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Following my 2008 in review post a number of influential .NET bloggers have been promoting the Morning Brew, and the overall result has been a 60% increase in subscribers and a significant increase in web page impressions. I’d like to thank those bloggers for their enthusiasm for The Morning Brew, and also to say a quick ‘hello’ to all the new readers and to remind you all that I’m very open to suggestions about The Morning Brew, and also for suggestions for content – as long as its good, timely and .NET related there is a good chance it will go in.

Software

Information on Downloading and Installing Windows 7 Beta – Windows 7 beta can be obtained currently from the MSDN and Technet downloads if you are a subscriber, however Windows 7 goes into a much more public beta tomorrow at 3pm (EST?) with a publicly available download of an ISO image.

Oxite – Release: Oxite.2009.1.5 – The Team behind Oxite, the ASP.NET MVC CMS that came under a lot of fire from the developer community before Christmas, have released an update, which fixes a number of bugs, adds skinning support and also has substantial Code Clean up based on the community feedback.

Information

AutoWiring in StructureMap 2.5+ – Jeremy D. Miller is continuing with the documentation for Structure Map, his IOC/DI project. In this extract, he examines an anti patter of IOC container use and looks at the Auto Wiring functionality provided in Structure Map.

IoC libraries compared – Chris Brandsma talks about IOC libraries, and looks at how they all handle constructor injection, the area where there is most commonality in functionality, but different ways of achieving it.

Introduction to NHibernate, Part 3 – Ian Cooper continues his series on getting started with NHibernate with a look at mapping relationships between classes in sets, lists and the other collection types.