The Morning Brew

Weekends go too fast…

Software

• IronPython – Release: 2.0 Beta 1 – Iron Python 2.0 has reached beta, with over 100 bugfixes since the last alpha release
• xUnit.net 1.0 RC2 Released – Brad Wilson announces the latest Release candidate of xUnit
• SonicFileFinder – A visual studio Add-in enabling fast finding of a file in your solution.
• Making PInvoke Easy – A tool to help create PInvoke signatures from C code

Information

• The method you didn’t know you needed – Mads Kristensen talks about date/time display in a rather in-precise way – I like this kind of thing
• Integrating IronPython into your applications – Using IronPython as a scripting language in your applications
• High Performance Multi-threaded Work Item / Event Scheduling Engine – First part of a series, this part deals with building a high performance scheduling engine – the end result of this series is a Massive Multi Player Online game
• Why I Love F#: A Refactoring Tale – Duston Campbell runs through an instructive refactoring in f#
• The (often non-) difference between Close and Dispose – Kim Hamilton discusses the possible differences between dispose and close in a few different contexts
• C# 4: Immutable type initialization – Jon Skeet has now given up numbering his C#4 wish list series, yet more good content here.
• Advanced mocking: mocks and stubs – Jimmy Bogard talks about test doubles and mocking

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