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• The Morning Brew #236

  Posted: yesterday

  Software Moonlight 1.0 Beta 1 - Miguel de Icaza announces the release of the first beta of Moonlight, the Mono Projects answer to Silverlight, and also talks about the Media capabilities of Moonlight TestDriven.NET 2.18 + NUnit 2.5 Beta - Jamie Cansdale announces an update for TestDriven.NET which

• The Morning Brew #235

  Posted: 02 Dec 2008 at 09:58

  Software Spell checker update 2.2 - The Visual Web Developer Team Blog announce the release of Spell Checker 2.2, a Visual Studio Add-in for VS2008 SP1 which adds spell checking for HTML Comments, ASP.NET Comments, along with comments in your code behind. Create a Vista Gadget Using Visual Studio

• The Morning Brew #234

  Posted: 01 Dec 2008 at 10:50

  A later than usual post today, mainly caused by me being on leave from work this week and not having to ‘get out the door’ by a set time, so I had a leisurely read of today’s posts. Software Subtext 2.1 Released! Contains Security Update - Phil Haack announces the rele

• The Morning Brew #233

  Posted: 28 Nov 2008 at 08:10

  Finally caught up with my reading thanks to a quiet day of posts due to Thanksgiving. Software xUnit.net 1.1 Released - Brad Wilson announces the release of xUnit 1.1. This updated release contains breaking changes, so be sure to read the blog posts about the release before upgrading. Are You Fuss

• The Morning Brew #232

  Posted: 27 Nov 2008 at 08:28

  Happy Thanksgiving Day to all my US based readers! Software Early Christmas from Iron Languages and DLR - Harry Pierson highlights three significant release of Iron languages and the DLR - IronPython 2.0RC2, IronRuby 1.0 Alpha 2 and a new home for the DLR source code on Codeplex, including the init

• The Morning Brew #231

  Posted: 26 Nov 2008 at 08:32

  Still not quite caught up with my backlog of posts to read, but I think normality will be restored tomorrow - I’m down to the low signal to noise feeds now, so I don’t anticipate a huge deluge of old content will be being posted now. Software Treemap + Silverlight => Gasp

• The Morning Brew #230

  Posted: 25 Nov 2008 at 08:39

  Almost caught up with the backlog of posts, but Tomorrow may include a few more ‘older’ posts in a final push to get back to Zero unread items in my feed reader. Software Announcing Isolator for Sharepoint with a free full license for bloggers - Roy Osherove announces TypeMo

• The Morning Brew #229

  Posted: 24 Nov 2008 at 10:15

  A larger than average post today as I’m still catching up from being away for most of the past week - expect another larger than usual post tomorrow. Software Cumulative update package 2 for SQL Server 2008 has been released - Denis Gobo highlights the release of the second Cumula

• The Morning Brew #228

  Posted: 21 Nov 2008 at 08:28

  Back in the UK again following my trip to Romania, and still have a huge list of posts to read through. Today’s edition is not comprehensive, but you can look forward to a large catchup post either Sunday or Monday. Looking forward to DDD 7 tomorrow - you you spot me there come [...]

• The Morning Brew #227

  Posted: 20 Nov 2008 at 07:20

  Information Where TDD fails for me - Jimmy Bogard talks about some of his current problem areas when working in a test driven way. Multi-tenancy part 1: Strategy. - Mike Hadlow talks about Multi-Tenancy in Web applications, and considers what strategy will work well for his ECommerce project. Mike

• The Morning Brew #226

  Posted: 19 Nov 2008 at 07:08

  Very busy at the moment, so the next few days of posts might be a little shorter than usual, normality should be resumed after the weekend. Information PTOM: The Composite Design Pattern - Ray Houston continues on with the ‘Pablo’s Topic of the Month’ theme at Los Tech

• The Morning Brew #225

  Posted: 18 Nov 2008 at 03:55

  Software Spackle.NET is Published - Jason Bock gathers together all little utility projects into a single project called Spackle.NET and hosts the lot of them on CodePlex Information Functional .NET 4.0 - Tuples and Zip - Matthew Podwysocki looks at two more of the Functional Programming concepts

• The Morning Brew #224

  Posted: 17 Nov 2008 at 08:25

  Information Rendering A Single View Using Multiple ViewEngines - Phil Haack looks into an interesting aspect of the ASP.NET MVC view rendering which allows you to use a different engine to render partial views to that of the main view. Windsor Components, the ASP.NET MVC Framework, and Bug Verifica

• The Morning Brew #223

  Posted: 14 Nov 2008 at 08:28

  Thank goodness its Friday! Software IIS7 Request Routing and Load Balancer Release Candidate Available for Download - BillS announces the release candidate of the IIS7 Application Request Routing Extension, which allows IIS to offer routing and load-balancing based on HTTP level rules. S#arp Archit

• The Morning Brew #222

  Posted: 13 Nov 2008 at 08:36

  Software SubSonic 3.0 Preview 2 - Rob Conery announces Preview 2 of Version 3 of his SubSonic Data Access layer, and in this post gives some details about how it all works and how tto use it. Download link is towards the end of the post. NCover v3.0.6 is now available. - NCover have been busy, [..

• The Morning Brew #221

  Posted: 12 Nov 2008 at 08:25

  Yesterday’s interim measures following the failure of my web host seem to have worked well, and after a little less than a 24 hour outage things are back up and running normally again. Any links to the temporary site/post will redirect to the real site/post. Software New Release

• The Morning Brew #220

  Posted: 11 Nov 2008 at 16:25

  **Update** If you are reading this then things have returned to normal - apologies if you see duplicate entries in your feed reader as I switch the feed back to using the real blog feed. My web hosting went offline last night and has yet to return, so this is an interim measure, hopefully the [...]

• The Morning Brew #219

  Posted: 10 Nov 2008 at 08:35

  Software SubSonic 3.0 Preview 1: Linq Has Landed - Rob Conery announces the first preview release of SubSonic 3.0 which promises a huge range of improvements over version 2, not least support for Linq. In this post Rob walks through the setup, and getting started and the new features. A download

• The Morning Brew #218

  Posted: 07 Nov 2008 at 08:36

  Information .NET 4.0’s game-changing feature? Maybe contracts… - Jon Skeet talks about the Code Contracts feature for .NET 4.0 A Tour of WPF - Mike Taulty shares a number of training resources for WPF, including code samples and slide decks for you to use for your own tal

• The Morning Brew #217

  Posted: 06 Nov 2008 at 08:27

  Information Static Compilation in Mono - Miguel de Icaza talks about the new Static Compolation feature of Mono which will allow for (for example) writing mono applications and having them run on an IPhone without having to jail break. It sounds like the compilation process is a little com