The Morning Brew

Many thanks for all the 700th edition support and feedback, your kind comments and retweets are the things that keep me producing The Morning Brew every day.

Software

• Windows Azure Application Monitoring Management Pack Released – Wes Yanaga highlights the release of the Azure Application Monitoring Management Pack, This tooling works along side Windows Server 2008 and 2008R2 and System Center Operations Manager and allows you to monitor Azure applications for availability and performance
• Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – September Update – Patrick highlights the latest update to the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit. The September update brings all the content up to date with Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio version 1.2, adds a number of new hands on tutorials, and updates and extends a few existing tutorials.
• SisoDb – An early prototype – Daniel Wertheim shares an early edition of his new project, a Microsoft SQL Server backed NoSQL schema-less data store which uses JSON to provide the format for stored data. Full source is available for this Open Source Project.
• Kaliro App Explorer is a quick, simple and easy way to explore the resources, modules, etc in a .Net Assembly (Yes, like Reflector, but simpler…) – Greg’s Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day – Greg Duncan highlights Kaliro App Explorer, a reflector like tool which provides a simplier experience for exploring the resources files and modules contained inside your assemblies.
• Prism v4 – Drop 9 Coming Wednesday Morning – Pete Brown gives a heads-up of a new updated release of the Prism Composite Application Framework V4. This new release brings a new license with the project moving to a Microsoft Patterns and Practices License, completes the code samples and quickstarts.
• A Real WPF 4.0 WebBrowser – Chris Cavanagh announces the latest release of his WPF Chromium WebBrowser whcih brings a native WPF based browser control to the table. This latest release has been updated for .NET 4 and Awesomium 1.6 RC1

Information

• What is Functional Programming? Part 5, Bindings – Christopher Bennage continues his series of posts on Functional Programming with a quick look at bindings using the let keyword, exploring the true meaning of the keyword and the power it provides.
• Introduction to Functional Languages – DotNet-TV.com shares a video from ON Microsoft which is a 15 minute discussion of functional languages with Luke Hoban, the Program Manager for F#.
• Rethinking user interface test automation – Gojko Adzic shares some thoughts based on Geoff Bache’s "Making GUI testing productive and Agile" presentation at Agile Testing Days 2010, discussing the brittleness of recorded tests, the use and abuse of assertions and some alternative approaches to UI testing.
• Five rules for writing effective UI tests – Jimmy Bogard shares his top 5 rules for writing good UI tests, derived from his years of experience of creating UI tests and for working with some other talented developers. These rules can be applied regardless of the technologies used, and provide good food for thought, well worth reading before you attempt your latest UI testing
• Extending ASP.NET MVC’s Validation – Mike Ormond shares this week’s MSDN Flash featured article from David Bending addressing the extensibility of ASP.NET MVC validation, showing how you can extend the platform to provide hooks for implementing custom complex validations.
• RavenDB – Image Gallery Project (VII) – User Registration – Rob Ashton presses on with his RavenDB Image Gallery sample project, this time focusing on User Registration features, sharing the implementation of the business entities, services and integration tests.
• Creating WIX Installer for ASP.NET Web Application – Petr Pechovic walks through the theory and process of building an installer for ASP.NET Web applications using the WIX installer in this Code Project article.
• Integrating Prism v4 Region Navigation with Silverlight Frame Navigation – Karl Shifflett shares a sample application demonstrating the use of Prism V4 Region Navigation, and combining it with the the Silverlight 4 Frame Navigation showing how the two APIs can be combined.
• Windows Phone 7 – Top 10 Tips for a Successful Marketplace Certification – ‘jodonnell’ shares a list of 10 key points to ensure you consider before submitting your applications to the marketplace for testing to help ensure that your application will pass the tests.
• NHibernate 3 and Autofac, can go together? (part 1) – Context is King – Thang Chung explores using NHibernate 3 and the AutoFac IOC implementation together, and will be giving some background on each technology and showing some implementation. This first part looks at NHibernate 3.

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