Magellan 2.0 is here! – Paul Stovell announces the release of Magellan 2.0, his Navigation focused MVC framework for WPF applications. Paul also shares an article ‘Magellan: an MVC-powered Navigation framework for WPF‘ on The CodeProject which provides a nice introduction to working with Magellan.
CQRS and MVC – Greg Young talks about what CQRS actually is (And a few things that it is not), discussing that CQRS and Event sourcing are not actually new ideas, and looks at the similarities between CQRS and the MVC pattern
"Blend Bits" – Mike Taulty starts a new series of posts sharing tips and tracks for working with Expression Blend for building Silverlight applications, getting off to a roaring start with 6 articles covering the Blend Environment, Keyboard shortcuts, Margins, Grids and Paths
Back to Basic – ASP.NET Runtime Impersonation – Gil Fink takes a look at Impersonation in ASP.NET and more generally in the .NET runtime, showing how ASP.NET can easily be made to run in the secuirty context of another user, with support for either a specific user in all cases or impersonation of the authenticated user, and also shows how you can use P/Invoke to perform your own authentication and impersonation in general .NET code
Transitioning Existing Code to the ES5 Getter/Setter APIs – Allen Wirfs-Brock shows the ECMAScript5 Getter / Setter API and shows how you can make use of it in your own code, using a helper library to provide backward compatibility by using feature detection and emulating the API for browser which do not support ES5
Overriding a .svc Request With Routing – Phil Haack uses a recent StackOverflow question to illustrate some of the differences and interplay between ASP.NET routing and the ASP.NET build providers, explaining how they intercept the request at different levels sometimes causing things you might expect to work to not work
What is the WCF RIA Services team up to – Dinesh Kulkarni gives a little update on what the RIA Services team have been up to since their V1 release, outlining their hopes for the content and schedule for their next release will be.
How to Unit Test WF4 Workflows – Ron Jacobs talks about the testing of Workflows, highlighting the WF4 Workflow Test Helper library which provides a number of helpers to make the process easier, focusing in this article on the testing of activity inputs and outputs
The .NET Micro Framework – Hardware for Software People – Scott Hanselman takes a look at the Netduino (and others) .NET Micro Framework board, sharing a simple program showing how simple it is to work with this hardware, even if you are only a software guy.
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FREE 2 Weeks of Windows Azure Platform training delivered online – 11th to 25th October – Eric Nelson highlights a ‘Virtual’ Azure training course which will be being held in October, providing instructor led sessions over Live Meeting along with supported distance learning exercises. The best bit, ths training is free, and registration is now open.
Tech.Ed Online – Ryan Tarak highlights the availability of over 170 session recordings TechEd New Zealand which was held last week, providing a great opportunity for anyone to get access to the learning provided at the conference
