C# Cup of T Mug

I must have one of these…

Windows 7 has been released to manufacturing

News from the Windows blog here.

Testing ASP.NET MVC Routes with MVC Contrib

I am starting to make some progress with my side project that I am building out using ASP.NET MVC and SubSonic 3.

That said testing routes is something that I am not doing at the moment but has been nagging away at me especially when the application gets to a decent size.

Well it seems that the MVC Contrib project has something that can help me out here (via a tweet from Dave Bush).

WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2 0 - Sample application

The chaps over at MSDN have released a sample application built with ASP.NET and the WCF Rest Starter Kit Preview 2 that consumes search, maps and social networking api’s in a RESTful manner.

"Litware Training" - Sample Mashup App built with WCF REST Starter Kit

iPhone Development Introduction Video

A good intro video from the ALT.NET chaps that goes into Objective-C and interface builder

Mono links

The Mono Migration Analyzer (MoMA) tool helps you port existing .NET applications to the mono framework.

Mono Tools for Visual Studio allows you to port .NET applications to Mono and Linux without leaving Visual Studio.NET. However this is in private beta at the moment…

ELMAH – Logging Framework

Just stumbled across the Error Logging and Handlers for ASP.NET framework  that is a logging framework for .NET that can be dropped into an already running website without the need for re-compilation or re-deployment.

Looks fantastic. This is going into my side project as well!

Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader to finally come to the UK – and by Christmas?

So say the register… That’s my Christmas present sorted then :)

PhotoView – Reference application for developing for Windows 7

This sample application also named XP2Win7 from Microsoft shows off some of the following Windows 7 specific features:

• Windows Search
• UAC
• Scheduled Task
• Windows 7 Taskbar Integration
• Transactional File System
• IO Optimization
• Event Tracing for Windows (ETW)
• Microsoft Management Console
• Windows 7 Libraries
• Windows 7 Sensor and Location Platform
• PowerShell
• Preview Handler
• Aero Glass
• Trigger Start Services

Download it here

S#arp Architecture 1.0 RTM

The Sharp Architecture ASP.NET MVC and NHibernate framework has reached an important milestone.

Some cracking work has gone into this project and it’s a project that I have blogged about before.

Here are some of the improvements in this release (lifted straight from the Billy’s blog post):

• Compatible with ASP.NET MVC 1.0

• All upgraded dependencies including NHibernate 2.1 CR 1

• We now have a community site at http://www.sharparchitecture.net, still a work in progress (a flippin' ginormous thank you to Kyle Baley for setting this up)

• S#arp Architecture documentation may now be found at http://wiki.sharparchitecture.net, still a work in progress (a huge thanks to Joe Lowrance for migrating the docs)

• Strongly typed action link for areas (SharpArch.Web.Areas.ActionLinkForAreas<> and BuildUrlFromExpressionForAreas<> - thanks Brad Buhrkuhl!)

• Fluent NHibernate now using configuration classes

• (Re)Introduced support for IIS 7 integrated mode

• Support for WCF has been added as SharpArch.Wcf for server support and SharpArch.WcfClient.Castle for auto-closing of the connection on the client (thanks Frank Laub!)

• SharpModelBinder has been introduced for much better form binding, including support for all association types; e.g., one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-one Entity associations

• Support for multiple databases outside of WCF communications (thanks Russell Thatcher, David Longnecker, James Broome and Howard van Rooijen for suggestions and input!)

• A CI home at http://teamcity.codebetter.com/overview.html (thanks Kyle and Simone!),
• Updated compatibility with the latest T4 Toolbox for a much faster and stable CRUD Scaffolding generation experience

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