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• The Morning Brew #382

  Posted: 03 Jul 2009 at 06:59 by Chris Alcock

  Software IronRuby 0.6 Released! - Jimmy Schementi announces the release of IronRuby 0.6, which brings further improvements to performance and Ruby compatibility, along with a bunch of new features and a return for Silverlight support Sandcastle Release - The SandCastle team announce the latest code release, releasing the source for the version of the SandCastle Documentation [...]

• The Morning Brew #381

  Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 07:08 by Chris Alcock

  Software Announcing PostSharp 1.5 RC2 - The PostSharp Team announce the second release candidate release of V1.5, with 10 minor fixes ovoer the previous version, of which they consider two require testing by the community before 1.5 can be called stable Information Three IIS Concepts ASP.NET Developers Should Know - K. Scott Allen highlights a video he produced [...]

• The Morning Brew #380

  Posted: 01 Jul 2009 at 07:26 by Chris Alcock

  Impressive thunderstorms here in Liverpool last night, unfortunately it still feels like today is going to be another warm and humid day. Software Firefox 3.5: The fastest fox has landed - Ajaxian highlights the release of FireFox 3.5, a significant upgrade to the FireFox Web Browser, brining with it a number of exciting (for web developers) features [...]

• The Morning Brew #379

  Posted: 30 Jun 2009 at 07:57 by Chris Alcock

  Information xUnit.GWT - Given When Then (GWT) extension for xUnit.net - Ben Hall explores the Given When Then style BDD testing using the xUnit.Net extension How we do MVC - View models - Jimmy Bogard talks about the conventions surrounding View Models which his team have gravitated to on their recent ASP.NET MVC project CodeRush Xpress for C# [...]

• The Morning Brew #378

  Posted: 29 Jun 2009 at 07:18 by Chris Alcock

  Information Principals, Code-Behind, & View Engines - K. Scott Allen highlights his article in MSDN Magazine this month (available online) on ‘Guiding Principles for your ASP.NET MVC Applications’, along with Justin Etheredge’s piece on ‘Building Testable ASP.NET MVC Applications’ C# 4.0 Dynamics vs. Reflection - Kevin Rohling compares the performance of the new .NET 4 Dynamics to [...]

• The Morning Brew #376

  Posted: 26 Jun 2009 at 06:31 by Chris Alcock

  Software New release of WPF Toolkit, now with charts! - Jaime Rodriguez highlights the latest release of the WPF Toolkit (June 2009 Release), with the significant new feature of Charting, along with the usual bugfixes Windows 7: Be first. Save half. - ’sachinp’ highlights the Windows Pre-Order introductory offer, including some substantial savings on the list prices. [...]

• The Morning Brew #376

  Posted: 25 Jun 2009 at 07:30 by Chris Alcock

  Is anyone else getting ‘Bad Request - Request Too Long’ errors on blogs.msdn.com all the time? Software YUI 3.0.0 beta 1 Available for Download - Yahoo release the first beta release of YUI (Yahoo User Interface), their JavaScript library for creating complex UI Information Mind if my MVC T4 template changes your code a bit? - David Ebbo talks [...]

• The Morning Brew #375

  Posted: 24 Jun 2009 at 07:21 by Chris Alcock

  A lot of video content in today’s edition… Software Still on the Windows 7 Beta? - John McClelland shares a timely reminder about the expiry of the Windows 7 Beta release - only a few days before it goes into 2 hour shutdown mode. Velocity Administration Console - Gil Fink announces a nice little project to create a [...]

• The Morning Brew #374

  Posted: 23 Jun 2009 at 06:52 by Chris Alcock

  Software Spark View Engine - Release: Spark v1.0 - The Spark View Engine reached a V1 final release last week. This release brings a few minor changes since the RC2 release, improvements to samples, the odd bugfix, the removal of dependencies on MVCContrib, and a new installer to name a few Announcing: Entity Framework Feature CTP [...]

• The Morning Brew #373

  Posted: 22 Jun 2009 at 07:34 by Chris Alcock

  Software MSDN Community CD, June 09 Release - .Net 4, VS2020, IIS SEO, Win 7 and ASP AJAX videos and more - Greg Duncan highlights the release of the MSDN Communuty CD for June 09, containing Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4, along with a whole host of other goodies, including a number of screencasts too. Information Refactoring XmlWriter [...]

• The Morning Brew #372

  Posted: 19 Jun 2009 at 07:25 by Chris Alcock

  Software TestDriven.Net 2.22 RTM - What’s New? - Jamie Cansdale announces the RTM release of TestDriven.NET 2.22 which includes support for VS2010, NUnit 2.5, TypeMock, NCover, F# NSyntheis 0.1.1 has escaped! - Stuart Caborn announces his first release of NSyntheis, a port of the Ruby project Syntheis which aims to provide a means of joining tests which [...]

• The Morning Brew #371

  Posted: 18 Jun 2009 at 07:22 by Chris Alcock

  My feed reader was unusually empty this morning (only about 60% of the usual number of posts) so today’s edition is a little shorter than the norm. Additionally, a number of articles today come from the blogs.msdn.com site, which at the time of writing this seems to be returning ‘Bad Request - Request Too [...]

• The Morning Brew #370

  Posted: 17 Jun 2009 at 07:43 by Chris Alcock

  Software Small Basic : The newest, leanest and the meanest is here! - The Small Basic team announce the release of v0.5 which adds in their most requested features along with bugfixes MVVM light toolkit (Silverlight edition) posted - Laurent Bugnion announces the release of his Model-View-ViewModel toolkit for Silverlight. This article also gives [...]

• The Morning Brew #369

  Posted: 16 Jun 2009 at 07:07 by Chris Alcock

  Information Life After Loops - Justin Etheredge takes a look at the evolution of the humble for loop looking at the improvements in syntax and introduction of features such as lazy evaluation Introducing F# - Four part webcast series - Tomas Petricek shares his 4 part web cast series on Introducing F#, exploring the functional programming concepts, [...]

• The Morning Brew #368

  Posted: 15 Jun 2009 at 07:20 by Chris Alcock

  I’ve had a surge in traffic and (twitter followers) over the weekend due to Scott Hanselman including ‘The Morning Brew’ in his Bytes by MSDN video interview - thanks for the plug Scott! Software Caliburn v1 Release Candidate - Rob Eisenberg announces the Release Candidate of Caliburn, an application framework for WPF and Silverlight which provides implementations [...]

• The Morning Brew #367

  Posted: 12 Jun 2009 at 09:34 by Chris Alcock

  Software XNA Game Studio 3.1 - Coding4Fun announces the release of XNA GameStudio 3.1, the latest version of the SDK for building XBox games in C#. Lots of new features in this much anticipated release Pex 0.14.040610.2: Fix Suggestions for Invariant Methods and Natural properties for Stubs. - Jonathan "Peli" de Halleux announces the latest release [...]

• The Morning Brew #366

  Posted: 11 Jun 2009 at 07:21 by Chris Alcock

  Software JetBrains TeamCity 4.5.2 Available - Jose Rolando Guay Paz shares the announcement of the release of JetBrains TeamCity 4.5.2, a second bugfix release which focuses in compatibility of integrations and stability. Free, for MSDN Subscribers/reg-ware, WPF Controls from Telerik (Limited time only!) - Greg Duncan highlights a special offer for MSDN Subscribers to get a free [...]

• The Morning Brew #365

  Posted: 10 Jun 2009 at 05:39 by Chris Alcock

  Software ASP.NET MVC Installer For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 And Roadmap - Phil Haack announces the release of an ASP.NET MVC 1.0 installer for VS2010 users (it was omitted in the VS release as it hadn’t yet hit 1.0 RTM when the code freeze occurred) Information Introduction to StructureMap - Chad Myers provides a nice introduction to [...]

• The Morning Brew #364

  Posted: 09 Jun 2009 at 05:58 by Chris Alcock

  Information Why is ASP.NET encoding &’s in script URLs? A tale of looking at entirely the wrong place for a cause to a non-existing bug - Bertrand Le Roy looks at how a wrong assumption can cause you to start chasing bugs that don’t exist - in this case due to incorrect assumptions about encoding of [...]

• The Morning Brew #363

  Posted: 08 Jun 2009 at 06:08 by Chris Alcock

  Software NHModeller - An tool created using an Oslo based DSL which aims to make working with NHibernate easier, allowing you to define your entities inthe DSL and have your classes, mapping files and database schema created for you. The DLS includes intellisense when used within Intellipad Information 10 commandments for creating good code - Alberto Gutierrez [...]