Secret Project – Martin Carolan shares his secret project ‘Event Spy’ a means of observing all the events being fired by a .NET application, and providing a viewer to observe these calls making it easier to find out what is going on in your applications and also making discovering how 3rd party libraries are working.
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VS 2010 SP1 and SQL CE – ScottGu’s Blog – Scott Guthrie shares a comprehensive post looking at the support for Sql Server CE included in the Visual Studio 2010 / .NET 4 Service Pack, giving a walk through of its use along side Entity Framework and ASP.NET Webforms and MVC.
C# In Depth – Optional Parameters and Named Argument – CodeBetter, in conjunction with Manning Publications are sharing an excerpt from Jon Skeet’s C# in Depth 4 book on Optional Parameters and Named Arguments in C#, along with a promo code to get 40% off the full book.
Introducing the NuGet gallery – David Ebbo gives an update on the work being done to make submitting NuGet packages easier, and unveils the NuGet Gallery site.
Monads in C#-3. Creating our first Monad – Mike Hadlow continues his session preparation for his DDD9 session on Monads in C#, and this post looks at composition of functions from ‘amplified’ types
RavenDB & HTTP Caching – Ayende discusses the role of HTTP caching in RavenDB (and other REST based applications) and how it provides the basis of the second level cache for calling applications.
Shifting testing strategies away from mocks – Jimmy Bogard discusses the evolution of his testing strategy and how he has moved away from mocking all dependencies of a class and instead is using the actual implementations in his tests, along with how his testing style has evolved towards BDD style tests.
ORM anti-patterns – Part 3: Lazy loading – Mehdi Khalili has a series of posts on Anti Patterns for ORM based applications which is already up to part three. This particular post discusses Lazy Loading anti-patterns and solutions to those anti-patterns, and previous posts looked at Active Record and Batch updating. With another 6 parts planned this is one to watch.
Dot Remoting – Server Activated, SingleCall Technique – Sivaraman Dhamodaran shares a simple sample application which makes use of remote objects using .NET Remoting, illustrating how objects can be created remotely and interacted with from a client process in this CodeProject article.
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Silverlight Cream for January 11, 2011 — #1024 – Many congratlations to Dave Campbell for reaching the 1024 post mark with Silverlight Cream – The Brew doesn’t contain much Silverlight news mainly because I don’t work with it, but also because Dave does such a good job with the Silverlight and related topics – if you are not reading already go check Silverlight Cream out.
