Simple.Data 0.5 – Mark Rendle announces the 0.5 release of Simple.Data, his answer to the simple data access strategy introduced by Microsoft in WebMatrix. This update removes the dependency (and use) of the Reactive Extensions for .NET, improves the NoSql support, and also exposes more of Simple.Data’s internal types to allow improved testability of other provider implementations.
The State of Axum – Niklas Gustafsson gives an update on the Axum project, announcing how the project is unlikely to continue into productization, and reflecting on the projects successes and influence into the next versions of C# and VB.NET
Windows Embedded Compact 7 is available! – Olivier Bloch announces the public availability of Windows Embedded Compact 7 following a series of OEM beta releases, sharing video, labs and whitepapers about this new version.
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The Reactive Extensions Now Live on MSDN Data Developer Center – Matthew Podwysocki highlights the new home of the Reactive Extensions, now a part of the MSDN Data Developer Centre, along with new resources and methods of getting the reactive extensions into your projects.
JavaScript Architecture – Simon Ince explores two differing approaches to the architecture of JavaScript solutions, discussing the reasons for these differing approaches, and the advantages and disadvantages of each way of working.
Guidelines and rules for GetHashCode – Eric Lippert explores the various rules and guidelines about implementing GetHashCode, looking to separate the hard and fast rules from the things that are less strictly required, and discussing the uses of this method, and the key points in its implementation.
ASP.NET MVC 3 w/ Razor Infrastructure Template – Adron Hall shares an infrastructure project template for ASP.NET MVC 3 which utilises Razor and entity framework, and is a project template which he plans to build upon, including implementations of common patterns and useful functional following a test driven approach.
Unit tests are overrated – Krzysztof Kozmic continues his discussions of testing practices with a discussion of the importance of choosing the right type of test for the job you are trying to do, discussing how most of the tests in the Castle Windsor Container project are not ‘Unit’ tests but infact integration tests exercising the whole stack.
DynamicModuleUtility – K Scott Allen highlights the inclusion of the Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure assembly as a part of the ASP.NET MVC 3 release, and looks at the use of the DynamicModuleUtility class it includes to allow you to register HTTP Modules using code.
HTML5 Web Storage in Essence – Wayne Ye explores the new HTML5 Web Storage, and how it provides a viabale replacement for the standard cookie, looking at how you can work with it using JavaScript and looking at its implementation in Internet Explorer 9 RC and Chrome.
Community
User Group Tour 7th to 11th March 2011 IIS, Media Services and IIS SEO Toolkit – IIS Developer MVP, and friend of the Brew Andrew Westgarth is going on tour next week (7th-10th March) visiting Bristol, Oxford, Coventry and Cambridge delivering a variety of sessions on IIS and Web Dev topics to local usergroups.
FREE Day long Windows Azure technical briefing on March 31st in Reading – Eric Nelson highlights a whole day Windows Azure briefing event being run by the UK ISV Team on 31st March at Microsoft’s Reading offices. Spaces are limited at this event to 50 spaces, so if you are a UK based software architect or developer and want to attend get registered soon.
