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Well… yes and no because none of them has been released yet. The only one available is "ASP.NET MVC in Action" from Mannings which is in early access program. Personally I am really curious about "Professional ASP.NET 3.5 MVC" book because Conery & Hanselman & Haack is a very interesting combination of great and famous developers. And what about you?

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About a year ago I made a simple design for internet project which has never been finished. Because of that I rewrote it recently to become at least a "free theme" (or "open design" or whatever you want to call it). You can use it for any purpose under the condition that the link to my site will be kept (but I am willing to cancel this condition for non-profit upon request).

You can see it as well as download at it’s homepage: http://stribny.name/free-themes/S_simple_grey_theme/.

Imagine that we have some class (e.g. UserProfile) with Culture property for storing a culture specific string, in other words a culture name.

class UserProfile
{
    private string _culture;

    public string Culture
    {
        get { return _culture; }
        set { _culture = value; }
    }
}

Our goal is to allow only existing culture name to be set and avoid an invalid one. Let’s start by writing unit tests where we will try to assign valid and invalid values to our property (using MSTest):

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