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