A plethora of news this week…enjoy!

General

• Wrapping up NHibernate: I’ve been playing with NHibernate for a few projects, and am really liking what I’m seeing. This post provides an elegant pattern for wrapping and consuming NHibernate.
• Why do we need yet another .Net mocking framework: Daniel Cazzulino defends the latest mocking framework. For even more information, check out his previous posts.
• LINQifying – getting rid of CollectionBase: The more LINQ I see, the more I like it! Rick Strahl has a good post about LINQifying older code.
• Stop creating custom delegates: Jimmy Bogard of LosTechies (Se hable code?) gives an overview of yet another great language feature in C# 3.0 that should help eliminate custom delgates.
• Expression trees in LINQ: Lee Richardson dives into LINQ expression trees. His claim is that it makes LINQ2SQL better than NHibernate…I want to agree with him, but I’m not quite there yet.

ASP.Net

• What’s Wrong with the ASP.Net Community: Dan Hounshell has some interesting comments about the state of the ASP.Net community. I think he’s hit the nail on the head.
• Testing ASP.Net MVC with Moq: Justin Etheredge has a great post about testing your MVC application using the new kid on the block – Moq.
• Building a REST application with WCF: REST is all the rage nowadays, and as of .Net 3.5, it is a fully fledged technology. This is yet another great example of how to build RESTful applications.
• Regex Route Handler for MVC: Fredrik Kalseth shows how to extend the routing framework in preview 2 of the MVC framework.