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