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Using the Model-View-Controller Design Pattern to Create Modular WPF Applications

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.

Optimizing WPF Application Performance Guidance on MSDN

A link to some MSDN Resources that discuss ways to optimize the performance of WPF Applications.

WPF Application Performance / Profiling Tools - WPF Performance Suite

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

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.

New WCF Security Guidance Examples and Tutorials - Patterns and Practices Guidance

There are six more WCF Security Examples and Tutorials released as part of the WCF Security Guidance Project.

F# 1.9.4 Download Available - Functional Programmaing Language for .NET Development

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.

Caliburn - An MVP Framework for WPF Composite Applications

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.

Dependency Injection in C# 3.0 with Autofac CodeProject Article

Nick Blumhardt wrote an article on CodeProject that shows how to use Autofac for dependency injection in your applications.

Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released - March 2008

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 Released

xUnit 1.0 was released today. Includes a console runner, TestDriven.net runner, ReSharper runner, stand-alone GUI runner, MSBuild task, and other goodies.

WCF 3.5 Security Guidelines Now Available

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.

T4 Editor - Early Screenshots of the Next Version for Editing Code Generation Templates

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.

Spec# for Visual Studio 2005 - New Release

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 Released - CruiseControl.NET and ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Support

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.

Unity Contrib Project Opens Its Doors - Unity Extensions Samples Tutorials

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.

Acceptance Test Guidance Project Kick-Off by Microsoft Patterns and Practices

Grigori Melnik announced the kickoff of a new guidance project by Microsoft Patterns & Practices - Acceptance Test Guidance Project.

Framework Design Studio Released - Tools for Reusable Library Designers

Krzysztof Cwalina and team released a Framework Design Studio that is a set of tools for framework and library developers to view, review, and compare versions of managed APIs.

LinFu Articles on CodeProject Well-Worth Reading

Stretch your mind a bit by reading the LinFu Articles on CodeProject regarding DynamicProxy, Mixins and Duck Typing, Inversion of Control, Design By Contract, and AOP. You don't have to like or use LinFu to appreciate the topics.

Autofac IoC Tool

If you haven't settled on an IoC Tool or become completely obsessed with the dependency injection tool you use, you may want to look at Autofac, which utiltizes a number of C# 3.0 Features, like Lambda Expressions, Expression Trees, and Extension Methods, to give you an intuitive IoC Tool that is pretty extensible. Read more...

WCF Security Videos Tutorials and Samples

The WCF Security Guidance Project has numerous videos and how-to samples showing WCF Security step-by-step. Read more...

WCF Security Guidance Project on CodePlex

Microsoft Patterns and Practices has started a new project on CodePlex, called the WCF Security Guidance Project, to help developers with WCF Security.

xUnit.net 1.0 RC2 Released

xUnit.net 1.0 RC2 was released and includes a number of new features and bug fixes. It includes a number of runners: Console runner, MSBuild runner, TestDriven.net 2.x, and ReSharper 3.1 runner. It also includes a number of extensions, including...

List of .NET IoC Containers and Dependency Injection Tools

Scott Hanselman created a list of Inversion of Control ( IOC ) and Dependency Injection Tools for the .NET Framework. I have used quite a few of them, including: Castle Windsor, StructureMap, Spring.NET, Autofac, Unity, and the Do-It-Yourself Method. If you haven't chosen an IoC Tool, there are certainly plenty to choose from...

Moq - Mocking Library Using .NET 3.5 LINQ Expressions Trees and C# 3.0 Lambda Expressions

There is a new mocking library for those still writing hand mocks or have not settled on a tool yet. Moq is a free mocking framework / library for the .NET Framework developed from scratch to take advantage of LINQ Expression Trees in .NET 3.5 as well as C# 3.0 Features, like Lambda Expressions, to simply your mocking needs. Read more...

New Unity IoC Screencast

I created a new Unity IoC Screencast based on a number of changes to the Unity API as well as a new release of the ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 2. In addition to showing how to use Unity with ASP.NET Webforms Model-View-Presenter and the ASP.NET MVC Framework, the new Unity Screencast shows about a dozen common usages of Unity, including...