Dew Drop – October 26, 2009

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.NET / Visual Studio

• How to use MongoDB from PowerShell and F# (Doug Finke)
• ReSharper Discount and Free Upgrade to ReSharper 5 (David Ridgway)
• Dense code (Oren Eini)
• Getting Started with IronPython (Charlie Calvert)
• .Net Framework 4.0: System.IO.File supports now IEnumerable (Gunnar Peipman)
• Learning Scala via C# Part 2 – The Basics (Justin Etheredge)
• VS 2010 Intellisense Improvements (Michael Ceranski)
• UppercuT and Mono Migration Analyzer (Rob Reynolds)
• CSLA .NET 3.8 Beta 2 MVVM support and CSLA .NET 3.8.0 Beta 2 available (Rockford Lhotka)

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Finally Some Real Improvements For Automated Testing In .NET and Prefixing Instance Fields? (Davy Brion)
• Unit Testing: An Introduction and Unit Testing: Execution and Unit Testing: Code Coverage (Deborah Kurata)
• Injecting an ILogger property with Autofac (Louis DeJardin)
• A Guide to Receiving Feedback Part IV: Apply It Immediately (Patrick Kua)
• Random Thoughts On Builders At Work – Part 17. (Rajiv Popat)

Silverlight / WPF

• XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2008 v5.0.0.1 Released and XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 and XAML Power Toys for Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Cider Designer (Karl Shifflett)
• Introducing the WPF 4 Calendar control (Pete Brown) – Link of the Day
• Fun with CollectionViews (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Silverlight Audio Player for WordPress (Tim Heuer)

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• ARCast.TV – CxO Level Discussion about Cloud Computing (Bob Familiar)
• Integration Test Brought to you by Powershell & NUnit – with a Little Specification Syntax for Flavoring (Jason Jarrett)
• Major Nelson Show #336: NPD’s, Borderlands and more Tasty conversation (Larry Hyrb)
• Engadget Podcast 168 – 10.25.2009: The Engadget Show 002 with Steve Ballmer (Trent Wolbe)
• Episode 89 – PowerScripting Podcast – PowerShell V2 Launch Party with Jeffrey Snover (Jonathan Walz & Hal Rottenberg)
• Windows Weekly 127: Hasta La Vista Baby (Paul Thurrott)

Database

• How to display long text in SSMS (Martin Bell)
• SQL SERVER – Advanced T-SQL with Itzik Ben-Gan – A Dream Coming True (Pinal Dave)

Miscellaneous

• Finally, some answers to Windows 7 upgrade questions (Ed Bott)
• Scala: Converting an input stream to a string (Mark Needham)
• DZone Daily Dose – 2009/10/26 (Mitch Pronschinske)
• Fixing Icon Overlays for Dropbox + TortoiseSVN (Rinat Abdullin)
• Light it Up: List of Applications that use new Windows 7 Features (Scott Hanselman)
• Microsoft Store – engaging with consumers directly (Tim Heuer)

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: October 25, 2009 (Jason Haley)
• The Morning Brew #462 (Chris Alcock)
• Links of the week #95 (David Vidmar)
• Weekly Links #76 (Grant Palin)
• New and Notable 384 (Sam Gentile)
• Weekly Link Post 116 (Rhonda Tipton)
• Links (10/25/2009) (Steve Pietrek)

Book of the Day