BizTalk Server 2010 RTM and General Availability date – Nick MacKechnie highlights the RTM release of BizTalk Server 2010, talking about the new functionality, supported platforms, and the new free developer edition.
S#arp Architecture Road Map – Alec Whittington outlines the S#arp Architecture Team’s plans for the next major release of S#arp Architecture, highlighting key features, changes to the organisation of the development effort and their new way of handling templating.
Microsoft Developer Guidance Maps – J.D. Meier highlights the Developer Guidance Maps from Microsoft which mapp out the developer technology space, providing access to code samples, tutorials, how-to’s and Product docuementation.
Separation of Concerns with Domain Events – Mike Hadlow takes a look at applying the Domain Event pattern to his SukekiShop open source ECommerce system, explaining how the pattern helps avoid methods which break the single responsibility principle and avoids the need to inject services into entities.
A Refactoring: Explicit Modeling And Reducing Duplication – Derick Bailey pulls together advice on a variety of topics, such as Implicit vs Explicit Modeling, Reducing Duplication and Readability and Understandability) into on worked example looking at improving some code
Update on ASP.NET Vulnerability – Scott Guthrie gives a further update on the ASP.NET Team’s efforts to get an official patch out for the recent ASP.NET Padding Oracle vulnerability, along with providing a revised version of the best practice to defend against the attack.
UrlScan Broke My Blog (And How I Fixed It) – Phil Haack follows on from Scott’s post with a brief discussion of some problems he ran into using URLScan caused by a dot in a real URL.
Why sleep is good for your app’s padding oracle health – Troy Hunt continues exploring the ASP.NET Padding Oracle Attack and looks into why the random sleep in the recommended workaround is important when dealing with cryptographic vulnerabilities.
Reactive Extensions in .NET Hot & Cold Observable – ‘Sankarsan’ continues exploring the Reactive Extensions for .NET with a look in this part at the concept of Hot and Cold Observables and what the difference is.
Explaining What Action<> And Func<>; Are – John Sonmez highlights the Action<> and Func<> types and explains why they are so useful, particularly for dealing with situations where you have code duplication caused by common code wrapping specific functionality.
Moving ASP.NET MVC Client Side Validation Scripts to Bottom – Imran Baloch takes a look at moving the JavaScript from the ASP.NET MVC Client Side validation to the end of your page as recommended for the best performance of your pages when rendering in the browser.
Writing a Semi-Local Object Pool – Liran Chen looks at implementing Object Pools in .NET, explaining why there are certain circumstances where this technique can provide considerable performance improvement.
How To Unit Test Workflows – Mocking Activities – Ron Jacobs continues his series looking at unit testing Windows Workflow, exploring techniques for mocking activities as a part of this testing .
