ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 – Source Code for ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 is now available via the CodePlex site, along with the source for the ASP.NET MVC 3 Futures project.
Albacore v0.2.0 Preview 2 Is Available – Derick Bailey announces the second preview of the 0.2 release of Albacore, the .NET build task library for Rake. This release includes a lot of the changes discussed in the Preview 1 release notes, along with significant under the hood changes, and improvements for its use as a basis to create new tasks.
Help Viewer 1.0 SDK now available! – Paul O’Rear announces the release of the Help Viewer 1.0 SDK which allows you to interface with the new Help system included in Visual Studio 2010.
Version 3.5 of the Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide Available – Ed Glass highlights the Version 3.5 release of the Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide from Geoff Gray, with a range of new performance testing content ranging from Performance Counters to Network Emulation.
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Start spreading the news…: the future of Jimmy and IronRuby – Jimmy Schementi talks about his decision to leave Microsoft, and what this means from his point of view for the IronRuby Project which he was working on. The community has been quick to react to this post with a variety of responses regarding the future of the IronRuby project:
NHibernate Tooling Review: LLBLGen Pro 3.0 – Ayende takes a look at the LLBLGen Pro 3 Obect Relational Mapping tool’s support for NHibernate, bringing a friendly GUI tool to managing the mappings of entities, taking a look at the process and generated code.
NHibernate Linq Eager Fetching – Mike Hadlow takes a look a the new NHibernate Linq Provider’s support for Eager fetching of entities, showing it in operation and highlighting a few gotchas along the way.
MVP In Silverlight/WPF: Automated Tests & Conclusions – Davy Brion rounds out his series on MVP over MVVM as his pattern of choice for Silverlight and WPF development with a look at testing the samples created, and wraps up with a short conclusion.
Caliburn.Micro Soup to Nuts Pt. 4 – Working with Windows Phone 7 – Rob Eisenberg continues his tour round his Caliburn Micro framework with a look at the specifics of using the framework with the Window Phone 7 and takes a look at some of the specific workarounds required to get up and running here.
Templates Galore: Live Templates – Hadi Hariri takes a look at one of the less well know ReSharper features, the Live Template and Macro features which take the basic concept of Snippets (ala Visual Studio) to the next level providing sophisticated templating support in the IDE.
Don’t Parse That XML! – John Sonmez argues that you shouldn’t need to manually write XML parsing code these days, and should lean on the framework support available to allow you to access XML as strongly typed objects, exploring doing this in .NET , Java and Android platforms
Mock framework challenges in F# – Vagif Abilov takes a look at a variety of mocking projects / products exploring how well they work when it comes to mocking in F#.
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What Can You Build in 1k of JS? – Ajaxian highlights a contest from Peter van der Zee for you to build the most impressive demo possible in 1k of JavaScript. Closing date is 10th September.