Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 21-23, 2010

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 21-23, 2010

Web Development

• ASP.NET Internals - Performance counters implementation details - Jose Reyes
• Check for Existing Values with ASP.NET CustomValidator + jQuery $.ajax() - Brian Dobberteen
• Multi-tenant ASP.NET MVC - Views - Zack Owens
• Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with Cucumber and ASP.NET MVC - Damien White
• ASP.NET MVC - MvcSiteMapProvider 2.0 is out! - Maarten Balliauw

Web Design

• Showcase Of Big Online Stores - vitaly
• 55 Examples of Beautifully Integrated Social Media Links in Web Design -Gmuller
• Quick Tip: New HTML5 Form Features - Grant Derderian
• common css mistakes/putting a stop to them - Niels Matthijs
• Issues with modal overlays on the web - Janko Jovanovic
• Announcing jQuery Fundamentals: An Open-Source jQuery Training Curriculum - Rebecca Murphey
• Excellent jQuery Navigation Menu Tutorials - Vitaly
• 10 jQuery Plugins and Techniques for Doing More with Images - Henry
• Start Using CSS3 Today: Techniques and Tutorials - Vitaly Friedman

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight 4.0 – Using Commanding Feature to Fetch data from a WCF 4.0 service - Mahesh Sabnis
• Silverlight 4: Accessing Windows 7 Taskbar using the new COM API - Kunal Chowdhury
• Creating WPF Prototypes with SketchFlow - Michael Sorens
• WPF Application Framework – Release: v1.0.0.350 - CodePlex
• Moonlight 3.0, Preview 7 - Miguel de Icaza

Database & Related Technologies

• You keep using that LINQ, I dunna think it means what you think it means - Scott Hanselman
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer - MS Downloads
• SQL SERVER – Free Download – SQL Server 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training Kit - Pinal Dave
• Connection Pooling in ADO.NET - Hima Bindu Vejella

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Using Paging in WCF Data Services - Gil Fink
• RIA Services and Authorization -Nikhil Kothari

Testing

• Mutation Testing - Jeremy Jarrell
• Make the JavaScript Test Pass - K. Scott Allen
• What’s New in xUnit.net 1.6 - Brad Wilson
• Update to the WCF Load Test tool is available - Brian Harry
• Anatomy of a good acceptance test - Gojko Adzic
• Agile Testing is Different - John Sonmez

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

• 7 Rules to Improve your Application Performance Practices Performance, Scalability and Architecture - Alois Reitbauer
• Tame Your Software Dependencies with Dependency Injection & Common Service Locator Library - Kitchai Yong
• Null Or Empty Coalescing - Phill Haack
• How I use Inversion of Control containers - Krzysztof Koźmic
• C#: Optional Parameters - Pros and Pitfalls - James Michael
• MEF, IServiceProvider and Testing Visual Studio Extensions - Kzu
• The Power of Func<> - John Sonmez
• Murder, Blood and Thread Safe Singletons - Ade Miller
• Breaking if statements with pattern - Thang Chung
• HttpClient and HttpResponseMessage Unhappy in Medium Trust - Karsten Januszewski
• Prefer Additional Methods Over Additional Overloads - John Sonmez
• What’s New in Code Access Security in .NET Framework 4.0 – Part I - Matteo Slaviero
• Modeling Websites and Native Code - Somasegar
• Patterns of Parallel Programming – TechEd Talk Online - Ade Miller

Visual Studio

• .NET API for PasteHTML - Jef Claes
• Rewards of "Frequent Check In" - Sachin

Cloud Computing

• Best Practices for Building Reliable SQL Azure Database Client Applications - Technical Notes - Valery Mizonov

Others

• 14 application to install on a new development machine - Dror Helper