The Morning Brew

Software

• Introducing "Razor" a new view engine for ASP.NET – Scott Guthrie announces Razor, a new code focused view engine for ASP.NET which is due for its first public beta release shortly. The Razor engine aims to be efficient to use, minimising key presses required to achieve output, easy to learn, and builds on existing languages. In this post Scott takes an in depth look at Razor in use.
• Prism 4.0 Drop 3 released – Diego Poza highlights the release of the 3rd Drop of Prism 4. This release of Prism, formerly known as the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight, is another early preview of the platform, and the team are keen to get your feedback to help improve the product,
• new Test Lint Beta – with command line runner – Roy Osherove announces the release of the latest beta of Test Lint. Test Lint is a test review tool for Visual Studio which gives feedback on common test problems based on your test code, helping you write more maintainable, readable and trustworthy tests. The VS add-in is free, and this beta also includes the command line runner which will be commercially licensed.
• MVVM Study – Segue – Introducing Caliburn.Micro – Rob Eisenberg announces a lean and mean version of his Caliburn MVVM framework aimed at Windows Phone and Silverlight development, distilling the core down to a mere 2000 lines of code, and 50 of assembly (which can be further compressed).
• Firebug Lite 1.3.1b1 – The FireBug team announces their latest beta release of FireBug Lite 1.3.1. FireBug Lite is an edition of Firebug for ‘the other browsers’ supporting Internet Explorer, Safari, Chorme and Opera, bringing some of the features of the full Firebug to these platforms.

Information

• A simple implementation of a WeakReference-powered event handler – Paul Stovell discusses Garbage collection, the holding of references to short lived objects by long lived objects, and using Weak References for event handlers
• New Castle Windsor feature – debugger diagnostics – Krzysztof Kozmic discusses a new feature for Castle Windsor, still under development which brings diagnostics features to the container emulating some of the features found in StuctureMap, allowing Assertation of the correctness of configuration. Krzysztof also welcomes feedback about this functionality to help improve it further.
• Stepping into ASP.NET MVC source code with Visual Studio debugger – Gunnar Peipman walks through the process of getting up and running with the Debug into framework code for ASP.NET MVC, showing the setup of this in the IDE
• ASP.NET MVC LabelFor Helper With HtmlAttributes – Imran Baloch takes a look at adding an extension method to build on the LabelFor helper bringing friendly code support for HTML attributes.
• MEF 101 – Part1 – Abhijeet Patel begins a series of posts which takes a detailed look at the Managed Extensibility Framework, starting with a look at Imports and Exports, and how they can be used and consumed.
• What’s a Value Object? – Aaron Weiker takes a look at the features and an implementation of the Value Object based upon his reading of Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans
• Dynamic Views in ASP.NET MVC 2 – Greg Shackles takes a look at using the new C# dynamic keyword as the type for an ASP.NET MVC Model, allowing your view code to be completely dynamic.
• Using TransactionScope with SQLite – Jan Van Ryswyck highlights some strange behaviour with transactions when working with SQLite, explaining it due to a little known feature of SQLite.
• The Weekly Source Code 54 – Can’t have Multiple Attributes of the Same Type when using a TypeDescriptor – Scott Hanselman continues his series of posts taking a weekly look at some interesting code. This week Scott explores the use of the TypeDescriptor, and looks at gaining access to multiple attribute declarations of the same type.
• Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (5 – Authentication) – Mike Taulty continues his series of posts on Silverlight and the Rich Internet Application Services with a detailed look at their role in implementing authentication for your services.
• Introducing Sterling, the Object-Oriented Database for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 – Jeremy Likness discusses Sterling, his soon to be released object database designed for use in Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight applications, talking about some of the key features, and looking at its use in a sample application.

Community

• Brighton ALT.NET Beers. 7pm Tuesday 6th July at The Skiff – Tomorrow evening sees the July Brighton Alt.Net Beers event take place at the usual venue and time. If you are in the area, check it out for some good discussions of .NET Development tools and techniques.

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