Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - August 7-10, 2009
Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - August 7-10, 2009
Web Development
- Best Free Website Analytics Tools
- Creating Flash Charts From Google Spreadsheets
- MVC Membership Starter Kit Released
- I Hate Global.asax - Harry Pierson
- ASP.Net MVC - How to route to images or other file types
- Backup and Restore database in ASP.NET
- ASP.NET MVC 2 - Buddy Classes for your models
Web Design
- The Most 10 Common Mistakes Web Designers Make
- 20 Excellent Examples of Using Animals in Web Design
- A-Z of Free Photoshop Plugins and Filters
- 23 Excellent Examples of How to Design Online Stores
- 3 Inspirational Web Design Roundups
- Amazing jQuery Plugins
- 6 Ways To Work With Dates In JavaScript
- JQuery: utilities functions I – browser detection
- The evolution of web design
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
- Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 20: NHibernate
- How to: Populate the Module Catalog from XAML in a WPF application using the Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight
- Silverlight Cream for August 07, 2009
- Creating Breadcrumb Design for Silverlight 3 in Expression Blend
Database & Related Technologies
- Important Entity Framework Query Improvements for .NET 4.0
- Structural Annotations - One Pager-Entity Framework Design
- EF Table Splitting – The Opposite of Entity Splitting
- Yahoo!'s PNUTS Database: Too Hot, Too Cold or Just Right?
- Entity Framework Design : EDM and Store functions exposed in LINQ
- LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 8/3/2009
- Working with Report Definition Language (RDL) and Change it to add a column
- Removing time from SQL datetime
- The effects UNION in a SQL query
- Fundamentals of MySQL Query Validation
- Entity Framework – N-Tier Application Patterns
Web Service & Related Technologies
Testing
- Avoiding 5 Common Pitfalls in Unit Testing - Michael Kennedy
- Getting started with Unit Testing in C#
- Compile and Test .NET Code Snippet Without Saving
- Test database with Nunit make easy with Visual Studio Team System For Database Edition
- Silverlight SEO Testing
- Silverlight Unit Testing
- Testing Random code - Krzysztof Kozmic
Architecture
- A Whirlwind Tour through the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
- Patterns & practices Assets Survey
- Fake wrappers (candy inside)
- Constructors Should Be Simple and Stupid - Brendan Enrick
- Real-life DDD: organise code by responsibility layers, not repositories and services
- Not everything derives from object
- Agile Addresses “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” - Deborah Hartmann Preuss
- As the tests get more specific, the code gets more generic.
- MEF and Prism
- Pipeline and Yield in C#
- How To Get Started With Kanban In Software Development
- Web 2.0 | Dynamic Typing in C# 4.0
Others
- The Ultimate Guide To Speeding Up Firefox 3.5
- The Wiki Engine from CodePlex is now Open Source
- First Look: Visual Studio Team System 2010 Architecture Edition - Accentient Blog
- Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio July 2009 CTP - Microsoft Download Center
- SharePoint Database Tips
- OpenHallway — A New Usability Testing App
- Mythical Man Month revisited, again