How Good C# Habits can Encourage Bad JavaScript Habits: Part 1 – Elijah Manor discusses some of the finer points of JavaScript and how if you come to JavaScript from a purely C# experience you will be able to achieve things, but you will be under misapprehensions about how some things are actually working.
Using Solution Factory + NuPack to create Opinionated Visual Studio Solutions. – Eric Hexter also explores the use of the Solution Factory and MetaPacakges in NuPack to provide templates for solutions in Visual Studio, illustrating with an example which creates a test project configured to his liking within an MVC solution.
Testing the Untestable with Delegate Injection – Harry Pierson explores using Delegates to inject functionality into an ASP.NET MVC controller, allowing him to replace calls to static dependencies like FormsAuthentication, Request, Response with more testable alternatives for testing purposes.
One application in both WPF and Silverlight – Khawar Yunus discusses a few techniques which can help you creating a single application which will run in both a Silverlight and WPF environment
RavenDB – Image Gallery Project (VIII) – Signing In + RavenDB Testing – Rob Ashton continues with his series on RavenDB in a real world application with a look at creating the authentication routines of the Image Gallery, and talks about testing RavenDB queries, and his base test class for spinning up RavenDB in order to test the queries.
No Backtracking, Part Two – Eric Lippert looks at a complex example which illustrates why back tracking in the compiler would be both complex and confusing, and would probably result in outcomes which the compiler user would not expect.
Community
Building Offline Experiences using Sync Framework with Andy Wigley – developer Fusion – The .NET Developer Network User Group host Andy Wigley presenting a session on using the Sync Framework to provide offline working functionality in your .NET Applications. The session is to be hosted at the University of the West Of England, just outside Bristol on Tuesday 16th November.
Upcoming talks (mostly on RavenDB) – Rob Ashton is going on tour over the next few months delivering sessions covering RavenDB at a number of UK Usergroups, along with a few sessions on NHibernate and structure map at a couple of conferences. Rob has been working with RavenDB for some time now, and will be delivering code heavy sessions looking at its use.