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