blox’ (a series of short guides providing essential information) which gives an overview of the key new features and changes in ASP.NET MVC2, available now at $6.99
• Want to write Managed IE/Shell Extensions, but thought that was “bad”? That was the past… With .Net 4 the world of Managed Extensions is now open to you. – Greg’s Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day – Greg Duncan highlights the start of a series of posts by ‘vcsjones’ which looks at writing Internet Explorer Extensions in managed code, with the first part looking at the COM interop and registration of components.
• Every Program There Is, Part Nine – Eric Lippert continues his series on Every Program There Is with a look at introducing Memoization to improve the performance of the generation process.
• Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: Advanced Migrations – Ayende follows on from his previous post about Migrations to create a new data ‘column’ in RavenDB with a look at a more complex case, where a property is renamed.
• Creating a Fluent Interface with C# – Deran Schilling takes a look at the creation of fluent interfaces in .NET, exploring the basic concepts by way of an LDAP based example for constructing LDAP URLs.
• Ninject.RhinoMocks: Auto Mocking Container For .NET 3.5 and Compact Framework 3.5 & Simplify Your Unit Tests With Auto Mocking: Part 1 – Helper Methods – Derick Bailey shares a new library for Ninject which provides an auto mocking Container for use in .NET 3.5 and Compact Framework 3.5. The code is in an early stage, and in his next post Derick shows how he put the library to work by creating some helper methods to simplify its use.
• Dropbox API and RestSharp for a C# developer – Damian Karzon takes a look at using the RestSharp library to communicate with the DropBox REST API, showing some simple usage of the library to perform the communication and retrieve the results of API calls in native .NET objects.
• Extending NerdDinner: Adding Geolocated Flair – Jon Galloway continues the series of posts about building interesting functionality on top of the ASP.NET MVC NerdDinner sample application with a look at creating ‘flair’ for inclusion on other sites via HTML embedding using IFrames of JavaScript, with the added twist of performing GeoIP lookups to geo-locate the viewer and provide local information.

Community

• The First European NHibernate Day is next fall in Italy: announcement and call for speakers – Simone Chiaretta highlights the first NHibernate Day event to be held in Bologna, Italy on the 9th August. This free two track full day event will have most of its sessions delivered in English to aid an international audience, and the call for speakers for the event is open now, with delegate registration opening on 15th June
• Philip Tellis on Performance – a Developer Evening in London, England this Thursday – Chris Heilmann highlights a great opportunity to learn about Performance from one of Yahoo’s leading engineers who specialises in Performance. The event is free, and will be held in Covent Garden, London at 7pm on Thursday 27 May.
• Video – Code Leaders and Beautiful Teams – Roy Osherove shares the video from his talk at QCON London about the role of a development team lead in taking charge of the guidance and coaching of a team of Developers.

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