Contents tagged with SQL Server

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

  Monday, August 16, 2010

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  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

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

  Thursday, July 8, 2010

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

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  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

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

  Monday, July 5, 2010

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  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

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

  Monday, June 28, 2010

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  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

  • Azure and High Scale Compute -wzack
  • Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 6/25/2010+ - rj

  Others

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

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

  Monday, June 21, 2010

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  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

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

  Monday, June 14, 2010

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

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  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

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

  Tuesday, June 8, 2010

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  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

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

  Tuesday, June 1, 2010

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

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  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

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

  Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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  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

  • Using the ASP.NET Chart Control With Multiple Web Roles In Windows Azure - Karsten
  • Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 5/25/2010+ - rj

  Others

  • Windows Phone 7 Example Application with Landscape Layout - JasonZ

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

  Thursday, May 13, 2010

  Ajax ASP.NET C# CSS Entity Framework JQuery JQuery UI LINQ MVC Sharepoint Silverlight SQL Server Visual Studio WCF WPF XML

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  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

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