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Josh Smith has a nice CodeProject article that discusses the Model-View-Controller Design Pattern with respect to creating modular WPF Applications. He then dives into unit testing the model and controller and introducing mock objects.
A new release of Prism on 05/02/2008. The latest version of the Composite WPF Application Guidance includes dynamic module loading and initialization, quickstarts, some documentation, and a different way to compose a UI by using View-Models and Data templates.
A link to some MSDN Resources that discuss ways to optimize the performance of WPF Applications.
If you are building WPF Applications and interested in profiling WPF Applications to optimize performance, check out the WPF Performance Suite.
IronPython 2.0 Beta 2 Released on CodePlex. In addition to the usual bug fixes (~25 reported on CodePlex and ~50 reported internally), this release has been partially focused on improving the performance of IronPython, in particular startup perf.
There are six more WCF Security Examples and Tutorials released as part of the WCF Security Guidance Project.
F# 1.9.4 is available for download. F# is a mixed functional/imperative/object-oriented programming language excellent for medium/advanced programmers and for teaching.
Rob Eisenberg mentions his project, Caliburn, which is an MVP Framework for creating WPF Composite Applications and similar in many ways to Microsoft Patterns and Practices Prism Project. Rob is about a year ahead of the Prism project so it definitely sounds worth checking out for your WPF Application Needs.
Nick Blumhardt wrote an article on CodeProject that shows how to use Autofac for dependency injection in your applications.
The Smart Client Software Factory for Visual Studio 2008 was released on Microsoft Downloads.
The Page Flow Application Block was removed from the Web Client Software Factory Feb 2008 release, but has made its way into the WCSFContrib Project.
Brian Harry mentions the release of TFS Power Tools for March 2008. This new Power Tool release will work only with the VS/Team Explorer 2008 client (but against either a TFS 2005 or TFS 2008 server).
xUnit 1.0 was released today. Includes a console runner, TestDriven.net runner, ReSharper runner, stand-alone GUI runner, MSBuild task, and other goodies.
The Smart Client Software Factory Contrib 1.5 was released on April 17, 2008. All solution and projects were migrated to Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5.
A whole bunch of WCF 3.5 Security Guidelines are now available from the Microsoft Patterns & Practices WCF Security Guidance Project. This is in addition to the previously released samples and videos.
The new Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance Project by Microsoft Patterns & Practices has a new home on CodePlex.
Following on the footsteps of the Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Alpha Release for Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Patterns & Practices just released the April 2008 Beta Version of the SCSF.
The fourth drop of the Prism Project was released on April 15th, 2008.
Victor from Clarius Consulting is showing off some screenshots of the next version of the T4 Editor for editing code generation templates used by Microsoft DSL Tools / Guidance Packages.
The PrismContrib Project has started on CodePlex for those of you interested in the Microsoft Patterns & Practices Prism Project for developing Composite WPF Applications.
New release of Spec# for Visual Studio 2005. Spec# is an experimental language that extends C# with several design-by-contract features.
xUnit.net 1.0 RC3 was released which includes version-independent runner support as well as CruiseControl.NET and ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Support. They believe they are now v1 feature complete and barring any major bugs xUnit is expected to be released at the end of the month.
With the release of Unity 1.0 we now have the Unity Contrib Project, which is a community-driven project where ObjectBuilder and Unity IoC Gurus can submit Unity Extensions, Samples, and other assets to share with the developer community.
Grigori Melnik announced the kickoff of a new guidance project by Microsoft Patterns & Practices - Acceptance Test Guidance Project.
The Smart Client Software Factory April 2008 Alpha for Visual Studio 2008 was released by Microsoft Patterns & Practices. This release supports Visual Studio 2008, contains minor bug fixes, and uses Guidance Automation Extensions ( GAX ) 1.4.