Links

There are several good folks out there who regularly accumulate interesting links about all things .NET and other stuff on their blogs (cast in alphabetical order):

And since I feel a little linkbloggy myself today, here it goes:

• C# FAQ is back! – Alexandra Rusina is a programming writer on our team who actually writes MSDN content for managed languages. She has taken ownership of the once-popular C# FAQ blog and has revived it to once again become an interesting and useful resource. Check our her recent posts:
• Dynamic in C# 4.0: Introducing the ExpandoObject
• Generating Dynamic Methods with Expression Trees in Visual Studio 2010
• How to use LINQ methods to compare objects of custom types
• Does the “LINQ to Objects” provider have built-in performance optimization?
• Functional UI Testing Channel 9 video – Brian Keller does a terrific job in this compact 17-min video that shows a new possibility in VS 2010 to automatically generate code for UI tests using UIAutomation. If you’re into automated UI testing and UIAutomation, definitely check it out!
• An introduction to UI Automation – with spooky spirographs – since we’re talking about UI Automation – here’s a great article on the f(unctional) => f(un) blog about automating Paint.NET so that it draws spirographs.
• Atmospheric Phenomena – though completely unrelated to .NET, the pics are still unbelievable!
• http://www.n-brain.net – a collaborative IDE, seems like this idea of collaborative tools is exploding these days gaining tremendous popularity. I wish I had time to build out my structured editor to support multiuser editing!
• Debugging Dynamically Generated Code (Reflection.Emit) – discovered Mike Stall’s great article on a way to emit necessary debugger information to tell the debugger how to map emitted code back to your source code.
• Learn Prolog Now! – I decided to refresh my prolog skills and this is a great tutorial!
• Eastwest – a structure editor for O’Caml. I’m very much into language design and structured editing and this definitely looks like an interesting prototype.
• Organizing Heterogeneous Data on a WPF TreeView – a great article around customizing WPF hierarchical databinding. By the way, did you know that the new Visual Studio 2010 Call Hierarchy feature is implemented using WPF hierarchical databinding? We use MVVM and HierarchicalDataTemplate, plus some modifications to allow the child nodes to populate on a background thread.