Today marks the last triple digit edition of The Morning Brew!
Software
- Introducing CSSCop – FxCop for stylesheets – Mads Kristensen announces his latest Visual Studio Extension – CSSCop. CSSCop is to CSS Style Sheets what FxCop is to .NET Code allowing you to find mistakes, invalid values for properties and much more. The rules applied are configurable and is manually invoked on your files.
- OakLeaf Systems: The SQL Azure Team Unveils a New Server Management UI – Roger Jennings gives a tour of the new Sql Azure Management Interface for controlling and working with your SQL Azure server instances
Information
- So many interfaces, part two – Eric Lippert revisits a topic from earlier in the year taking a look at interface re-implementation where your class explicitly states that it implements an interface that is already implemented in the inheritance hierarchy, showing how inheritance can be a much more complex topic that we may initially think.
- C# Fundamentals: Returning Zero or One Item As IEnumerable<T> – James Michael Hare continues his C# Fundamentals series with a look at returning empty results collections or single results wrapped as IEnumerable<T>, exploring the use og List<T>, arrays and iterators, comparing their implementation in code and performance.
- NuGet: little known features – Peter Kuhn discusses some of the less well know features of NuGet, discussing and highlighting documentation on creating your own NuGet feeds, making use of Package Restore as a part of your build process, and creating your own packages.
- Use Projections and a Repository to Fake a Filtered Eager Load – Julie Lerman discusses one of the most requested features which is not currently in Entity Framework – sorting and filtering of eager loaded data – discussing the problem pace and showing how you can work around the current limitation in certain circumstances.
- Hosted Execution of smaller code snippets with Roslyn – Filip Ekberg discusses the creation of a Roslyn based environment which allows you to run arbitrary C# code in a more isolated way than many of the existing REPL demonstrations support.
- Test first != TDD – Kailuo Wang discusses the difference between writing your tests first and actually doing real Test Driven Development
- 31 Days of Testing – Day 7: Automated Test Basics – Jim Holmes is pressing on with his Testing Series continuing with exploration of Automated Testing looking at the basics of NUnit testing.
- Testing Web.config Transformations, Part 1 – Mads Troest takes a look at performing web.config transformations programmatically allowing you to create automated tests for your web.config transformations, looking at the use of IBuildEngine outside the MSBuild Process.
Community
- The SQL Server Conference – SQLBits 10 – 29 – 31 Mar 2012 – London – Registrations for SQL Bits X which runs between 29th and 31st March 2012 in London. The format of the event is the usual 2 days of paid for conference followed by the Saturday Community Day which is free for all (Registration required). SqlBits X is also doubling up as the SQL Server 2012 UK Launch event, so expect it to be bigger than ever.
- Free OpenWrap workshop Saturday 10th December in Lier, Belgium – Sebastien Lambla is out in Belgium and will be running a 4 hour session on package management, Open Wrap, and composite systems this Saturday (10th December). The event is free, and includes a complimentary lunch.