Weekly Web Nuggets #7
General
- NCover 2.1.0 Released: The latest update to a very popular code coverage tool, now supporting .Net 3.0 & 3.5!
- Using Entity Framework with Disconnected N-Tier Objects: Ruurd Boeke has a good post about using Entity Framework objects across process and/or physical boundaries.
- P2P using WCF and .Net 3.5: Did you know that the latest incarnation of .Net has the ability to very simply create a P2P mesh? It does, and this MSDN article gives a great overview.
- LINQPad: Awesome tool for editing LINQ queries!
- How to Expose Your Collections Safely: Shahar Abramovich writes about how to easily expose collections as read-only.
Asp.Net
- Using Spring.Net & NHibernate with Asp.Net MVC: Bill McCafferty writes about using 2 popular projects, NHibernate & Spring.Net, with Asp.Net MVC.
- Why Adding More Memory Won't Fix 'Out of Memory' Errors: Edge Pereira writes about an all-too-familiar problem; the 'Out of Memory' error! Specifically, he covers the reasons behind why adding more memory does not solve the issue. (Hint: it's not the hardware!)
- Asynchronous Requests in Asp.Net MVC: I'm surprised that this isn't implemented by Microsoft in the MVC framework yet - asynchronous requests! Never fear, for Steve Sanderson has put together everything necessary for an AsyncController.
- Upcoming Routing Changes in Asp.Net MVC: Phil Haack has a good post about changes in the forthcoming release of MVC. The routing gets better every time!
Other
- Vista UAC was designed to annoy users: Apparently what many long have suspected is actually true! The annoyance is to 'stop users from wreaking havoc with their systems and to stop software makers from making applications that delved too far into the Windows subsystem'. For the record, outside of setting up a new computer and development work, I rarely see the UAC prompts. Now the only question is how does Microsoft know that '88% of Vista users have UAC enabled and 66% of Windows sessions do not encounter UAC prompts'?
- 50 CSS Tips & Tools: A nice collection of CSS goodness!
