Information

  • MEF has shipped!!! – Glenn Block reminds everyone that MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) version 1 was one of the technologies which shipped with .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 in their respective releases, and gives a list of a range of other projects supplementing, porting or utilising MEF.
  • Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (3 – Client) – Mike Taulty continues his series of posts on using Silverlight with the WCF Rich Internet Applications Services, focusing this time on the client side implementation using Silverlight, exploring the various types required to interact with the service such as the DomainContext, DomainClient, EntityContainer, EntitySet, etc.
  • Castle Windsor and child containers & Castle Windsor and Child containers reloaded – Krzysztof Ko?mic discusses the possibility of removing child container from the Castle Windsor implementation, making use of Handler Selectors and sub-resolvers to provide the same type of functionality instead. Krzysztof also posts explaining the problems with container hierarchies
  • NHibernate stump the expert video – Ayende shares a streaming only recording of his 4 hour ‘Stump the Expert’ on NHibernate session held at SkillsMatter. The video contains tricks, tips, details of under-utilised features, and importantly, the answers to peoples real world questions.
  • RavenDB & CouchDB – Basic Queries – Rob Ashton presses on with his Document Database Comparison series with a look at basic querying in RavenDB vs CouchDB
  • Get GIT – The "Getting Started with Git" DZone Refcardz – Greg Duncan highlights a recent DZone’RefCard’ from Matthew McCullough which gives you a crash course and quick reference to the GIT distributed version control system in 6 pages.
  • Translating my Git workflow with local branches to Mercurial – Jimmy Bogard gives an overview of his standard workflow using the GIT version control system, and then looks at how he can implement a similar style of working using another distributed version control system in the form of Mercurial
  • The aftermath of the blog platform migration – Sean Jenkin openly and honestly shares the experiences and problems encountered by the team who migrated the MSDN blogs to the new platform. This one is interesting reading, especially if you ever have to do a similar migration / replacement project as it highlights areas and planning you may want to give further consideration to in your own projects
  • ASP.NET MVC and Me in PragPub Magazine – Phil Haack highlights some ASP.NET MVC content, and an interview with him which are included in the June edition of PragPub Magazine from the Pragmatic Bookshelf team. June’s edition is PragPub Magazine’s 12th issue, and scanning back through previous issues there is some great content there. The magazine is available in a number of formats (HTML, PDF, epub, mobi), and is free.
  • 6 important uses of Delegates and Events – Shivprasad koirala takes a detailed look at C# Delegates and Events, looking at their common usages, implementations, and the differences between evenst and delegates, and their implementations in other programming languages in this CodeProject Article.