Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 25-31, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 25-31, 2009

Web Development

• Writing iPhone Sites with ASP.NET MVC
• Implicit Conversions and LINQ to JSON
• 13 Ways to Browser Test and Validate Your Work
• Updating Multiple Child Objects And/Or Collections in ASP.NET MVC Views
• 8 Important SEO Techniques To Kickstart Your Website
• 5 Web Accessibility Improvement Tools
• SharePoint 101 (Part 3)
• ASP.NET Performance - Windows Update - a great example for setting performance standards

Web Design

• Design an E-Commerce Website in Photoshop
• jQuery Image Gallery/News Slider with Caption Tutorial
• Reinventing Drop Down with CSS and jQuery
• 35 Inspirational Shopping Cart Page Designs
• 200+ Free Exclusive Vector Icons: ‘Primo’
• A Showcase of Musically Inspired Logos
• Photoshop 101: How To Use The Free Transform Tool
• How to Code a Grunge Web Design from Scratch
• 30+ CRE Loaded Templates

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight Cream for July 29, 2009
• Silverlight Cream for July 28, 2009
• Weak Eventing & Listening for .NET/Silverlight
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 12: DataSet - Brad Abrams
• Site Authentication and SuperPreview
• Silverlight Version Compatibility
• Quake in Silverlight 3.0

Database & Related Technologies

• LINQ to SQL Generic Repository
• Fluent Sharp NHibernate Persistence Configuration
• DDD and Data-centric applications
• Introducing Rx (Linq to Events) AKA Reactive Framework
• Data Access Guidance project
• EF v2 and Data Access Architecture Best Practices

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Securing Web Services (Even with OOB) - Shawn Wildermuth
• RIA Services With Silverlight 3 - Part 1
• ADO.NET Data Services With ASP.NET
• SOA Archives: The Evolution of SOA, from Integration to Business Scenario Development
• Deep Dive Into WCF Part 1: TDD

Testing

• UI Prototyping and Mockups Part 1 - Balsamiq
• Webinar: Driving unit testing in the organization

Architecture

• Mike Moore, Rob Conery and James Avery on Domain Driven Design
• Dependency Injection with StructureMap
• Isolation Frameworks: Learning how to validate complex expectations
• Use UML Sequence Diagrams in Team System 2010 to reverse engineer your code
• iTextSharp – HTML to PDF – Parsing HTML
• Incremental Delivery and Continuous Design
• patterns & practices Summit 2009
• The Ultimate Guide to Decoding the Flickr API

Others

• Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip
• Microsoft releases second, ‘experimental’ version of .Net 4 Beta 1
• A perfect match TFS and DLR
• Traits That Make A Good Development Manager
• 15 Freelancer Design And Development Creative Job Boards
• My ideal IDE
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 7/27/2009+

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 22-24, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 22-24, 2009

Web Development

• Simplify calling ASP.NET AJAX services from jQuery
• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Getting Started
• Tips to Secure Your Web Hosting Server
• Managing Session Variables in ASP.NET using a Proxy
• Computing with JavaScript Web Workers
• HTML5 Validation Schema for Visual Studio 2008
• Show Loading Message in Asp.net AJAX
• 45+ Excellent Code Snippet Resources and Repositories

Web Design

• 50 Kick-Ass And Creative Dark Website Designs
• 50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design
• 30 Handy Cheat Sheets and Reference Guides for Web Professionals
• 12 great online generators for webdesigners
• jQuery Splitter
• A Different Top Navigation
• 50 New Beautiful Blog Designs
• jHtmlArea – The all NEW HTML WYSIWYG Editor for jQuery
• 30 Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design
• 40+ Vector Characters Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials
• Expand table rows with jQuery - jExpand plugin
• Quick Tip – Reading & Editing HTML Attributes in jQuery

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• New controls in Silverlight 3
• Integrating Silverlight 2.0 with Sharepoint MOSS2007
• Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2009
• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 7: ADO.NET Data Services Based Data Store
• Silverlight 3 Offline CHM released!
• CSLA .NET 3.7 released with Silverlight 3 support

Database & Related Technologies

• Life without EF or any ORM
• NHibernate Trick
• Checking out one of the new stored procedure features in EF4
• Using IDisposables with LINQ
• Improve Your Code Golf Game with LINQ
• Customizing T4 Templates
• Oracle provider Beta Available!
• Working with Analysis Services Objects using SSIS script task
• SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Running a WCF Service on IIS 7
• Working with jqGrid and WCF service
• Posting Twitter Tweets from ASP.NET using the WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2

Testing

• Modifying The Default Unit Tests for an ASP.NET MVC Project To Use Moq
• Upgrading the default ASP.NET MVC project with ioc and the Unity
• Would you still write unit tests even if you couldn’t automatically re-run them tomorrow?

Architecture

• The Tale of the Lazy Architect
• We Remembered Not to Dive Too Deep Too Soon
• Refactoring Challenge Part 3 – Pattern Implementation
• Quickstart tutorial into Enterprise Library logging
• Planning for Feature-Complete Deadlines
• Exploring StructureMap: Learning how to setup Auto Registration
• Don’t castrate your architecture
• ASP.NET MVC and NHibernate Framework Architecture

Others

• The Microsoft Live Services Plug-in for Moodle
• Microsoft Expression Studio 3 Released!
• Take the survey and help shape the next wave of Web Guidance from Microsoft’s P&P team.
• Latest Updates for SQL Server 2008 are Out
• Mono bundles Microsoft's MVC framework
• The Most Amazing Visual Studio Add-In Ever
• Six Questions: Chris Spooner on Blogging as a Designer
• Bing Desktop Translator using C# and VB.NET
• July CTP of Windows Azure SDK Released

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 18-21, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 18-21, 2009

Web Development

• A (less) simple include for ASP.NET
• How To Automate Optimization and Deployment Of Static Content
• Demystifying the ASP.NET MVC Project Type
• RESTful ASP.NET MVC
• Implement an Autocomplete in Asp.Net MVC using JQuery
• IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module 2.0 beta released
• ASP.NET MVC Html Helpers - is Response.Write needed?
• Test ASP.NET MVC routes using MVC Contrib
• ASP.NET MVC UI Controls from SyncFusion
• Creating search engine friendly URL's in ASP.NET MVC
• Resource Files and ASP.NET MVC Projects
• Subdomains for a single application with ASP.NET MVC
• Templating MVC Form Elements
• GridView Selection and Postback using jQuery
• Encrypt Your Web.config, Please

Web Design

• HTML5 and The Future of the Web
• jQuery Ribbon RC 1 released!
• How to Design a Space Futuristic Gallery Layout in Photoshop
• 22 Very Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
• 50+ Fresh and Unique Personal Portfolio Websites
• 15 Awesome tutorials and resources for web developers
• Lessons From Swiss Style Graphic Design
• 5 Fun and Practical Htaccess Solutions

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight.FX Updated for Silverlight 3
• Silverlight 3 Media Platform : tangent.ux labs
• LIDNUG: Silverlight Ready for Business and .NET RIA Services Presentation
• Silverlight Cream for July 19, 2009
• Create a Glossy-looking Glass button in WPF
• nerdplusart.com | Simple Styles for Silverlight
• MEF and XAML integration – Self composition
• Lokad Shared Libraries 1.5 and Autofac for Silverlight 3.0

Database & Related Technologies

• Welcome NHibernate 2.1.0
• NHibernate 2.1 and Collection Event Listeners
• Dryad/DryadLINQ and Project Trident Released
• Entity Framework 4.0: On the way to Composite Pattern
• System.Data.Linq.Binary is not XmlSerializable
• Generate Insert Statements For a SQL Server Table
• String Aggregation in T-SQL & PL-SQL
• SQL SERVER – Two Methods to Retrieve List of Primary Keys and Foreign Keys of Database

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Calling an STA COM Object from a WCF Operation
• Creating WCF Services using .NET 4.0 and WF 4.0
• Creating A RESTful API With WCF

Testing

• StrictMock vs. DynamicMock: What are You Testing Here Anyway?
• Mocking indexer getters with Moq
• TDD Anti-Patterns

Architecture

• Two ways to use T4 templates: support code vs. one-time generation
• Lessons in Software from Mike de Libero
• What I’ve Learned over the Last Five Years
• MVC vs. MVP vs. MVVM
• ModelBinders and Factory Methods
• All About Agile has a Facelift!
• Compare Design Patterns in C# and Ruby: The Observer Pattern
• HanselMinutes - Show #171 - Return of Uncle Bob
• When Bad is Good
• Unity framework with ASP.Net MVC Framework
• Isolation Frameworks: Learning how to validate expectations

Others

• Application Request Routing (ARR) Version 2 for IIS7 Beta 2 released.
• .NET Binding Redirects - Updating Referenced Assemblies Without Recompiling Code
• Extension methods - ForEach statement
• 10 Must Have Portable Applications
• Download Windows 7 RTM Build 7600.16385.090713-1255
• Download Google Android for your PC

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 14-17, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 14-17, 2009

Web Development

• ASP.NET Membership – Show list of users online
• Deploying web part on virtual server
• SubForum.net Is An Open Source ASP.NET MVC Discussion Forum
• How we do MVC – View models - Jimmy Bogard
• A circular dependency in Asp.Net mvc contact manager example
• Using the ASP.NET AJAX Editor Control to Implement In-Place Content Editing
• Giving Your MVC Views an Identity
• Securing Dynamic Data Preview 4 Refresh – Part 3
• Anti-XSS Library 3.0 RTM
• ASP.NET MVC application structure
• Very very simple, But very very efficient Asp.net Tracking module

Web Design

• Clever PNG Optimization Techniques
• 10 Interesting lightweight jQuery plugins for web developers
• 10 Rare and Cool jQuery Plugins
• It’s All About Me!! – 55 Awesome About Me Pages
• 10 Essential Ajax Scripts for Web Developer
• 50 Useful Tools and Generators for Easy CSS Development
• 105 Examples of Clean and Minimal Twitter Apps
• Horizontal Sub-nav with CSS & jQuery
• CSS3 Cheat Sheet and a jQuery Keyboard with some Creative Advertising
• Twenty (20) Rich Text Editors to use in your applications
• 50 Creative and Inspiring 404 Pages
• 30+ Easy To Follow Photoshop Layout Design Tutorials
• Speed Up Your Website with Better Image Optimization in Photoshop

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• 30 Great Posts and Tutorials on Silverlight and Blend 3
• Silverlight 3: Cached Assemblies and you can too!
• Custom Fonts in Silverlight
• Biggest Suprises in Silverlight 3 - Shawn Wildermuth
• Silverlight Cream for July 15, 2009
• Speech Recognition in a C# WPF Application
• Testing Silverlight from Windows Live Writer
• Announcing the MVVM Foundation library
• Building a Presentation Framework with Prism for Silverlight
• Silverlight 2 Security
• Overview of New Features in Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow: Part III
• Silverlight, WCF & TransportWithMessageCredential Security

Database & Related Technologies

• LINQ to SQL and Transactions
• Using NHibernate for Legacy Databases
• More Entity Framework Resources
• Working with Message Queuing Task with SQL Server 2008 Integration Services
• Storage Size And Performance Implications Of A GUID PK
• SQL SERVER – Restore Sequence and Understanding NORECOVERY and RECOVERY
• More On SubSonic’s Simple Repository

Web Service & Related Technologies

• WCF from CLR Functions
• Rest - A quick summary

Testing

• MOQ Mothers
• xUnit.net 1.5 CTP 2 - Brad Wilson
• My unit testing guidelines

Architecture

• The Anemic Domain Model Pattern
• It is done... S#arp Architecture 1.0 RTM
• Refactoring Series – Part 5 – Some Real World Refactoring
• Compare Design Patterns in C# and Ruby: The Observer Pattern
• Just say no to ‘Poor Man’s Dependency Injection’
• Model-Driven development become real with Sculpture 2.0
• A Focus on Search User Experience
• An Overview of Partial Classes and Partial Methods
• Agile Fails Better
• MEF Preview 6 Available - Nicholas Blumhardt
• Creating Extensible Applications with the Managed Extensibility Framework
• "Geneva" Single Sign On Gets New Names
• Why DRY and Unit Tests don't mix well.
• Agile and Prototyping
• Dynamic Languages in Architecture

Others

• Branch-Per-Feature Source Control. Part 1: Why
• Enumerating a user secure certificate store in C#
• Comparison of Azure and Google App Engine Pricing
• HTC Sense UI for Windows Mobile
• Microsoft PDC 2009
• About Project Success and Failure
• CloudNews for 14th July, 2009
• Firefox 3.5 for developers - Mozilla Developer Center
• Take the .Net 4 Beta1 survey
• Download Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview
• Thank you IIS team for the SEO toolkit, it helped correct over 500 errors

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 9-13, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 9-13, 2009

Web Development

• Using Custom T4 templates To Generate Better Controllers in ASP MVC
• ASP.NET MVC & jQuery Part 2: Zebra Striping
• Handling Scripts in ASP.Net MVC
• Binding JsTree with Database in ASP.NET MVC
• RSS Feeds and Google Sitemaps for ASP.NET MVC with LINQ To XML
• HTML Helper for Including and Compressing Javascript
• Keeping ELMAH’s Error Log Size In Check
• ASP.NET MVC in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

Web Design

• 15 Website for jQery Enthusiast and Addicts
• Coding a Clean & Illustrative Web Design from Scratch
• The Roadmap To Becoming A Professional Freelance Web Designer
• CSS Frameworks List
• 15 Good CSS Forums for Web Designers and Developers
• Using Wireframes to Streamline Your Development Process
• 50 Best-Of Designer's (NEW) Download Picks and Resources
• Making a Content Slider with jQuery UI
• Image slicing and CSS - Being clever with file formats
• Yummy Envato Freebies: ‘Nice & Clean’ Site Template + More!
• jQuery UI Dialog Box in jQuery Grid plug-in (jqGrid) with ASP.NET MVC Web application
• 30 Light and Sleek Web Designs for Inspiration

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight Cream for July 12, 2009
• Biggest Suprises in Silverlight 3
• Experimenting with User Interface Colors with Expression Design
• Silverlight 3 and CSLA .NET 3.7
• What’s new in Expression Encoder 3
• Silverlight 3, Blend 3 and the MVVM Light Toolkit
• Silverlight 3 + .NET RIA Services July Preview
• Building a 3-Tier App with Silverlight 3, .NET RIA Services and Azure Table Storage
• 40 Great Adobe AIR Applications for Designers and Developers
• UI Virtualization
• Silverlight 3: 7 additional application themes!
• 3D Capabilities in Silverlight 3: ASP Alliance
• How to make a View element animate based on the change in value of a ViewModel property
• Simplify Your XAML with Resources and Control Templates
• Asynchronous Execution, Animation and more in MVVM with Caliburn

Database & Related Technologies

• Entity Framework 4.0: How to use POCOs
• Resolving the error ‘An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host’
• Populating a Business Object from a DataTable
• Typed Datasets: A First Step to .NET Flexibility
• SQL SERVER – Standby Servers and Types of Standby Servers
• LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 7/6/2009
• What to do when SELECT query is Running Slowly?
• SQL Data Services Team Blog : TSQL Support in SQL Data Services
• jLinq (LINQ for JSON) Screencast #2 – Creating Your Own Extension Methods

Testing

• Minimizing unit Test Fragility – 8 features in Typemock Isolator to help - Roy Osherove
• Isolation Frameworks: Learning how to Stub
• MEFUnit - Prototype of a MEF Unit Testing Framework

Architecture, Design Patterns ,WCF & Others

• Lessons From My First Attempt At Bringing Agile Into A Non-Agile shop.
• Common (and all System) Exceptions in .NET
• How we handle application configuration
• Free video series “Principles of design: Unity”
• Comparing the Performance of .NET Serializers
• Ten Simple Rules for Choosing the Perfect CMS + Excellent Options
• WCF Proxy Generator – Significant Updates
• Manage Technical Document Reviews With LiveTechDocs

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 5-8, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 5-8, 2009

Web Development

• The MVC in JavaScriptMVC
• AutoMapper in NerdDinner
• How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner
• Blumin’ Dynamic Data
• ASP.NET MVC: How to combine scripts and other resources
• Sending Free SMS Text Messages From Your Application
• HandleUnknownAction in ASP.NET MVC – Be Careful
• How to use Host Header with Development Server
• SubForum.net Is An Open Source ASP.NET MVC Discussion Forum

Web Design

• HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You’ll Soon Be Using
• HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF)
• HTML and CSS hacks for IE
• JQuery Table Filter Plugin
• Clever jQuery Selections - Speed up your Selectors
• Recreating the MobileMe Web Gallery Interface: Part 2
• Features over Usability : How not to design a web application
• Form validation with jQuery from scratch
• Semiotics: A Powerful Communication Tool For Designers
• Event Pooling with jQuery Using Bind and Trigger: Managing Complex Javascript
• Advanced keypress navigation with jQuery
• Lightweight Rich Text Editor (RTE / WYSIWYG) for jQuery
• JavaScript - How to avoid switch-case syndrome
• 40 Free and Essential Web Design and Development Books from Google
• 12 Excellent Social News Sites for Web Designers
• 300+ Excellent Photoshop Brushes for Creating Painted Effects
• Top 10 jQuery Lightbox Scripts
• 10 CSS tricks that make website looks cool instantly!
• 10 Useful CSS/JS-Coding Solutions For Web-Developers
• CSS Tips and Tricks
• CSS Fundamentals: Containing Children

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Creating a ComboBox Style AutoCompleteBox Control in Silverlight
• IPhone Style Drag and Push Panel in Silverlight
• Silverlight Cream for July 06, 2009
• Communicating Between Two Silverlight Controls
• Why Shouldn’t I use PRISM?
• Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-5
• Getting started with the .NET RIA Services
• Handling Events within Silverlight Control Templates
• Silverlight 3 Polling Duplex Chat and Realtime Stock Updates
• Custom Silverlight Loading Screen
• WPF Multithreading: Using the BackgroundWorker and Reporting the Progress to the UI

Database & Related Technologies

• LINQPad and Azure
• Object Grouping Best Practices: Using Schemas for Logical Separation
• Optimizing LINQ Queries using DataLoadOptions
• Mirroring and Clustering on SQL Server
• Generate Scripts to Change Owner of all Tables in a SQL Server Database
• LINQ and Entity Franework Posts for 6/29/2009
• How to copy data/append data into files from within T-SQL
• Optimizing MySQL: Performance Tuning Script
• SubSonic 3.0 is Released
• Data Access Guidance Drops Available
• Select Range of Records Based on a Condition in SQL Server 2005/2008

Testing

• Improving the AJAX Control Toolkit with the Lightweight Test Automation Framework (LTAF)
• The Art of Unit Testing with Roy Osherove
• How To Increase Site Performance Through A/B Split Testing
• Testable software is good software - video is online

Architecture, Design Patterns ,WCF & Others

• 10 Usability Lessons from Steve Krug’s Don’t Make me Think
• Refactoring challenge
• Samples for the Undo Framework
• Comparing Text and Binary Serialization in WCF
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 7/6/2009
• Web Services Contract First Tool
• Unified Cloud Interface Project (UCI)
• Why Do We Keep Building Tightly Coupled Software?
• Agile Estimation
• Behavior Driven Development Part 2 of n – Three Types of BDD
• Agile Development with Projects 2.0
• Where do developers care for Software Quality?
• Protecting Your Application From Remote Problems
• Experimenting with Multi-Touch on Windows 7 ( Part 5 )

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 1-4, 2009

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 1-4, 2009

Web Development

• How to serve the same data in Json, Xml or Html with Asp.Net MVC
• ASP.NET MVC Screencasts
• AJAX Features in ASP.NET MVC
• 22 Extremely Useful Tools for Web Designers and Developers
• Easy E-Commerce With Magento
• Creating Excel spreadsheets .XLS and .XLSX in C#
• HighOnCoding: Get high on ASP.NET articles, videos, podcasts and more!
• SharePoint Search-as-You-Type with jQuery
• Three IIS Concepts ASP.NET Developers Should Know

Web Design

• 25 Impressive Portfolio Web Designs
• Simple Tabs w/ CSS & jQuery
• 20+ Resources and Tutorials for Creative Forms using CSS
• 50 Free High-Quality and “New” (X)HTML/CSS Templates
• A Showcase of Super Clean Web Designs
• 10 JavaScript Quick Tips and Best Practices
• 10 Things Every Web Designer Just Starting Out Should Know
• Create an s3Slider-like jQuery Plugin: New Plus Tutorial
• Ask Ben: Overriding Core jQuery Methods
• Beautiful Examples of Vexel Artworks and Tutorials
• XHTML FAQ
• 20+ Resources and Tutorials for Creative Forms using CSS
• Ruby Style JavaScript
• ASP.NET MVC – MiniUrl Project
• New jQuery plugin targeting usability for password masking on forms
• jQuery Example - Using cookies to save draft information

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight Cream for July 02, 2009
• First approach to Presentation Model (MVVM) with DataTemplates in WPF
• ICommand for Silverlight with Attached Behaviors
• Presentation Model with DataTemplates in CompositeWPF (Prism) Sample
• Layout in Windows Presentation Foundation
• Creating a Simple RSS Reader Using Windows Presentation Foundation
• 10 Things to Know About Silverlight Prism
• WebBrowser control Quickstart for the Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight

Database & Related Technologies

• ORM – DES Dynamic Data
• Entity Framework Provider for Synergy DBMS
• Fluent NHibernate and Linq2NHibernate - Demo Project
• Data Access Guidance Drops available

Testing

• Testing Your Javascript
• What is Unit Testing? - Justin Etheredge
• Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume 1 BETA 2 Release
• From NUnit to MSTest

Architecture, Design Patterns ,WCF & Others

• 23 .NET Open Source Projects
• Samples for the Undo Framework
• Design Patterns - Updated TDD Productivity Plug-in for Resharper
• Azure – How we built Twittermatic.net
• Parallel Programming with .NET : Asynchronous methods, C# iterators, and Tasks
• Interview with Walter Apai of Webdesigner Depot
• Reduce PNG Graphic Size Using PNGCRUSH