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StructureMap 2.5 will be released on June 23rd

Several people have asked, and I'm getting anxious to get it out. I've got just a couple little coding tasks to do, then about a week of writing docs, examples, and tutorial thingies. I originally planned to make this release in .Net 2.0, but I gave in and switched the code over to .Net 3.5.

Published Jun 11 2008, 03:25 PM by Jeremy D. Miller

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Derik Whittaker said:

Rock on... Looking forward to this new release.

SM is still my IoC container of choice.

# June 11, 2008 4:36 PM

Mike Moore said:

Why did you switch to .Net 3.5? What benefits did you get for making the switch?

Does using StructureMap 2.5 require you use it from .Net 3.5? Or can you use it from .Net 2.0 as well?

# June 11, 2008 4:54 PM

Jeremy D. Miller said:

@Mike,

One word: Conciseness

I counted about 30 comments in the code like this:

// TODO: Make this cleaner with 3.5

// TODO: Use an extension method here with 3.5

// TODO: This will be cleaner with 3.5 lambdas

I'm using a *lot* of anonymous delegates and poor man's Functional Programming. C# 3.0 is just flat out better. I found some places where a judicious usage of an extension method could take away a big chunk of duplicated code. The better type inference reduces noise as well.

Of course, the real reason is that my personal notebook computer is sick at the moment, and I only had VS2008 on my work computer and I was too lazy to install VS2005.

# June 11, 2008 5:08 PM

Travis said:

@Jeremy

Where is the appropriate place to ask questions about SM? I have some implementation questions.

# June 11, 2008 5:47 PM

alberto said:

You know you can target .net 2.0 with VS2008, right?

# June 11, 2008 6:14 PM

Jeremy D. Miller said:

@alberto,

Yes I do know that, but that misses the point. I do think that the language features in C# 3 are compelling.

# June 11, 2008 8:00 PM

Chad Myers' Blog said:

I've been getting a crash course in StructureMap the past 2 weeks. It's been going pretty well

# June 11, 2008 10:03 PM

Gabriel Schenker said:

You know that lambdas are only a compiler feature and do not product .NET 3.5 specific MSIL! The only thing you cannot use when targetting .NET 2.0 (from VS 2008) are LINQ and expression trees...

# June 13, 2008 5:55 AM

Frédéric Latour said:

Well, even LINQ to Object can be used when targetting .net 2.0 by using LinqBridge...

# June 13, 2008 9:51 AM

Jeremy D. Miller said:

@Gabriel,

Good point, but I would like to use expression trees for some of the configuration Fluent Interface.

# June 13, 2008 10:57 AM

Christiaan Baes said:

Even us VB.Net guys are looking forward to it.

Perhaps I need to switch to C# one of these years... nah.

And thanks for all the effort you put in.

# June 16, 2008 7:55 AM

Erik said:

Hmmmm,

So I guess June 23rd doesn't mean Monday June 23 at 12:01 a.m.?

Things Still On track for today?

Thanks for all your hard work,

Erik

# June 23, 2008 11:02 AM

Jeremy D. Miller said:

@Erik,

Yes and no. I'm going to put up a zip file of the Release Candidate binaries at lunch time. I'm lagging on the documentation for the full release, but I'm declaring Code Complete.

# June 23, 2008 11:33 AM

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Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.

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