Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - September 21-23, 2009

Web Development

• Simplicity in Good Web Design : Advantages & How -to
• Dynamically Setting a Style at Run-Time in ASP.NET
• Adding your logo to the page in an SEO optimized way
• Speeding Up My Website
• Forms Authentication – Creating Users
• Using StructureMap with ASP.NET MVC & MVC Contrib
• Best Practices For Developing on SharePoint Shared
• Control web.config inheritance with IIS 7, ASP.NET options

Web Design

• Enhancing User Interaction With First Person User Interface
• How to implement a perfect multi-level navigation bar
• Updated: See how I used Firebug to learn jQuery
• The Difference Between Art and Design
• 40 High-Quality InDesign Tutorials
• 18 Impressive Tutorials on Creating Vector Illustrations
• JavaScript and its love for zeroes
• 10 Top-Notch CSS Editors

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight, PRISM, and .NET RIA Services
• Fluent API for .NET RIA Services Metadata
• Silverlight Cream for September 21, 2009
• Relative hyperlinks with Silverlight navigation
• XAML Power Toys v5 Published
• Announcing Next Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight
• Silverlight 3.0: WriteableBitmap
• WPF Designer sample code is posted

Database & Related Technologies

• SQL SERVER – Introduction to Service Broker and Sample Script
• Nizar’s .NET Blog » LINQ : Implementing IN and NOT IN
• Understanding LINQ and LINQ to SQL (and EF)
• NHibernate, Inverse, and Object Associations
• Hacking LINQ Expressions: Join With Comparer

Web Service & Related Technologies

• A Developer's Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit
• SOA Maturity Models
• Open Group SOA Governance Framework

Testing

• Unit Testing with jQuery using FireUnit & QUnit
• Research and Markets: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Test Driven Development: Problem - Design - Solution

Architecture

• Lean Software Development: Less is the New More!
• The 23 Gang of Four Design Patterns .. Revisited
• UI Patterns
• Introducing DynamicWrapper
• Open Source development model
• 10 Tools for Quick & Effective Code Development
• Reporting Progress though a Circle Diagram
• Web Application Architectures

Others

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 9/21/2009+
• A close-up look at the new Office Web Apps
• How to Update your Twitter Status with CodeIgniter
• An in depth look at the Historical Debugger in Visual Studio 2010 (Part VI)

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - September 16-18, 2009

Web Development

• Reports in ASP.NET MVC
• Microsoft Ajax CDN and the jQuery Validation Library
• Drawing the Line Between MVC Controllers and Application Services
• Take Two: A jQuery WCF/ASMX ServiceProxy Client
• Auto-Start ASP.NET Applications (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
• 7 Steps for Systematizing The Design & Build Process
• Telerik ASP.NET MVC Grid Preview (Take 1)
• Moving to Web Standards with SuperPreview
• Making JavaScript APIs Easier to Use

Web Design

• The Z-Index CSS Property: A Comprehensive Look
• Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets
• Animate validation feedback using jQuery
• 30 CSS Best Practices for Beginners
• 25 Useful jQuery Tooltip Plugins and Tutorials
• Returning An Array From jQuery's Map() Utility Function
• Greyscale Hover Effect w/ CSS & jQuery
• 12 Tips for Creating a Great Portfolio Site

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Scale-out of Silverlight HTTP polling duplex WCF service in a web farm scenario
• Silverlight Cream for September 16, 2009

Database & Related Technologies

• Inserting Master-Detail Data into a SQL-Server Compact Edition Database
• Using LINQ to query object hierarchies
• Top 10 reasons for coming to SQLBits
• SQLAuthority News – Download Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight CTP2
• Linq to NHibernate Progress Report
• Simple auditing using an NHibernate IInterceptor (Part 4)

Web Service & Related Technologies

• Using the Telerik OpenAccess WCF Wizard with Multiple Versions of OpenAccess
• What’s New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 Part- II – Developing Routing Service

Testing

• Testing NUnit Addins from within NUnit
• TestApi v0.3 Posted

Architecture

• BluePrints:The VeriScale Architecture - Towards a Scalable and Elastic Datacenter
• Simulating a Swarm Algorithm in C#
• Reflection with dynamic
• Book Club: SOLID Principles (Uncle Bob Martin)
• The Downside of Transparency
• Actually Querying with the Specification Pattern

Others

• How To Find Time For… Everything!
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit
• Five Free Tools for Multi-Monitor Computer Set-Ups
• Windows 7 For Architects & Developers – Updates

 

If your code uses multidimensional arrays, see if you can replace the code with a jagged array (a single dimensional array of arrays) to benefit from MSIL performance optimizations.

 

Sorry for no post from last 1 week due to KT activities in the current organisation.

I have a good news; I am joining as Sr. Architect for Microsoft Technologies in the new Organisation.

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - August 25-27, 2009

Web Development

• Clean Web.Config Files (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
• Four Little Known, Helpful Methods, Properties, and Features for ASP.NET Developers
• ASP.NET MVC, TDD and AutoMapper
• Requiring SSL For ASP.NET MVC Controllers
• ASP.NET MVC + MVC Contrib + Unit Testing
• ASP.NET MVC Native Grid Control
• 404 Error When Running Web Applications in IIS 7
• RESTify – Extending ASP.NET MVC
• Post Complex JavaScript Objects to ASP.NET MVC Controllers

Web Design

• 20 jQuery Plugins and Tutorials to Enhance Forms
• Keyboard Enabling a Web Form
• How to Design the Web in a High-Def World
• Vital Tips For Effective Logo Design
• === vs == in Javascript
• jQuery Validation and ASP.NET MVC Forms
• Two New Web Sites For Designers
• 10 Excellent Feedback Tools for Web Designers

Silverlight, WPF & RIA

• Silverlight Cream for August 25, 2009
• The Application Class and Application Services in Silverlight 3
• Azure-friendly Polling Duplex in Silverlight 3
• Silverlight tutorial: Play HD YouTube videos with Silverlight
• Updates made to MVVM Foundation
• Creating Master Details Application using WPF 3.5 and LINQ to XML

Database & Related Technologies

• Build Your Own Data Access Layer: Hydrating Entities
• A guide into OR/M implementation challenges: CRUD - Ayende Rahien
• Entity Framework Tips & Tricks webcast this Thursday!

Web Service & Related Technologies

• WCF Essentials series
• A Developer's Guide to the WCF REST Starter Kit
• REST vs. SOAP using HTTP – Choosing the Right WebService Protocol - Taranfx
• Building a Single Sign On Provider Using ASP.NET and WCF: Part 1

Testing

• Typemock Isolator 5.3.4 Is Released!
• Writing Great Unit Tests: Best and Worst Practices
• Rock Scissors Paper: TDD as if you meant it - Mark Needham
• Benefits of TDD and Pair Programming (Course Day #1) - Roy Osherove
• Introduction to Product Usability Testing
• Test driving a WPF App – Part 2: Adding some data

Architecture

• Agile Testing versus Waterfall Test Phases
• Introduction to Agile for QA People
• Quantity is NOT a measure of Quality
• Does YAGNI Mean You Ignore The Obvious
• Presentation Patterns with Jeremy Miller, Ward Bell, Rob Eisenberg and Glenn Block (Part 2)
• Personal Productivity on Agile Teams - Mendelt Siebenga
• The good and the bad of exception filters
• Identify Code Structure Patterns at a Glance - Patrick Smacchia
• The Correct Process Guides Us (Tracer Architecture Cont.)
• Carsonified » How to Create Totally Secure Cookies

Others

• Why codereviews should be a teamthing
• Work + Life = Balance | Science for SEO
• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 8/24/2009+
• More than just version control
• Best WordPress plugins - August 2009a>
• Step by Step to Using MSpec (Machine.Specifications) with ReSharper
• Visual Studio Team System for Small Teams - David Starr