Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 28-30, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 28-30, 2009

Web Development

• ASP.NET 4.0 Enhancements to Data Controls
• Principals, Code-Behind, & View Engines
• Webforms vs. MVC, the desire to rewrite everything, an unexpected benefit
• ASP.NET Ajax – Script Combining and moving ScriptResource.axd’s to Static Scripts
• Windows Authentication Using Form Authentication
• ASP.NET GridView with Custom Paging UI
• Extreme ASP.NET: Guiding Principles For Your ASP.NET MVC Applications
• The Weekly Source Code 43 – ASP.NET MVC and T4 and NerdDinner

Web Design   

• 15 Must Read Articles for CSS Beginners
• 53 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks: Ultimate Collection
• 25 Stylish Examples of Headers in Web Design
• Recreating the MobileMe Web Gallery Interface
• ASP.NET DropDownList with Custom Paging
• ASP.NET – Creating a Custom Tag Cloud
• Useful jQuery Tips, Tricks, and Plugins with ASP.NET MVC
• 45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires
• 10 Impressive JavaScript Animation Frameworks
• Should we stop masking passwords?

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight Wrap Panel
• YouTube video in Silverlight 3
• F# in Silverlight
• Silverlight Geek – An interview with Jesse Liberty
• Taking Silverlight Deep Zoom to the Next Level

Database & Related Technologies

• SKIP and TAKE ‘N’ number of records in a SQL Server Select Query
• Effective EF with Oracle
• D3: Fun with Concurrency and Model First – Part 2 - Danny Simmons
• Find the Missing Identity Numbers in SQL Server 2005/2008
• Fluent Interface for NH Facility – Take 1
• MVP Helps To Jumpstart SQL Server 2008!
• SQL SERVER – Maximum Number of Index per Table
• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Management Studio New Features
• SQLDBCrypt - Open Source Database Encryption For SQL Server   
• LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 6/22/2009

Testing

• Getting Started with TDD using MbUnit and C# and VB.NET
• Running tests during a build in TFS
• Unit Testing ASP.NET MVC
• SOA Security Testing - XML Gateways
• WCF Load Test Tool 3.0 Beta

Architecture, Design Patterns ,WCF & Others

• Real World Refactoring
• Changing Configuration Settings in a Desktop Client Application
• Community Kit For SharePoint
• Work-Stealing in .NET 4.0 - Jennifer Marsman
• .NET Workflow Service v1 and .NET Framework 4
• Cloud Computing Design Patterns
• Creating audio signals in .Net
• Generating Code with Visual Studio’s T4
• Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 24-27, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 24-27, 2009

Web Development

• 10 Tools to Improve Your Site’s Usability on a Low Budget
• HTML Helper for Including and Compressing Javascript
• Habits of Highly Scalable Web Applications
• Exploring how to use Looping Expressions w/ Spark
• ASP.NET - Session Attacks and ASP.NET - Part 2
• ASP.NET - ASP.NET 4.0: WebForm Routing (quick ’n dirty version)
• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC Validation Refresh: Best Techniques & Frameworks
• Mind if my MVC T4 template changes your code a bit?
• $.postJSON – how to avoid JSON attack
• Privacy Guidelines for Developing Software Products and Services
• Generating strongly typed content links in ASP .Net MVC with T4 templates
• ASP.NET MVC Validation Refresh: Best Techniques & Frameworks
• Mind if my MVC T4 template changes your code a bit?
• The Weekly Source Code 43 - ASP.NET MVC and T4 and NerdDinner

Web Design   

• 23 Indispensible Ajax and Javascript Cheat Sheets
• 35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design
• 10 Common Mistakes In Logo Design
• Better JavaScript class generation
• Understanding the Context in jQuery
• Simplify Ajax development with jQuery
• How to Make a Slideshow with a Transparent PNG Frame

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight Cream for June 25, 2009
• New release of WPF Toolkit, now with charts!
• A SilverLight TreeMap control - Pixel in Gene - Pavan Podila
• Silverlight Ads on Xbox LIVE Announced at Cannes
• Brad Abrams talks RIA Services for Silverlight 3 - Don Burnett
• Silverlight - ToggleButton Command for Prism
• Silverlight, WPF, and RIA - Silverlight-based car configurator for Mazda is now live

Database & Related Technologies

• Delayed execution vs ToList() in LINQ Database Queries
• SQL to LINQ converter
• Client-side properties and any remote LINQ provider
• SQL teaser LEFT JOINs
• LINQ: Beware of the ‘Access to modified closure’ demon
• Where are my Entities and my Repositories?

Testing

• Testing E-Mail Functionality
• Developer Tools for Google Chrome
• Testable MVC - MSDN Magazine
• Testing MVC Elements and Interactions with Mock Container

Architecture, Design Patterns ,WCF & Others

• C# 4.0 – Complete Coverage + Videos To Watch => Part 1
• Live Mesh as an application platform
• The Microsoft Application Platform: A Perspective
• Windows Azure’s .NET Workflow Service to support .NET 4.0 Workflows - Murray Gordon
• Architecture - Habits of Highly Scalable Web Applications
• VAN: Doing 2 Part Series on Castle development July 1st and 8th at 8pm
• Visual Studio - Disabling Script Debugging with VS 2010, Silverlight & IE 8
• Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing - Toolshed Tooltip #13 - MSBuild talks to Twitter from Episode 2
• RESTful XHTML - MSDN Magazine

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 19-23, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 19-23, 2009

Web Development

• Rapid Application Development (RAD) in ASP .NET
• Visual Studio 2010: Web.config transforms
• 10 Useful Firefox Extensions to Supercharge Firebug
• Dynamic Images with MVC
• ASP.NET - How do ASP.NET Application_ Events Work
• ASP.NET MVC - Strongly Typed Views With Mvc Contrib - Part 3
• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC Translated for the Web Forms Programmer (3 in a series)
• ASP.NET MVC - The ASP.NET MVC ActionController – The controllerless action, or actionless controller
• Use the Flickr API, Javascript (jQuery), AJAX and JSON to Build Detailed a Photo Wall

Web Design

• Website Analytics Toolbox
• Animate Image Filling Up Using jQuery
• MooTools Fun with Fx.Shake
• LESS - Leaner CSS
• 7 Rich & Creative User Interfaces and How to Create Your Own
• 25+ Useful Infographics for Web Designers
• Create dropdown menus with CSS only
• The 1Kb CSS Grid, Part 3
• The Upcoming Smashing Book
• 13 Useful Techniques for Enhancing Web Design Photography
• 50 Fresh JavaScript Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow
• 404 Best Practices
• Top10 Simplest jQuery Tutorials
• The Battlefield of Design: Designers vs Clients
• Outside the Box” Navigation with jQuery
• jQuery UI Selectmenu: An ARIA-Accessible Plugin for Styling a Custom HTML Select Element
• JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries - jQuery Secrets with Dave Ward

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight - Deep zooming on the fly
• Silverlight 3 with Tim Heuer
• Connected Show – Episode #7 – Silverlight 3 Beta
• Control-Oriented Vs. Data-Oriented Programming in Silverlight
• Silverlight Cream for June 21, 2009

Database & Related Technologies

• Announcing: Entity Framework Feature CTP 1
• Feature CTP Walkthrough: Code Only for Entity Framework
• Feature CTP Walkthrough: POCO Templates for Entity Framework
• Feature CTP Walkthrough: Self Tracking Entities for Entity Framework
• EF4: Model-Defined Functions Level 1 & 2
• SQL Server - Replace Your Case When Then Else Syntax With the Sign Function In SQL Server
• Fantastic on-going Entity Framework Tips Series from EF’s Alex James
• Oracle gets decorated by Microsoft... with an Obsolete Attribute

Testing

• WCF and Unit Tests - Gunnar Peipman's ASP.NET blog
• SharePoint and TDD
• Logging is not Tracing

Architecture, Design Patterns ,WCF & Others

• BASH: Using brace expansion
• Microsoft Tech·Ed Africa 2009
• Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied among .NET developers
• Overusing var in C#
• Design Patterns - Multithreading: implementing the event based pattern
• Browsers - Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate Available Now!

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 16-18, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 16-18, 2009

Web Development

• Revised: ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
• How To Create a DropDownList from an ENUM in ASP.NET
• Download the new iPhone OS 3.0 Firmware
• Url Shorteners: Destroying the Web Since 2002
• Using ASP.NET 3.5's ListView and DataPager Controls: Inserting Data

Web Design

• 40+ Helpful Resources On User Interface Design Patterns
• Build a Web 2.0 Document Search Site
• Introducing LESS: a Better CSS
• Informative And Usable Footers In Web Design
• 24 JavaScript Best Practices for Beginners
• Trick Out Your CSS With Server Side Code
• Selectors, Animation, and AJAX – jQuery Tutorial And Examples (Part Two)
• All the Small Icons You’ll Ever Need
• Gradient Effects in Web Designs - Tutorials, Resources and Showcases
• Interactive Webdesign with CSS and jQuery - Part 2
• CSS3 Rekindled

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight Cream for June 17, 2009
• Attaching Silverlight 3 Behaviors in C#
• Deep zooming on the fly
• WPF Localization

Database & Related Technologies

• Using Repository and Unit of Work patterns with Entity Framework 4.0
• ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, One-to-Many and Many-to-Many INSERTS
• Reading Feeds with XLINQ
• Strongly typed include in EF, revisited
• Listing All The User-Defined Data Types That Were Created On Your SQL Server

Testing

• First look at debugging .NET 4.0 dumps in Visual Studio 2010
• The Joel Test – Updated for 2010
• Isolating Dependencies in Tests Using Mocks and Stubs

Architecture, Design Patterns ,WCF & Others

• More on Late-Bound Invocations with Expression Trees
• Charging Project Pricing Versus Hourly Rates
• I’m Presenting SOLID At North Dallas .NET (NDDNUG), July 8th -derick.bailey
• #65 – SOLID as a rock
• Opinionated Input Builders – Part 8 the Auto Form
• You can do the TODOs today too!
• Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 Beta Updated for Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 R2
• Updates to FTP publishing in Visual Studio 2010
• Learning by example with 4
• Transactions are bad for REST

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 13-15, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 13-15, 2009

Web Development

• How AJAX Works: 10 Practical Uses For AJAX
• Dynamically Output A List of YouTube Video's In ASP.NET
• 10-4 Episode 11: Bi-Directional Routing with ASP.NET WebForms 4.0
• Integrating your ASP.NET Web Application with Online Payment Services

Web Design

• The 1Kb CSS Grid, Part 2
• 15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS
• Effective Maintenance Pages: Examples and Best Practices
• Secure Your Forms With Form Keys
• General - 16 great .htaccess Tricks and Hacks
• jQuery Plugin – jPlayer ThemeRoller Version
• Preventing Default Actions In A Bubbled Event In jQuery
• 10 Tips for Incredible Web Forms!

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Versioning your Silverlight application
• Adventures in MVVM – Slides and Demo App

Database & Related Technologies

• Neo4j - a Graph Database that Kicks Buttox
• Checking Out PLINQO to Generate LINQ to SQL Code with CodeSmith
• NHibernate – Automatic change tracking for aggregate roots in DDD scenarios - Ayende Rahien
• ASP.NET MVC C# Linq to Stored procedure with Dynamic Query
• Discovering System.Linq.Expressions

Testing

• ASP.NET AJAX testing made easy using Visual Studio 2008 Web Test
• 10-4 Episode 23: An Introduction to Manual Testing

Architecture, Design Patterns ,WCF & Others

• 12 Excellent Free Tools for Monitoring Your Site’s Uptime
• Coding: Single Level of Abstraction Principle
• This week on C9: XNA updates, Win 7 Training, VS 2010, build
• On the performance of “Opinionated Builders”
• WebServices – Error Handling
• EntitySpaces - WCF DynamicQuery Serialization

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 12, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 12, 2009

Web Development

• How to Use the Flickr API
• Session State in ASP.NET 4.0
• ASP.NET - Why System.Net.WebException comes up post .NET Framework 3.5 SP1?
• ASP.NET Ajax - Using the Ajax control toolbox with jQuery (and ASP.NET MVC)
• WebUI Studio 2009, The World's Most Innovative Web Development Toolkit

Web Design

• Build Your Own Captcha and Contact Form
• Why Designers Should Learn How to Code
• 35 Beautiful & Free PSDs For Charming Designs
• An Overture with HTML 5
• JavaScript - Javascript beautifier
• jQuery - Lazy - The on-demand jQuery plugin loader

Silverlight & WPF

• Getting the App’s Startup Assembly in WPF Designer?
• Customizing Silverlight 3 DataGrid Headers
• RIA - Bing Search RSS with Silverlight 3 RIA Domain Service
• Silverlight - Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #12

Database & Related Technologies

• New Tracing and Caching Wrapper Providers for Entity Framework
• ORM - Entity Framework 4.0 Beta 1 – POCO, ObjectSet, Repository and UnitOfWork
• LINQ to NHibernate, part IV
• You’re Not Your Data Access- Rob Conery

Testing

• Integration Testing Your ASP.NET MVC Application

Architecture, Design Patterns ,WCF & Others

• Dynamic Contrast Management
• How To Approach Categories and Navigation in Blogging
• Free ASP.Net MVC Workshop in Austin on Tuesday June 16th
• Team System 2010 Leaves eScrum Behind - Redmond Developer News
• Reducing Code Coupling - Service Locator
• ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC and SOLID Programming Principles June 2009
• Designer Showcase: Luke Feldman

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 11, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 11, 2009

Web Development

• Opinionated Input Builders for ASP.Net MVC – Part 5 the Required input
• WebDataGrid in ASP.NET MVC Application
• Episode #117: Exploring how to use Global Variables and ViewData (Strongly typed and weak typed) with Spark
• Binding in ASP.NET MVC : Steve Smith's Blog

Web Design

• Design Contest: Free Business Cards for the Next 20 Years
• Why Web Developers Don’t Need A Mac
• 15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS
• 45 awesome Photoshop website template/layout tutorials
• Two simple ways to create text embossing effect
• Building JavaScript / HTML based Applications using Adobe Air for FREE

Silverlight & WPF

• Silverlight Cream for June 11, 2009
• Silverlight Attached Properties: Binding.UpdateSourceTrigger.PropertyChanged
• WPF Sample Series – ListBox Grouping, Sorting, Subtotals and Collapsible Regions
• Silverlight toolkit with ADO.NET Data services , Drill-down Charts using Astoria
• CSLA .NET for Silverlight video series is complete

Database & Related Technologies

• Entity Framework Design-Code Only
• Local Data Cache—Client Must Reinitialize Database
• SubSonic 3.0: ActiveRecord
• SubSonic 3.0: The SimpleRepository
• POCO in the Entity Framework : Part 3 – Change Tracking with POCO
• NHibernate – query only properties

Testing

• Integrating a custom test runner with TeamCity
• Unit Testing Interfaces with xUnit Theories

Architecture, Design Patterns ,WCF & Others

• Windows 7 RC Training Kit for Developers Released
• Simplest versus first thing that could possibly work
• Breaking All The Rules with WCF
• Effective Strategy To Estimate Time For Your Design Projects
• Free Web Performance Tools From Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, And IBM
• The Seven Pillars of an Agile Team: Introduction
• Design Patterns and DI

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 10, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 10, 2009

Web Development

• Introduction to StructureMap
• ASP.NET MVC TDD using Visual Studio 2010
• More ASP.NET MVC Best Practices
• 13 Must-Have Add-ons To Strengthen Firebug
• FireAtlas ASP.NET AJAX Viewer

Web Design

• 11 keystrokes that made my jQuery selector run 10x faster
• 10 Useful WordPress Loop Hacks
• 40 Examples of Incredible Photo Manipulation
• CSS Redundancy Checker
• Design With Intent
• 20 Tools to Make the Life of a Web Developer Easier

Silverlight & WPF

• Release Roadmap for .NET RIA Services - SYS-CON Media (press release)
• 3 ways of applying layouts using SilverLight
• Silverlight Cream for June 09, 2009
• Silverlight - Silverlight powered Photosynths for NASA

Database & Related Technologies

• Changing exec to sp_executesql doesn't provide any benefit if you are not using parameters correctly
• SQL Server TempDB – Number of Files – The Raw Truth
• Returning GUID values to ADO.NET clients

Architecture, Design Patterns ,WCF, Testing & Others

• Using Scrum on Larger Projects: "Scrum of Scrums"
• Interfaces with static methods, reducing the cost of extensibility
• Let your Inversion of Control tool work for you
• Some quick updates
• C# 4.0 Dynamic Types
• Visual Studio 2010 Exams Are Changing
• WCF defaults stifles loose coupling
• Troubleshooting the MVC installer for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1
• New and Notable 329

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 9, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 9, 2009

Web Development

• A view from the cloud (or: locate your ASP.NET MVC views on Windows Azure Blob Storage)
• Implement an AJAX form in the MVC Framework
• Handling Legacy URLs with ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET 4.0 Extensible Output Caching

Web Design

• 14 Javascript Resources And Plugins For Creating A Stylish Chart
• Ten CSS tricks you may not know
• CSS Beginners Do’s and Dont’s Part 2
• 25 Useful MooTools Tutorials

Silverlight & WPF

• Silverlight Cream for June 08, 2009 -- #609
• Fluent Silverlight – Part 3 – Binding Events to Commands

Database & Related Technologies

• NHibernate - Get Thou Out Of My Database - 2nd Edition
• POCO in the Entity Framework : Part 2 – Complex Types, Deferred Loading and Explicit Loading

Architecture, Design Patterns ,WCF, Testing & Others

• 5 Rotten Things No One Else Has Told You About the Clients You’ll Work For
• The Morning Brew #364
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 6/8/2009
• New and Notable 328
• The Technology Post for June 8th

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 8, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 8, 2009

Web Development

• Using ASP.NET Routing Without ASP.NET MVC
• What is the Best Way to Organize a ASP.Net MVC Solution
• ASP.Net MVC, Submit a form using javascript
• Top 5 Small but Must have Extension Methods
• Episode #115: Learning how to add IntelliSense for the Spark View Engine

Web Design

• How to Easily Create a JavaScript Framework, Part 2
• 15 Great Resources for Learning Adobe InDesign
• Announcing the Launch of 5 Niche Galleries
• A Degradable jQuery AJAX Email Form for ASP.NET MVC
• Replace Image at Time Intervals

Silverlight & WPF

• DataSet and Silverlight
• Silverlight 2 Web Service Part III - Single object Get and Update
• Silverlight Tips & Tricks: Make Silverlight DataGrid be more MVVM friendly

Database & Related Technologies

• Entity Framework VB Samples Now Available on CodeGallery!
• EF1 and EF4 at DevTeach Vancouver this week including a full day workshop on Friday June 12th

Architecture, Design Patterns ,WCF, Testing & Others

• To Estimate or Not To Estimate? That is the Question!
• The Value of Practical Personal Projects
• Connection Pooling: Implemention
• Creational Design Patterns at Vermont.NET Monday June 8th