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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - May 10-12, 2010

Monday, May 10, 2010
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - May 10-12, 2010

Web Development
- jQuery Templates and Data Linking (and Microsoft contributing to jQuery) - ScottGu
- ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Part 4 – Advanced Model Binding - Mister James
- Creating an ASP.NET report using Visual Studio 2010 - Part 1 & Part 2 & Part 3 - rajbk
- Caching Images in ASP.NET MVC -Evan
- How to Localize an ASP.NET MVC Application - mikeceranski
- Localization in ASP.NET MVC 2 using ModelMetadata - Raj Kiamal
Web Design
- 55 Inspiring Examples of Slideshows in Web Design - gmuller
- Build your own Bing image search with the Bing API and jQuery - Jef Claes
- jQuery Functions and Techniques to Keep in Mind - Jose
- 5 Nice to Read Ebooks for User Interface Designers - Rakesh
- The Current State of Web Design: Trends 2010 - Vitaly Friedman
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
- Stuff – WPF Line of Business Using MVVM Video Tutorial - Karl Shifflett
- Digitally Signing a XAP Silverlight - John Papa
- MVVM, Data Channel, MEF, WCF RIA Services and ViewModel Locator – Silverlight 4.0 - Fredrik Normen
- Silverlight Cream for May 08, 2010 - Dave Campbell
Database & Related Technologies
- Simple process to track and log SQL Server stored procedure use - Aaron Bertrand
- How to Retrieve Stored Procedure Output Parameters in Entity Framework - Gil Fink
Web Service & Related Technologies
- ADO.NET Data Services Update for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 - Refresh
Testing
- IntelliTrace Debugging – Video Demo - Abhijit
- Mastering in Visual Studio 2010 Debugging - Abhijit
Architecture, Methodology & Project Management
- Use Extension method to write cleaner code - Fredrik Normen
- The Power of Enum - John Sonmez
- Sessions and Shopping Carts - Mike Brind
- My team keeps breaking their promises. What can I do? - Roy Osherove
- Annotated Data Contracts and the Content Enricher pattern - Paul
Visual Studio
- Visual Studio 2010 Toolbox Search - Richard Carr
- Visual Studio 2010 Designer - Paul Stovell
- Layers in Visual Studio 2010 - Peter Ritchie
Cloud Computing
- Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 5/8/2010+ -rj
Others
- SharePoint 2010 Themes and Resources for Upgrading a Custom Master Page - Joel Oleson
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Apr 26-28, 2010

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

Web Development
- MVC: Unit Testing Action Filters - Donn
- ASP.NET MVC 2: Ninja Black Belt Tips - Scott Hanselman
- Turn on Compile-time View Checking for ASP.NET MVC Projects in TFS Build 2010 - Jim Lamb
Web Design
- List of 25+ New tags introduced in HTML 5 - techfreakstuff
- 15 CSS Habits to Develop for Frustration-Free Coding - noupe
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
- Essential Silverlight and WPF Skills: The UI Thread, Dispatchers, Background Workers and Async Network Programming - Pete Brown
- Prism Source Updated for Unity 2.0 and Silverlight 4 - Bob Brumfield
- Silverlight Cream for April 24, 2010 - Dave Campbell
Database & Related Technologies
- How to Use SQL Server Views with the Entity Framework - Ray Barley
Web Service & Related Technologies
- Working with WCF: Part Three – Connecting To Your Service With A Client pt. 2 -James Bender
Testing
- Debugging with the Right Tools - Maoni Stephens
Architecture, Methodology & Project Management
- Product Owner Anti Patterns - scrum alliance
- Successful Distributed Agile Team Working Patterns - scrum alliance
- S#arp Architecture 1.5 released - Alec Whittington
- Introduction to Security in .NET - Senthil kumar
- Don’t overlook Enterprise Library 5.0 Migration Guide - Grigori Melnik
- Think: Free Mind Maps for Newbies - Simon Mackie
Visual Studio
- Updated Blue and Dark Visual Studio 2010 Themes - John Papa
- Set or Remove a Breakpoint - Zain Naboulsi
- 6 Cool #VS2010 Quick Tips you should know when working with Visual Studio 2010 - Anoop Madhusudanan
- NDepend 3.0 – Completely Integrated with Visual Studio - Keyvan Nayyeri
Cloud Computing
- Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 4/24/2010+ - rj
Others
- Download Enterprise Library 5 and Unity 2 - David Hayden
- My Last Day at Microsoft - Brad Abrams
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Apr 15-18, 2010

Thursday, April 15, 2010
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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 - Apr 8-10, 2010

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

Web Development
- Using RIA DomainServices with ASP.NET and MVC 2 - geekswithblogs
- Using AntiXss As The Default Encoder For ASP.NET - Phil Haack
- New <%: %>Syntax for HTML Encoding Output in ASP.NET 4 (and ASP.NET MVC 2) - Scott Gu
- MvcContrib - Portable Area – Visual Studio project template - erichexter
- Encoding/Decoding URIs and HTML in the .NET 4 Client Profile - Pete Brown
- Jon Takes Five with David Ebbo on T4MVC
- Customizing Ribbon Positioning in SharePoint 2010 Master Pages - Jonathan Kern
- ASP.NET 4.0 Routing Tutorial - aspnet101
- A Custom ASP.NET MVC Model Binder for Repositories - Mike Hadlow
- MVC Turbine - Jon
Web Design
- What’s wrong with extending the DOM - kangax
- How To Build a Widget to Display your Buzzing - Crysfel Villa
- jQuery Image Slider with Unique EffectsjQue - COIN SLIDER
- Stylesheet switcher using jQuery - kelvinluck
- Create Windows 7 start menu using CSS3 only - janko
- Designing with Lenses - Bill Scott
- Carbon Fiber Signup Form using Progressive Enhancement - Tutorialzine
- Infinite Scroll WebSites via AutoPagerize - Hacky, but the beginning of something cool - hanselman
- CSS Specificity And Inheritance - Inayaili de Leon
- Mastering CSS Floats - devgrow
- More than one way… (delegate edition) - Chris Coyier
- Horizontal Attention Leans Left - Jakob Nielsen
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
- Installing Multi-Touch Simulator for Silverlight Phone 7 - Michael Sync
- New XAML Features That’ll Make Designers Happy - Frank La Vigne
- Silverlight and SharePoint 2010: Picture gallery sample using the client object model - Anthony de Bruyn
- Silverlight Cream for April 07, 2010 - Dave Campbell
Database & Related Technologies
- Using LINQ to represent XML data as an Object containing Master-Detail records - Suprotim Agarwal
- LINQ: How to build complex queries utilizing deferred execution and anonymous types - Syed Mehroz Alam
- AutoPoco v0.1 Released - Rob Ashton
Web Service & Related Technologies
- Some known WCF issues in Silverlight 4 - SLWSTeam
Testing
- Unit Testing and Intergration Testing in Real Project - Omar Al Zabir
Architecture, Methodology & Project Management
- 7 Ways to Make Your API More Successful - Daniel Jacobson
- The Collapse of Complex Business Models - Clay Shirky
- Ten Reasons to use the Managed Extensibility Framework - Jeremy Likness
- Virtual Learning Series – Beginner’s guide to Software Craftsmanship - Mahendra Mavani
- You can learn a lot from a child (redux) - Garr Reynolds
- Creating Awesome Applications when you're Clueless - Pete
- Why Ancient Mayans and Media Barons Are Alike - Mathew Ingram
- Adding git commit information to your assemblies - Joshua Flanagan
- Extreme Programming (XP) at a Glance - JD Meier
- Branching Strategies: Handling Dependencies Between Branches - derick bailey
- OData Visualizer Extension - Gil Fink
- patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance – Release: SPG2010 Drop 8 - codeplex
- Rx - for beginners (part 14): time based buffering - Bnaya Eshet
- Assembly-level initialization at design time - Josh Smith
- How to Find Local Clients for Your Freelance Business - snoak
- First round playing with Memcached - Shaun Xu
- Basic Defensive Database Programming Techniques - Alex Kuznetsov
Visual Studio
- What can you do with ‘IntelliTrace’ in Visual Studio 2010 - Code Happiness
- Visual Studio Team System 2010 - Articles - Suprotim Agarwal
- VS 2010: Enhanced IntelliSense Matching - Deborah Kurata
- Introducing ReSharper 5.0: Structural Search and Replace - jetbrains
Others
- Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 4/7/2010+ - rj
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Apr 5-7, 2010

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

Web Development
- HTML 5 is Born Old - Quake in HTML 5 Example
- Image Preview in ASP.NET MVC - Imran
- Advanced ASP.NET MVC 2 - Brad Wilson
- How to Serialize/Deserialize Complex XML in ASP.Net / C# - Impact Works
- Ban HTML comments from your pages and views - Bertrand Le Roy
- Measuring ASP.NET and SharePoint output cache - Gunnar Peipman
Web Design
- Eye Candy vs. Bare-Bones in UI Design - Max Steenbergen
- Empathizing Color Psychology in Web Design - Anastasia Miles
- Design is a Side Effect - Cranky
- Contrast is King - LESLIE JENSEN-INMAN
- 55 Inspiring Examples of Gradients in Web Design - gmuller
- Tableless layouts using floating DIV - consultsarath
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
- MVVM Light Toolkit V3 SP1 for Windows Phone 7 - Laurent Bugnion
- Silverlight Cream for April 04, 2010 - Dave Campbell
Database & Related Technologies
- SQL SERVER – 2008 – Introduction to Snapshot Database – Restore From Snapshot - Pinal Dave
- Storage Configuration - Joe Chang
- SQLite & Entity Framework 4 - Dane Morgridge
- Rejuvenated: Script Creates and Drops for Candidate Keys and Referencing Foreign Keys - Adam Machanic
Web Service & Related Technologies
- Working with WCF: Part Three – Connecting To Your Service With A Client pt. 1 - James Bender
Testing
- Testing NHibernate Mappings - Mike Hadlow
- Writing Tests for a Stored Proc Sure Feels Weird - Bobby Johnson
Architecture, Methodology & Project Management
- 7 Management Interventions for Adapting and Adopting Processes , Rick Stacey’s Agreement and Certainty Matrix and The Four Circles of XP (Extreme Programming) - J.D. Meier
- Creating a software product - are you doing it wrong? - Janko
- Boundary Analysis - Simon Ince
- Domain Specific Languages with Boo: AST Macros - Ryan Svihla
- On The Value Of Fundamentals In Software Development - Alan Skorkin
- Staying Sane as a Technical Manager, Part 2 and Analyzing Code with NDepend - Aaron Lerch
- SoC, DI, IoC, WTF? A basic introduction to Dependency Injection with Ninject - edventuro
- Generate Sequence Diagrams in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate - Suprotim Agarwal
Others
- Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 4/3/2010+ - rj
- 10 Google Chrome Extensions for Boosting Your Productivity - Jacob Gube
- Introducing a new type of help for developers - Frank Rice
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Apr 1-3, 2010

Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Apr 1-3, 2010

Web Development
- Cleaner HTML Markup with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms - Client IDs - ScottGu
- Using jQuery and OData to Insert a Database Record - Stephen Walter
- Apple vs. Microsoft – A Website Usability Study
- Mastering ASP.NET MVC 2.0: Preview - TekPub
Web Design
- UX Lessons Learned From Offline Experiences - Jon Phillips
- 5 Steps Toward jQuery Mastery - Dave Ward
- 20 jQuery Cheatsheets, Docs and References for Every Occasion - Paul Andrew
- 11 Qualified Mobile Interface Tools and Wordpress Plugins - Firat Demirel
- Your JavaScript goes WHERE? - Chris Brandsma
- 5 Tips To Immediately Improve Your Website Accessibility From a Visually Impaired Web Developer - Jeff Noble
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
- Simple ViewModel Locator for MVVM: The Patients Have Left the Asylum - John Papa
- Silverlight Cream for March 30, 2010 - Dave Campbell
Database & Related Technologies
- Data Annotations in the Entity Framework and Code First - Jeff Derstadt
- SQL Server Cheat Sheet from MidnightDBA - Pinal Dave
Web Service & Related Technologies
- Implementing Transport Message Security with WCF 4.0 and VS 2010 RC - Mahesh Sabnis
Testing
- Some Rough Draft TDD Demonstration Videos - Brett Schuchert
- Using HtmlUnit on .NET for Headless Browser Automation - Steve Sanderson
Architecture, Methodology & Project Management
- Estimating Projects - Chris Coyier
- Developing Usable (.NET) Components - Jeremy McPeak
- Events get a little overhaul in C# 4, Afterward: Effective Events - Chris Burrows
- Announcing the Feature Builder Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010 (Preview) - Michael G. Lehman
- ESB Differences Between Java and .NET - Udi Dahan
Others
- Windows Phone 7 Series Development Training Kit Available for Download
- Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework New Samples Updated on 2010-03-29
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Mar 29-31, 2010

Monday, March 29, 2010
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Mar 29-31, 2010

Web Development
- Querying the Future With Reactive Extensions - Phil Haack
- Creating an OData API for StackOverflow including XML and JSON in 30 minutes - Scott Hanselman
- MVC Automatic Menu - Nuri Halperin
- jqGrid for ASP.NET MVC - TriRand Team
- Foolproof Provides Contingent Data Annotation Validation for ASP.NET MVC 2 -Nick Riggs
- Using FubuMVC.UI in asp.net MVC : Getting started - Cannibal Coder
- Building A Custom ActionResult in MVC 2 To Download Excel Files - Malcolm Sheridan
- Dynamic Select Lists with MVC and jQuery - Michael Ceranski
- Using jQuery to Insert a New Database Record - Stephen Walther
- Html Encoded Code Expressions in ASP.NET 4 - David Hayden
- Creating a Simple Image Less Captcha Control Using ASP.NET MVC Framework - AzamSharp
- SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard for Debugging Code - Paul Andrew
- Lightning Conductor Web part – striking new features - Lightning Tools
Web Design
- 25 Web Designs with Amazing Attention to Detail - Steven Snell
- 10 Awesome Tools to Boost Your Productivity - Nicole Dominguez
- Sketchbooks of a Web Developer - Brad Reiken
- 50 Retro and Vintage Web Designs to Inspire You - gmuller
- Photoshop CS5: A Sneak Peek - JOSHUA JOHNSON
- The Value of Good Design - DMITRY FADEYEV
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
- Binding a Silverlight 3 DataGrid to dynamic data via IDictionary (Updated) - Colin E
- Silverlight 4 + RIA Services – Ready for Business: Authentication and Personalization - Brad Abrams
- Silverlight Cream for March 28, 2010 - Dave Campbell
Database & Related Technologies
- LINQ: Single vs. First - Paulo Morgado
- That No SQL Thing - Ayende
- SQL SERVER – Introduction to Extended Events – Finding Long Running Queries - Pinal Dave
- Using the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer - Ashish Kumar Mehta
Web Service & Related Technologies
- 5 Lifesaving Tips for Creating a WCF RESTful API in .NET 4 - Benjii
- Thoughts on versioning data services - Marcelo Lopez Ruiz
Testing
- In TDD Red is not ‘does not compile’ - Ian Cooper
Architecture, Methodology & Project Management
- How to write custom static code analysis rules and integrate them into Visual Studio 2010 - Duke Kamstra
- Dynamic Casting with .NET - mikeceranski
- AOP With Unity 2.0 - Daniel Lins Leite
- Don’t Give Up on the State Pattern Just Yet - Revisited - Jan Van Ryswyck
- Functional Dependency Injection == Currying - Mike Hadlow
- Using Delegates in C# (Part 1) & Part 2 - Raj Kaimal
- The History of Online Shopping in Nutshell - iShift
- Kill Procrastination – Tomorrow… - Dave Thackeray
- MEF CompositionInitializer for WPF - Reed Copsey
Others
- How Accessible is Your Website? 8 Tools to Analyze Your Website’s Level of Accessibility - JOEL REYES
- 5 Kinds of Blog Posts That Attract Clients - Lexi Rodrigo
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Mar 26-28, 2010

Friday, March 26, 2010
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Mar 26-28, 2010

Web Development
- Creating Rich View Components in ASP.NET MVC - manzurrashid
- Diagnosing ASP.NET MVC Problems - Brad Wilson
- Templated Helpers & Custom Model Binders in ASP.NET MVC 2 - gshackles
- The jQuery Templating Plugin and Why You Should Be Excited! - Chris Love
- Web Deployment Made Awesome: If You're Using XCopy, You're Doing It Wrong - Scott Hansleman
- Dynamic User Specific CSS Selection at Run Time - Misfit Geek
- Sending email from ASP.NET MVC through MVC and MSMQ Part 2 - Andrew Siemer
- Data Web Controls Enhancements in ASP.NET 4.0 - Scott Mitchell
Web Design
- New Features in JQuery UI 1.8 That Designers Will Love - devgrowblog
- jQuery UI 1.8 adds position, button, autocomplete, new widget factory, lighter core -JQuery UI blog
- Creating A Slide Up Footer Using jQuery - veneficusunus
- Sorting GridView Using jQuery TableSorter Plug-in - AzamSharp
- Sponsor Flip Wall With jQuery & CSS - Martin Angelov
- How to Create a Flash-like Color and Pattern Morphing effect with jQuery - Daniel Kurdoghlian
- Highlight elements in your page - jQuery Spotlight
- Struts2 jQuery Plugin Version 2.0.0 is now available - jogep
- mb.ideas.repository - mb.extruder - pupunzi
- jQuery Presentation Plugin: Say NO to Keynote! - Trevor Davis
- Online JavaScript Beautifier
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
- Installing Silverlight applications without the browser involved - Tim Heuer
- XAML, Expression Blend and the Future of Multi-Touch Technology - ehagan
- Silverlight Cream for March 25, 2010 - Dave Campbell
Database & Related Technologies
- How to Use SQL Server DML Stored Procedures with the Entity Framework - Ray Barley
- Unit Testing Entity Framework (v1) Dependent Code using TypeMock Isolator - Eric Nelson
Web Service & Related Technologies
- Don’t Delete That Azure Service! - David Makogon
Testing
- Unit Test the Behavior, Not the Implementation - karl
- TDD: Consistent test structure - markhneedham
- Introducing QuickUnit - RoyOsherove
- TypeMock Video: The Goals of Unit Testing - Alvin Ashcraft
- IntelliTrace: Fast Track to Debug Microsoft .NET Apps in Visual Studio 2010 - Subodh Sohoni
- Web Test Authoring and Debugging Techniques for Visual Studio 2010 - Ed Glas
Architecture, Methodology & Project Management
- Is there a shortcut to excellence? - Vukoje
- A brief overiew of the new Parallel Extensions in .NET Framework 4 - Syed Mehroz Alam
- The 98th Thing Every Programmer Should Know - Greg Young
- What Makes A Great Cover Letter, According To Companies? - Kat Neville
- ReSharper 5.0 Goes RC! - JetBrains
- Windows Server AppFabric Architecture
- Beta Version of SCSF for VS2010 available on Codeplex - blaine
Others
- Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 3/25/2010+ - rj
- Program iPhones with MonoTouch - Weyer and Rammer
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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 - Mar 01-03, 2010

Monday, March 1, 2010
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Mar 01-03, 2010

Web Development
- ASP.NET MVC TempData Extension Methods - Donn
- Model Validation & Metadata in ASP.NET MVC 2 - K. Scott Allen
- Encrypted Hidden Inputs in ASP.NET MVC - Ashic
- SiteMapProvider for Dynamic Data - Steve
- Web Forms Routing in ASP.NET 4 - David Hayden
- Isolating browser specific code in Javascript: - Mark Needham
- Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Creating Observers - Matthew Podwysocki
- Profilers and ASP.NET - Tom
Web Design
- 55 Colorful Web Designs to Inspire You - gmuller
- Fish Eye Dock Style Menus - McBonio
- 25 Examples of Convincing Call-to-Action Buttons - Tom Walker
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
- Silverlight 4, Experiment with Pluggable Navigation and a WCF Data Service - Mike Taulty
- Precision Matters - Dave Brown
- Setting focus in XAML with no code - Rockford Lhotka
- Column guides for Visual Studio 2010: An extension - Jeff
- Silverlight Cream for February 28, 2010 - Dave Campbell
Database & Related Technologies
- LINQ to SQL with Stored Procedures (Part 2) - Arian T. Kulp
- Password cracking tools for SQL Server - Kevin Beaver
- Turning on execution plans affects performance - Simon Sabin
- Readonly Databases - Martin Bell
Web Service & Related Technologies
- WCF RIA Services and Audit – Historical changes - Fredrik Normen
- Get started with Microsoft Test Manager - Murray Gordon
Testing
- Selenium Two Tutorial using C#/NUnit and InternetExplorerDriver - The Automated Tester
- Visual Studio Test Professional 2010: Test Case WorkItem Type - Subodh Sohoni
- Do Unit Test and Integration Test from same test code using Conditional Compilation -Omar
Architecture, Methodology & Project Management
- The Kayak Framework: An easy way to speak HTTP with .NET - Benjamin van der Veen
- Ninject Forever - Nate
- Working Towards Self-Acceptance - Rita Grohowski
- A Community of Thinking Practitioners - Patrick Kua
Others
- Is your computer running slow, battery running out quickly? -Omar
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Feb 22-24, 2010

Monday, February 22, 2010
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Feb 22-24, 2010

Web Development
- Partial Validation in ASP.NET MVC 2 - Steve Sanderson
- ASP.NET 4.0, Part 5: I’lll Name That Browser In One - Dan Maharry
- Manipulating Action Method Parameters - Phil Haack
- jQuery Custom Element and Global Events - Sergio Pereira
- Making your ASP.NET application work as a service - Al Pascual
- Intro to jQuery Materials - G. Andrew Duthie
Web Design
- 25 jQuery Tutorials for Creating and Working with Forms - Steven Snell
- A Round-Up of 50 Fresh Photoshop Tutorials and Techniques - Paul Andrew
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
- Silverlight 4 - Accessing System Devices with Com Interop, such as a Scanner - Brian Lagunas
- Microsoft Semblio - A set of tools for educators to create rich interactive content/training, with extensibility via SDK, .Net and WPF - Greg Duncan
- Silverlight Lessons Learned Materials - G. Andrew Duthie
Database & Related Technologies
- Linq to SQL Profiler 1.0 Released! - Ayende
- How to Make SQL Server Backups and Restores Faster - Brent Ozar
- SQL SERVER – Recompile Stored Procedure at Run Time - Pinal Dave
- Optimising date filtered SQL queries - AdaTheDev
- Step by step Introduction to Microsoft SQL AZURE - Niladri Biswas
Web Service & Related Technologies
- 4 Steps to Consume Web Services using Ajax -Shivprasad koirala
- Samples for WF 4.0 and WCF 4.0 Release Candidate
Testing
- Using Mocking Framework - Moq
- Unit testing and mocking internal interfaces with RhinoMocks
Architecture, Methodology & Project Management
- Workflow Foundation Internals (I) - Andrew Au
- Eventual Consistency Is Just Caching - Udi Dahan
- Creating x.509 certificates with Pluralsight self-cert - Mike Hadlow
- Crystal Reports and Visual Studio 2010 - Julie Lerman
- Inversion of Control (IOC) with XAML - Rob Relyea
- Code Metrics: Measuring LoC in .NET applications - Gunnar Peipman
- C#: Overcomplicating with LINQ - Mark Needham
- Why Do You Want Manage Your Team? - Rajiv Popat
- Architect Innovation Cafe Webcast-Visual Studio Tools For Architects - Kirk Allen Evans
- S.O.L.I.D Principle Video
Others
- jQuery 1.4.2 Released
- .NET coming to Android in the form of MonoDroid - Imran Hussain
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Feb 18-20, 2010

Thursday, February 18, 2010
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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 - Feb 10-12, 2010

Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Feb 10-12, 2010

Web Development
- 'Unobtrusive' asynchronous Form in ASP.NET MVC - Tomasz Peczek
- ASP.NET MVC security checklist
- Multi-tenancy in ASP.NET MVC - Views - Rob Ashton
- Default Values in ASP.NET MVC Action Parameters - David Hayden
- Quick Tips About ASP.NET MVC – UI Helpers and Templates - Nuno Silva
- Quick Tips About ASP.NET MVC – Editor Templates - Nuno Silva
- ASP.NET MVC Quick Tips – Pass data to your master page -Nuno Silva
- ASP.NET MVC Quick Tips – What should my Model be? -Nuno silva
- Using the BeginMethod/EndMethod pattern with MVC - Ricka
- MVC FAQ -Ricka
- Using Microsoft's Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Serializing Chart Data
- jQuery 1.4.1 Intellisense with Visual Studio - Scott Guthrie
- Combine, Minify, And Compress Your JavaScript - Justin Etheredge
- 24 Best Practices for AJAX Implementations - Siddharth
Web Design
- Mobile Web Design: Tips and Best Practices - vitaly
- Choosing The Best CSS Framework: A Complete Guide - noupe
- Code a Corporate Website from a Photoshop Design: PSD to HTML Tutorial - Steven Snell
- The Three Golden Rules of Site Redesigns - Jacob Gube
- Quick Tip: How to Work with @Font-face - Jeffrey Way
- Applying Mathematics To Web Design - Aditi Gupta
- 13 Useful JavaScript Solutions for Charts and Graphs - Henry
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
- SketchFlow: Exploring Ideas - Christian Schormann
Database & Related Technologies
- Video and Q&As from my Top 10 Treats in EF4 WebCast -Julie
- Using the Beta 2 EF POCO Template with VS2010 RC - Julie
- Converting a Delimited String of Values into Columns - pinaldave
- Entity Designer Database Generation Power Pack - Adi Unnithan
- SQL Server 2008 R2 Developers Training Kit - Suprotim Agarwal
Web Service & Related Technologies
- Consuming REST services using HttpClient - Marc Schweigert
- Help my DataContracts do not show up in my WCF Services - Derik Whittaker
- Vote for future Data Services Features - Julian Lai
Testing
- Silverlight Test Driven Development – Part II - jesseliberty
Architecture, Methodology & Project Management
- Cloud Defined -J.D. Meier
- Distributing Work across Cores using .NET - Christopher Diggins
- Performance optimizations, managed code and leaky abstractions - Oren Eini
- PLINQ in .NET 4.0 - John Oriente
- Telling Your Website’s Story with Sketchboarding - Andrew Maier
- Data Access Guidance Refresh - Michael Puleio
- Making the code read like the spec - Eric Lippert
- Articulate your Incompetence - Patrick Kua
- Willed vs Forced designs - Mark Needham
- .Net CF and Windows Mobile Performance Best Practices - John
- 5 Reasons Why Agile Development Must Be Driven from the Top - Kelly Waters
Others
- Entlib 5.0 and Unity 2.0 – Beta 1 release - Chris Tavares
- Announcing VS2010 / .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate (RC) - Jason Zander
- New Tools for Windows Azure
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Feb 5-7, 2010

Friday, February 5, 2010
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Feb 5-7, 2010

Web Development
- Using FullCalendar jQuery component with ASP.NET MVC - DigiMortal
- ClientScriptManager functionality for MVC – Part 1 - Ken
- DefaultModelBinder class in System.Web.Mvc - Asad Ali Butt
- Debugging ASP.NET generated code - David Ebbo
- Love jQuery = Love ASP.NET Ajax Library - Marc Schweigert
Web Design
- 5 Web Design Articles Worth Reading - Speckyboy
- A Showcase of Website Navigations with Serious Click Appeal - Henry
- 7 Tools You Should Be Using For Better Web Designs -Jacob Gube
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
Database & Related Technologies
- Linq to Sql and ASP.NET MVC – DataLoadOptions per Request - Jeremy Skinner
- SQL SERVER – Stream Aggregate Showplan Operator – Reason of Compute Scalar before Stream Aggregate - Pinal Dave
- Read from your mirror in SQL Server -Ted Krueger
- What happens behind the scenes: NHibernate, Linq to SQL, Entity Framework scenario analysis - Oren Eini
Web Service & Related Technologies
- Race Condition When Modifying the HttpRequestMessageProperty in an Outgoing WCF Message - Sasha Goldshtein
- Adventures with Silverlight and WCF – The remote server returned an error: NotFound - Doug Holland
Testing
- Unit Testing Simple ASP.NET MVC Controllers - Chris Missal
Architecture, Methodology & Project Management
- Tamper Proofing your Code - Paul Mason
- .NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentQueue - Justin Etheredge
- KiGG Design And Architecture - Part 4 Inside Infrastructure - MOSESSAUR
- Pair Programming with Screen - Jason Meridth
- New details on LinkedIn architecture - Greg Linden
- Solving Complexity with Message Based Architectures - Jak Charlton
- Real World S#arp Architecture - Billy McCafferty
- To Control and Observe – Productive Software Development -Scott Bellware
- Mistaking Efficiency for Productivity and Controlled Productivity - Scott Bellware
- Small Things Matter
- The Difference between an Anti-Pattern and a Code Smell - Peter Ritchie
Others
- StructureMap 2.6 (and 2.5.4) is Released! - Jeremy D. Miller
- Can You Really Measure Customer Satisfaction? - Phil Haack
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Feb 1-3, 2010

Monday, February 1, 2010
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Feb 1-3, 2010

Web Development
- Ambiguous Controller Names With Areas - Phil Haack
- Beyond web.config - Karl Seguin
- Remote Validation with ASP.NET MVC 2 - Brad Wilson
- Extensible Output Caching with ASP.NET 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) - ScottGu
- Context and Best Practices - bogardj
- Measuring the Performance of Asynchronous Controllers - Steve
- Simple way to output XML in ASP.NET MVC - RickLaFleur.com
- About Technical Debates (and ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC debates in particular) - ScottGu
- ASP.NET MVC – Dynamically Changing The Master Page (Theming) - Dan Watson
- Innovation Showcase : IE8 Accelerator Creation Guide
- Creating a SharePoint Visual Web Part using Visual Studio 2010 - Beth Massi
- Shrink your Views with FubuMVC Html Conventions - Jeremy D. Miller
- Using jQuery in an ASP.NET MVC application To Create Stunning Tooltips - Version 2 - Malcolm Sheridan
Web Design
- 8 Essential Tools for Website Redesign Efficiency - Chris Thurman
- 45 jQuery Navigation Plugins and Tutorials - Paul Andrew
- Well Designed Mac App Websites - Jacob Gube
- 50 Inspiring Portfolio Designs - gmuller
- 11 Great Resources to Find Free Icons - Steven Snell
- JavaScript from Null: Chapter 5 – Events - Jeffrey Way
- 10 Tips for Better Print Style Sheets - Walter
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
Database & Related Technologies
Web Service & Related Technologies
- REST Enabled Service in WCF Tutorial - Dhananjay Kumar
Testing
- Microsoft Test Runner series - part 1 - History & Goals - Suresh Budhiraja
Architecture, Methodology & Project Management
- Castle Windsor 2.1, Dynamic Proxy 2.2 and more released! - Krzysztof Kozmi
- Occasionally Connected Clients - Queuing Messages - Bruno Terkaly
- .NET Framework 4.0: Comparing LINQ and PLINQ performance - Gunnar Peipman
- Validating Architecture with Visual Studio 2010 - AlexCuse
- Conducting Effective Meetings - Joe Webb
- Bing Maps Developer Sheet - Frank La Vigne
- Evolutionary Architecture - Jimmy Bogard
Others
- Creatively Handling the Admin Side of Freelancing - Robert Bowen
- History of browser Visualization
- Using Mercurial with Visual Studio- Ade Miller
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Jan 13-15, 2010

Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Jan 13-15, 2010

Web Development
- Adding Multiple Nested Data in ASP.NET MVC Application - Mohammad Azam
- Required Field Highlighting in Dynamic Data Field Templates - Steve Naughton
- ASP.NET Performance – Part 3 – Cache Busting - Karl Seguin
- MVC HtmlHelper for Google Charts - Dean Hume
- ASP.NET Membership "Remember Me" That Actually Works - Rock
- Ordering fields in ASP.NET MVC 2 templated helpers - Maarten Balliauw
- Deploying ASP.NET MVC Apps on Shared Hosting - Ganesh Ranganathan
- Noob guide to Globalization in Asp.net MVC
- Adventures in MVC - Kevin
Web Design
- 45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript-Techniques
- Whitespace: The Underutilized Design Element - Henry
- 10 Best Tutorials To Learn CSS3 - Yanuar Prisantoso
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
- Lightweight Task Scheduling Library for .NET / Silverlight - Philipp Sumi
- Extensibility Series – WPF & Silverlight Design-Time Code Sharing – Part II -Karl Shifflett
- Silverlight 4 Beta & MEF – Experimenting with an alternative Programming Mode - Mike Taulty
- Digging into Data (from a XAML perspective) - Rob Relyea
- Free Blend Training With Silverlight Design Days
- Severely Decoupled Configuration - Jesse Liberty
- Minimizing your designer footprint - Alex Knight
- Silverlight Cream for January 12, 2010
Database & Related Technologies
- Mirroring SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 - Part 1 -Ted Krueger
- Entity Framework in .NET 4 - Somasegar
- How to quickly determine the DataType and Nullability of a Column in a query in SQL Server Management Studio 2008 - Suprotim Agarwal
- 10 Key Questions Determining SharePoint SQL Server Count - Joel Oleson
- SSIS – Lesson learnt, Case is very very important - Simon Sabin
- Finding Invalid SQL Logins - Chad Miller
- Map NHibernate using your API - Fabio Maulo
Web Service & Related Technologies
- MVC-ing WCF RIA Services - Adam
Testing
- Unit Testing Biztalk : Two possible frameworks - RoyOsherove
- HTTP Error Codes in WatiN 1.3 - Keith Dahlby
Architecture, Methodology & Project Management
- Easily Explore Existing Architecture - Patrick Smacchia
- 24 UX Articles to Start 2010 - Matthew Kammerer
- I Am Not a Master but a Solutionist - Rob Bazinet
- Three Things I Wish I Knew Before Jumping - Pat Guariglia
- What Do You Want to Accomplish Today? - JD Meier
- Visions of Software Development or Can’t We Just All Get Along? - Christopher Bennage
- Flash Is Never Coming To the iPhone - Dmitry Fadeyev
Others
- The Complete Guide to Getting the Most Out of Twitter - vitaly
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Jan 10-12, 2010

Monday, January 11, 2010
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Jan 10-12, 2010

Web Development
- ASP.NET MVC Mobile Detection & Redirection - matrixmesh
- Website Performance: What To Know and What You Can Do - Christian Heilmann
- Sending and Receiving JSON between jQuery and ASP.NET MVC using Ajax - Philip Hendry
- Making Sense of ASP.NET Paths - Rick Strahl
- Handling Disabled Links in ASP.NET 4 - SpaanJaar
Web Design
- Optimizing HTML - kangax
- jQuery code smells - James
- Best jQuery Content Slider Scripts and Tutorials
- Cross Domain Iframe Resize - Amit
- Performance of JavaScript Looping Techniques - Christian
- A UI Design and Prototyping Treasure Chest - Henry Jones
- 12 Killer Tips for Designing in the Browser -Joshua Johnson
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
- Image Blitting in Silverlight with WriteableBitmapEx - Adam Kinney
- Silverlight – About validation when binding to custom forms – Part 2 - Fredrik Normen
- A WPF Behavior for Window Resize Events in .NET 3.5 - Pete Brown
- Silverlight Cream for January 09, 2010
Database & Related Technologies
- 13 Things You Should Know About Statistics and the Query Optimizer - Fabiano Amorim
- SQL SERVER – Comma Separated Values (CSV) from Table Column – Part 2 - pinal dave
Web Service & Related Technologies
- Using RIA Services Programmatically - Andy Beaulieu
Testing
- Externalizing Settings for Data-Dependent Unit Tests using Proteus DatabaseUnitTestBase - Steve Bohlen
Architecture, Methodology & Project Management
- A philosophical discussion about Inversion of Control frameworks - mbratton
- Fewer smaller .Net DLLs vs less large DLLs - Mark Brown
- The Enterprise Architecture Definition Collection – Part II - Bob McIlree
- Leadership Tip: Stick To Your Core Values And Pass Them On Across Teams. - Rajiv Popat
- How to Configure Legacy Devices to Run on Windows 7 - Blake
- Top 10 Internet Startup Scalability Killers - Marty Abbott and Michael Fisher
- Which Profiling Mode Should I use? - Daryush
- High CPU in .NET app using a static Generic.Dictionary - Tess Ferrandez
Others
- 10 Web Browsers You Probably Haven’t Heard Of - Jacob Gube
- Dear Microsoft: Please Simplify Your Platform for Developers - Keith Elder
- Predictions for 2010 Part III- The Cloud - Stephen Forte
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Jan 7-9, 2010

Friday, January 8, 2010
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Jan 7-9, 2010

Web Development
- Announcing FubuMVC -chadmyers
- Building A Color Picker Using ASP.NET MVC And jQuery - Malcolm Sheridan
- Inheritance Patterns in YUI 3 - Stoyan Stefanov
- jQuery and ASP.NET UpdatePanel - Dave M. Bush
- Thoughts on ASP.NET MVP – A Framework That Wants To Be MVC - Rob Conery
- ASP.NET MVC FireStarter: Framework Fundamentals and Practices
Web Design
- How to Build a Newspaper Website with a Grid: New Plus Tutorial - Jeffrey Way
- 50 Excellent Adobe After Effects Tutorials -vitaly
- 35 High Quality Apple Inspired Icons - Walter
- Creating a Realistic Torn Photo Effect – Photoshop Tutorial
- Modern Art Movements To Inspire Your Logo Design - Daniel Eckler
- A Collection of Printable Sketch Templates and Sketch Books for Wireframing - Ivana Jurcic
- My Top 5 HTML Coding Preferences - Alen
- 100+ Seamless Patterns Great for Creating Website Backgrounds - Henry
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
- Reverse ICommands for MVVM - Rishi
- Silverlight HVP Proof Of Concept Released! - Jesse Liberty
- Silverlight XAML Viewer with info callouts and links to MSDN docs - Bob Bartholomay
- Fluent Silverlight – Binding dependency properties to model properties - Gabriel N. Schenker
- Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #31 - jonathan van de veen
- Silverlight – About validation when binding to custom forms - Fredrik Normen
- Silverlight 4 Beta – More on MEF and the PackageCatalog - Mike Taulty
- Silverlight and styles - Gabriel N. Schenker
- Fonts and Silverlight - Koen Zwikstra
- Silverlight Cream for January 07, 2010
Database & Related Technologies
- NHibernate vs. Entity Framework 4.0 -Ayende
Web Service & Related Technologies
- Creating WCF Service using Workflow 4.0 Beta 2 - Mahesh Sabnis
Testing
- TDD: 4 questions that will help you create the simplest thing that could possibly work - Roy Osherove
- Setting Up a Database For Integration Tests - Micah
Architecture, Methodology & Project Management
- Null Coalescing Assignment Operator for C# 5
- Creating a Data Service Provider – Part 3 - Metadata - AlexJ
- Custom Data Service Providers - AlexJ
- Foundations of Customer Service for Freelance Designers - Steven Snell
- MEF for Beginner - part 1 - Bnaya Eshet
- Pocket MEF
- What 5 common UX principles are most often ignored, or even mutilated? - Aevum Design
- How to meet other craftsmen - Sebastian Hermida
- The source code IS (still) the executable -David Anson
- More LINQ with System.Interactive – Functional fun and taming side-effects - Bart de Smet
- Writing Internal DSL's in MSDN
- Lazy(T, TMetadata) Class in System.ComponentModel.Composition - David Hayden
- Event Driven Architecture: Publishing Events using an IOC container - Jarod Ferguson
- Reactive Extensions API: Domain Events Example - Mike Chaliy
- Collaboration Tips for Designers Working with Developers - Jacob Gube
- Website Performance: What To Know and What You Can Do - Christian Heilmann
Others
- Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 1/6/2010+
- Locate File in Solution Explorer - Visual Studio Macro - Brian Schmitt
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Jan 4-6, 2010

Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - Jan 4-6, 2010

Web Development
- Thoughts on ASP.NET MVP – A Framework That Wants To Be MVC - Rob Conery
- Do you know how to maintain your Google ranking while moving to a new site structure? - Martin Hinshelwood
- Session less MVC Controller for MVC 2 / RC - Ricka
Web Design
- Getting Started with jQuery - Jacob Gube
- 30 Fresh AJAX Tutorials And Techniques - Vitaly
- Showcase Of Modern Navigation Design Trends - Jacob Gube
Silverlight, WPF & RIA
- Extending the SLHVP Player to a Platform - Jesse Liberty
- Fluent Silverlight – Fluent API and inheritance - Gabriel N. Schenker
- Using Autofac as an IoC Container in Silverlight Applications - Dan Wahlin
- MEF and Prism exploration, MEF module loading - Glenn Block
- Configuration Files for Silvelright HVP - Jesse Liberty
Database & Related Technologies
- Differences in Vulnerability between Oracle and SQL Server -Pinal Dave
- SQL Server RDL Specification - Pinal Dave
- Creating databases from your entity models - CraigL
- Common oversights with SQL Server security audits - Kevin Beaver
- Extending NHibernate data with one-to-optional relationships - Louis DeJardin
- ADO.NET team blog : POCO Proxies Part 1
Web Service & Related Technologies
- Using Dynamic Data Services in a WPF Application - Brady Kelly
Testing
- UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil - Michael Feathers
- Test Soon Development: a case study - Ward Bell
- Unity/Moq – AutoMocker or AutoMockingContainer - Jason Jarrett
Architecture, Methodology & Project Management
- Creating a Data Service Provider – Part 1 - Intro -AlexJ
- Office 2010 Developer Training Kit Released!
- 11 Strategies to Rock Your Startup’s Scalability in 2010 - Todd Hoff
- What Business Applications Could (Or Should) Look Like - Davy Brion
- Mocking framework comparison - Being Cellfish
- Creating a Web Development Environment using Google Chrome Extensions
- Language Envy - C# needs Ranges - Sergio Pereira
- .NET Serialization Performance Comparison - James Newton
- Patterns for reducing memory usage - Ayende
- The Essence of LINQ - MinLINQ - Bart De Smet
- Death to confirmation dialogs with jquery.undoable - Phil Haack
Others
- Control Your iPhone using Magic Mouse - Skipper
- 13 Simple CMS Options - Steven Snell
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Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - August 16-18, 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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