Hoping we're in compliance with Derik's OSS suggestions, S#arp Architecture 1.0 RC 2 has been released at http://code.google.com/p/sharp-architecture/downloads.  Whew!  Along with completely updated documentation (in /docs/) and migration guidance (in /VersionHistory.txt), this release has a number of big improvements to developing your S#arp Architecture project, including:

• Compatible with ASP.NET MVC RC 2,
• 50 pages of riveting, keep-you-awake-all-night documentation!,
• A CI home at http://teamcity.codebetter.com/overview.html (thanks Kyle and Simone!),
• Fluent NHibernate auto persistence mapping included by default in the VS project template,
• More complete and extensible CRUD scaffolding generator - it's completely touch-up free for many scenarios,
• Inclusion of view "areas" which are seamlessly supported as subfolders under the Views folder,
• Performance of unit tests using SQLite has been improved 20% (thanks Jay Oliver!),
• A new class library, YourSharpProject.ApplicationServices, now gets included with VS generated projects,
• Added crazy cool anti-forgery voodoo magic to the CRUD scaffolding generator for creating, editing and deleting items (thanks MVC team!) 
• Recent update of dependencies such as MvcContrib, Json.NET, Fluent NHibernate and others,
• Included patch for the T4 Toolbox to make the CRUD scaffolding generation more reliable (thanks Oleg Sych!),
• Completely updated documentation with lots of new content...I did say riveting, didn't I?

A huge thanks goes out to Kyle Baley and Simone Busoli who have been tremendously assistive to the S#arp Architecture community and the project itself during this recent push.  And thanks also to others who have suggested ideas, provided patches, and added to the discussion!

If you're new to S#arp Architecture and want to learn more:

• What the heck is S#arp Architecture?
  http://devlicio.us/blogs/billy_mccafferty/archive/2008/04/21/asp-net-mvc-best-practices-with-nhibernate-and-spring-net.aspx
• But I don't have a second more than 10 minutes to even read about it!
  http://www.dimecasts.net/Casts/CastDetails/75 (a bit dated but a useful intro)
• Well what are other people saying about this thing?  (I read "doesn't suck" somewhere...that's got to count for something!)
  http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=s%23arp+architecture
• You don't say...well where can I join in on the fun?
  http://groups.google.com/group/sharp-architecture.

Keep an eye on http://www.infoq.com/ for a S#arp Architecture article coming early next week.  Also, the hillbilly himself is throwing together a couple more http://www.dimecasts.net/ to entertain the whole family!

Enjoy!

Billy McCafferty