Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - August 16-18, 2010

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC 3: Using HttpNotFoundResult in controller tests - Gunnar Peipman
ASP.NET MVC meets HTML5 - Gunnar Peipma
ASP.NET MVC 3: Global action filters - Gunnar Peipman
Named Routes with ASP.NET MVC - Dane Morgridge

Web Design

The Future of the Internet - Dan Redding
Thoughts About Redundancy In Web Design - Steven Bradley
40 Highly Effective FaceBook Business Pages - apaulandrew
3 Advanced CSS3 Techniques You Should Learn - Jacob Gube
Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.54 - apaulandrew
Showcase Of Delicious Coffee Websites - Katie Thompson
25 Useful Videos and Presentations for Designers - Otba Mushaweh

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

Validating Data in Silverlight 4 Applications - IDataErrorInfo - Dan Wahlin
First Guide to MEF & Silverlight (Part–I) - Kunal Chowdhury
Debugging Silverlight in Firefox - Corey Miller
Silverlight Cream for August 15, 2010 - Dave Campbell

Database & Related Technologies

NHibernating a WCF Data Service - Pablo M. Cibraro
An alternative repository - Michel Grootjans
Why SQL Server is better than any other RDBMS Applications? - pinal dave

Web Service & Related Technologies

Using .Net WCF Syndication API to Read a Comments Feed - Gil Fink on .Net

Debugging & Testing

Unit Testing Secure Controller Actions with Moq - mikeceranski
Two different ways to create bad logic in unit tests - Roy Osherove
RESTful WCF Service – How to get browser version at server code - Denis Gladkikh

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

Coding Without A Net - Coding without comments - Jesse Liberty
Hydrating Objects With Expression Trees - Part I - Paulo Morgado
Customizing process guidance for Team Foundation Server 2010 - Charles Sterling
New Scrum Process Template for Team Foundation Server Online Presentation - Charles Sterling
API Anti-Patterns: How to Avoid Common REST Mistakes - Tomas Vitvar

Visual Studio

Advanced Code Diff from within Visual Studio - Patrick Smacchia
Visual Studio Add-in for Windows 7 Taskbar extras - Kate Gregory

Cloud Computing

Opening a Windows Azure and SQL Azure Introductory Special Account - rj

Others

jQuery Mobile Announced; Touch-Optimized Web Framework for Smartphones & Tablets - Dion Almae
Windows Phone Design Day Recordings - Jaime Rodriguez
Startup - Week 1 Recap - Justin Etheredge
The Perfect Development Environment - ERIC BIELLER
8 eyetracking studies from the web’s biggest blogs

Posted: Aug 16 2010, 04:01 PM by SanjeevAgarwal | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, JQuery, Silverlight, .NET, WPF, WCF, MVC, SQL Server, Visual Studio

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

Web Development

How WebMatrix, Razor, ASP.NET Web Pages and MVC fit together - David Ebbo
Microsoft WebMatrix in Context and Deploying Your First Site - Scott Hanselman
Complete Beginner's Guide to Web Analytics and Measurement - Andrew Maier
Introduction to WebImage - Matthew M. Osborn
Determining an ASP.NET Page’s View State Footprint - Scott Mitchell
ASP.NET MVC, jQuery & JSON - Dane Morgridge

Web Design

Great Ways to Learn jQuery - Marc Grabanski
Complete Toolbox: 55 CSS Menu And Button Coding Tutorials - Daniels Mekšs
Collection of jQuery Image Sliders - Mark Abucayon
250 Quick Web Design Tips (Part 2) - Jacob Gube
Useful jQuery Tutorials for June 2010 - Ajaxline
18 Brilliant Pure CSS Drawings - Kevin
Generic Activity Indicator for Ajax Requests - Rey Bango
Your design sucks - Paul Boag
Designing A Facebook Fan Page: Showcases, Tutorials, Resources - Julia May

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

An Introduction to Microsoft Silverlight 4 – Part 1 - Mike Taulty
Three essential plugins for Expression Blend - Avivo
Silverlight Cream for July 07, 2010 - Dave Campbell

Database & Related Technologies

Top Ten Questions and Answers on Data - msdn
Defensive Query Tuning: slides and scripts from my presentation - Alexander Kuznetsov
Network compression and database mirroring - Simon Sabin
Using Data Access Application Block (DAAB) - Part 2 - Arshad Ali
SQL SERVER – The Self Join – Inner Join and Outer Join - Pinaldave
An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Extending LINQ – Adding Query Operators - Scott Mitchell
OData Explorer - Gil Fink

Web Service & Related Technologies

Custom Query Options on the WCF Data Services Client - Marcelo Lopez Ruiz
Using WIF with Workflow Services - Zulfiqar

Debugging & Testing

IntelliTrace and unfamiliar code - Cameron Skinner
Unit Tests and LINQ Queries - K. Scott Allen

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

A Beginner’s Guide to Design Patterns - Nikko Bautista
Modern programming: A tale of four frameworks - Jim Galasyn
Named Arguments versus Object Initializers - K. Scott Allen
Agile in the Enterprise - Mike Cottmeyer
A short diagramed guide of a few Model-View-* patterns - Greg Duncan

Visual Studio

TFS Event Handler for Team Foundation Server 2010 - Martin Hinshelwood
dotCover 1.0 Beta Released - JetBrains

Cloud Computing

Thinking of Moving to the Cloud? Get Free Compute Time with Windows Azure - Joey deVilla
Windows Azure Free eBook - DotNut
Introduction to Data Sync Service for SQL Azure - Wayne Walter Berry
Does Azure Debugging Cost Too Much? - Jonathan Allen

Others

Firefox 4 Beta - Mozilla
How to use the MultiTouch Behavior for Windows Phone 7 - Laurent Bugnion
Don’t forget to Encrypt your Windows Phone 7 Data - Rob Tiffany

Posted: Jul 08 2010, 10:11 AM by SanjeevAgarwal | with 6 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, Silverlight, CSS, C#, .NET, WCF, MVC, LINQ, SQL Server, JQuery UI, Visual Studio

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

Web Development

Introducing “Razor” – a new view engine for ASP.NET MVC - Scott Gu
Dynamic Views in ASP.NET MVC 2 - Greg Shackles
How Can I Determine The Current Controller or Action in an Html Helper - Steve Smith
Installing, Configuring and Using Windows Server AppFabric and the "Velocity" Memory Cache in 10 minutes - Scott Hanselman
Using ViewModel information in an ASP.NET MVC 2 Editor or Display template - Jon Galloway
How to Make a Tag Cloud in ASP.NET MVC - Lakario
ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Areas - Brian Mains

Web Design

40 Tasty Restaurant Websites to Inspire You - gmuller
iOS Icons Made in Pure CSS - Graphic Peel
WTF is HTML5 and why we should all care - Infographic
Saving Bandwidth and Improving Site Speed Using CSS Sprites - Jacob Gube

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

Silverlight for Symbian Platform , What about Windows Mobile ??.. - Senthil Kumar
Prism Training Kit: Beta Version Available - Damian Schenkelman
Introducing Sterling, the Object-Oriented Database for Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 - Jeremy Likness
Silverlight/WPF: Don’t name elements unless you have to: why x:Naming everything is bad - Pete Brown
Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (5–Authentication) - Mike Taulty
Adding MVVM Light Toolkit to an Existing Project - Chris Koenig
Silverlight 4: Interoperability with Excel using the COM Object - KunalChowdhury
Silverlight Cream for July 03, 2010 - Dave Campbell

Database & Related Technologies

SSIS gotcha: Beware of multiple outputs from a synchronous script component - jaminet
Using TransactionScope with SQLite - Jan Van Ryswyck

Web Service & Related Technologies

Loading WCF Data Services Ajax Script Library - Gil Fink

Testing

Unit testing custom StyleCop rules using Typemock Isolator - Dror Helper
Speed Test: Static vs Instance Methods - Richard Carr

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

Workshop Planning Framework – The Six P’s - J.D. Meier
Outsourcing Doesn’t Work - Amber
10 Things I Learned In Web School - Luke Wroblewski
The Cure for Creative Blocks? Leave Your Desk. - Jocelyn K. Glei
Client Rejection – Why No Means Nothing - Chandler Quintin
Extreme LINQ, building a RayTracer - Coding4Fun
What is a PM? - J.D. Meier
.NET Enumerated Types Explained - B. James

Visual Studio

A cross-platform story – Visual Studio solution in MonoDevelop - Dennis Delimarsky
VS 2010 Productivity Improvements, Part IV - Somasegar

Cloud Computing

SQL Azure Partitioning Pattern - J.D. Meier
Now Available: Microsoft Windows Azure Guide - J.D. Meier
Archive and Mine Tweets In Azure Blobs with The Archivist Application from MIX Online Labs - rj
Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 7/2/2010+ - rj

Others

10 Most Common Health Hazards of Freelancing - Samar Owais
SharePoint Product Team Shares Their Favorite 2010 Feature - Dux Raymond Sy

Posted: Jul 05 2010, 01:25 PM by SanjeevAgarwal | with 8 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, JQuery, Silverlight, JavaScript, CSS, .NET, WPF, WCF, MVC, LINQ, Ajax, SQL Server, ORM, Visual Studio, Sharepoint

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 28-30, 2010

Web Development

Web Application Extensibility with FubuMVC (Part 2) - Jeremy D. Miller
Using ASP.NET's ActionResult to Abstract Dependencies - Jeffrey Palermo
Checking Client Download Success with ASP.NET MVC - OdeToCode
Default Encoding of Strings in ASP.NET MVC 2 - Steve
Online Payments Using PayPal- Integration with ASP.NET - BangaruBabu
Planning your E-Commerce Website - Jacob Gube

Web Design

The Complete Web Design Style Series (700 Designs in 14 Categories) - apaulandrew
40 Creative 404 Error Pages to Inspire You - gmuller
A Closer Look at Hierarchy in Web Design - Kyala Knight
Psychological Study of Web Designs - Jenny Warner
5 jQuery Calendar Plugins that can be used on Websites - Suprotim Agarwal
Great jQuery Screencasts to Learn From - Nicole Dominguez
9 Principles of Logo Design - Seth DeMaio
Becoming a Great Web Developer - Marc Grabanski
jQuery UI 1.9 Milestone 2 – Menu - Jörn Zaeffere
Quick Tip: You Need to Check out LESS.js - Jeffery Way

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

HTTP duplex messaging improvements in Silverlight 4 - Yavor Georgiev
Creating A Silverlight Blog That Doesn’t Suck - Jesse Liberty
Silverlight Cream for June 27, 2010 - Dave Campbell

Database & Related Technologies

SQL For .Net Developers – Entity Framework 4 Second Cycle Slide Deck - Gil Fink
SQL SERVER – Default Statistics on Column – Automatic Statistics on Column -pinal dave
Bulk processing with NHibernate - Jimmy bogard

Web Service & Related Technologies

WCF Concurrency (Single, Multiple and Reentrant) and Throttling - Shivprasad koirala
RIA Services and Authentication - Nikhil Kothari

Testing

Troubleshooting Network Emulation - Nkamkolkar
20+ Online Tools for Website Validation and Testing - Siva Kumar

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

Parallel Programming in .NET 4.0: And Much, Much More… - Jennifer Marsma
Single Assignment & readonly Fields in C# - Sankarsan
Lazy Initializer : C# 4.0 - Dotnetfunda
Optimizing Regular Expression Performance, Part I: Working with the Regex Class and Regex Objects - Ron Petrusha
The Task Parallel Library Series - Data Parallelism - Steve Strong
Would You Hire Yourself? - Brain

Visual Studio

Patch for Cut/Copy ‘Insufficient Memory’ issue with VS 2010 - Scott Guthrie
Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Tooling Guidance - CodePlex
Code Snippets in Visual Studio 2010 - Umair Saeed

Cloud Computing

Others

PowerShell running in Dotnet 4 - Karl Prosse
Launchlist: A one stop website checklist - launchlist.net

Posted: Jun 28 2010, 05:36 PM by SanjeevAgarwal | with 7 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, Silverlight, JavaScript, CSS, C#, .NET, WPF, WCF, MVC, Ajax, SQL Server, ORM, JQuery UI, Visual Studio

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

Posted: Jun 21 2010, 03:36 PM by SanjeevAgarwal | with 11 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, JQuery, Silverlight, C#, .NET, WPF, WCF, MVC, LINQ, Ajax, SQL Server, JQuery UI, Visual Studio

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 14-16, 2010

Web Development

ASP.Net MVC 2 Auto Complete Textbox With Custom View Model Attribute & EditorTemplate - Sean McAlinden
Localization with ASP.NET MVC ModelMetadata - Kazi Manzur Rashid
Securing Dynamic Data 4 (Replay) - Steve
Adding Client-Side Script to an MVC Conditional Validator - Simon Ince
jQuery: Storing and retrieving data related to elements - Rebecca Murphey

Web Design

48 Examples of Excellent Layout in Web Design - Gmuller
Information Architecture: Enhancing the User Experience - Walter
CSS: Noob to Ninja, Parts 5-7: Premium Exclusive - Jeffrey Way
5 Open Source HTML5 Video Players for Web Developers - Rakesh Sharma
Fight with Spam: 15+ Free Captcha Solutions - Siva Kumar

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

Silverlight Splash Screen In Action - Pedro Fortes
Way of MEF slides and Code - Glenn Block
Silverlight Cream for June 13, 2010 - David Campbell

Database & Related Technologies

SQL Server Index Types - Sharon Bjeletich
Repositories and the Save Method - K. Scott Allen
Calculate Average Time Interval in SQL Server - Suprotim Agarwal
Introducing Stack Exchange Data Explorer - Jeff Atwood
SQL Server and the Auto Close Setting - Ted Krueger
T-SQL Enhancements in SQL 2008 - Garadin

Web Service & Related Technologies

SOA: Address Scalability Bottlenecks with Distributed Caching - Iqbal Khan

Testing

HTML and CSS Debugging Tools - Joshua Johnson

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

The patterns & practices Way - J.D. Meier
Why Do We Recycle Our Application Pools? - Davy Brion
The Performance of Arrays - Chris Burrows
AppFabric Cache: Real-World Usage and Integration - Andrea Colaci
Cache Retrieval Pattern - Gil Fink
Down the Functional Rabbit Hole - Chris Eargle
Effective specifications for agile projects - Gojko Adzic
How To Reference A Property By Name Without Using String Constants - Jon Davis
Refactoring: Convert static into instance - Patrick Kua
Lessons from Ed On Software Architecture - J.D. Meier

Visual Studio

Installing Bing Maps App with VS 2010 - Derek Chan

Cloud Computing

Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 6/12/2010+ - rj

Others

100 Years Of Propaganda: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Claire Stokoe
Windows Phone 7 Private Distribution, Marketplace Policies Unveiled at TechEd - Bruce Kyle

Posted: Jun 14 2010, 03:44 PM by SanjeevAgarwal | with 6 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, Silverlight, JavaScript, C#, .NET, WPF, WCF, MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, Ajax, SQL Server, Visual Studio

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 8-11, 2010

Web Development

ASPNET MVC: Handling Multiple Buttons on a Form with jQuery - Donn
Building a MVC2 Template, Part 14, Logging Services - Eric
Simple Accordion Menu With jQuery & ASP.NET - Steve Boschi
Conditional Validation in MVC -Simonince
Creating a RESTful Web Service Using ASP.Net MVC Part 23 – Bug Fixes and Area Support - Shoulders of Giants

Web Design

The Principles Of Cross-Browser CSS Coding - Louis Lazaris
Transparency in Web Design - Chris Coyier
A jQuery UI Combobox: Under the hood - Jörn Zaefferer
Create a Custom Content Slider with jQuery - Kevin
ThemeSwitcher in Web Design, Fantstic Examples and Tutorials - Joel Reyes
The Ultimate Roundup of Indispensable and Helpful HTML5 Tutorials - Siva Kumar
The Essential Guide to @font-face - Jacob Gube
11 UI Kits for iPhone and iPad Development - Henry
Quick Tip: Pure CSS Reflections - Jeffrey Way
How to Create a Pure Css Polaroid Gallery

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

What the Heck is “MEF” for, and what Silverlight designers need to know about it? - Don
Simplified MEF: Dynamically Loading a Silverlight .xap - Michael Washington
Simulating Touch Inertia on Windows Phone 7 - Charles Petzold
Silverlight 4 minor update - June 2010 - Tim Heuer

Database & Related Technologies

SQL SERVER – Merge Operations – Insert, Update, Delete in Single Execution - pinaldave
NHibernate 2 Beginner’s Guide Book - Ricardo Peres

Web Service & Related Technologies

WCF Interoperability and Extensibility - Part One - Viperguynaz
RIA Services Samples Project on CodePlex - Nikhal Kothari
3 ways to do WCF instance management (Per call, Per session and Single) - Questpond
Fileless Activation of WCF Service in .NET 4.0 -Sankarsan

Testing

This Week In Test - Episode 1 - Rietveld! - Roy Osherove
DebuggerDisplay Name and Type Parameters

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

Code Contracts Part 5 - Abstract Types and Interfaces - Kevin Hazzard
DRY your CruiseControl.NET Configuration - Geoff Lane
A ToDynamic() Extension Method For Fluent Reflection - Dixin
Debugging .NET 2.0 Assembly from unmanaged Code in VS2010? - Rick Strahl
How To Spot A Sketchy Client (Plus A Contract Template) - Speider Schneider
6 important uses of Delegates and Events - Questpond
The Best Code You Will Ever Write - John Sonmez
Comparing .Net IoC containers, part seven: MEF - Anthony Steele
Using Service Locator and Unity - Salvador Gascon
Code Review: .NET Application Performance - J.D. Meier
Isolation At Work: Good Or Bad? - Davy Brion

Visual Studio

Announcing: VS2010 Productivity Power Tools and Modeling Feature Packs - Jason Zander
Announcing the first Visual Studio Pro Power Tools! - Brian Harry

Cloud Computing

Windows Azure Platform Training Kit - June Update - Guy Barrette
Peering into the cloud with IntelliTrace - Somasegar
Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.2 (June 2010) released - Greg Duncan

Others

ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2010 - Service Pack 1 - Ken Cox
What on Earth is a Feature Pack? - Brian Harry

Posted: Jun 08 2010, 04:13 PM by SanjeevAgarwal | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, JQuery, Silverlight, JavaScript, CSS, C#, WPF, WCF, MVC, XML, Ajax, SQL Server, ORM, JQuery UI, Visual Studio

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - June 1-3, 2010

Web Development

Anti-Forgery Request Recipes For ASP.NET MVC And AJAX - Dixin
ASP.NET MVC 2 Localization Complete Guide - Alex Adamyan
Dynamically Structured ViewModels in ASP.NET MVC - Keith Brown
ASP.NET MVC Time Planner is available at CodePlex - Gunnar Peipman
Part 2 – A Cascading Hierarchical Field Template & Filter for Dynamic Data - Steve
SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Content Management Resources - Andrew Connell

Web Design

Redesign vs. Realign -Walter
HTML5 Globals and You - John Cox
Liquid, Fluid and Elastic Layout Templates, Tools and Frameworks - Paul Andrew
Website Navigation Menu Toolbox - Steven Snell
Responsive Web Design - Ethan Marcotte
60 Excellent Examples of Illustration in Web Design - Gmuller
10 Massively Popular Websites with Plain and Simple Designs - Jacob Gube

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

Silverlight 4 OData Paging with Rx Extension - Michael Washington
Updates for the Silverlight Training Kit - John Papa
Resolution Independent Layout Fix in WPF - Abhishek Sur
Silverlight Cream for May 30, 2010 - Dave Campbell

Database & Related Technologies

NoSQL with RavenDB and ASP.NET MVC - Part 2 - Shiju
SQL Server User-Defined Type To Store and Process Email Addresses - Andy Novick
SELECT * FROM XML - Jacob Sebastian
Robust, Efficient, & Fast Data Access With LINQ to SQL -Alikl

Web Service & Related Technologies

View Model Collection Properties for WCF RIA Services - Colin Blair

Testing

StatLight V1.0 & V1.1 Released (Silverlight Testing Automation Tool) - Jason Jarrett
Introducing AgUnit: Silverlight Unit Testing With Resharper - Davy Brion

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

Solution Architecture For The Masses. Step 4: Design Your Presentation Layer – Part I & Part II- Alikl
C#5 and Meta-Programming - Patrick Smacchia
9 Rules about Constructors, Destructors, and Finalizers - Mohammad Elsheimy
Piracy in .NET Code – Part 2 – Even when the code is obfuscated - Naveen
C# Dynamic Type - Richard Carr
C#: Using a dictionary instead of if statements - Mark Needham
Architecture Review: Mock-Driven Three-Layer Architecture - James Shore
Code Contracts Part 4 – Object Invariants - Kevin Hazzard
Dynamic Send Activity in WF4 - Roman Kiss
Difference Between DirectCast and TryCast - Abhishek Sur
Using ExcelPacke to create Excel sheets on server - Gunnar Peipman

Visual Studio

It’s there some new “testing” stuff in VS2010? Yep! Tons! And here’s a free webcast to show you all about it… - Greg Duncan
NDepend v3 Released - Code Quality and Code Metrics with Visual Studio 2010 - David Hayden
Code Rush Vs. ReSharper - Jesse Liberty

Cloud Computing

Windows Azure Toolkit for Facebook - Codeplex

Others

iPhone HD to Feature Highest Resolution Screen Yet Seen on any Phone - Taimur Asad
Jobs be damned: Flash on the iPad! (Silverlight, too!) - Dave Myron

Posted: Jun 01 2010, 11:35 AM by SanjeevAgarwal | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, JQuery, Silverlight, CSS, C#, .NET, WPF, WCF, MVC, Ajax, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Entity Framework, Sharepoint

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - May 26-29, 2010

Web Development

Porting MVC Music Store to Raven: StoreController - Ayende
Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API - Scott Mitchell
Anti-Forgery Request Recipes For ASP.NET MVC And AJAX - Dixin
How to Localize an ASP.NET MVC Application - Michael Ceranski
Tekpub ASP.NET MVC 2 Starter Site 0.5 Released - Rob Conery
How to use Google Data API in ASP.NET MVC. Part 2 - Mahdi
jQuery.validate and Html.ValidationSummary playing nice together - simonince
Automatic Fluent Validation Integration into ASP.NET MVC with MvcTurbine.FluentValidation - Darren Cauthon
ASP.NET MVC with jTemplates Part 1 and Part 2 - Steve Gentile

Web Design

Efficiently Rendering CSS - Chris Coyier
The Best Pricing Tables Design For Your Next Projects - Wajid Khan
Fantastic Footers: 25 Examples And Best Practices - Mike Smith
97 Beautiful Navigation’s for your Inspiration -Swat Chap
Jquery SlickGrid -Mleibman
Why and how to create Microsoft Office Minibar with jQuery and CSS3 - JankoAtWrapSpeed
Cross-domain Ajax with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing - Nicholas C. Zakas
The jQuery Course Prerelease - Learn More - Mark Grabanski
Quick Tip: Pure CSS Text Gradients - Jeffery Way
Wicked CSS3 3d bar chart - marcofolio
Breaking the Rules: How to Effectively Break the “Rules” of Good Web Design - Cameron Chapman

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

20 Silverlight 4 demos in one zip file - Andras Velvart
Silverlight Cream for May 25, 2010 - Dave Campbell

Database & Related Technologies

OData Basics - At the AZGroups "Day of .NET" with ScottGu - Scott Hanselman
SQL SERVER – Simple Example of Snapshot Isolation – Reduce the Blocking Transactions - pinaldave
EF4 Sample Provider for SQL Server now available - ado.net team blog
Data Access Practices Using Microsoft .Net: A Nerdly Comparison - Nick muhonen
Dynamically Pass a Table Name to TRUNCATE TABLE - Suprotim Agarwal

Web Service & Related Technologies

Great new intro article on SOA in Plain English - Sam Gentile
RIA Services Demo from PDX Code Camp - Pete Brown

Testing

Simplify Your Unit Tests With Auto Mocking: Part 1 – Helper Methods - Derick Bailey
Simplify Your Unit Tests With Automocking: Part 2 - Establishing Context - Derick Bailey
Project Greenfield: Testing the TDD Waters - Joel Cochran
Exploring Selenium 2: Introduction & Lessons Learned in Selenium 1 - Jim Holmes
Encouraging Negative Feedback During User Testing - Michael Wilson

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

7 lessons learned while building reddit to 270 million page views a month - Todd Hoff
Creating a Fluent Interface with C# - Deran Schilling
IDisposable: What Your Mother Never Told You About Resource Deallocation - Stephen Cleary
Static constructor in C# - Baldi
13 Strategies To Jumpstart Your Productivity – Celestine
Creating a software product - are you doing it wrong? - JankoAtWrapSpeed
Hands-on Labs for Enterprise Library 5.0 and Unity 2.0 Released - Grigori Melnik
An Overview of Lean Software Practices - Jared Richardson
7 Must Read Life Lessons from Abraham Lincoln – Mr. Self Development
When Mentoring Goes Bad – Dawn E. Chandler
The Myth of Inspiration? - Echo Enduring Blog

Visual Studio

Chirp Chirp: Visual Studio Add-In for DotLess, Js, and Css Files - Evan

Cloud Computing

Others

Windows Phone 7 Example Application with Landscape Layout - JasonZ

Posted: May 26 2010, 02:33 PM by SanjeevAgarwal | with 4 comment(s)

Filed under: ASP.NET, JQuery, Silverlight, CSS, C#, .NET, WCF, MVC, Ajax, SQL Server, Visual Studio

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - May 13-16, 2010

Web Development

Integrating Twitter Into An ASP.NET Website Using OAuth - Scott Mitchell
T4MVC Extensions for MVC Partials - Evan
Building a Data Grid in ASP.NET MVC - Ali Bastani
Introducing the MVC Music Store - MVC 2 Sample Application and Tutorial - Jon Galloway
Announcing the RTM of MvcExtensions - kazimanzurrashid
Optimizing Your Website For Speed

Web Design

Validation with the jQuery UI Tabs Widget - Chris Love
A Brief History of Markup - Jeremy Keith
5 CSS Methods to Style a Block with Background - Kevin
Creating a Bubble Coda Style with CSS3 - Teylor Feliz
Improving The User Experience Of Your Website With Modal Windows - Joel Reyes
Best HTML5 and CSS3 tutorials - Ajaxline

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

Quick Charts for WPF & Silverlight v.1.0 Beta Released - amCharts
MVVM Coding by Convention (Convention over Configuration) - Jeremy Likness
Silverlight Cream for May 12, 2010 -Dave Campbell

Database & Related Technologies

SQL SERVER – Four Posts on Removing the Bookmark Lookup – Key Lookup - pinal dave
Entity Framework 4.0 POCO Classes and Data Services - Chris Sells
Creating and Executing Parameterized Queries - dipak

Web Service & Related Technologies

Service Operations for Any and All - Marcelo

Testing

Docx 2 UnitTest - Daniel Fisher
Academic TDD links - Greg

Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

IQueryable Can Kill Your Dog, Steal Your Wife, Kill Your Will To Live, etc. - Evan Nagle
The Secret of Results - J D Meier
Can I Do Perfect Scrum and Still Fail? - Mike Cottmeyer

Visual Studio

Visual Studio 2010: How to maintain control of your code using Layer Diagrams, custom MSBuild tasks, and work item integration - Jennifer Marsman

Cloud Computing

ASP.NET Security Scenarios on Azure - J D Meier
SQL Azure vs. SQL Server - Microsoft

Others

New advance SharePoint 2010 training material released - Vesa

Posted: May 13 2010, 02:58 PM by SanjeevAgarwal | with 2 comment(s)

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