Links (12/20/2009)

.NET

1. Array.ForEach method
2. C# Delegates, Anonymous Methods, and Lambda Expressions – O My!
3. My MonoTouch ebook is out - Build iPhone apps with C# and run on the iPhone
4. Effectus: Building UI based on conventions

Web

1. Moving your ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure – Part II
2. What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS
3. Learning jQuery: Optimize Using Modal Window or Dialog Box in JQuery UI
4. appendTo Brings jQuery Curriculum to the Enterprise
5. Tip#100: Did you know… How to view ASP.NET trace information?
6. SmtpClient and Locked File Attachments

Visual Studio

1. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Update

Development/Miscellaneous

1. XBoxGames Databases for SQL Server 2005 and 2008
2. My Bloggers of The Year 2009 

Links (12/17/2009)

Web

1. 20 Best jQuery Tips and Tricks Collection
2. JavaScript Part 1 - hello JavaScript!
3. JavaScript Part 2 - The Free Stuff
4. JavaScript Part 3 - Prototype Based Language
5. JavaScript Part 4 - the "this" operator
6. soapUI 3.5 beta1 - The Protocol Release
7. Using setTimeout to Delay Showing Event-Delegation Tooltips
8. Binding Multiple Events to Reduce Redundancy with Event-Delegation Tooltips
9. 50+ jQuery Plugins for Form Enhancements
10. How to parse JSON from C#
11. Feature List jQuery Plugin
12. 10 CSS Snippets to Save Precious Time
13. A free standing ASP.NET Pager Web Control

Development/Miscellaneous

1. “Everything You Need to Know About Azure as a Developer” 18 part course on msdev.com updated to include four new Windows Azure AppFabric sessions

SharePoint Links

Silverlight Links

Links (12/13/2009)

Web

1. Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Techniques and Resources
2. Use Less to reduce CSS clutter!

Visual Studio

1. VS2010 Menu Text Looks Corrupt Under VMWare Workstation 7
2. PaulStovell.com Visual Studio Colour Scheme – Will check this out. I have been bored with black as well.

Development/Miscellaneous

1. How to Keep Your Skills Current as a Developer
2. Top 15+ Best Practices for Writing Super Readable Code
3. VMWare Memory Issue
4. Bored with you standard presentation slides?
5. VirtualBox Live Show – What’s New in VirtualBox 3.1

Silverlight Links

SharePoint Links

Links (12/10/2009)

.NET

1. Coming soon: Jeffrey Richter’s CLR via C#, Third Edition
2. Demystifying LINQ Aggregates
3. C# Code to send an email
4. LINQ query operators and null lists
5. Query transformations are syntactic
6. Free (reg-ware) PowerShell v1 eBook (593 pages) – “SAPIEN’s Windows Powershell V1.0: TFM”
7. More On The Death of If-Else
8. A LINQ Tutorial: Adding/Updating/Deleting Data

Web

1. What’s New in YUI Test 3.0.0
2. Why Flash Might Not Be Good For Your Website
3. JSON versus XML: Your Choice Matters More Than You Think
4. Beautiful Slide Out Navigation Revised
5. Making a Fresh Content Accordion
6. 23 Best jQuery Facebook Style Plugins

Development/Miscellaneous

1. First Steps to Downloading the Azure SDK
2. Deploying Azure apps in 1000 words or less
3. Absolute Step 1 for getting started with Azure
4. Balsamiq: Android Controls
5. Writing User Friendly Content
6. Speed Tracer - a tool for Chrome to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications

SharePoint 2007/2010 Links

Silverlight 3/4 Links

Links (12/6/2009)

.NET

1. Differences between using the ‘Convert’ class vs. casting (Part 2 of 2)
2. Better than Contains()

Web

1. CSS and jQuery Tutorial: Overlay with Slide Out Box
2. 15 amazing jquery tabs tutorials

Visual Studio

1. Most Amazing ReFactor Using ReSharper EAP 5.0 I’ve Seen!
2. ReSharper is amazing, take N

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Azure Start Guide – Step by Step Installation Guide
2. Google Voice Videos
3. Dan Bricklin's Note Taker for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch

Silverlight Links

SharePoint Links

Links (12/3/2009)

.NET

1. LINQ Part 1 – LINQ for XML

Web

1. Pushing Your Buttons With Practical CSS3
2. Simple Tooltip for Huge Number of Elements
3. Beautiful Slide Out Navigation: A CSS and jQuery Tutorial
4. 15 Handpicked Fresh and Useful jQuery Tutorials
5. 35 Most Wanted Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers and Designers
6. Google boosts Chrome dev tools

Visual Studio

1. LINQ to Visual Studio Solution
2. 131 jQuery Snippets for Visual Studio 2010

Development/Miscellaneous

1. VirtualBox 3.1 Killer Features
2. Updates: VMMap v2.5, Disk2vhd v1.4; Sigcheck v1.63; Autoruns v9.57; PsExec v1.97; PsKill v1.13 and a new Mark's Windows Internals Session video from PDC 2009
3. Balsamiq: Google Maps Mockup
4. Azure Benefits for MSDN Subscribers
5. Setting Notepad++ to work with the C# compiler
6. Review: Zeo Personal Sleep Coach 

Links (11/29/2009)

.NET

1. Flexible Enumerations
2. Sample: Get Calendar Data Using Exchange Web Services (C#)
3. Windows 7 Ribbon for WinForms – Yes you can…

Web

1. Paging Records Sucks – Use jQuery to Scroll Just In Time
2. 4 Amazing JQuery tables
3. In-Place-Edit with jQuery
4. Emulate ASP.NET validation groups with jQuery validation
5. jQSlickWrap: Slick Text Wrapping With jQuery
6. jQuery Selector Testing Tool
7. Live Preview with jQuery
8. Rich Tooltips With jQuery

Visual Studio

1. Dynamic objects and ReSharper

Development/Miscellaneous

1. SQL SERVER – Azure Start Guide – Step by Step Installation Guide
2. How To Host Your Site and Content On Azure Quickly and Easily
3. Getting Started with SQL Azure 1
4. The Future of Interface Design
5. 21 Prototyping, Mockup, and Wireframing Tools for iPhone App Development
6. Screenshots: Amazon Kindle 2 gets Better Battery Life and Native PDF Support
7. The Cool Utility of the Day: TouchFreeze (Automatic disable/enable of your touchpad when typing, or not)
8. Bing Wallpaper Downloader for iPhone 

Links (11/22/2009)

Web

1. Fiddler – How to mimic a specific browser version request?
2. How to troubleshoot slow Page Rendering in ASP.NET?
3. Designing CSS Buttons: Techniques and Resources
4. Create astonishing iCal-like calendars using jQuery
5. Text Effects In jQuery

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Internet Explorer 8 and InPrivate Filtering
2. Videos of the Windows Azure Sessions at PDC09
3. Learn Something New Every Day
4. Download Google Chrome OS (Virtual Machine) Image 

Links (11/19/2009)

.NET

1. Creating a comma separated list from IEnumerable … again

Web

1. Tooltip and Image Preview Using jQuery
2. 10 Javascript & CSS TreeView and Sitemap Plugins and Tutorials
3. 8 Useful jQuery Calendar, Date Picker and Time Formatting Plugins that You Should Know
4. Designing CSS Buttons: Techniques and Resources
5. jPaginate: A Fancy jQuery Pagination Plugin
6. CSS Box Model: The Foundation For Improving Your CSS
7. First public drop for Web Client Guidance Available on Codeplex
8. Create an attractive loading panel in jQuery

Visual Studio

1. HTML 5 support in VS 2008

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Google Chrome OS – astonishing
2. "Cloud Cloud Cloud, if you're not in it, you're out!"... or something
3. Always write a spec, part one
4. Windows 7 Tip and Tricks - A Must Read!
5. UX Design Tools & Techniques
6. Designing Social Interfaces: Overview and Practical Techniques
7. Building Applications for Windows Azure
8. 3 Short Videos - Introduction to Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
9. New Xbox 360 features now available (Twitter, Facebook, Zune Video and Last.FM)
10. 10 Free Server & Network Monitoring Tools that Kick Ass
11. My Overheating IBM ThinkPad T60p Laptop 

Links (11/15/2009)

.NET

1. Useful Query Editor Query - 1

Web

1. 55 Decisive Useful jQuery Tutorials
2. Microsoft Visual Round Trip Analyzer

Visual Studio

1. Using Telerik OpenAccess with Visual Studio 2010 Beta2

Development/Miscellaneous

1. iPhone Apps Design Mistakes: Disregard Of Context
2. Windows Azure Software Development Kit (November 2009)
3. Free and no Azure token required - PDC Windows Azure walk-through, Step-by-step ‘hello world’
4. Connect to VMWare virtual machines using Remote Desktop
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 

Links (11/12/2009)

.NET

1. PowerPivot Jump Start!
2. Post #7 – Serializing Dictionary to/from XML
3. The Best Culture Invariant Format for DateTime

Web

1. Live demo: animated countdowns with Flash and jQuery
2. Create MouseOver switchable tabs using JQuery
3. CSS: Imageless but Cool, JavaScript and jQuery Free, Well-Designed with Tooltip Pager, Pagination, Paging or Whatever You Say
4. 15 jQuery Navigation Solutions And Tutorials
5. More jQuery and General JavaScript Tips to Improve Your Code
6. jQuery and screen manipulation flickering
7. $.fadeTo/fadeOut() operations on Table Rows in IE fail

Development/Miscellaneous

1. The Windows 7 Netbook Experience
2. Dependency Injection 101
3. AdventureWorks 2008R2 November CTP is now live on CodePlex!
4. A great and detailed OneNote planning template 

Links (11/8/2009)

.NET

1. Casting lists using LINQ #2
2. C# 4.0 new features: Named and Optional arguments
3. Jumping the trampoline in C# – Stack-friendly recursion

Web

1. Creating an iCal like Calendar with jQuery
2. Firefox Add-On: MeasureIt

Visual Studio

1. Neat VS10 Feature: Pinning A Debugger Watch

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Paint.NET 3.5 (Final) now available
2. UML Tutorial
3. Best Open Source UML tools
4. Upgrading your OS or maybe moving to a new PC? Don’t have your device driver disks? Double Driver to the rescue! 

Links (11/5/2009)

.NET

1. Introducing Debugging for MonoTouch
2. Memory leaks and profiling with .Net
3. Use Extension Methods to Phase Out a Bad API
4. CRUD operations using LINQ
5. Now Available: patterns & practices Application Architecture Book

Web

1. 8 jQuery Optimization Tips and Tricks
2. Amazing jQuery Hover Effects
3. How-to make JavaScript slideshow with JQuery

Visual Studio

1. This is the time to get your MSDN Premium

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Breadcrumb Navigation Examined: Best Practices & Examples
2. Balsamiq: BrowserCMS Template
3. Balsamiq: Acrobat Reader PDF Browser Plugin
4. Updates: Disk2vhd v1.3, Sigcheck v1.61, Process Monitor v2.8, LiveKd v3.12 and a new Mark's blog post
5. Windows 7 USB Tool
6. Xbox 360 Games on Demand: Battlefield 2: MC and Far Cry 2
7. Top 10 programming fonts
8. Asus Eee PC BIOS woes with Windows 7
9. Asus Eee PC BIOS joys with Windows 7 

Links (11/1/2009)

Web

1. jQuery UI Dialog: Part 2 – The Modal Dialog
2. Constraining Tables with CSS
3. Calling asp.net webservice from JQuery
4. jQuery and ASP.NET Controls ebook
5. jStickyNote

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Release: VMware Workstation 7.0 / Player 3.0 / ACE 2.6
2. A BI Star is Born: PowerPivot Will Receive Immediate Multi-Vendor Support 

Links (10/29/2009)

.NET

1. .NET RIA Services Overview
2. WPF 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

Web

1. Rounded Corners in Internet Explorer
2. Hello Windows Azure
3. Verify JavaScript syntax using C#
4. Building jQuery Tabs That Open & Close
5. 5 jQuery Plugins to Manipulate and add effects to Images
6. 100 Ajax And JavaScript Techniques
7. ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Tips: Provide immediate feedback to the browser on Long Running Tasks – in Asynchronous ASP.NET pages
8. 30 Amazing jQuery Plugins To Play With Tables
9. Modern CSS Layouts: The Essential Characteristics
10. 111 CSS Gallery To Submit Your Design
11. DataNavigateUrlFormatString Does Not Allow "javascript:"
12. jquery ui dialog: Part 1 – The Default Dialog

Visual Studio

1. Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
2. Spec Explorer: A Model-Based Testing tool
3. XAML Power Toys Released for Visual Studio 2010
4. ReSharper Discount and Free Upgrade to ReSharper 5
5. ReSharper 5 -- Less Shifting Means More Speed

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Updates: Disk2vhd v1.21
2. 31 Days of Refactoring
3. WOHOO!!!, Debug Diag 64bit is finally released 

Links (10/25/2009)

Web

1. Rich Tooltips With jQuery
2. Kwicks for jQuery – Horizontal Animated Menu
3. Live Preview with jQuery
4. Best jQuery iPhone Style Plugins
5. Parsing JSON in JavaScript
6. The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Design and Converting it to HTML and CSS
7. 14 jQuery Plugins for Enhanced Content Viewing

Visual Studio

1. VS 2010 Code Intellisense Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Balsamiq: Boogle Wabe
2. Updates: Disk2vhd v1.2 

Links (10/22/2009)

.NET

1. Community Convergence LVI

Web

1. JavaScript Copy to Clipboard with ZeroClipboard
2. jQuery Floating Header Plugin v1.1.0
3. The Mystery Of The CSS Float Property

Visual Studio

1. Searching and Navigating Code in VS 2010 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
2. ReSharper 5.0 Overview
3. VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 2
4. Fixing the Visual Studio Add Reference Dialog – Quickly add a Project Reference
5. Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2
6. Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Silverlight updates
7. No JavaScript IntelliSense in VS 2010 Beta 2? Reset your Settings
8. Using Visual Studio 2010 for Silverlight development

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Updates: Disk2vhd v1.1, ZoomIt v4.1, Coreinfo v2.0, VMMap v2.4
2. Tool: Disk2VHD
3. Installing Windows 7 on a netbook just got simple - Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool 

Links (10/18/2009)

Web

1. jQuery Selectors
2. Using jQuery To Create Stunning Tooltips in your ASP.NET Applications
3. 10 Fresh jQuery Tutorials to Enhance Navigation Menus
4. 26 jQuery Plugins for Superb Navigation
5. Learning Flex – Working with Web Services
6. Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6) and the Microsoft Ajax Minifier
7. ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Scripts Available on Microsoft CDN
8. Creating Beautiful Dialogs Using JQuery UI

Visual Studio

1. ReSharper | Surround With
2. One step toward becoming a Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcut Ninja – ShortcutVisualizer Visual Studio Addin

Development/Miscellaneous

1. 2 Coolest Things: Boot to VHD, and TFS Basic
2. Booting Windows 7 or 2008 from a vhd on a USB drive
3. Setting Beautiful Bing Pictures as your Windows 7 Background 

Links (10/15/2009)

.NET

1. The Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Is Here!
2. How to iterate over contained controls to set a common event handler (Click) in .NET
3. PowerCommands for Reflector 1.3 and Introducing Query Editor
4. LINQ To SQL Tips & Tricks: String Operations
5. Tip 37 – How to do a Conditional Include

Web

1. jQuery Lessons Series: How to Interact with HTML Forms
2. jQuery Fixed Table Header Plugin
3. A generic way to find ASP.NET ClientIDs with jQuery
4. Prevent Cut, Copy and Paste Operations in an ASP.NET TextBox using jQuery
5. Flex Vs Ajax Vs Silverlight
6. jQuery Animate - Advanced
7. CSS Differences in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8
8. Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices
9. Creating a scrollable list that scrolls when dragged with jQuery
10. 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without
11. Week Calendar using Jquery
12. Zooming with jQuery and CSS.
13. Asynchronously sending a System.Net.Mail.MailMessage in C#

Visual Studio

1. Using ReSharper with RIA Services

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Microsoft SharedView 1.0 RTM/RTW
2. Balsamiq: Resizeable calendar
3. Hello FTC Regulation... – blogging regulations
4. How to Install Windows 7 from USB Drive
5. Updates: Autoruns v9.56
6. Online iPhone application designer - iPhoneSeattle.com
7. Google Voice vs. The World

Links (10/11/2009)

.NET

1. A Feed You Should Read #7 – A Continuous Learner’s Weblog, Links – Thanks Greg
2. Model View Presenter via .NET

Web

1. 51 jQuery with ASP.NET Controls Recipes
2. Curtain opener animation using jQuery
3. The Simple, Quick, and Small jQuery HTML Form Validation Solution
4. jQuery - easyTicker plugin
5. 78 jQuery Scenarios to Fall in Love
6. Webcast: Running an ASP.NET MVC Web Application in Windows Azure

Visual Studio

1. Top Ten Free Extensions for Visual Studio 2008
2. Resharper 5.0 - Bookmarks

Development/Miscellaneous

1. A Google Wave Guide For Dummies
2. iPhone App Design Trends
3. ReadyBoost Changes in Windows 7
4. Balsamiq: Mouse Pointers 

Links (10/8/2009)

.NET

1. Looping in an enum type
2. Private Extension Methods
3. Using LET in LINQ with extension method syntax

Web

1. Beautiful and Simple CSS Button Styling
2. Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started
3. Disappearing “Scroll to top” link with jQuery and CSS
4. jQueryPad
5. Event handling in JavaScript
6. jQuery Performance Rules
7. CSS3 Styled jQuery Dropdown
8. How to disable an ASP.NET button when clicked
9. Creating a Filtering User Interface With jQuery In a Web Forms Application: Part 1

Visual Studio

1. How to Comment-Uncomment Code Selection in Style Sheets - (or How to fix Visual Studio's broken implementation)

Development/Miscellaneous

1. VMware Workstation 7.0 / Player 3.0 / ACE 2.6 reach Release Candidate status
2. Good Developers Write Good Code, Instinctively
3. SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … what’s the point? (Posts Links)
4. Minimizing Complexity In User Interfaces
5. Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) Troubleshooting for Dummies (like me)
6. 17 useful Google Chrome Extensions
7. New Tool: Disk2vhd v1.0
8. Hilarious and Crazy Signage, Part 13

Check out my SharePoint and Silverlight blog

Links (10/4/2009)

.NET

1. LINQ to SQL Paging Gotcha
2. Attaching an Event Handler
3. Enum with String Value
4. String interning and String.Empty

Web

1. Convert a Relative Path to Absolute Path with jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX
2. 263 CSS properties
3. Ellipsis on list item body using jQuery
4. 40+ Desert Island Web Development Tools
5. Calculating Browser Client Height
6. 35+ Create Amazing Image Effects and Sliders with These Awesome jQuery Plugins
7. CSS Order Priority Tips and Tricks
8. 14 Best Collection Of jQuery Web Interface Design Plugins and Tutorials
9. 15+ Blogs To Follow For jQuery Lovers
10. Object-Oriented CSS: What, How, and Why
11. The Only Ten Things You Need To Know About CSS
12. YUI 3.0.0: First GA Release of YUI’s Next-Generation Codeline
13. Sliding Top Menu With jQuery
14. Best Collection Of jQuery Application Design Tutorials
15. 23 excellent CSS Button Styling Tutorials
16. Search Results Design: Best Practices and Design Patterns
17. jQuery Tools: The missing UI library for the Web
18. PROBLEM: CSS Styles No Longer Apply For Anonymous Users
19. jQuery's Filter() Method Can Take A Callback Function For Advanced Filtering
20. 30 Gorgeous Horizontal Menus for Inspiration
21. Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Resource for setting up Windows Server 2008 as a Workstation
2. Updates: LiveKd v3.1, BgInfo v4.16, ProcDump v1.6, Autoruns v9.55 | New Marks Blog Post: Pushing the Limits of Windows: Handles | New video: Mark Talks About Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 at Intel Developer Forum
3. Balsamiq: Faceted Search Box
4. Restrict Your RAM
5. Left 4 Dead Crash Course Add-On Lands on Xbox LIVE

Links (9/27/2009)

.NET

1. Implementing a LINQ version of SQL’s LIKE Operator
2. Reading and Writing data using custom methods and the System.Xml Namespace

Web

1. Installing the Windows Azure Tools using the Web Platform Installer
2. Web Application Toolkits Available
3. Ways to pass security credentials to web service call
4. Introducing WebsiteSpark
5. The best CSS Editors
6. 15 Attractive Javascript Carousel Plugins
7. 3D Sphere Using jQuery
8. Open-Source JavaScript CoverFlow
9. 37 More Shocking jQuery Plugins
10. Improve your jQuery – 25 excellent tips

Development/Miscellaneous

1. The Duct Tape Programmer
2. Debunking the duct tape programmer

Links (9/24/2009)

.NET

1. Logging with log4net
2. Becoming really rich with C#
3. What's in Your Collection? Part 3 of 3: Custom Collections

Web

1. Announcing the WebsiteSpark Program
2. MultiBrowser or CrossBrowser Testing and deconstructing Microsoft Expression Web SuperPreview
3. Animated Ajax Delete : jQuery
4. 40+ Techniques of JavaScript for Professional UI
5. 22 Excellent Examples of Advanced jQuery UI’s in action
6. jQuery Tabs and Lazy Loading
7. Clean and Attractive jQuery Vertical Menu Tutorial
8. Automatically cache results from JavaScript functions
9. CSS Snippets That Can Come Handy
10. Working with Events, Part 3: More Event Delegation with jQuery
11. iPhone Click Effect Using MooTools or jQuery
12. Using Microsoft's Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Sorting and Filtering Chart Data
13. Guide to CSS Font Stacks: Techniques and Resources
14. jQuery TOOLS - The missing UI library for the Web

Development/Miscellaneous

1. 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines
2. Back-to-School With 40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
3. Balsamiq: Rich Internet Application Sample
4. Balsamiq: Rich Internet Application Sample #2
5. Balsamiq: Phone Samples
6. Windows Workstation 2008 R2: An even better OS for a laptop
7. Recovering files from blue screened Windows XP 

Links (9/21/2009)

.NET

1. Gallio 3.1 is here
2. Hacking LINQ Expressions: Join With Comparer

Web

1. How to implement a perfect multi-level navigation bar
2. Updated: See how I used Firebug to learn jQuery
3. CSS dropdown menu without javascripting or hacks
4. Create Simplest Accordion Menu using jQuery
5. Tab Navigation with Smooth Horizontal Sliding Using jQuery
6. jQuery: The JavaScript Library of the Future
7. Digging Into The FireQuery Add-on for jQuery
8. jQuery disable button intercepts Request Object

Development/Miscellaneous

1. The 23 Gang of Four Design Patterns .. Revisited
2. Updates: Process Monitor v2.7, ProcDump v1.5, VMMap v2.3, Autoruns v9.54 

Links (9/17/2009)

.NET

1. Embedding .Net controls to NotifyIcon Balloon Tooltip.
2. Date Handling Tip Part 2: Get the Month Name as Extension Method
3. How do I inform one form that data in another form got changed?
4. How to simulate IN Clause in LINQ queries
5. Using LINQ to query object hierarchies
6. Hacking LINQ Expressions: Select With Index
7. iPhone Gets .Net App Development

Web

1. Seven jQuery Plugins That Let You Do Cool Stuff With Images
2. Making JavaScript APIs Easier to Use
3. Announcing the Microsoft AJAX CDN
4. The Z-Index CSS Property: A Comprehensive Look
5. JQuery AutoComplete extraParams and CheckBoxes
6. New Version of Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer Available

Development/Miscellaneous

1. How To Find Time For… Everything!
2. You’re a little company, now act like one

Links (9/14/2009)

.NET

1. Testing to see if a record Exists in LINQ to SQL
2. NHibernate Profiler v1.0 Released
3. Taming Your Sequence’s Side-Effects Through IEnumerable.Let
4. Simplifying LazyLinq
5. Announcing Gallio and MbUnit v3.1!

Web

1. 15 jQuery Plugins to Fix and Beautify Browser Issues
2. jQuery Tips and Tricks Part 2
3. YUI 2.8.0: Storage Utility, ProgressBar Control, Swf and SwfStore Utilities
4. jQuery UI Datepicker and z-Index
5. Implementing a jQuery-Calendar ASP.NET Control
6. jQuery Tabbed Interface / Tabbed Structure Menu Tutorial
7. Create a Tooltip in CSS without JavaScript
8. How to save information about DataSet into the XML when serializing it with WriteXML()
9. Rounded corners and dog ears

Visual Studio

1. Build your .NET project with a right click in Windows Explorer
2. Mini-Review of Code Rush

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Online Plagiarism and what you can do about it
2. Google Chrome 4 Extensions: How To Create – Twitter Client [Download] [Tutorial]

Links (9/10/2009)

.NET

1. Memories - Running db4o in-memory revisited
2. Set Difference Minus Operation with LINQ in C#
3. MonoDevelop 2.2 Beta 1: We go cross platform.

Web

1. Shrinkr - Url Shrinking Service Developed with Entity Framework 4.0, Unity, ASP.NET MVC And jQuery (Part 1)
2. CSS Wishlist: New Ideas, Debates and Solutions
3. Intercept a form submit with jQuery and prevent or allow submission
4. jQuery Moving Tab and Sliding Content Tutorial
5. Set Focus to the First TextBox on a Page using jQuery
6. 25 Excellent Collection Of jQuery Tutorials
7. A Tool For Querying Multiple Databases
8. Degradable Tabs With jQuery UI

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Some Great and Necessary plugins for Notepad++
2. Testing AMF services with soapUI
3. MVP Speeds Windows 7 Installation For Netbooks
4. Yahoo! Releases Free Fantasy Football ‘09 iPhone App (Best of iPhone Apps)
5. Microsoft creates the CodePlex foundation
6. Free Flash Components for Your Stunning Projects
7. 70 Fantastic Windows 7 Tips & Tricks - Gnoted.com

 

Links (9/7/2009)

.NET

1. What's the Difference, Part Five: certificate signing vs strong naming

Web

1. Horizontal Navigation Menus: Trends, Patterns, and Best Practices
2. 38 jQuery And CSS Drop Down Multi Level Menu Solutions
3. 15 Great jQuery Plugins For Better Table Manipulation
4. Getting and Setting Query String Values in JavaScript
5. ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript Snippet Support (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Flex: Tutorial and a Book
2. iPhone web tips
3. Balsamiq Mockups - More iPhone Keyboards Layouts 

Links (9/3/2009)

.NET

1. BASIC: Binding ListBox and DropDownList using LINQ
2. LINQ Tools
3. Building Performant Line of Business Applications with LINQ to SQL
4. Rhino Mocks 3.6

Web

1. 26 Best ways to implement AJAX, CSS and Javascript based Tabs
2. Using jQuery to create a pop-out window to display atom and rss feeds
3. Advanced jQuery Form with Validation
4. Create a Graceful jQuery Tabbed Widget in 5 Easy Steps
5. jTruncate - Text Truncation for jQuery
6. Detect an Event on an Element using jQuery
7. Digg Like Css Vertical menu
8. 12 Best jQuery Tab Interface Creation Plugins and Tutorials
9. 10 best jQuery gallery and slider plugins
10. Horizontal and Vertical Centering Using CSS: A Beginner's Guide
11. Backgrounds In CSS: Everything You Need To Know
12. Firefinder For Firebug
13. 25 Incredibly Useful CSS Tricks You Should Know
14. Add / Remove items with jQuery
15. Some Simple CSS Rules

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Best Gimp Button Design Tutorials Collection
2. Scott Hanselman's 2009 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
3. Status of Google services
4. Booting from a VHD
5. 35 Excellent Wireframing Resources
6. Balsamiq Mockups – MyTube
7. Balsamiq Mockups – Boogle
8. Balsamiq Mockups - Bahoo Maps
9. Balsamiq Mockups - Confluence Wiki
10. Balsamiq Mockups - Sample Dialog Box
11. 10 Mac alternatives to Windows utilities  

Links (8/31/2009)

Web

1. Make a custom tab interface with JQuery
2. 20 jQuery Plugins and Tutorials to Enhance Forms
3. CSS Vertical Centering Tutorial
4. Some of the best jQuery charting plugins
5. Getting and setting max zIndex with jQuery
6. Create a Stunning Sliding Door Effect with jQuery

Visual Studio

1. CodeRush Xpress 9.2 Ships

Development/Miscellaneous

1. 5 Great Tips To Be A Successful Manager !!!
2. OneNote for the iPhone
3. 4 Reasons Why Plugin Architectures are Awesome
4. Mapping your SkyDrive – Windows Explorer your SkyDrive
5. Pagination controls 

Links (8/27/2009)

.NET

1. Quick Tip: Cast DataItem in ListView to Business Object
2. Building Line of Business Applications with LINQ to SQL
3. Iterator Blocks Part Seven: Why no anonymous iterators?

Web

1. Reading XML with jQuery
2. Live CSS Editing With jQuery
3. jQuery function to truncate long text
4. Four Little Known, Helpful Methods, Properties, and Features for ASP.NET Developers
5. 15 Ways to Optimize CSS and Reduce CSS File Size
6. Using jQuery to filder and sort data in a table
7. jQuery Float Header Plugin 1.0.5
8. 50 Useful New jQuery Techniques and Tutorials
9. CSS Horizontal Animated Menu with jQuery

Visual Studio

1. How to trick Visual Studio to not show line numbers for blank lines?

Development/Miscellaneous

1. More Charting Enhancements in Excel 2010
2. Windows 7 Virtual PC FTW (For The Win) for virtual workstation development
3. Best Gimp Video Tutorials
4. Release: VMware vCenter 4.0 Patch 1 / Workstation 6.5.3 / ACE 2.5.3 / Player 2.5.3
5. Evernote for iPhone 3.1: Faster. Better. Clippier.  

Links (8/23/2009)

.NET

1. Extend OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog the easy way
2. Introducing LazyLinq: Queryability

Web

1. jQuery SuperLoad
2. 20 Best jQuery Table Plugins
3. jQuery Accordion Made Easy
4. CSS Float Image
5. Creating a Fluid jQuery jqGrid

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Rails for .NET Developers – Review
2. Lenovo’s Device Stage in Windows 7
3. Reduce size/Shrink Transaction Log of the DB - SQL Server
4. USB Safely Remove 4.1 for Free (limited time, ends August 25th, 2009, reg-ware) – Helps with the eternal “Device cannot be stopped right now”… 

Links (8/20/2009)

.NET

1. How to Fill a ListBox/DropDownList from an Enum
2. LINQ to Ducks – Bringing Back The Duck-Typed foreach Statement To LINQ
3. Why all .NET developers need a memory profiler !
4. A total n00b’s guide to migrating from a custom data layer to Nhibernate: so many choices

Web

1. Fading JavaScript Menu
2. Taming Advanced CSS Selectors
3. 20 Top jQuery tips & tricks for jQuery programmers
4. jQuery - Accessing Dynamic Elements
5. How to add style to your breadcrumbs using CSS
6. 20 Best jQuery Menu Tutorials Collection
7. Escaping/Unescaping XML Data
8. 7 best jQuery Plugins To Create a wonderful Tooltip
9. Tabbed Content Rotator Using jQuery

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 Boot to VHD
2. Some very cool Windows 7 Themes – 26 Different themes for all tastes
3. Updates: ProcDump v1.4 

Links (8/16/2009)

.NET

1. StringBuilderPlus Improves Upon StringBuilder
2. TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Faster!
3. TestDriven.Net 2.23 Beta – Cleaner Stack Traces
4. LinqToSQL A Detailed Review
5. LINQ Tip of the week: LINQ and Anonymous types
6. Simplifying enumeration of Office object model collections with Linq and Extension methods

Web

1. XML Serialization: Using XML files to persist data

Development/Miscellaneous

1. How To Install Windows 7 From a bootable USB Drive 

Links (8/13/2009)

.NET

1. Raising Events, Event Handlers, and the Use of Delegates
2. db4o Object Manager for .NET Improvements
3. Statement Trees With Less Pain – Follow-Up on System.Linq.Expressions v4.0
4. Free PowerShell eBook

Web

1. HTML Helpers with Extension Methods
2. ASP.NET Menu with jQuery Superfish
3. Mastering CSS, Part 2: Advanced Techniques and Tools
4. 6 Ways To Work With Dates In JavaScript
5. JavaScript: A tool too sharp?
6. Styling the ASP.NET Wizard Control to have the Steps Across the top
7. Object Oriented CSS
8. 15 Best jQuery Animation And Effects Plugins
9. Creating Content Tabs with jQuery
10. 75 Amazing CSS Navigations and Jquery Examples
11. Preload with jQuery
12. Dynamic Bulleted List using jQuery

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Updates: Autoruns v9.53, ProcDump v1.3, Process Monitor v2.6 | New Mark's Blog post: The Case of the Temporary Registry Profiles | Download Windows Internals 5th edition sample chapter
2. How to Create Your First iPhone Application 

Links (8/9/2009)

.NET

1. Creating vCard with image in .Net
2. Interesting LINQ Exercise
3. Windows 7 Code Pack V. 1.0 Released
4. A Whirlwind Tour through the Managed Extensibility Framework
5. Fun With the ?? Operator in C#: if { } or ?? – Which is Faster?

Web

1. 25 Examples of Mega Menus in Web Design
2. Creating Flash Charts From Google Spreadsheets
3. Easiest "check all" ever with jQuery
4. Simple JQuery Tabs Template
5. 10 reasons for developing web applications with PHP
6. Rounded corner CSS without images
7. Mastering CSS, Part 1: Styling Design Elements

Visual Studio

1. Debugging, Profiling and Analyzing Parallel Applications

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Using ProcDump.exe to monitor w3wp.exe for CPU spikes
2. 10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Blogging
3. Upgraded Windows 7 from RC to RTM
4. Signs that you are a bad programmer
5. SSMS Tools Pack – Review 

Links (8/6/2009)

.NET

1. StackOverflow answer – why learn multi-core programming? #2
2. Introducing LazyLinq: Overview
3. Using Microsoft Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block – Part I
4. Using Microsoft Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block – Part II
5. How to create 3 tire application using LINQ
6. Simplistic Object Copying in .NET
7. Aspcts of Polymorphism in .NET Parts 1 & 2 – Inheritance
8. Aspects of Polymorphism in .NET Part 3 - Abstract Classes
9. Aspects of Polymorphism in .NET Part 4 - Interfaces

Web

1. Animated Menu Using jQuery
2. 23 jQuery Fade in Fade out Effect
3. 6 Reasons To Avoid Using Tables In Website Layouts
4. jQuery: Catch Keyboard Events
5. Book Review: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly
6. Simple JQuery Tabs Template
7. Best jQuery charting plugins
8. jQuery Weekly Calendar Plugin inspired by Google Calendar
9. Adding Line Breaks in JavaScript Alert and Confirm popup Message in ASP.NET
10. CSS Dock Menu using JQuery
11. Creating a navigation menu with CSS & jQuery
12. Div Roller : jQuery plugin for rotating html div elements
13. Internet Explorer 8 Developer Tools - Debugging HTML and CSS
14. Easy Slider 1.7 - Numeric Navigation jQuery Slider
15. CSS Rounded Corner Menus
16. Release: [jQuery Plugin] Slideshow Lite
17. 60 Tools To Optimize Your CSS
18. Hover Sub Tag Cloud :jQuery
19. Sticky (Fixed) SideNav Layout with CSS
20. Using Firebug and jQuery
21. 30 Best jQuery Photo Plugins - Sliders, Slideshow, Galleries and Scrollers
22. liScroll - a jQuery News Ticker
23. Mastering CSS, Part 1: Styling Design Elements
24. 56 Examples of Beautiful Single Page Web Designs

Visual Studio

1. TabStudio add-in for Visual Studio

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Windows 7 DVD ISO to VHD
2. Dual booting Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 r2
3. A Bootable USB: Utility to Create Bootable USB Drive to Install Windows Vista, Server 2008 and 7
4. Documenting source code
5. Updates: Zoomit 4.0, procdump v1.2
6. 120 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT PHOTOSHOP
7. A-Z of Free Photoshop Plugins and Filters
8. Vista Theme for Windows Server 2008
9. TextMate Theme For Aptana RadRails 

Links (8/2/2009)

.NET

1. STM (Software Transactional Memory)
2. Reflector.Babel Addin (alpha)
3. Convert anonymous type into any type

Web

1. From zero to a complete web application in minutes
2. Serializing Objects to Json in ASP.NET MVC
3. ASP.NET MVC V2 Preview 1 Released
4. Animated Page Scroll with jQuery
5. Simple AJAX With jQuery
6. 5 CSS tricks with lists
7. Create a Simple Image Slide Show using jQuery
8. How To Build an Animated Header in jQuery
9. 7 jQuery code snippets a programmer need daily , Excellent replacement of legacy functions and coding methods.

Visual Studio

1. New Visual Studio Learn Page

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Procedural vs. OOP Explained 

Links (7/30/2009)

.NET

1. STM.NET on DevLabs
2. Iterator Blocks, Part Six: Why no unsafe code?

Web

1. 25+ Create Amazing Image Effects with Some of the Best jQuery Plugins
2. Reinventing a Drop Down with CSS and jQuery
3. 30 Great Examples Of Drop-Down And Sliding Menus
4. An Introduction To jQuery Tools
5. Designing “Read More” And “Continue Reading” Links
6. A (somewhat) New jQuery plug-in: Wizard
7. How To Create A JSON Web Service In ASP.NET
8. Find Position of an Element using jQuery
9. Blend CSS3 With jQuery - With Plugins and Code
10. Detect Event on an Element using jQuery
11. The Definitive Guide to Using Negative Margins
12. Find out which Key was pressed using jQuery
13. 5 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design
14. jQuery Magic - Creating a Vista Style Password Box
15. An experiment: tiny calendar + jQuery zoom

Visual Studio

1. Quick Tip: How to move a breakpoint in the Visual Studio debugger
2. My ideal IDE

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Clip Art + Templates = Newsletters Made Easy
2. UI Prototyping and Mockups Part 1 - Balsamiq
3. The Art of Dashboarding
4. Fill Mergefields in .docx Documents without MS Word
5. Merging Comments from Multiple Open XML Documents into a Single Document
6. Memory settings in VMWare Workstation

Links (7/26/2009)

.NET

1. I finally got fed up with Enum.Parse – Extension method
2. Get Countries Name in .Net
3. NHibernate Linq 1.0 released!

Web

1. 15 New jQuery Plugins To Help You Conquer The Web
2. Detect any Event on an Element using jQuery
3. Display a Progress bar while loading content in a DIV using jQuery
4. ASP.NET web application returns different content to users from different clients.

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Flex 101 with Flash Builder 4
2. A simple definition of Windows Azure
3. 30 Best Flash Components
4. Transitioning from Developer to Software Entrepreneur
5. Updates: Autoruns v9.52, VMMap v2.2, procdump v1.2, procmon v2.5 | Marks Blog: Pushing the Limits of Windows: Processes and Threads 

Links (7/23/2009)

.NET

1. Iterator blocks Part Four: Why no yield in catch?
2. Iterator Blocks, Part Five: Push vs Pull
3. NHibernate 2.1 Released!!!
4. Useful extension method for the object type…
5. Extension methods – ForEach statement
6. IEnumerable.Count() is a Code Smell
7. ListView extension I thought I’d share…

Web

1. Make a Footer Stick to Bottom of Page
2. Consume an ASP.NET WebService returning List> with Dates using jQuery
3. Learn How to Create fancy share box with CSS and jQuery
4. jQuery Ribbon RC 1 released!
5. Horizontal Sub-nav with CSS & jQuery - Subnavigation Tutorial
6. JQuery Mini UI Effects Plugins
7. Multi-level Menus with jQuery and CSS
8. jQuery Ribbon 1.0 RTW and 2.0 sneak peak
9. CSS Font Size Conversion Chart
10. Using Microsoft's Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Getting Started
11. 15+ CSS Tips and Tricks
12. CSS Layout: Soon Good Enough for GUIs
13. Simplify calling ASP.NET AJAX services from jQuery
14. 56 CSS Tabs & Navigation Menu Scripts and Examples
15. Simple jQuery tabs
16. 60+ Must Have jQuery Toolbox

Visual Studio

1. How to add "Open with reflector" to your right-click actions
2. My Favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts and Snippets

Development/Miscellaneous

1. 5 Tricks That Make You More Attractive to Clients
2. Easy Bootable USB for Installing Windows 7 to Netbooks
3. So You Want to be an IT Consultant?
4. How to make IE open new tabs faster
5. 45+ Excellent Code Snippet Resources and Repositories

Links (7/16/2009)

.NET

1. Iterator Blocks, Part Two: Why no ref or out parameters?
2. Iterator Blocks, Part Three: Why no yield in finally?
3. The power of yield (return)
4. How we handle application configuration

Web

1. Understanding the 5 must have jQuery advanced concepts
2. Top JQuery Sliders websites
3. Useful jQuery Plug-ins
4. Create a Content Rich Tooltip with JSON and jQuery
5. jQuery Drop Line Tabs
6. Hide a Table Column with a Single line of jQuery code
7. Improve ASP.NET Chart with jQuery
8. jQuery imageless buttons a la Google get an update
9. HTML5 and The Future of the Web

Visual Studio

1. Setting up Visual Studio Intellisense for jQuery

Development/Miscellaneous

1. OneNote 2010 – What’s New For You
2. Office Web Applications as Native Browser Apps in Microsoft Office 2010
3. Office 2010 Developer: What's New!
4. OneNote 2010 File Format Information
5. Stop Over-Committing! - Rethinking Utilization Limits
6. Microsoft accounts on Twitter 

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