Links (7/12/2009)

.NET

1. Bart’s Control Library – Not What You Think It Is – Part 1
2. Developers Developers Developers Developers (free eBook)

Web

1. Insert functionality in GridView – Part 2
2. GridView Multicolumn sorting
3. 9 Interesting jQuery Projects with Demos
4. ASP.NET WebPart FAQ
5. 10+ jQuery table plug-ins | Explorer place
6. 15 jQuery Tutorials For More Interactive Navigation
7. ASP.NET Tips : Getting asynchronous JQuery treeview to work with ASP.NET Webservices
8. 45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Expression Encoder Screen Capture 3 – HD screencast demonstration

Links (7/9/2009)

.NET

1. SubSonic 3.0.0.1 Released

Web

1. 15 jQuery Plugins For A Better Photo Gallery And Slideshow
2. Missing Insert functionality in GridView – Part 1
3. Use jQuery's data() method to store data in the DOM
4. How To Create A Scrolling Background Effect
5. CSS Depot just launched
6. Improving jQuery’s JSON performance and security
7. Rounded Corner Rendering in newer Browsers
8. Web Form Validation: Best Practices and Tutorials
9. Shorthand methods for unbind
10. Short Introduction to Object Orented Programming With Jquery
11. Rollovers and tooltips with jQuery
12. Event Aggregation with jQuery
13. jQuery slideToggle() with fading animation
14. Date Formatting with YUI – Part IV
15. 10 Useful CSS/JS-Coding Solutions For Web-Developers
16. jQuery Grid Script
17. 15 jQuery Plugins to Fix and Beautify Browser Issues
18. JSON: What It Is, How It Works, and How to Use It
19. Ingrid Table jQuery Plugin
20. Table Editor with jQuery
21. 12 Navigation Options That Help Users Navigate Through Your Website Effectively

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Location of Temporary ASP.NET files in Vista or Windows 7
2. Lessons from 50+ books on public speaking
3. Arcade: Battlefield 1943 – too few servers though

Links (7/5/2009)

.NET

1. Code Metrics: An Introduction to Visual NDepend
2. SubSonic 3.0 is Released
3. New CodePlex project: a simple Undo/Redo framework
4. LINQ: Quickly Create Dictionaries with ToDictionary
5. Write to the Event log

Web

1. Upload Multiple Files in ASP.NET using jQuery
2. 10 CSS tricks that make website looks cool instantly!
3. Opinionated Input Builders – Part 9 override the default Date Time picker
4. jSlickmenu : a jQuery plugin to create slick menus using CSS3
5. Creative Use Of jQuery Cycle In Fancy Curved Layout
6. CSS Fundamentals: Containing Children
7. CSS - String Truncation with Ellipsis
8. 20+ Best, High Quality JQuery Menus
9. Five jQuery Galleries And Slideshows
10. 10 Impressive JavaScript Animation Frameworks
11. jQuery Menu Effect Plugin
12. Identifying and locating the mouse position with jQuery
13. Simple ‘In-Progress’ Message for time taking tasks in ASP.Net Pages
14. Best Tips, Resources and Tutorials for making of Creative Forms using CSS
15. 20 useful Flash API's and Tools
16. Form validation with jQuery from scratch
17. 20+ Smartest Adobe Flash Menu and Navigation Tutorials
18. ASP.NET DropDownList with Custom Paging
19. JQuery: Playing with Select (DropDownList/ComboBox)
20. jQuery Extension: radioClass() method
21. jQuery Looped Slider Tutorial
22. Z-index demystified
23. Indexed Dropdown with jQuery
24. Finding real body height using jQuery
25. FLV Player H-List AS3
26. Three IIS Concepts ASP.NET Developers Should Know
27. Creating multi-level navigational menu with ASP.NET Repeater control and css styles
28. Prepare a JSON web service and access it with JQuery
29. 53 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks: Ultimate Collection
30. FAQ: Dynamically Adding Rows in ASP Table on Button Click event
31. Create a Digg-style post sharing tool with jQuery
32. How To Use Multiple CSS Backgrounds, a Tutorial
33. Create XML Document from a list

Visual Studio

1. Tip#85: Did you know… You can now do Multiple Selection of controls in your Designer with VS 2008 SP1?
2. Tip #86: Did you know… Visual Studio has several different search options?

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Where do developers care for Software Quality?
2. How To: Install Windows 7/Vista From USB Drive [Detailed 100% Working Guide]
3. Your Resume Won't Get You Hired - What Makes a Good Cover Letter?
4. Balsamiq Mockup: Salesforce CRM Home Screen
5. New Tool: ProcDump v1.0 | Updates: Autoruns v9.51, VMMap v2.1, PsExec v1.96 | Book released: Windows Internals 5th Edition Released!| Webcast: Case of the Unexplained 2009
6. General : Do you know what is “ReadyBoost” technology ?
7. VirtualBox 3.0.0 released

Links (6/28/2009)

.NET

1. Architecting Your Data Access Layer with the Entity Framework

Web

1. Silverlight Coding Competition – win USD $10,000!
2. A case of lost session variables when using out of process session state
3. Custom Events in jQuery
4. Playing with Sprites and jQuery: animated menu
5. CSS text-shadow Fun: Realtime Lighting Demo
6. Best Practices to optimize CSS - an academic exercise
7. CSS Drop Cap Effect
8. Silverlight: Quick Tip: LINQ & Data Binding notifications
9. How to create a custom jQuery selector with a parameter
10. jQuery simple unordered list filter
11. AJAX Multiple File Upload Form Using jQuery
12. JQuery PeriodicalUpdater (AJAX long polling/server polling) | Enfranchised Mind
13. FireQuery: Firebug enhancements for jQuery
14. Check your Silverlight 2 apps for compatibility with Silverlight 3

Visual Studio

1. Useful VS Key Sequences/Shortcuts

Links (6/25/2009)

.NET

1. Tip #83: Did you know... You can get the name of the calling method from the stack using reflection?
2. Exporting a DataTable to Excel (DataTable to CSV)
3. Real World Interfaces in C#
4. Refactoring with LINQ & Iterators: FindDescendantControl and GetDescendantControls

Web

1. Connecting your Silverlight Applications to Web and Data services (WebClient)
2. SilverBullet #4 – System.Windows.ApplicationIdentity
3. Moving ListItems between Two ListBox – Client Side Approach
4. Are we done with XML yet? hello JINI
5. Silverlight FAQ part 2 (Animations and Transformations)
6. 10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance
7. Learning: Flex and XML as easy as 1…2…3
8. The Google Code Blog: How we improved performance on Google Code
9. 8 jquery plugin to enhance your HTML form element
10. Easy Ajax with jQuery
11. jQuery Impromptu
12. jQuery Plugin: betterTip
13. Essential Practices for Styling Your CSS
14. Silverlight MultiBindings, How to attached mutiple bindings to a single property.
15. SilverLight FAQ's - Part 3

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Your questions: what do I like about Windows 7? Windows Easy Transfer for migrating your life to a new PC
2. 10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To
3. Sampson gets a new home – beautiful Newf
4. Notebook Sharing and Collaboration: Phase 1

Links (6/22/2009)

.NET

1. Add Extension Methods in LinqPad
2. Refactor ForEach to AddRange
3. TreeViewAdv for .Net (a Free/OSS C# WinForm TreeView component) v1.7 Released

Web

1. 100+ Massive CSS Toolbox
2. jQuery Ribbon
3. Control-Oriented Vs. Data-Oriented Programming in Silverlight
4. Adventures in MVVM -- Ball of Mud vs MVVM
5. Intermediate JQuery
6. A jQuery Plugin for a Flash-like interactive map
7. jQuery and Ajax Best Demos Part-2
8. Rebuilding The Google Blog Bar; jQuery-ed Version
9. jQuery Secrets with Dave Ward
10. A Basic Custom Layout in silverLight
11. How to make Horizontal Sliding menu using CSS
12. $10,000 for the Best Silverlight App!

Visual Studio

1. How To Inspect the Content of a Program Database (PDB) File
2. Xcode one ups #region in Visual Studio
3. Does Add References make you crazy? Dread using it because you hate the wait? Check this out… The “Fast Add Reference Dialog” VS Addin

Development/Miscellaneous

1. 25 iPhone Apps For The Mobile Web Worker
2. From Concept to Production - Prototyping with Blend 3 & SketchFlow
3. Blend 3 – Great Feature #2 – Master/Details Screens
4. One day with Balsamiq Mockups: a review

Links (6/18/2009)

.NET

1. Enumerations, structs and Extension Methods
2. Determine Whether an Assembly was compiled in Debug Mode
3. TestDriven.Net 2.22 RTM - What’s New?

Web

1. flickrVIEWR – A flickr viewer in Silverlight – Part 1
2. flickrVIEWR – A flickr viewer in Silverlight – Part 2
3. Silverlight and Search crawling some tips
4. How We Did It: SharePoint.Microsoft.com
5. New release of "Silverlight Count Down Control"
6. SilverBullet #3 - System.Windows.Input.FocusManager
7. Changing design colors with jquery
8. Big javascript post
9. Forcing a GridView to use clean html for use with jQuery plug-ins
10. JQuery Pop-Up Window Plugin, Degrades Gracefully
11. JQuery LightBox Max Height and Width
12. MVVM light toolkit (Silverlight edition) posted
13. Quick Tip: Outline Elements on Hover
14. How To Bind To Generic Method In XAML
15. How to Submit a Form with AJAX in jQuery
16. JQuery Autocomplete with WCF services
17. Silverlight 3 Behaviors : Double Click Trigger
18. jQuery Dock Menu Tutorial Revisit - Dock at Bottom
19. Why do I keep getting prompted to install Silverlight on some websites?
20. Reading querystring using javascript
21. jQuery Introducing iPhone-style Checkboxes
22. Image Flip Using jQuery
23. 10+ useful jQuery Plugins for web development
24. A jQuery “flash like” menu

Visual Studio

1. Tip #81: Did you know... How to Select the CSS Schema for Intellisense and CSS Properties?

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Big Update: Evernote for iPhone 3.0 is Here
2. Quotation Plug-in for Windows Live Writer
3. Screenshots of TweetDeck for iPhone
4. 50 Excellent 3D Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
5. VMware Workstation 7 enters in private beta

Links (6/15/2009)

.NET

1. How to properly convert SecureString to String

Web

1. Turning Off ASP.Net Validators
2. Awesome WPF/Silverlight Guidance
3. Silverlight toolkit with ADO.NET Data services , Drill-down Charts using Astoria
4. First Steps in Silverlight 2 and Expression Blend 2
5. Animated menu with jquery
6. Professional Flash Media Player: ActionScript 3.0
7. Flash vs Silverlight
8. Stunning jQuery animations
9. JavaScript: Not your father's inheritance model - Part 1
10. JavaScript: Not your father's inheritance model - Part 2
11. Smart Columns w/ CSS & jQuery
12. jQuery Infinite Carousel
13. Using jQuery To Manipulate and Filter Data
14. 20 Amazing jQuery Plugins and 65 Excellent jQuery Resources
15. jQuery SuperBox!
16. 15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS
17. One way, two way and one time bindings using Silverlight
18. Using Embedded Fonts in Silverlight 2
19. New York Times Silverlight Kit version 1.0.7 Released
20. Silverlight: ave I Missed The Bus?

Visual Studio

1. Tip# 77: Did you know… How to enable Page Level Tracing for your ASP.NET pages?

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Balsamiq: Tree Table
2. Laptop Configuration for Hardcore Demos
3. Looking at a bug we fixed in OneNote 2007 SP2
4. Guidelines for writing good individual review comments
5. Five Things I Do With Every Ubuntu Installation
6. A Couple of Quick Ubuntu Tips
7. 100 Excellent iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers

Links (6/10/2009)

.NET

1. Stripping the Decimal From a Value in .NET

Web

1. StackPanel, DockPanel and scrolling items
2. Adding Rows in GridView
3. Adding Rows in GridView with Edit, Update and Delete Functionality
4. The ViewModel Pattern in Silverlight – An Example
5. jQuery Sliding Tab Menu for Sidebar Tutorial
6. SilverBullet #1 – System.Environment
7. SilverBullet #2 – System.Json
8. How to Build a jQuery Treeview
9. SilverLight 2.0: Setting the Background of a Button
10. Using the Silverlight Accordion Control
11. 11 keystrokes that made my jQuery selector run 10x faster
12. .NET RIA Services roadmap update
13. Using google analytics data in your application
14. 5 commonly neglected parts of websites
15. CrossSlide - A jQuery plugin to create Ken Burns pan and cross-fade animations
16. Ten CSS tricks you may not know
17. Fluent Silverlight – Part 3 – Binding Events to Commands
18. Submit multiple forms with jQuery and Ajax.
19. Source Code for JQuery ASP.NET Controls

Visual Studio

1. You can use Visual Studio to debug itself!
2. FxCop: How To Use It

Development/Miscellaneous

1. How to Improve Long Warning Messages
2. Change of the background image on the logon screen in Windows 7
3. Windows 7 Logo Changer
4. Model View Presenter (MVP) design pattern and data binding
5. Release: VMware Converter 4.0.1
6. News: JetBrains TeamCity 4.5.2 Available

Links (6/7/2009)

.NET

1. Introduction to NHibernate, pt. 7
2. Textbox Class for Numeric Input only

Web

1. Check your Silverlight 2 apps for compatibility with Silverlight 3
2. Silverlight Tips & Tricks: Make Silverlight DataGrid be more MVVM friendly =)
3. June 7th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio
4. jQuery idleTimer plugin
5. jQuery: show plain text in a password field and then make it a regular password field on focus
6. REST - What the Heck Is It?
7. Data Grid View Filter PopUp
8. jQuery Tools vs jQuery UI
9. jQuery AJAX Tabs with ThickBox enabled
10. Jquery Tools: A Jquery UI Alternative
11. Using jQuery Visited Plug-In
12. Best of Tooltips Scripts With JavaScript, Ajax & CSS
13. Adding ToolTip for each List Item.

Visual Studio

1. Getting Started with jQuery in Visual Studio 2008

Development/Miscellaneous

1. How to Remove the .NET ClickOnce Firefox Extension
2. Updates: VMMap v2.0, ClockRes v2.0
3. 10+ Stunning Websites for Download Free Icon Sets
4. More Amazing Ubuntu Tips in 5 parts

Links (6/4/2009)

.NET

1. Debugging .NET Applications … a power course (day 1/2)
2. Debugging .NET Applications … a power course (day 2/2)
3. How to Use LINQ to Get a Count of Duplicates in a List
4. Simple group slicing in XSLT
5. Getting the index of an item in a LINQ query

Web

1. jQuery Image Map
2. jQuery TOOLS - The UI library for the Web
3. Automatic DataGrid refresh in SilverLight
4. Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS
5. Displaying a Confirmation Dialog with the JQuery UI Dialog
6. Silverlight and WCF Authentication Issues
7. Fluent Silverlight – Part 1
8. Fluent Silverlight – Part 2 – Binding Properties
9. Fluent Silverlight - Auto Wiring INotifyPropertyChanged
10. The Ultimate jQuery List
11. Advanced docking using jQuery
12. Slick jQuery Slideshow Plugin: s3Slider
13. Cross domain access policy in Silverlight applications
14. Facebook like suggestions with jQuery content appears and disappears.
15. jQuery Masonry - A Layout Plugin for jQuery
16. HTTP Post from SilverLight application to a REST Service
17. Silverlight how to: Add a user control to another user control
18. XAML By FARR: Resource Dictionaries Vs User Control Resources
19. Choose Your Best WYSIWYG Editor
20. Silverlight 2 Web Service Part III - Single object Get and Update from database
21. Animated Navigation Bar Using jQuery 

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Is there a way to connect OneNote notebooks w/ Confluence Wiki pages? Or to easily migrate content from OneNote to Confluence?
2. 9 Crucial UI Features of Social Media and Networking Sites
3. Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Utils Class
4. Firefox users flip out over sneak MS add-on
5. Windows Server 2008: Reclaiming Disk Space After Installing Service Pack 2
6. Ubuntu Themes: 61 Awesome Themes for Linux

Learning jQuery 1.3 Review

I wrote a book review for Learning jQuery 1.3 over on my SharePoint site.

Link

Links (5/31/2009)

.NET

1. Announcing Gallio and MbUnit v3.0.6 Update 2.
2. Persistence Patterns: Cascading Updates
3. Check if windows service is installed

Web

1. Google Wave: the sky is falling and Flash/Silverlight are dead
2. Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 launching July 10
3. ViewModel with MVC/Navigation in Silverlight
4. Cascaded dropdown using jQuery
5. Feature your products with Jquery
6. New jQuery Ribbon release!
7. SketchFlow: Rapid prototyping that works
8. Converting the ModalPopupExtender to ThickBox
9. 22 CSS Button Styling Tutorials and Techniques
10. The CSS Overflow Property
11. Password Strength - Estimates brute force time (jQuery plugin)
12. Silverlight: Interacting with charts-2
13. Running ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 CTP1 on Windows 7
14. May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio
15. TextBox Watermark Using JavaScript and CSS
16. URI Mappings in Silverlight Navigation Framework
17. A Solution to Binding on Silverlight Behaviors
18. Twitter API From C#: Getting a User’s Time Line
19. jQuery ProgressBar
20. Creating a Simple AJAX Master-Details View Using jQuery, JSON and jTemplates in ASP.Net
21. High level deck on Sharing code between WPF and Silverlight
22. Easy DataTemplateSelectors in Silverlight

Visual Studio

1. Tip#66: Did you know... how to insert quotes values automatically while typing the attrib values? 

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Adding Custom Search Providers to Windows 7 plus Advanced Search Tricks
2. June's Toolbox Column Now Online
3. Let the Windows 7 Tweak Race Begin - Windows 7 Little Tweaker 1.1
4. Add some spice to your PowerPoint decks with PPtPlex

Links (5/28/2009)

.NET

1. Learning how to walk with Mono

Web

1. Silverlight DataForm helpers
2. How to implement a news ticker with jQuery and ten lines of code
3. 33 Excellent Web Layout Photoshop Tutorials
4. RSS Feed Widget in Silverlight
5. Copying data to the clipboard in Silverlight
6. Gmail / Facebook Style Chat Application with jQuery
7. Windows Azure, TDS, WCF, Silverlight and a few problems on the way Part IV – The Silverlight Project
8. Silverlight Range Selector
9. A simpler, conventions based DependencyProperty structure for silverlight using CustomControlBase
10. 30 Best jQuery Plugins - May 2009
11. Creating a quick and dirty jQuery contentEditable Plugin
12. JQuery and Firebug Console
13. Robust, Reusable Drag-and-Drop Behavior in Silverlight
14. Adventures in MVVM – A Testing Story
15. 36 Eye-Catching Jquery Navigation Menus

Visual Studio

1. Resharper template for DependencyProperty in silverlight

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Google Search & Search Results – Balsamiq Mockups
2. 10 Expert Tricks for Ubuntu & Linux
3. Excel 2007 Productivity Secrets 
4. Adobe Presentations goes public
5. When Word of Mouth Got a Permalink - Companies, Customers and Twitter

Links (5/25/2009)

.NET

1. Testing that an event was raised

Web

1. Which came first, the View or the Model?
2. Writing Behaviors for Silverlight 3 - Part 1
3. Writing Behaviors for Silverlight 3 - Part 2
4. SilverUnit Project Template and new version
5. Using PageAsyncTask to improve the performance of your website
6. News: Silverlight DataGrid Control - Available Free-of-Charge
7. Vista like Calendar Widget in XAML using Expression Blend 3
8. Create a Resizable Image Grid with jQuery
9. Update on jQuery Ribbon
10. Major update on jQuery Ribbon
11. jQuery Ribbon – Themes
12. jQuery Ribbon on CodePlex
13. jQuery Ribbon update – Access key support
14. Azure and Silverlight Deep-Diving
15. The Top 10 Things Web Developers Still Get Wrong After All This Time
16. Demonstration of Row Swapping in a Grid View
17. Setting the Default Input Focus and Default Button with JQuery: Thin ASP.NET 5
18. Silverlight DataForm helpers
19. DataForm Templates 

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Linux Browser Testing Made Easy
2. Google Chrome v2 now "official"
3. 8 Guides and Tools for Supercharging Google Chrome
4. 10 cool tools in Windows 7

Links (5/21/2009)

.NET

1. Write My Rhino Mocks Expect Statement
2. Code Access Security Cheat Sheet

Web

1. Unit Testing JavaScript with FireUnit
2. 20 jQuery Tutorials For Developers
3. Use jQuery to "turn off the lights" while watching videos
4. Video: Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC 1.0
5. GridView all in one
6. XML parsing using JQuery
7. 6 Flexible jQuery Plugins To Control Webpage Layouts Easily
8. Specifying relative URLs to Silverlight WCF EndPoints
9. Silverlight Visual Studio helper files
10. 7 JQuery and CSS based Accordion Menus
11. How to customize holiday appearance in the Silverlight Calendar [Jason Cooke]
12. jQuery Custom ToolTips
13. .NET RIA Services Update with new Silverlight project template
14. 8 Layout Solutions To Improve Your Designs
15. Silverlight Frankenstein
16. Chart tweaking made easy [How to: Make four simple color/ToolTip changes with Silverlight/WPF Charting]

Visual Studio

1. Tip#63: Did you know…How to specify a fixed port for Visual Studio Development Server while using WAPs?
2. ReSharper Tip: Navigating to a type

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Windows Live Writer Tips #10 – Keyboard Shortcuts
2. Windows Live Writer Tip #11 – Insert Image from Web on Windows 7

Links (5/17/2009)

.NET

1. CSharp (C#) String Test

Web

1. Get query string parameters with Regular Expressions (in JavaScript)!
2. JavaScript for C# Developers: Functions are Objects
3. 8 jQuery and Ajax based tag clouds for web developer
4. Silverlight MapStats.NET source code posted at the Gallery
5. jQuery Sortable Plug-in and unwanted Clicks
6. Datatable to JSON
7. Silverlight ClipToBounds - Can I Clip It?, Yes You Can!
8. Binding a Silverlight DataGrid to dynamic data via IDictionary
9. Binding a Silverlight DataGrid to dynamic data Part 2 - editable data and INotifyPropertyChanged
10. jquery week calendar plugin
11. 120+ Javascript, Ajax, jQuery Mega Toolbox
12. 15 Web Design Tutorials With Gimp

Visual Studio

1. CodeRush Xpress for C# and VB is Live!
2. Tip#62: Did you know… How to add Ajax Control Toolkit to the toolbox?
3. Remote Debugging across Domains made easy

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Speaking and Presenting- Your Next Actions
2. 10 solid Linux distributions for your netbook
3. Twitter Services That Are Useful To Me

Links (5/14/2009)

.NET

1. Protected Constructors For Abstract Classes
2. Created HTML Help Documentation with Sandcastle

Web

1. Silverlight 3: Template Binding vs. Relative Binding
2. Simple Guide: How To Get Started With jQuery
3. Implementing a Silverlight based ‘Vertical’ tickertape
4. CoverFlow – built using Silverlight 3's 'Projection' feature
5. Refactoring Silverlight ChildWindow for a non-modal use
6. 10 jQuery Datagrid Plugins
7. Jquery Tip #5 - Cool Resizable Boxes
8. How to debug C# WebHttpRequest HTTPS through Fiddler
9. Hopping in Silverlight
10. Debug Diag script for troubleshooting .NET 2.0 Memory leaks
11. Using jQuery Validation in ASP.NET Master Pages
12. Ajax with jQuery - load() method
13. 56 CSS Tabs & Navigation Menu Scripts and Examples
14. .NET RIA Services May 2009 Preview
15. silverlight 3: pixel shaders
16. Firefinder for Firebug - quickly find elements matching your CSS selectors or XPath expressions

Visual Studio

1. Fix for Visual Studio 2008 crash with XAML files

Development/Miscellaneous

1. 10 reasons you'll want to install Ubuntu 9.04
2. Virtual machines and Sun's open source VirtualBox
3. Blog - Want to change your Windows 7 Logon Background? Here's how!
4. Thoughts on Slide Decks
5. Getting started with Adobe Air as Web developer/designer

Links (5/10/2009)

.NET

1. Neat .NET 2.0 StackViewer to troubleshoot hangs/performance issues
2. How to implemente IShellBrowser
3. NDepend v2.12 Rocks.  - couldn’t agree more!
4. Format a String in TitleCase

Web

1. AjaxView – Javascript profiling
2. Developing Silverlight Apps on Linux and MacOS with Moonlight
3. An Async Html cache – part II – Testing the cache
4. Refactoring Silverlight ChildWindow for a non-modal use
5. I’m a Web Developer At Heart
6. Azure Basics - Say 'Hello' to the Cloud
7. FAQ: Show Large Image on MouseOver using JavaScript
8. Crash Course: YUI Grids CSS
9. Silverlight 2 Web Service Part I - The Beginning
10. Create A Tabbed Content Rotator Using jQuery
11. 10 handy Firefox about:config hacks
12. jQuery Cheat Sheet
13. Firing Custom Events in jQuery
14. jQuery…Worst Practices  

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Updates: Autoruns v9.5, PsLoglist v2.7, PsExec v1.95
2. USB Key Installed Windows 7 – worked great
3. Install Window7 from USB Key onto netbook – what worked for me

Links (5/7/2009)

.NET

1. Using Linq 'Like'
2. TextReader.TryReadLine And Idiomatic Code
3. .NET Tip: Using String Constructors

Web

1. JQuery Sliding Login Panel
2. 20 New examples of advanced jQuery UI's in action
3. Creating Custom Cursor in Silverlight
4. Load jQuery Dynamically
5. New York Times Silverlight Kit Announced
6. 15 Exceptional JQuery Resources And Tutorials
7. Working with DataGrid in Silverlight
8. New animation API for Silverlight (Easing Functions)
9. Function’less event handlers in jQuery
10. Silverlight 3's New Child Windows
11. GridView Plugin For JQuery
12. More on Silverlight 3's Navigation Framework
13. Show Your Data on Google Map using C# and JavaScript
14. Radial Layout in Silverlight
15. Silverlight Contest app updated with new RadialPanel
16. List of Really Useful Tools for CSS Developers
17. jLinq – LINQ for JavaScript
18. Announcing Glimmer: a jQuery Interactive Design Tool
19. 10 Great CSS Selectors you must know
20. Using jQuery with Client-Side Data Binding Templates
21. 15+ Excellent jQuery Plugins To Enhance HTML Forms

Visual Studio

1. Installing the Visual Studio 2008 Development Stack… in the right order
2. Gesturing at Visual Studio – VSGesture 1.0

Development/Miscellaneous

1. The end of the Borland story: acquired by Micro Focus
2. Making a Win7 Bootable USB device.
3. Setting up Ubuntu Jaunty for Ruby and Rails development
4. I Just Logged In As You: How It Happened
5. Every Star Wars Lego Minifig Ever!
6. Support and Q&A for Solid-State Drives
7. Window 7 from Beta to RC and happily no clean install!
8. Developing iPhone Applications using Java
9. OpenOffice.org 3.1 released

Links (5/3/2009)

.NET

1. Backup Project Files to Gmail

Web

1. 15 Excellent jQuery Navigation Techniques and Solutions
2. 40 Outstanding CSS Techniques And Tutorials
3. Gotchas for Web Services in Silverlight
4. Sexy Combos with jQuery
5. Glimmer: a helpful visual tool for generating jQuery scripts

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Windows 7 RC install experience
2. Installing Windows 7 from a USB drive
3. Monitoring ReadyBoost on Windows 7
4. Optimizing Your Wallet
5. What does community mean to you?

Links (4/30/2009)

.NET

1. Setting the Initial Focus to a ListView item
2. C# case insensitve string replace?
3. Instantiating a Dictionary from a LINQ projection
4. Instantiating a Dictionary from a LINQ projection, part 2
5. TestDriven.Net 2.21: Now includes NUnit 2.5 RC

Web

1. Create a jQuery Context Menu for Treeview
2. jQuery Collapsible Panel
3. How To: jQuery Event Delegation
4. PDF for Silverlight
5. jQuery Twitter API plugin
6. 22 amazing JQuery - Modal - Plugins
7. Demystifying the jQuery selectors optimization
8. Google Charts to Make Your Site Look Cooler
9. Silverlight Navigation Part 3
10. Gotchas for Web Services in Silverlight
11. Keyword Highlight on a web page using jquery
12. jQuery Performance Rules - Best Practices for Speeding Up jQuery
13. Using the Generic Dictionary with JSON web services…
14. The Mystery Of CSS Sprites: Techniques, Tools And Tutorials
15. Paging with the Silverlight RIA services DomainDataSource

Visual Studio

1. Tip #59: Did you know…How you can automatically format unformatted HTML on paste in VS?
2. Configuring Reflector in Visual Studio 2008
3. Random Visual Studio 2008 Tips #2
4. ReSharper coolness of the day: TODOs and NotImplementedException

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Evernote + Twitter = Instant Memories
2. QuickOffice for iPhone
3. Installing Ubuntu 9.04: A Designers/Development Environment
4. Where do shortcuts in “My Network Places” come from?
5. Vista/Server 2008 Not Shutting Down

Links (4/26/2009)

.NET

1. Tip 15 - How to avoid loading unnecessary Properties
2. Disable Special Keys in Win App C#

Web

1. Prototyping with SketchFlow
2. ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!)
3. Enable JavaScript specific CSS with one line of jQuery
4. Minimalist jQuery: 11 useful plugins under 4K
5. FirstFloor Silverlight Document Viewer for XPS

Visual Studio

1. Tip #54: Did you know…How you can turn off intellisense for HTML/ CSS editors
2. Tip #55: Did you know...How to change Start-Up Options and Instances of ASP.Net Development Server in a Multi-project Solution
3. Tip#56: Did you know… How to update JScript Intellisense manually
4. JetBrains TeamCity 4.5 is available

Development/Miscellaneous

1. May's Toolbox Column Now Online
2. New: More Social Partners on Windows Live
3. Re-review of Kinesis
4. Flattening XML Data in SQL Server
5. Do’s and Don’ts of Video Tutorials.

Links (4/23/2009)

.NET

1. Sorting a collection using a IComparer
2. How to Use LINQ GroupBy
3. Free Chart Controls for .NET: Windows and Web – Handy Links
4. Show me the memory: Tool for visualizing virtual memory usage and GC heap usage.
5. LINQ to Objects – Debugging
6. TestDriven.Net 2.20: Improved NCover Integration

Web

1. 25+ jQuery Plugins that enhance and beautify HTML form elements
2. Leisure Suit Larry in Javascript, and it's open source!
3. Sliding Top Menu With jQuery
4. Drag and Drop with Persistence using JQuery
5. How to test jQuery enabled Apps using JSON with Visual Studio
6. MVP Delivers World’s First Silverlight Ribbon Control!
7. Write out-of-browser (OOB) Silverlight apps in three steps
8. Evented Programming With jQuery
9. The 20 Most Practical and Creative Uses of jQuery
10. Validation in ASP.NET using jQuery
11. Silverlight ListBox: Part I - Using multiple templates in a ListBox
12. Silverlight ListBox Part II (Drag and drop in the same listbox and scroll)
13. Creating a Cool UI effect on ASP.NET Panels using jQuery
14. Building ASP.NET Reporting OLAP-Based Application Part-1
15. Building ASP.NET Reporting OLAP-Based Application Part-2
16. Building ASP.NET Reporting OLAP-Based Application Part-3
17. Silverlight ObjectDataSource
18. Top 10 Jquery Examples with Live Demos | MyPHPDunia
19. Silverlight 3 - Create a nice Navigation Flip

Visual Studio

1. Tip # 53: Did you know... How to edit the templates for gridview in VS designer?
2. Random Visual Studio 2008 Tips #1
3. ReSharper coolness of the day: generated constructor visibility
4. Dark IDE Colors v2.0

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Evernote’s New Twitter Functionality
2. Installing Windows From a Bootable USB Drive
3. Installing Windows Server 2008
4. Taking Your Presentations Beyond Bullet Points…Online E-Lessons Weekly
5. The Coolest Screensaver Ever?
6. Create a Twitter-like logo
7. Requirements: You Must Not Write “The System Shall…”
8. Windows Live Writer Tip #6 – Inserting Quotes
9. Updates: VMMap v1.1, Active Directory Explorer v1.2
10. 18 Seriously Helpful Cheat Sheets for Easier Coding
11. Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Vista
12. VirtualBox Virtual Machine Software: A Hands-On Review
13. Canonical punts Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope

Links (4/16/2009)

Web

1. 10 beautiful Sliding Panel with jQuery Tutorials
2. 10 Best jQuery Sliders
3. Create Vertical Scrolling Menu with CSS and jQuery
4. Send attachments with jQuery
5. A brief look at the Google Chart API
6. Using jQuery Grid With ASP.NET MVC
7. Silverlight Simple Animation
8. Adaptive Rendering in ASP.NET MVC
9. Simple JavaScript Debugger using jQuery
10. tabSwitch
11. A Closable jQuery Plug-in
12. Handling MouseEnter and MouseLeave Events in jQuery
13. Add support for iPhone in ASP.NET

Visual Studio

1. Resharper Tip of the Day: Moving Chunks of Code

Development/Miscellaneous

1. 10 tweaks to make Windows 7 even better
2. Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 4/13/2009+
3. An Absolute Beginner's Guide to iPhone Development
4. Friendly cheatsheets for developers
5. Job Seekers Take Notice
6. 9 Brilliant Ways To Ensure Client Satisfaction and Project Success
7. Setting up Subversion 1.6 Server
8. This weeks Deal: GRAW 2 Co-Op Collection 2
9. Building a Cloudsourced Business

Links (4/12/2009)

.NET

1. Using GZipStream to zip all files in folder
2. The Twitter Search API made easy with Linq to XML
3. Check if user have Administrator rights

Web

1. Accordion Part 5: AccordionButton
2. Creating a New Silverlight Project in Visual Studio 2008
3. Create Uniform Social Bookmarking Widgets
4. Use jQuery to Decorate Links
5. Selecting Parent Nodes using jQuery
6. 40 Exceptional jQuery Interface Techniques and Tutorials
7. Gmail custom Buttons
8. Virtual Earth API Release Information, April 2009

Visual Studio

1. ReSharper 4.5 released

Development/Miscellaneous

1. IE8: Disabling the loopback check, 401.1 Unauthorized: Logon Failed
2. Overview: VirtualBox 2.2.0
3. The Beginner's Guide to Creating Virtual Machines with VirtualBox
4. Why cheap developers will cost you

SharePoint Saturday Atlanta

A quick reminder that the SharePoint Saturday Atlanta event is almost here! The free, all-day event will take place on 4/18 at the Microsoft Office on Sanctuary Pkwy in Alpharetta, GA.

Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for ‘SharePoint Saturday’ event.  SharePoint Saturday is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics.  SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint!

This is an excellent opportunity to spend the day with SharePoint. If you are a SharePoint veteran or interested in exploring SharePoint, this is a perfect opportunity to learn more on SharePoint. There will be many sessions which cover all spectrums. Sessions are broken out by IT Pro, Developer, Architect, Designer, End-User, and Business. There will be many SharePoint MVPs and other SharePoint professionals speaking and in attendance. Come see why the SharePoint community is so incredible to work with.

The registration link is: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=136991

Hope to see you there.

Links (4/9/2009)

.NET

1. “Illustrated C# 2008” Free as in eBook curtsey of Red Gate
2. Find which dll / exe created a window.

Web

1. Nobody likes seeing the hourglass... [Keep your application responsive with BackgroundTaskManager on WPF and Silverlight]
2. The benefits of Cloud Computing
3. 50+ Amazing Jquery Examples- Part1
4. jQuery 101 UG Samples and Slides
5. Web 2.0 AJAX Portal using jQuery, ASP.NET 3.5, Silverlight, Linq to SQL, WF and Unity
6. jQuery Tutorial: Displaying loading GIF image while loading content using AJAX
7. jQuery & .NET
8. Exploring jQuery Selectors
9. Publishing an ASP.NET Web Application in IIS
10. JSMag April 2009 available
11. Top 10 jQuery Plugins and Resources
12. Showcase Of Well-Designed Tabbed Navigation
13. 5 Reasons You Should Take a Closer Look at ASP.NET MVC
14. SharePoint Map Chart Web Part - Dead Simple Data Visualization for Geographic SharePoint List Data
15. Six easy ways to customize your site by using Web Parts
16. Reflecting over JSON Data to Simplify Control Updates with jQuery

Visual Studio

1. **** ReSharper 4.5 Released
2. CodeRush, when code smells...

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Quit Begging People To Steal Your Twitter Account!
2. SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1
3. Migrating From Windows To Ubuntu - A Community Driven Guide
4. 6 Free Tools that every Windows Programmer should Install
5. Updates: Autoruns v9.41
6. Alone in the Dark with Microsoft Desktop Virtualization
7. Release: Sun VirtualBox 2.2
8. Release: VMware Workstation 6.5.2

Links (4/5/2009)

.NET

1. Twitter for Office Communicator
2. log4net documentation
3. The Weekly Source Code 40 - TweetSharp and Introducing Tweet Sandwich

Web

1. Firefox Add-On: YSlow
2. Silverlight Revisited
3. Sample ASPX page to show security details in ASP.NET
4. Create a Ajax based Form Submission with jQuery
5. jQuery Special Events
6. Exactly Twitter like Follow and Remove buttons with jQuery and Ajax
7. jQuery Menu: Dropdown, iPod Drilldown, and Flyout styles with ARIA Support and ThemeRoller Ready
8. Extjs quick start guide for jQuery Developers
9. Build a Simple Application with .Net RIA Services (Silverlight 3) – Part 1 A simple 3-tier layers application in ASP.NET

Visual Studio

1. Shared Assembly Info in Visual Studio Projects
2. Best Practices for .NET Assembly Versioning

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Specialist vs. Generalist: Who Wins?
2. Free Flex Builder for Unemployed Developers

Links (4/2/2009)

.NET

1. Framework Design Guidelines Book: Extra Content from the DVD Posted
2. Announcing Gallio and MbUnit v3.0.6 Update 1.

Web

1. ASP.NET MVC 1.0
2. Build a Content Slider with jQuery
3. FileUpload within UpdatePanel
4. 11 jQuery Plugins to Enhance HTML Dropdowns
5. Temporary ASP.NET Files Are Not Deleted
6. Using "negative sleeps" to improve responsiveness in VB web apps
7. Build REST Services with WCF REST Starter Kit…
8. Debugging Silverlight Application
9. Implementing a Silverlight based ‘Vertical’ tickertape
10. Using JQuery to intercept the click of an asp:Button
11. Silverlight 3 TreeView with Huge Number of Dynamic Tree Items
12. A Glass Orb Button in Silverlight
13. 25 Powerful and Useful jQuery Tutorials for Developers and Designers
14. Resizing images without loss of quality
15. jQuery - Rotating Ad Functionality
16. Make a Mega Drop-Down Menu with jQuery
17. 10 Simple and Impressive Design Techniques

Visual Studio

1. Tip #50: Did you know…How to absolute position the controls in Visual Studio Designer?
2. ReSharper Tip of the Day: Peek at opening brace

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Paving my machine for a fresh 2009 - First-Pass Must-Haves
2. Updates: Autoruns v9.4, BgInfo v4.15, ZoomIt v3.03 | New Mark's Blog post: Pushing the Limits of Windows: Paged and Nonpaged Pool
3. Five resume tips for IT consultants

Links (3/29/2009)

.NET

1. Moving files when the target file name already exists and is read only
2. ExceLINQ – Not Your Typical LINQ Provider
3. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 15 – Entering Break Mode for Exceptions

Web

1. Silverlight: Toolkit Control – TimePicker
2. jQuery Validation and ASP.Net Web Forms
3. 10 Best jQuery Datepickers Plugins
4. Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control CTP – Building a “Hello World!” Sample From Scratch
5. Running Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 on the Same Machine

Visual Studio

1. How to know when lines are a certain length in Visual Studio

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Pragmatic Bookshelf Goes Kindle-Compatible – also iPhone
2. Five Twitter Analytics Tools You Might Find Addictive
3. Estimating front-end development

Links (3/26/2009)

.NET

1. Tip 8 - Writing 'WHERE IN' style queries using LINQ to Entities
2. Using Custom Configuration Section and Configuration Manager class in .NET – 1
3. Using Custom Configuration Section and Configuration Manager class in .NET – 2
4. Announcing Gallio and MbUnit v3.0.6
5. An Extensive Examination of LINQ: The Ins and Outs of Query Operators
6. Twitter API - Submit a post in C#
7. Twitter API - Sending a Direct Message in C#
8. Adobe AIR versus Offline Silverlight
9. One gets you Ten. One DLL, Ten free WCF Debugger Visualizers
10. Refactoring: extract and override factory method
11. Building your own Mail Client using C#

Web

1. What's new on the DataGrid control in Silverlight 3 Beta
2. ASP.NET Tip/Trick: Use a Base Page Class for All Application Pages
3. Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices
4. 10 Best jQuery Plugins - March 2009
5. 8 jQuery Plugins that Utilize Google APIs
6. Silverlight ComboBox control and data binding
7. 30 Awesome Design Enhancing jQuery Plugins
8. Create astonishing iCal-like calendars with jQuery
9. 21 Important FAQ questions for WPF and SilverLight
10. Creating an Ajax Login Form With jQuery
11. 8 JavaScript solutions to common CSS problems
12. Detecting Network Status in Silverlight 3
13. Paging and Sorting ListViews with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery
14. Accordion, part 1
15. How to: Prevent the security dialog about unsecure items in IE – mixed content security prompt
16. JQuery Accessing the Client Generated ID of ASP.NET Controls

Visual Studio

1. Visual Studio Tip: Navigate to File by Typing File Name
2. My Visual Studio Twilight theme

Development/Miscellaneous

1. 16 Design Tools for Prototyping and Wireframing
2. DiffMerge - A Better Differencing Tool
3. 6 Tools for Beginning iPhone Development
4. iDaft: Hours of Fun Making Daft Punk Tunes
5. Creating an Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop VM on VMWare Fusion
6. Increase Firefox Speed and Decrease Firefox Memory Usage +20 Tips
7. Announcing Version 1.1 of CodeBurner: the Reference Tool for Firebug

Links (3/22/2009)

.NET

1. Twitter API - Get a list of your friends in C#
2. Code Snippets to Access Internal Classes and Members
3. Searching for an item in a list

Web

1. .NET Rocks on RIA Services and Business apps in Silverlight
2. Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 Release
3. .NET RIA Services: From Vision to Architecture
4. Silverlight 3: Activity Control
5. Silverlight Toolkit Release
6. The Microsoft Chart Controls
7. Adventures in MVC - Part II - The Model
8. Write a silverlight client to consume WCF service
9. jQuery UI 1.7.1
10. jQuery Memory Leak in UpdatePanel
11. jQuery Link Repository
12. Using Startup Parameters With Silverlight 2
13. Grouping in Silverlight DataGrid
14. SortDescriptions in Silverlight Datagrid

Visual Studio

1. ReSharper 4.5 – Red Bull for VS
2. DocBook 4.5 Intellisense for Visual Studio
3. Intellisense in XSLT

Links (3/19/2009)

.NET

1. Using Extension Methods to Verify Assumptions
2. Take a screenshot
3. Calling the Twitter API in C#

Web

1. ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released!
2. Silverlight 3 Emerges from the Shadows
3. Silverlight 3 Tools Beta Released!
4. Date Formatting with YUI - Part III
5. Fast XmlDocument to XDocument conversion with extension method
6. Partial page refresh with AJAX and JQuery in 3 minutes
7. Simple JQuery Modal Window Tutorial
8. WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern
9. jQuery Disable On Submit Plugin
10. jQuery - Using Slider as a Scrollbar
11. Synchronizing Scrollbars using JQuery
12. Create a Simple CSS + Javascript Tooltip with jQuery
13. A Glass Orb Button in Silverlight
14. 42: JavaScript best practices
15. Full Screen Mode in Silverlight
16. Silverlight/WPF FlipImage Animation
17. Silverlight Slideshow
18. Silverlight: Update on Video Source Code
19. Silverlight Charting is faster and better than ever [Silverlight Toolkit March 09 release now available!]

Visual Studio

1. Get Public Key Token of Strong Named (Signed) Assembly Using VS.NET Tools Menu
2. ReSharper Tip: Manual Code Reordering

Office

1. Information and Resources on VSTO 3.0 and outlook development
2. Office automation with VS 2008
3. OT: OfficeLabs Search Commands for Office 2007
4. Microsoft Excel and Twitter via Smart Tags in a VS 2008 Solution

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Search Multiple Labels in Gmail
2. History of Business Intelligence
3. Updates: Process Monitor v2.04, TCPView v2.54, VMMap v1.02, Testlimit v5.01, and Notmyfault
4. 99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications
5. iPhone 3.0 Adds Copy and Paste, MMS, Search, Notes Sync, and Tons More [IPhone 3.0]
6. Top ten Flex 3 books reviewed

Links (3/15/2009)

.NET

1. Speedy C#, Part 4: Using - and Understanding - CLR Profiler
2. Developing Reusable Controls with the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern

Web

1. New jQuery Plugin - ImageSwitch, amazing effect with simple code
2. What I Do When My jQuery Code Doesn’t Work
3. What I Use for Silverlight Development - Shawn Wildermuth
4. What I Use for Silverlight Development – Pete Brown
5. Modal Window in Silverlight
6. Silverlight Programming Video 1: Hello Silverlight
7. Include Files as Resources in Silverlight 2.0
8. Convert XElement to XmlNode (and Convert XmlNode to XElement)
9. Fast way to convert XmlDocument into XDocument
10. Displaying Today’s Date with XAML
11. Include Files in Application Package in Silverlight 2.0
12. Display action messages after any action performed using JQuery and CSS

Development

1. Make Ice Cream While You Wait For Your Food
2. Plugins! Plugins! Plugins! It must be TimeSnapper 3.4

Links (3/12/2009)

.NET

1. What’s the difference between CONST and READONLY in .Net?
2. Message to the .NET world: Seriously, the UX does matter
3. PolyMon Controls – Free, cool and source available WinForm controls (plus a little about PloyMonRT and PolyMon)
4. What's taking so long? [Diagnosing the startup performance of your .NET application]

Web

1. 3 Quick Steps for a Painless Upgrade to jQuery 1.3
2. jQuery UI Tabs with Next/Previous
3. jQuery Code Documentation Favelet
4. Making a jQuery Plugin Truly Customizable
5. Dear Silverlight, where’s my view source?
6. 8 awesome JQuery tips and tricks
7. JavaScript for C# Programmers: the with Statement Considered Harmful
8. Displaying a progress box during a work in progress using JQuery and CSS
9. TinyTable JavaScript Table Sorter - 2.5KB
10. Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM)
11. Silverlight Spy for Inspecting Applications Displaying a progress box during a work in progress using JQuery and CSS
12. Working with WPF or Silverlight? You need this patch.
13. Silverlight interview questions
14. Twitter Like Flash Message with jQuery.
15. How-To add a custom validation method to the jQuery validator plug-in
16. TemplatePanel (aka MasterPage) for Silverlight
17. The Knowledge Chamber: Silverlight 3.0 for Great Business Apps
18. WCF Support in Silverlight 2
19. J is for.. JSON
20. Dynamic Silverlight controls binding with XML data using LINQ
21. Easy Display Switch with CSS and jQuery

Visual Studio

1. StyleCop update 4.3.1.3 is released
2. Visual Studio Macro for Collapsing All Items in Solution Explorer
3. Visual Studio Macros for Unloading/Reloading Projects
4. VSTO 3.0 Features – What Features For What Office Applications?
5. ReSharper 4.5 -- What Were We Doing?

Development

1. Pure Apple intuitiveness: The new iPod shuffle
2. An Early Glimpse at Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
3. Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V as a Developer Workstation
4. How to be a program manager
5. Balsamiq Mockups
6. Using Balsamiq to Help Stakeholders quickly visualise a problem
7. Laptop Backpack
8. How to Give a Good Demo?
9. How to highlight code on your blog
10. Can a consultant be of use in one day?

Links (3/8/2009)

.NET

1. .Net Developer Survey – Results
2. Some Extension Methods for working with the ADO.NET Entity Framework
3. Microsoft .Net 3.5 Charting Control

Web

1. Specialized Layout Panels for Silverlight
2. Easy Tooltip - jQuery plugin
3. Developing a basic plugin for jQuery: FlipClock
4. No-Compile Web User Controls
5. 5 IIS 7 Features Every Web Developer Should Know
6. ASP.NET Page Events Lifecycle – including master pages
7. Firefox Add-On: ColorZilla
8. DataTables (table plug-in for jQuery)
9. Silverlight ListBox Part II (Drag and drop in the same listbox and scroll)
10. 3 Quick Steps for a Painless Upgrade to jQuery 1.3
11. jQuery listmenu plugin
12. Live Email Validation with jQuery and RegExp
13. jQuery UI 1.7
14. What You Must Know About jQuery UI 1.7
15. Avoiding three common pain points for XML and Web services
16. Silverlight Deep Zoom and Office Add-ins

Visual Studio

1. Fix: Slow Debugging In Visual Studio
2. Cycle through Clipboard when using Visual Studio Editor

Development

1. PowerPoint 2007 Demo: Change the color of hyperlink
2. Configuring a Development Sandbox for the Azure CTP
3. PortableApps.com Platform v1.5 Released (with v2 coming in a few weeks) – Your App world is just a thumbdrive away…
4. Need Cross-Platform Device Note Taking App?
5. The Cost of Test Driven Development
6. Nice post listing several annoying habits some conference presenters have
7. More Hints and Tips for Your iPhone

Links (3/4/2009)

.NET

1. Default Values and Smarter Property Assessors
2. Understanding Garbage Collection in Microsoft.NET
3. 7 Steps to Write Your Own Custom Rule using FXCOP

Web

1. Silverlight 101: Make a GET request and a POST request.
2. Animated Ajax Record Deletion Using jQuery
3. jQuery Plugin for Requesting Ajax-like File Downloads
4. Build Your Own DataGrid for Silverlight: Step 1
5. 40 Useful JavaScript Libraries
6. How to "template" the Silverlight Calendar to behave like the Vista system calendar [Jason Cooke]
7. 43,439 reasons to use append() correctly
8. Flash v Silverlight Gallery
9. JQuery Slideshow Album
10. Right-Clicking in Silverlight 2 -- A Refinement
11. Use jQuery to catch and display ASP.NET AJAX service errors
12. Silverlight Drag Drop Manager on Codeplex

Miscellaneous

1. Updates: Sigcheck v1.6, Strings v2.41, VMMap v1.01
2. Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects
3. Enhancing Your Ubuntu Server
4. 50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials For Designers and Developers
5. 10 Tips for Working With Clients Remotely: Part 1
6. RSS +Twitter + Facebook + Flickr sur votre bureau
7. Create Dynamic Charts in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Beyond

Links (3/1/2009)

.NET

1. Check for Internet Connectivity

Web

1. Programming Windows Azure – Slides and Samples
2. Windows 7 Look-alike Taskbar Button Control in Silverlight – includes source
3. Slider Control in Silverlight
4. JSONView - View JSON documents in Firefox
5. Beginners Guide to jQuery UI - Part 2 – Widgets
6. 240 plugins jQuery
7. Silverlight Controls Accelerate Building of Rich Intelligence Applications
8. JavaScript Best Practices
9. Scatter Chart in Silverlight
10. Line Chart in Silverlight
11. Object Oriented CSS
12. 6 jQuery Chart Plugins For Your App
13. MIX09 Session comparing Flash to Silverlight

Visual Studio

1. Tip: Invoking Blend from Visual Studio
2. DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode_ForRealz [How to: Reliably detect Silverlight design mode in Blend and Visual Studio]

Development

1. How do I learn Flex?
2. 10 Papers Every Software Architect Should Read (At Least Twice)
3. Canvas for OneNote

Links (2/26/2009)

.NET

1. SharpDevelop 3.0: everything .NET from Boo to F#
2. ForEach or not ForEach, that is the question
3. Fun with Empty String.

Web

1. 23 amazing JQuery Photo/Gallery Plugins
2. Introducing SilverUnit
3. Hands-On Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) for Silverlight and WPF
4. Silverlight: Better Navigation
5. Simple jQuery Dropdowns
6. Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2
7. Essential Web-Based tools for JavaScript Developers
8. Beginners Guide to jQuery UI - Part 1
9. Pie Chart in Silverlight
10. Animating Partial Postbacks and UpdatePanels with jQuery
11. 5 CSS3 Techniques For Major Browsers using the Power of jQuery

Visual Studio

1. Seamless test authoring with ReSharper and AutoHotKey
2. Visual Studio 2010 UI Revealed
3. The return of CopySourceAsHtml
4. Silverlight WCF Service Reference Usage Simplified
5. Flash versus Silverlight: Do you really want to be stuck using only one language in your game?

Development

1. Windows 7 Shortcuts
2. Call of Duty: WaW ‘Makin’ map (Free)
3. Twitter should buy Mr. Tweet
4. Outlook 2007 - "Inline" Communicator
5. A Flex / Flash guy learning more about Java
6. How To Build An iPhone App: A Guide
7. How to Get a Job at Microsoft Part II: Writing an Awesome Resume

Links (2/22/2009)

.NET

1. .NET 4.0 – System.Shell.CommandLine Parsing – Part 1
2. .NET Framework 3.5 Namespace Poster

Web

1. Using Enums in List Controls
2. Ultimate Collection of 40+ jQuery Tutorials and Resources
3. Creating Shopping Cart UI using JQuery in an Hour
4. Implementing Prototype’s Array Methods in jQuery
5. 10 Quick Win jQuery Plugins for your development
6. jQuery 1.3.2 Released
7. Flex vs. Silverlight: The Elephant in the Room

Visual Studio

1. Visual Studio 2008: Track Active Item in Solution Explorer

Development

1. An Introduction to Java GUI Programming
2. 5 iPhone Apps Published in 30 Days - Read the Story on How
3. Web Developing in Linux
4. Getting Hotmail messages in GMail
5. Second Shot with Career Assist from Microsoft – Training and Certification assistance for you

Links (2/19/2009)

.NET

1. A C# Backgroundworker example
2. MonoDevelop 2.0 Beta 1

Web

1. jQuery UI Accordion Widget - Part 1
2. Composite Guidance for Silverlight and WPF (aka Prism V2)Released!
3. Silverlight update for developers
4. Things you may not know about jQuery
5. Learning jQuery
6. Silverlight for Flash Developers Talk
7. jQuery: make all external link open in new window
8. jQuery BeautyTips Plugin 0.9 Release
9. YUI 2.7.0 Released
10. XPath Query
11. Polymorphism with JavaScript
12. Develop iPhone Applications by Learning Silverlight?
13. A collection of 14 Excellent JavaScript Date Pickers
14. How to refer a XSLT file in a XML Dcoment
15. 25 jQuery Plugins for Navigation
16. 5 Ways to Instantly Write Better CSS
17. jQuery Fun: Greeting Your Site Referrals
18. Encrypting Query Strings
19. JetBrains RubyMine provides navigation and refactoring for JavaScript
20. Review: The best JavaScript book I’ve read
21. Putting the Silverlight Layout System to Work

Visual Studio

1. StyleCop for ReSharper is Feature Complete. RC (refresh) Released.

Development

1. Wanna get 40% off Microsoft exams? Here’s a deal
2. Application logging – yes it is important
3. FortuneMag: How Facebook is taking over our lives
4. The most useful feature of Remote Desktop I never knew about
5. Windows 7 Native VHD Support

Links (2/15/2009)

.NET

1. Hanselminutes Podcast 149 - Deconstructing "blu" - a new WPF Twitter client from thirteen23

Web

1. Silverlight: The Layout Model
2. ASP.NET ListView: Displaying Hierarchical Data
3. Posting data to a REST service using C#
4. jQuery Ajax Tooltip
5. Identifying Memory Leak With Process Explorer And Windbg

Visual Studio

1. Visual Studio 2008 Debugging Tricks – Advanced Breakpoints
2. Visual Studio 2008 Debugging Tricks – Multi-Threaded Debugging
3. Visual Studio 2008 Debugging Tricks – Tracepoints
4. Visual Studio 2008 Debugging – Advanced Tricks
5. Visual Studio 2008 Debugging – The Watch Window

Development

1. iPhone SDK -- What a Demo!!

Links (2/12/2009)

.NET

1. Null Object design pattern instead of returning null
2. More LINQ Optimizations
3. Hanselman List of Podcasts for .NET Programmers
4. LINQ: Grabbing a single element

Web

1. jQuery: How to tell if an element exists
2. Moonlight 1.0 Release
3. Extension Methods Part 2 – Lambda Expressions in Linq
4. Drag and Drop in Silverlight 2
5. Silverlight Cream for February 09, 2009 -- #512
6. SharePoint SilverView 1.0 released to the web!
7. Using Data in Silverlight 2 Applications - II
8. Moonlight 1.0 Release - Open Source Silverlight 1.0 Implementation on Linux
9. Three Essential Expression Blend Add-ins
10. How to use Silverlight controls in ASP.Net Grid
11. Looking for a list of Silverlight & WPF controls?
12. Using jQuery to Style Design Elements: 20 Impressive Plugins
13. DOM Manipulation with jQuery
14. Talking to a WCF Service From Silverlight
15. 10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites
16. Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 11
17. jQuery Sequential List
18. Write object oriented code in Javascript
19. Create a jQuery Popup Bubble
20. 5 easy tips on how to improve code performance with huge data sets in jQuery
21. 50 Extremely Useful JavaScript Tools
22. 7 Vertical Menus With jQuery Effects
23. Finding parent elements with jQuery 1.3

Visual Studio

1. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend- Intro – Lesson 1
2. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 2 – Breakpoints in SubExpressions
3. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 3 – BreakPoint HitCount
4. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 4 – Debugging Threads
5. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 5 – Using TracePoints
6. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 6 – Watch and Immediate Windows – Advanced Techniques
7. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 7 – Advanced Techniques – Using Object ID
8. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 8 – The Garbage Collector - GC
9. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 9 – The Set Next Statement
10. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 10 – Debugging Threads
11. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 11 – SQL Server Stored Procedures
12. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 12 – Debugging Javascript In Web Pages
13. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 13 – Debugging VBScript

Development

1. A new way of using OneNote to keep myself from looking silly
2. Microsoft - Are you certifiable?
3. Welcome Back Delphi
4. ZoomIt v3.02 is out
5. Flowchart Converter for Visio 2007

Links (2/8/2009)

.NET

1. Introduction to Enterprise Library: Part VI

Web

1. ASP.Net Ajax payload size compared to jQuery
2. New Tutorial: DataGrid Binding via Data Entities & WCF
3. Source Code for Creating a Silverlight 2 Data Form Released
4. Background: Extension Methods, Silverlight & Linq
5. Slide Elements in Different Directions
6. Debug localhost with Fiddler 2
7. My new home page, expanded [Updated collection of great Silverlight Charting resources!]
8. Minifying HTML and JavaScript Using Microsoft Expression Web - Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Visual Studio

1. VsDoc for jQuery 1.3.1 now available

My SharePoint Blog

Development

1. Announcing the Windows® Image to Virtual Hard Disk Converter (WIM2VHD)
2. Updates: Process Explorer v11.33, Autoruns v9.39, ZoomIt v3.02
3. Mounting VHDs with Windows 7
4. Windows 7 Audio Issues on Lenovo T61p

Links (2/5/2009)

.NET

1. E is for… Extension Method
2. Properties vs. Attributes

Web

1. A Silverlight 2 Ad Rotator
2. The Expander – Part 2
3. Infragistics Gives Us Quince - The User Experience Patterns Explorer
4. Advanced Debugging with JavaScript
5. 15 jQuery Plugins to Fix and Beautify Browser Issues
6. ASP.NET Control Toolkit – JQuery Equivalents
7. JavaScript Syntax Verifier
8. The DefaultButton Property - News To Me!
9. Why should I include all my CSS files before jQuery?
10. How to reduce the size of JavaScript & CSS file?
11. Event Bubbling in Javascript
12. Why Silverlight is the future – one of my goals this year is to become proficient in Silverlight
13. Ajax Quick Start FAQ
14. Firefox 3.0.6 fixes 69 bugs, some critical
15. 50 Beautiful And User-Friendly Navigation Menus
16. Silverlight 2 Data Form - Episode 8: Client Storage
17. Reading Text Files using OpenFileDialog in Silverlight
18. Using Data in Silverlight 2 Applications – I
19. REST Fundamentals

Visual Studio

1. MBUnit Plugin for ReSharper

Development

1. Technical Presentations: Be Prepared for Absolute Chaos
2. Windows 7 Product Lines Announced
3. 8 Useful Tips To Become Successful With Twitter
4. Replacing Notepad with Notepad2 on Windows 2003
5. Windows Update Restart Nag
6. Twitter Top 100 for Software Developers
7. How To Twitter - First Steps and a Twitter Glossary