Contents tagged with Database

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

  Thursday, April 15, 2010

  .NET Ajax ASP.NET C# CSS Database JQuery JQuery UI MVC Sharepoint Silverlight SQL Server Visual Studio WCF

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  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

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• Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Mar 23-25, 2010

  Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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  Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Mar 23-25, 2010

  Web Development

  • Introducing Browsers Providers in ASP.NET 4 - osbornm
  • ASP.NET 4.0 Part 14, More Control Over Session State - hmobius
  • Editable MVC Routes (Apache Style) - nberardi
  • ASP.NET Performance Framework - karlseguin

  Web Design

  • Techniques for Squeezing Images for All They’re Worth - Walter
  • 12 Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books - SpeckyBoy
  • Getting Started with Xcode IDE for iPhone Development - keyvan
  • Grid Accordion with jQuery - ChrisCoyier
  • 10 Ways Designers Can Earn More from Projects - Jacob Gube
  • 25 Web Designs with Amazing Attention to Detail - Steven Snell

  Silverlight, WPF & RIA

  • Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Localizing Business Application - Brad Abrams
  • Make your Silverlight applications Speak to you with Microsoft Translator and Simulate Geo Location in Silverlight Windows Phone 7 emulator - Tim Heuer
  • Styles for XAML (Silverlight & WPF) - Adron
  • Silverlight Spy 3.0.0.10 - Koen Zwikstra
  • Prism will support Unity 2.0 - blaine
  • Silverlight Client for Facebook updated for Silverlight 4 RC
  • Using the Bing Maps Silverlight control on the Windows Phone 7 - Bart Czernicki
  • Consuming Binary Encoded WCF 4.0 Service in Silverlight 3.0 Applications - Mahesh Sabnis

  Database & Related Technologies

  • SubSonic 3.0.0.4 Released - Rob Conery
  • Understanding SQL Server Locking - Tim Ford
  • SQL Server Installation Checklist - Jonathan Kehayias
  • Getting Dynamic in SSIS Queries - Eric Johnson
  • Enumerations in Relational Database – Best Practice - Marko Parkkola

  Web Service & Related Technologies

  • WCF Ria Services For Real - Jesse Liberty
  • A simple WCF service with username password authentication: the things they don’t tell you - pvanooijen

  Testing

  • TDD: Expressive Test Names - markhneedham
  • Teaching AutoMapper about our conventions - jflanagan
  • Using NBuilder to Mock Up a Data Driven UI – Part 2 - Andrew Siemer

  Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

  • Defensive Programming and the UI - markhneedham
  • Using Fidder to help dev cross domain capable JavaScript web apps - leggetter
  • Using LINQ with Generic Dictionary in C# - Asad Ali Butt
  • Cheat Sheet – Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, and Friday Reflection Pattern - J.D. Meier
  • Visual Studio 2010 XAML Editor IntelliSense Presenter Extension - Karl Shifflett
  • Validating Application Architecture with Visual Studio 2010 – Layer Diagrams - Derik Whittaker

  Others

  • Conference session materials from DevWeek 2010 - Christian Weyer

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• Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Mar 18-21, 2010

  Thursday, March 18, 2010

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  Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Mar 18-21, 2010

  Web Development

  • TDD kata for ASP.NET MVC controllers (part 2) -David
  • Take Control Of Web Control ClientID Values in ASP.NET 4.0 - Scott Mitchell
  • Inside the ASP.NET MVC Controller Factory - Dino Esposito
  • Microsoft, jQuery, and Templating - stephen walther
  • Cross Domain AJAX Request with YQL and jQuery - Jeffrey Way
  • T4MVC Add-In to auto run template -Wayne

  Web Design

  • Website Content Planning The Right Way - Kristin Wemmer
  • Microsoft’s Bill Buxton Tells UI Developers to ‘Do It Naturally’ - Joe Wilcox
  • 26 cool and useful jQuery tips, tricks & solutions - Mark Dijkstra
  • Colorful Sliders With jQuery & CSS3 - Martin
  • Create a Quick MooTools Slideshow with Preloading Images - David Walsh
  • CSS Font Shorthand Property Cheat Sheet - Louis Lazari
  • 40 Powerful CSS Tools And Generators To Automate Your Workflow - Daniels Mekss
  • Best User Interface Design Resources: The Round-up
  • CSS In Depth: Floats & Positions - Amber Weinberg

  Silverlight, WPF & RIA

  • A guide to what has changed in the Silverlight 4 RC -Tim Heuer
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Microsoft Silverlight -BradA
  • Prism 4.0 Plans - Blaine Wastell
  • Silverlight Cream for March 17, 2010 - Dave Campbell

  Database & Related Technologies

  • Entity Framework 4.0: Optimal and horrible SQL - Gunnar Peipman
  • Search Inside a SQL Server Stored Procedure Definition - Suprotim Agarwal
  • Using the NHibernate Repository Pattern in C# ASP .NET - Kory Becker
  • Creating A Common Generic And Extensible NHiberate Repository Version 2 -dotnetchris
  • A Visual Look At The LINQ SelectMany Operator - Justin Etheredge

  Web Service & Related Technologies

  • Working with WCF: Part Two – Your First Host and A Bit About Configuration - James Bender
  • REST: Resources, URI’s and Representations - Cory Isakson

  Testing

  • Working With Assertions Made on Arguments in Rhino Mocks - Chris Missal
  • Unit Testing Silverlight & Windows Phone Applications - Jeff Wilcox
  • Stress testing Visual Studio 2010 – Part 2 - Kirill Osenkov
  • Testing a WPF UI using Ruby, Cucumber and WiPFlash.dll - Ben Hall

  Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

  • TMap for VS2010 Process Template Explained - Clemens Reijnen
  • C# Proposal: Compile Time Static Checking Of Dynamic Objects - Paulo Morgado
  • Architectural constructs & Structuring the software design process - Simon Brown
  • Open Data Protocol (OData) with Pablo Castro - SCOTT HANSELMAN
  • Web Client Guidance Nears Completion - blaine
  • The Problem with Priorities -Ron Ashkenas
  • HTML email vs ASCII email: a comparison
  • Review of RedGate .NET Reflector Pro - Scott Seely
  • Your Best Foot Forward: Writing An Effective Technical Cover Letter - Eric Anderson
  • Lambda-passing style for access to resources with lifecycles - Alex Scordellis
  • If You Must Rewrite - Tim Ross
  • The Difference Between A Developer, A Programmer And A Computer Scientist - Alan Skorkin

  Others

  • Enterprise Library 5 and Unity 2 Beta 2 Downloads - David Hayden
  • Novell Mono project bringing Silverlight to Apple iPhone - Paul Krill
  • Microsoft Translator v2 widget and APIs - Kip Kniskern
  • Bing API, Version 2 Download

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• Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Feb 18-20, 2010

  Thursday, February 18, 2010

  Ajax ASP.NET C# CSS Database Entity Framework JQuery LINQ MVC ORM Silverlight SQL Server WCF

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  Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Feb 18-20, 2010

  Web Development

  • Quick Tips About ASP.NET MVC – AJAX-Enabled Partial Views -nuous
  • ASP.NET MVC – Switch between secure(https or ssl) & unsecure(http) connections - Rajan
  • Using T4 Templates to Create Strongly Typed View Names - HighOnCoding
  • ASP.NET MVC 2 Model Validation - Mike
  • Looking Ahead to ASP.NET 4.0 - K. Scott Allen

  Web Design

  • Create a Clean and Professional Web Design in Photoshop - Jacob Gube
  • Learn to Build iPhone Web Apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript - O'Reilly Media
  • Traversal vs. Collection Filtering In jQuery - Ben Nadel
  • The Real Performance Overhead of CSS Expressions - DynaTrace

  Silverlight, WPF & RIA

  • Silverlight Deployment Troubleshooting Guide
  • Silverlight Cream for February 17, 2010 - Dave Campbell

  Database & Related Technologies

  • SQL SERVER – Plan Recompilation and Reduce Recompilation – Performance Tuning - Pinal Dave
  • SQL Server 2008 Data Types and Entity Framework 4  and Defining Constraints in an EF4 model that don’t exist in the database - Julie Lerman

  Web Service & Related Technologies

  • How to use Custom RoleProvider in WCF? - Reducing Complexity

  Testing

  • The Business Case for A/B Testing - Paras Chopra
  • 15 Highly-Useful Resources for Cross Browser Testing - Steven Snell
  • Model-Based Testing in Action on the MEF Team - Daniel Plaisted

  Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

  • Optimisations in LINQ to Objects - Jon Skeet
  • 60+ .NET libraries every developer should know about.
  • Tamper Proofing - an implementation (Part 2) - Paul Mason
  • Plug-ins / Modules Development with MEF -Part I - Goldytech
  • Covariance and Contravariance FAQ - Alexandra Rusina
  • Identifying High CPU in GC (.NET) because of LOH using Windbg - Naveen

  Others

  • Windows Phone 7 Series: everything you ever wanted to know - Joshua Topolsky
  • Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 2/17/2010+ - rj
  • Soft Skills Every Developer Needs - Brian Prince

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• Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - December 1-2, 2009

  Tuesday, December 1, 2009

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  Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - December 1-2, 2009

  Web Development

  • ASP.NET MVC Validation Using DataAnnotations
  • 131 jQuery Snippets for Visual Studio 2010
  • How to host ASP.NET application at Amazon EC2
  • Build a Front End of an E-commerce System Using ASP.NET MVC Framework Part 1
  • Microsoft AJAX CDN – Now with SSL Support
  • T4MVC 2.6: MVC 2 Areas support

  Web Design

  • 11 Useful Online Tools for Better CSS Development
  • Five Amazing Graphic Design Portfolios
  • Facebook Style Footer Admin Panel Part 1
  • 23 Pure CSS Effects/Solutions to Make JavaScript Angry!
  • 10 Expert Tips for Designing a One Page Portfolio

  Silverlight, WPF & RIA

  • Programming Speech in WPF - Speech Synthesis
  • Building the Hello MEF dashboard in Silverlight 4 - Part I
  • Silverlight 4 Links
  • Data Driven Application Development using WCF and Silverlight 3.0 User Controls
  • Adding Images on Silverlight 4 using drag and drop and the web camera.
  • Document Toolkit Roadmap
  • Silverlight Design Time Assemblies
  • Silverlight Cream for November 30, 2009

  Database & Related Technologies

  • Tip 45 – How to swap EF metadata at runtime.
  • Agile EF 4 Repositories Part 4: Compiled LINQ Queries
  • SQL SERVER – Azure Start Guide – Step by Step Installation Guide
  • SQL SERVER – Size of Index Table for Each Index – Solution
  • Getting Started with Entity Framework 4 - Lazy Loading

  Web Service & Related Technologies

  • WCF RIA Services and a guide to use DTO/”Presentation Model”
  • WCF RIA Services Unity DomainServiceFactory

  Testing

  • Introduction to TestApi - Part 5: Managed Code Fault Injection APIs

  Architecture, Methodology & Project Management

  • Plug into MEF in 10 minutes or less
  • Breaking Rules
  • What’s the difference between covariance and assignment compatibility?
  • EvaluatiEvaluation of usability with respect to disabled groups
  • Tuple in C# 4.0
  • Agile Project Management Questions Answered
  • Convention over Configuration
  • Wrapping up the StructureMap Automocking Container
  • UX Fail

  Others

  • Ten Commandments of Social Media

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• Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - November 24-25, 2009

  Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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  Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - November 24-25, 2009

  Web Development

  • Building High Performance Web Applications
  • How to load partial view dynamically in ASP.NET MVC using JQuery
  • Google Maps API v3 Now Includes Driving Directions

  Web Design

  • 5 Useful Coding Solutions Part 2
  • 12 Useful jQuery Plugins for Working with Tables
  • Awesome Free Vector Icons
  • Keeping CSS Files DRY with .less

  Silverlight, WPF & RIA

  • Writing WPF/Silverlight compatible code. Part 4: Geometries
  • New WPF Features: DatePicker\Calendar\VSM\Datagrid
  • Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010
  • Silverlight Cream for November 23, 2009
  • CompositeTransform simplifies transforms in Silverlight 4 Beta
  • Silverlight 4 NotificationWindow and Queuing multiple notifications
  • Silverlight 4 and Asynchronous Validation with INotifyDataErrorInfo
  • 10 Steps to Debug Silverlight Out-of-Browser Applications without Attaching

  Database & Related Technologiesh

  • SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – TOP 100 PERCENT and ORDER BY
  • Hitting the upper limit of foreign key constraints
  • Slides and Demos from Recent Entity Framework 4 Presentations
  • Agile EF4 Repository: Part 3 -Fine Tuning the Repository
  • SQL Server Trimming Functions

  Web Service & Related Technologies

  • WCF Interoperability Highlighted at PDC and ApacheCon
  • The WCF services ecosystem
  • RIA Services: A Domain IS A WCF Service - Add Service Reefrence

  Testing

  • TestApi v0.4 Released!
  • MockingBird v1 RTM

  Architecture

  • Patterns and Practices for Distributed Teams
  • Random Acts of Coding: Playing Nice with Other Assemblies using MEF Catalogs
  • Big Data on Grids or on Clouds?
  • Applying Strategy Pattern Instead of Using Switch Statements
  • The trouble with soft delete

  Others

  • Agile Project Management: Are You Using The Right Project Management Software?
  • Five Best Screencasting Tools [Hive Five]
  • Let’s write a simple .NET 4 Location-aware application!

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• Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - November 21-23, 2009

  Sunday, November 22, 2009

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  Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - November 21-23, 2009

  Web Development

  • ASP.NET MVC: Creating reports using Chart control
  • T4MVC 2.5.01: added support for Html.RenderAction and Html.Action
  • Web Application Configuration Analyzer (WACA)
  • The Search Developer Story in SharePoint 2010 – Query Interfaces
  • Using the Microsoft Ajax Library 3.5 with the CDN
  • Microsoft AJAX Library Preview 6 & Data Binding

  Web Design

  • User Interface Design Is Not About Lorem Ipsum And Pretty Boxes
  • The Ultimate Toolbox for iPhone Development
  • Zen Coding: A Speedy Way To Write HTML/CSS Code

  Silverlight, WPF & RIA

  • Silverlight 4 Fluid UI
  • Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part I
  • XAML 2009 Features: FactoryMethod\Arguments
  • Debugging Silverlight Out-Of-Browser Applications
  • The big Silverlight 4 Question
  • EdgeCam – Silverlight 4 Webcam & Edge Detection Shader
  • Joe Stegman: Silverlight 4 – Out of Browser Evolves
  • Composition Support in RIA Services
  • Prism 2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF & Silverlight) migrated to Silverlight 4 Beta
  • 50 Interactive Silverlight Applications

  Database & Related Technologies

  • SQL SERVER – Remove Bookmark Key Lookup – 4 Different Ideas
  • NHibernate and Composite Keys
  • Agile Entity Framework 4 Repository: Part 2- The Repository
  • Procedures with cursors
  • Missing foreign key constraints
  • First sighting of SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS)

  Web Service & Related Technologies

  • WCF RIA Services – What you need to know when creating DTO/Presentation Model

  Testing

  • Walkthrough: The power of the November 2009 Silverlight Toolkit testing tools
  • Testing for PowerShell Remoting: Test-PsRemoting
  • Unit Testing and Integration Testing in real projects

  Architecture

  • Visual Studio 2010: Generating sequence diagrams on the fly
  • Microsoft Surface SDK opens doors to all
  • What’s all this nonsense about Katas?
  • Kitchen Agile

  Others

  • PDC09 Downloader Source Code
  • MVPs Release Windows 7 Resource Kit
  • Architecture Cafe – An Architects Perspective on Silverlight 3

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• Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - November 18-20, 2009

  Thursday, November 19, 2009

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  Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - November 18-20, 2009

  Web Development

  • SharePoint 2010 Public Beta Available For Download
  • ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta Released – Phil Haack
  • Using the JQuery dialog widget in a custom SharePoint web part – Charles Lee
  • Using Microsoft’s Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Adding Statistical Formulas
  • Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer
  • The AJAX UpdatePanel Is it your worst enemy?

  Web Design

  • How to Build a Custom jQuery Tabs Plugin: New Plus Tutorial
  • 50 Fresh Interactive Studio and Social Media Agency Websites
  • The Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2009
  • 50 Impressive Magazine and Newspaper Styled Web Designs
  • Designing CSS Buttons: Techniques and Resources

  Silverlight, WPF & RIA

  • Great Discussion With Nikhil Kothari About RIA Services
  • Silverlight 4 Beta Announced!
  • New Web Features in Silverlight 4 Beta
  • Welcome to the WCF RIA Services Beta!
  • Silverlight: No More Boxy UIs

  Database & Related Technologies

  • SQL SERVER – Understanding Table Hints with Examples
  • SQL Service Modeling Services
  • Agile Entity Framework 4 talks at NotAtPDC Online today
  • VS2010 IntelliTrace and Entity Framework Database Interaction
  • What Dynamic Data REALLY Is?
  • Is building apps with Dynamic Data faster?

  Web Service & Related Technologies

  • WCF net.tcp protocol in Silverlight 4 Beta
  • New Web Services Features in Silverlight 4 Beta

  Testing

  • Writing Maintainable Automated Acceptance Tests – Adam Goucher
  • How to get Started with TDD – Miško Hevery

  Architecture

  • Enhancing your applications for Windows 7
  • Creating Windows 7 Multitouch Applications
  • Agile Software Development Teams Need Managers Too!
  • Where do you benefit from dynamic typing?
  • Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) released on DevLabs
  • Mindfulness and Agile Teams – Amr Elssamadisy
  • Four Attributes of the Ideal Pilot Project – Mike Cohn
  • Programming Windows 7 Using Visual Studio 2010
  • Awesome .NET 4: Named and Optional Parameters for Classes and Methods

  Others

  • PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Steven Sinofsky
  • Office Mobile 2010 Beta for Windows Mobile
  • Internet Explorer 9 Screenshots and Video Demo
  • The Only Way to Become Amazingly Great at Something – Leo Babauta
  • Five Best Online Backup Tools – online backup – Jason Fitzpatrick
  • Building Applications for Windows Azure

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• Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - October 5-7, 2009

  Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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  Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - October 5-7, 2009

  Web Development

  • How To Speed Up Your Website By 80% Or More
  • Enterprise Library Validation example for ASP.NET MVC 2
  • thinking out loud: asp.net mvc & nhaml
  • ASPhere web.config editor
  • Efficient Server Side Paging With ASP.NET And jQuery
  • 3 Image Techniques To Speed Up Your Website
  • 5+ Steps to Speed up your Website
  • punypng: PNG Compression and Image Optimization
  • Asp.net MVC Areas in depth - on code

  Web Design

  • How to Code a Clean Portfolio Design (Plus Free Five-Page Template)
  • jQuery Lesson Series: Introduction to Selectors
  • Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started
  • 77 Inspirational Example of Pricing Page Designs
  • Styling Post Headings That Stick Out
  • 50 Surprisingly Amazing Themes for Blogger
  • 50 Useful Tools and Generators for Easy CSS Development
  • Color Psychology In Creative Design
  • CSS2 Visual Cheat Sheet
  • Most Used and Abused Web Design Trends of All Time
  • Showcase of Designs Optimized for iPhone
  • 34 Excellent Punctuation Inspired Logo Designs
  • CSS Shorthand – A Guide to Cleaner and Faster Coding
  • Styling Blog Comments: Correct Markup
  • Design a Clean and Fresh Company Website In Photoshop
  • How to Add a Fixed Position Banner to a Website
  • Is There A Perfect Web Design Width?

  Silverlight, WPF & RIA

  • Silverlight Cream for October 05, 2009
  • Changing DatePicker in Silverlight to show current date
  • What Do We Want in Silverlight Validation?
  • Using AvalonEdit (WPF Text Editor)
  • My Favorite Silverlight Extensions APIs – Part 1
  • MVVM Light Toolkit V2: What’s new?

  Database & Related Technologies

  • SQL SERVER – Interesting Observation – Query Hint – FORCE ORDER
  • xProfiler – A generic OR/M Profiler
  • LINQ Tools
  • More testing of Unicode Compression in SQL Server 2008 R2
  • Why NHibernate Entities Need A Public Or Protected Parameterless Constructor

  Web Service & Related Technologies

  • Building WCF Services with F#
  • Securing your WCF service with a custom username / password authentication mechanism

  Testing

  • Test Plan Template
  • Team Build without Tests Lists
  • The myth that TDD or test-first slows you down is true
  • Unit Tests and Debug.Assert()

  Architecture

  • Attribution and Analogy
  • Remember Me-Checkbox
  • The Problem With Planning-Agile
  • S#arp Architecture Contrib…it’s alive!
  • Why No Extension Properties?
  • Fun with Func Delegates, Events and Async Operations
  • Private Extension Methods
  • Strive for Functional Cohesion
  • Lean and Kanban Collection
  • Announcing the guide for claims based identity and access control
  • Delegate Mapper
  • Five Myths about Managed Code
  • Lazy loading, Inheritance, and Persistence ignorance (part 3)
  • Coding: Rules of thumb

  Others

  • Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10/5/2009+
  • Why Google Chrome and FireFox are a big security risk for anyone using them
  • In Defense of The Jack of All Trades
  • How We Do Things - Planning Part 2
  • Quit Living in the Past – Practices Evolve
  • Hot Links for 2009-9-17

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• Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - October 2-4, 2009

  Saturday, October 3, 2009

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  Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - October 2-4, 2009

  Web Development

  • Special Folders You Won’t See in ASP.NET 4.0
  • Increase Your Website Performance by Hosting jQuery with a CDN
  • Lower Case URLs and ASP.NET MVC
  • Seadragon Ajax Control – Quick Start Guide
  • Dynamically Generate META tags in ASP.NET Pages with LINQ to SQL
  • ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 - Phil Haack
  • New AJAX Control Toolkit Release - Stephen Walther
  • Reduce development costs by platforming on SharePoint
  • Sending encrypted e-mail with C#

  Web Design

  • Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  • 30 Gorgeous Horizontal Menus for Inspiration
  • 10 Easy jQuery Tricks for Designers
  • YUI CSS Framework Tutorial
  • Password (un)Masking
  • Inspirational Showcase of Business Card Websites
  • Crucial Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo

  Silverlight, WPF & RIA

  • Silverlight Cream for October 02, 2009
  • Silverlight 3 Custom Sorting with Paging Support - Manish Dalal
  • DelayBinding: a custom WPF Binding
  • Editable Collection Adapter for WPF
  • Silverlight Navigation Framework Sample
  • Portugal ReMix Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services

  Database & Related Technologies

  • Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition
  • Specify a Condition while Editing TOP Rows using SQL Server 2008 Management Studio
  • Deleting All Records In a Table EXCEPT For the N Most Recently Added Records
  • LINQ to SQL & Entity Framework Pitfalls
  • Managing Lookup Cache in SQL Server 2008

  Web Service & Related Technologies

  • Schema-based Development with Windows Communication Foundation
  • Building RESTful Clients

  Testing

  • Creating Smart Stubs with a Mock Framework
  • Writing meaningful, self-documenting, behavior-oriented tests
  • Successive Method Calls With MoQ - Phil Haack
  • Unit Test Definition 2.0 - Roy Osherove

  Architecture

  • Restraint
  • C# Singleton Pattern Code Snippet
  • Lazy: On Demand Construction in .NET 4.0
  • An Engineer’s Guide to Bandwidth (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
  • Strive for Functional Cohesion
  • Web Application Toolkit for IE8
  • Routers in the Service Bus

  Others

  • MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 3 (Microsoft XML Core Services)
  • Installing the Windows Azure Tools using the Web Platform Installer
  • Great Windows Azure projects on CodePlex
  • SQL Azure Explorer for Visual Studio
  • Introducing Visio 2010
  • CruiseControl.NET 1.5.0 CTP Released - CruiseControl.NET - Confluence
  • Code Contracts Preview: PostConditions
  • Leading Through Learning: The Responsibilities of a Team Leader
  • 13 Principles of Effective Time Management for Freelancers
  • The Do-It-Yourself Team Values Kit

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