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

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

Web Development

• Creating a Stock Widget in ASP.NET MVC Application - by GridViewGuy
• Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Enhancing Charts With Ajax - Scott Mitchell
• An Update on the FubuMVC Reboot - by Jeremy D. Miller
• "Testing, Performance Analysis, and jQuery 1.4" - John Resig

Web Design

• Stronger, Better, Faster Design with CSS3 - by Zurb
• Live Preview jQuery Plugin - Phil Hack
• Jquery Collections
• Binding Multiple Events to Reduce Redundancy with Event-Delegation Tooltips - by Karl Swedberg
• HTML5 Visual Cheat Sheet (Reloaded)
• 500+ Photoshop Brushes for Creating Brush Strokes - by Steven Snell

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Architecting Silverlight 4 with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM - Part 1 - by Shawn Wildermuth
• Building Hello MEF - Part III - XAP Partitioning (with the host’s permission) and the sweetness of recomposition - by Glenn Block
• Using the Silverlight Toolkit LayoutTransformer Control for Angled Column Header Text
• Silverlight Cream for December 16, 2009

Database & Related Technologies

• Comparing Entity Framework 4 New Stored Procedure Support to LINQ to SQL - by Steve Michelotti
• LINQPad updated to support Data Services - by Chris Sells
• Entity Framework POCO (EF4): A Simple Mapping
• Entity Framework POCO (EF4): Generic Repository and Unit of Work Prototype
• Unity Extension for Entity Framework POCO Configuration, Repository and Unit of Work

Web Service & Related Technologies

• ADO.NET Data Services Update for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 now available

Testing

• The most common flaw in software performance testing - by Ashish Soni
• Unit Testing Strategy: Hiding Out In the Open - by Tim Barcz
• Tracewriter App Available for Download on Code Gallery - by James

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

• Thinking about the future of the Caching block - by Christopher Tavares
• The Common Principles Behind the NOSQL Alternatives - by Nati Shalom
• Open Source Success Metrics - by Ayende
• Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing in the Ambient Cloud - by Todd Hoff
• Using Speech Synthesis in .NET 4 and Windows 7 - by Pete Brown

Others

• FREE MSDN Flash eBook of the best 13 technical articles of 2009
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 16/12/2009