Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Apr 26-28, 2010

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Apr 26-28, 2010

Web Development

• MVC: Unit Testing Action Filters - Donn
• ASP.NET MVC 2: Ninja Black Belt Tips - Scott Hanselman
• Turn on Compile-time View Checking for ASP.NET MVC Projects in TFS Build 2010 - Jim Lamb

Web Design

• List of 25+ New tags introduced in HTML 5 - techfreakstuff
• 15 CSS Habits to Develop for Frustration-Free Coding - noupe

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Essential Silverlight and WPF Skills: The UI Thread, Dispatchers, Background Workers and Async Network Programming - Pete Brown
• Prism Source Updated for Unity 2.0 and Silverlight 4 - Bob Brumfield
• Silverlight Cream for April 24, 2010 - Dave  Campbell

Database & Related Technologies

• How to Use SQL Server Views with the Entity Framework - Ray Barley

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Working with WCF: Part Three – Connecting To Your Service With A Client pt. 2 -James Bender

Testing

• Debugging with the Right Tools - Maoni Stephens

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

• Product Owner Anti Patterns - scrum alliance
• Successful Distributed Agile Team Working Patterns - scrum alliance
• S#arp Architecture 1.5 released - Alec Whittington
• Introduction to Security in .NET - Senthil kumar
• Don’t overlook Enterprise Library 5.0 Migration Guide - Grigori Melnik
• Think: Free Mind Maps for Newbies - Simon Mackie

Visual Studio

• Updated Blue and Dark Visual Studio 2010 Themes - John Papa
• Set or Remove a Breakpoint - Zain Naboulsi
• 6 Cool #VS2010 Quick Tips you should know when working with Visual Studio 2010 - Anoop Madhusudanan
• NDepend 3.0 – Completely Integrated with Visual Studio - Keyvan Nayyeri

Cloud Computing

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 4/24/2010+ - rj

Others

• Download Enterprise Library 5 and Unity 2 - David Hayden
• My Last Day at Microsoft - Brad Abrams

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Apr 15-18, 2010

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Apr 15-18, 2010

Web Development

• Guarding against CSRF Attacks in ASP.NET MVC2 - Scott Kirkland
• Same Markup: Writing Cross-Browser Code - Tony Ross
• Introducing Machine.Specifications.Mvc - James Broome
• ASP.NET 4 - Breaking Changes and Stuff to be Aware of - Scott Hanselman
• JSON Hijacking in ASP.NET MVC 2 - Matt
• Easy And Safe Model Binding In ASP.NET MVC - Justin Etheredge
• MVC Portable Areas Enhancement - Embedded Resource Controller - Steve Michelotti

Web Design

• The Virgin Atlantic Airways Blog: A Case Study - Walter
• Combining Modern CSS3 and HTML5 Techniques - Jeffrey Way
• Extend the jQuery UI Tabs control to support moving tabs left and right - andypike
• End of Page Slide Out Box with jQuery - Mary Lou
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Aggregation Part 2 - Matthew Podwysocki
• jQuery for the ASP.NET Developer - Scott Allen
• jQuery TinySort
• Quick Tip: Understanding CSS Specificity - Andrew Burgess
• Destroying Designer’s Creative Block and Unleashing Your Creativity - Jacob Gube

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Scanning an Image from Silverlight 4 using WIA Automation - Pete Brown
• nRoute: Now, More Wholesome - Rishi Oberoi
• Video: SketchFlow in 90 seconds - Jon Harris
• Beginning Silverlight - Layout Part 1 & Part 2 & Styles - Neil Knobbe

Database & Related Technologies

• Retrieve Default SQL Server Backup Folder using PowerShell
• Wrapped System.IO.FileNotFoundException with Entity Framework POCO and Self-Tracking Entities T4 Templates - divega

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Developing Web Services on IIS with Windows Server AppFabric - Ron Jacobs

Testing

• Introduction to TestApi - Part 6: Text String Generation API & Part 7: Memory Leak Detection API - Ivo Manolov
• Doing your first mock with JustMock - Mehfuz
• Visual Studio Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide (Version 2.0) Published - Ed Glass
• How to implement UI testing without shooting yourself in the foot - Gojko Adzic

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

• Injecting services into entities - Jimmy Bogar
• ThreadPool performance you can see - Toub
• Anonymous Types In C# Are A Crippled Hack - Derick Bailey
• What's new in C# 4 - Bruce Kyle
• .NET Rocks! – Anders Hejlsberg blows our minds! - Carl Franklin & Richard Campbell
• Implementing IObservable and extending Observable - Phil Trelford

Visual Studio

• Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects Beta - Available Now - The Visual Web Developer Team
• Ten Cool Things You Didn’t Know About Visual Studio 2010 - Gergely Orosz
• jQuery Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2010 - Suprotim Agarwal
• Visual Studio 2010 Code Visualization Tools - Robert Hess
• WF4 - Guess the number game! - Mark Pearl

Cloud Computing

• .NET 4.0 & Windows Azure
• Building OpenPOS: Part 5 – SalesModule (Part 2) - Ruby Grobler
• Developing for Windows Azure in Visual Studio 2010 - Bill Zack
• Checklist: Discussing an Azure Migration - Simon Ince

Others

• Free VS2010 Training - camerons
• Some post-VS2010 Launch Resources - Julie
• CodeRush Xpress & CodeRush Ready for Visual Studio 2010 - Mark Miller
• Making Your SharePoint 2010 Customizations Visual Upgrade Aware - Jonathan Kern

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Apr 8-10, 2010

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Apr 8-10, 2010

Web Development

• Using RIA DomainServices with ASP.NET and MVC 2 - geekswithblogs
• Using AntiXss As The Default Encoder For ASP.NET - Phil Haack
• New <%: %>Syntax for HTML Encoding Output in ASP.NET 4 (and ASP.NET MVC 2) - Scott Gu
• MvcContrib - Portable Area – Visual Studio project template - erichexter
• Encoding/Decoding URIs and HTML in the .NET 4 Client Profile - Pete Brown
• Jon Takes Five with David Ebbo on T4MVC
• Customizing Ribbon Positioning in SharePoint 2010 Master Pages - Jonathan Kern
• ASP.NET 4.0 Routing Tutorial - aspnet101
• A Custom ASP.NET MVC Model Binder for Repositories - Mike Hadlow
• MVC Turbine - Jon

Web Design

• What’s wrong with extending the DOM - kangax
• How To Build a Widget to Display your Buzzing - Crysfel Villa
• jQuery Image Slider with Unique EffectsjQue - COIN SLIDER
• Stylesheet switcher using jQuery - kelvinluck
• Create Windows 7 start menu using CSS3 only - janko
• Designing with Lenses - Bill Scott
• Carbon Fiber Signup Form using Progressive Enhancement - Tutorialzine
• Infinite Scroll WebSites via AutoPagerize - Hacky, but the beginning of something cool - hanselman
• CSS Specificity And Inheritance - Inayaili de Leon
• Mastering CSS Floats - devgrow
• More than one way… (delegate edition) - Chris Coyier
• Horizontal Attention Leans Left - Jakob Nielsen

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Installing Multi-Touch Simulator for Silverlight Phone 7 - Michael Sync
• New XAML Features That’ll Make Designers Happy - Frank La Vigne
• Silverlight and SharePoint 2010: Picture gallery sample using the client object model - Anthony de Bruyn
• Silverlight Cream for April 07, 2010 - Dave Campbell

Database & Related Technologies

• Using LINQ to represent XML data as an Object containing Master-Detail records - Suprotim Agarwal
• LINQ: How to build complex queries utilizing deferred execution and anonymous types - Syed Mehroz Alam
• AutoPoco v0.1 Released - Rob Ashton

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Some known WCF issues in Silverlight 4 - SLWSTeam

Testing

• Unit Testing and Intergration Testing in Real Project - Omar Al Zabir

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

• 7 Ways to Make Your API More Successful - Daniel Jacobson
• The Collapse of Complex Business Models - Clay Shirky
• Ten Reasons to use the Managed Extensibility Framework - Jeremy Likness
• Virtual Learning Series – Beginner’s guide to Software Craftsmanship - Mahendra Mavani
• You can learn a lot from a child (redux) - Garr Reynolds
• Creating Awesome Applications when you're Clueless - Pete
• Why Ancient Mayans and Media Barons Are Alike - Mathew Ingram
• Adding git commit information to your assemblies - Joshua Flanagan
• Extreme Programming (XP) at a Glance - JD Meier
• Branching Strategies: Handling Dependencies Between Branches - derick bailey
• OData Visualizer Extension - Gil Fink
• patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance – Release: SPG2010 Drop 8  - codeplex
• Rx - for beginners (part 14): time based buffering - Bnaya Eshet
• Assembly-level initialization at design time - Josh Smith
• How to Find Local Clients for Your Freelance Business - snoak
• First round playing with Memcached - Shaun Xu
• Basic Defensive Database Programming Techniques - Alex Kuznetsov 

Visual Studio

• What can you do with ‘IntelliTrace’ in Visual Studio 2010 - Code Happiness
• Visual Studio Team System 2010 - Articles - Suprotim Agarwal
• VS 2010: Enhanced IntelliSense Matching - Deborah Kurata
• Introducing ReSharper 5.0: Structural Search and Replace - jetbrains

Others

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 4/7/2010+ - rj

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Apr 5-7, 2010

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Apr 5-7, 2010

Web Development

• HTML 5 is Born Old - Quake in HTML 5 Example
• Image Preview in ASP.NET MVC - Imran
• Advanced ASP.NET MVC 2 - Brad Wilson
• How to Serialize/Deserialize Complex XML in ASP.Net / C# - Impact Works
• Ban HTML comments from your pages and views - Bertrand Le Roy
• Measuring ASP.NET and SharePoint output cache - Gunnar Peipman

Web Design

• Eye Candy vs. Bare-Bones in UI Design - Max Steenbergen
• Empathizing Color Psychology in Web Design - Anastasia Miles
• Design is a Side Effect - Cranky
• Contrast is King - LESLIE JENSEN-INMAN
• 55 Inspiring Examples of Gradients in Web Design - gmuller
• Tableless layouts using floating DIV - consultsarath

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• MVVM Light Toolkit V3 SP1 for Windows Phone 7 - Laurent Bugnion
• Silverlight Cream for April 04, 2010 - Dave Campbell

Database & Related Technologies

• SQL SERVER – 2008 – Introduction to Snapshot Database – Restore From Snapshot - Pinal Dave
• Storage Configuration - Joe Chang
• SQLite & Entity Framework 4 - Dane Morgridge
• Rejuvenated: Script Creates and Drops for Candidate Keys and Referencing Foreign Keys - Adam Machanic

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Working with WCF: Part Three – Connecting To Your Service With A Client pt. 1 - James Bender

Testing

• Testing NHibernate Mappings - Mike Hadlow
• Writing Tests for a Stored Proc Sure Feels Weird - Bobby Johnson

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

• 7 Management Interventions for Adapting and Adopting Processes , Rick Stacey’s Agreement and Certainty Matrix  and The Four Circles of XP (Extreme Programming) - J.D. Meier
• Creating a software product - are you doing it wrong? - Janko
• Boundary Analysis - Simon Ince
• Domain Specific Languages with Boo: AST Macros - Ryan Svihla
• On The Value Of Fundamentals In Software Development - Alan Skorkin
• Staying Sane as a Technical Manager, Part 2 and Analyzing Code with NDepend - Aaron Lerch
• SoC, DI, IoC, WTF? A basic introduction to Dependency Injection with Ninject - edventuro
• Generate Sequence Diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate - Suprotim Agarwal

Others

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 4/3/2010+ - rj
• 10 Google Chrome Extensions for Boosting Your Productivity - Jacob Gube
• Introducing a new type of help for developers - Frank Rice