Links (10/29/2008)

.NET

1. Removing elements from a Dictionary
2. Comparing Hash Table Implementations Performances
3. Using Role Based Access Control in the .NET Framework - Part 1
4. Just Released: Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1 and Unity 1.2
5. Using Find in a Generic List
6. PDC Experience 2008: Day 1: Session = "Framework Design Guidelines"
7. Factory method Design pattern using C#
8. .NET Framework 4 Poster
9. Anders Hejlsberg Introduces C# 4.0 at PDC 2008 – named parameters

Web

1. Helper Class : QueryString Builder (chainable)
2. STOP using Response.Redirect(url)
3. Building jQuery and ASP.Net AJAX Enabled Controls, The jQueryCollapsiblePanelExtender Part 2 Server Control
4. Autocomplete box accessing a webservice walk-through
5. YUI 2.6.0 Support in Aptana Studio
6. Spice Up Your Navigation With CSS Drop Down Menus
7. 19 JavaScript String functions explained
8. Zip Compressing ASP.NET Session without changing your code using a Session provider
9. Tabs on the top, bottom, left, right of content box - a CSS and JavaScript solution

Visual Studio

1. Microsoft® Silverlight™ Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
2. Did you know… You can create file or item templates - #343
3. Did you know… How to deal with sometimes single monitor, sometimes multi monitor displays? (/resetsettings switch) - #344
4. Did you know… You can launch VS without the splash screen (/nosplash), and maybe even save some time. - #345

Development

1. One of the Best Network Sniffers I've seen!!!

Links (10/26/2008)

.NET

1. Reflector stuff
2. Some tips on writing event handling code in C# .NET
3. Key Object-Oriented Concepts and how to use them in Visual C#
4. LinqExtender 1.4.2 - Supporting Complex type arguments
5. C# Tip: Don't Concatenate, Use String.Format
6. Converting Strings to Enums

Web

1. Using jQuery to search Content and creating custom Selector Filters
2. Building jQuery and ASP.Net AJAX Enabled Controls, The jQueryCollapsiblePanelExtender Part 1 Client Control
3. iTunes Data Grid Skin

Visual Studio

1. ReSharper Jedi – FizzBuzz in under 4 minutes
2. Tired of writing unit tests yourself? Try Pex!
3. Did you know… How to change the default templates that appear in the New Project Dialog? - #342

Development

1. Just Say No to Console App Demos
2. My Year With TDD
3. Introduction to Mocking

Links (10/23/2008)

.NET

1. Custom Exceptions: When should you create them?

Web

1. My JavaScript Tips
2. October 22nd Links: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, WPF and Silverlight
3. Create a professional interface for your web applications using jQuery
4. 13 Awesome Javascript Animated Flash Like Menus
5. 7 of my favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASP.NET
6. Is There Active Internet Connection
7. Animated JavaScript Accordion V2
8. 7 of my favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASP.NET

Visual Studio

1. **** Essential Visual Studio Tips & Tricks that Every Developer Should Know
2. Did you know… You can specify which New Project Dialog Language sub-node to show a project template - #338
3. Did you know… you can specify the project icon for your template to appear in the New Project Dialog? - #339
4. Did you know… How to import your project template if you chosen not to automatically import it? - #340
5. Did you know… What unchecking the display an explorer window on the Export Templates Wizard does? - #341
6. Kirill's Visual Studio Tips
7. jQuery Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008

Development

1. Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Consultants
2. Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows Vista
3. Visio 2007 crashing on exit on Vista 64bit – get the same thing on Vista 32bit. going to try it out tomorrow.

Links (10/19/2008)

.NET

1. Gallio and MbUnit v3.0.4 build 485 Released
2. Populating a Generic Data List with Generic method
3. LINQ: Sequence contains no elements. Extension methods to the rescue.

Web

1. Microsoft Web Application Installer - Open Source Web Apps Delivered and Installed
2. Updates to my Live Traffic Page
3. All About Tabless Column Design
4. ASP.NET MVC Beta Released
5. Starting With jQuery - How to Write Custom Validation Rules
6. Building Clean Drop-Down Menus with CSS
7. Jack - mocking JavaScript
8. Sending email with jQuery and a Web Service
9. Global.asax? Use HttpModules Instead!
10. IE: Prevent confirming dialog box when using window.close() to close a main window
11. Customizing a ToolTip
12. Creating Data-Bound Content Controls using the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML

Visual Studio

1. Did you know… How to add other people’s created project templates to the New Project Dialog? - #337

Development

1. SQL SERVER - Get Common Records From Two Tables Without Using Join
2. Copy text from a MessageBox
3. Updates Autoruns v9.35, Process Monitor v2.01, DebugView v4.76, AccessChk v4.21
4. SysPrep usage with Vista when creating virtual machines
5. Extending an existing Windows 2003 system vhd image

Links (10/16/2008)

.NET

1. Use Reflection to find Methods that implement explicit interfaces
2. SequenceViz 0.11 :: Reflector Addin support
3. Method Hiding... Polymorphism in C#
4. Announcing Gallio and MbUnit v3.0.4

Web

1. Silverlight 2 Released
2. Linq To XML : Check for existence of element
3. Disabling Bound Fields through code
4. Data Controls 101
5. Silverlight 2 DataGrid is Released
6. 1 (Awesome) Way To Avoid the (Not So Excellent) Flash of (Amazing) Unstyled Content
7. The 7 CSS Hacks that we should use
8. Object Oriented Programming With JavaScript
9. 13 Awesome JavaScript CSS Menus
10. 20 Amazing jQuery Plugins and 65 Excellent jQuery Resources
11. 20 jQuery Plugins for Unforgettable User Experience
12. Stop ASP.NET From Serving Specific File Types
13. Unobtrusive JavaScript Part 1
14. JQuery, the very very basics - Lesson 5
15. 10 Easy Steps to Great Website Optimization
16. Client Templating with jQuery
17. The Best JavaScript Powered Datepickers Reviewed
18. 50+ Amazing Jquery Examples
19. CSS Best Practices
20. Using jQuery to display a modal UpdatePanel confirmation
21. Creating a Live Traffic Page from my PageView/Visit Database

Visual Studio

1. Tip #14: Did you know…How to enable debugging of your Web Site?
2. Did you know… How to change the build order for your solution? - #333
3. Did you know… You can view the build order for the solution? - #334
4. Did you know… You can create a new project from existing code? - #335
5. Did you know… You can create project templates? - #336
6. Custom Code Snippets Series Part 1 of 3: The “Hard” Way
7. Free download: Silverlight 2.0 Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1
8. Sharing code styles in ReSharper

Development

1. Did I Actually Write That?
2. Class Diagrams
3. Windows 2008: Removing a username from the login list

Links (10/12/2008)

.NET

1. Isolator feature focus – Advanced Debugger Support for fakes
2. LINQ to Text or CSV Files - Part 1

Web

1. October 10th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, IIS
2. Encrypting web.config values
3. Tip #12: Did you know..How to create an IIS Virtual Directory from within Visual Web Developer?
4. jQuery & CSS Example - Dropdown Menu
5. MVC Storefront Part 22: Restructuring, Rerouting, and PayPal
6. Fun With jQuery’s Animate() Function
7. 70+ JavaScript Resources for Every Web Developer

Visual Studio

1. A Must Have Tool - VS 2008 Snippet Designer
2. Did you know… You can keep recently-used files from falling off the File Tab Channel? - #331
3. Did you know… How to edit a .csproj or .vbproj project file within the IDE? - #332
4. HOWTO: Enable Visual Studio 2008 Remote Debugging
5. Tweaking my color settings

Development

1. Managing changes in scope and direction in an agile projects

Miscellaneous

1. New paper answers the question: Why does my computer take so long to boot or shutdown?
2. Changes in Functionality from Windows Server 2003 with SP1 to Windows Server 2008

Links (10/8/2008)

.NET

1. Q&A: How to return multiple result sets from a stored procedure using LINQ
2. Adding An Image to a Word Document Programmatically (Microsoft Office 2007)
3. Moving between Visual Basic and C# syntax
4. Q&A: Deciding between LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities
5. Some Unexpected Code Dependency Issues

Web

1. v0.2 of my Visit/PageView Cube - Creating a Hierarchy for the Source Dimension
2. How to Add Drop Shadows to Menus or Windows with CSS
3. Extract Zip File In ASP.NET
4. ColorPicker - jQuery plugin
5. Using jQuery to enhance ASP.NET AJAX progress indication
6. .NET 3.5. SP1 best practices – When to use the ASP.NET MVC Framework
7. jQuery Progress Indicators
8. CSS Font-Size: em vs. px vs. pt vs. percent
9. ASP .NET - Validators in a MultiView

Visual Studio

1. Did you know… You can single-click to make a project be the startup project? - #328
2. Did you know… You can configure the MSBuild verbosity in the Output window? - #329
3. Did you know… You can use the New Project Dialog to add a new project to a solution? - #33
4. Visual Studio Tip: Spice Up the IDE
5. Announcing the Test Driven Development Productivity Plugin for ReSharper
6. ReSharper tip of the Day: Move Code Left and Right
7. ReSharper Combos - Hiding Details
8. ReSharper Tip of the Day: Agent Smith and Agent Johnson

Development

1. Architecture: Five tips for Low Friction Projects

Miscellaneous

1. Free mail hosting from Windows Live Part 2
2. Release: VMware Workstation 6.5 / ACE 2.5 / Player 2.5
3. A Calendar/Planner powertoy for OneNote!

Links (10/5/2008)

Links

1. TryParse Extension Methods
2. An initialization pattern to avoid problems calling virtual method in constructor
3. Three C# 2.0/3.0 Syntaxes That You Didn't Know But Were Afraid to Ask

Web

1. No Empty Selector in jQuery
2. JQuery, the very very basics - Lesson 4
3. jQuery Multi Level CSS Menu
4. October 2nd Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Visual Studio

1. Did you know… What to do when projects are out of date is only for VC? - #326
2. Did you know… You can specify whether to run old version when a build fails? - #327
3. ReSharper Guidelines -- First Time Users
4. Tip #11 Did you know… New Style builder can be invoked from various other tool windows in Visual Web Developer.

Development

1. Smashing Magazine reviewed 7 major Version Control Systems
2. Installing VisualSVN Subversion
3. Things I Hate - People Who Do-Not Know How to Report Bugs
4. A few thoughts on the role of software architects

Miscellaneous

1. How to enable Windows Search on Windows Server 2008
2. Visio User Interface Stencil Sets
3. Running Windows 2008 Server as development machine
4. Remapping Alt and Windows keys on a Mac using Bootcamp

Links (10/1/2008)

.NET

1. Trivial but useful extension method
2. Multi-Value Key for a Dictionary
3. Versioning long running workflows part 4
4. A simple Generic Dictionary: TDictionary

Web

1. Q&A: Using both C# and Visual Basic .NET in the same Web Application
2. Geocoding with the Virtual Earth Web Service
3. 6 More jQuery Tips: Text Searching, Page Load Time and Others
4. 10 CSS shorthand techniques you’ll use everyday
5. RELEASED: Virtual Earth JavaScript Intellisense Helper for 6.2
6. v0.1 of my Visit/PageView Analysis Services Cube
7. Using jQuery to Call ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods
8. Thoughts on Web Development with ASP.NET Dynamic Data, Castle Active Record, jQuery
9. Warning: Page has Expired - when users click the back button in Internet Explorer
10. jQuery Datagrid: Ingrid
11. YUI 2.6.0 Released

Visual Studio

1. New Snippet Designer Add-in for Visual Studio
2. Did you know… How to configure how and when the IDE saves your files before building? - #323
3. Did you know… Only VC supports parallel building within the IDE - #324
4. Did you know… How to build just the startup project and any dependencies? - #325
5. New Snippet Designer Add-in for Visual Studio

Development

1. Unit Testing for Developers and Managers
2. Updates: Process Monitor v2.0, ZoomIt v2.11, Sigcheck v1.54, Contig v1.55 | A new Mark's Blog post: The Case of the Sloooow System | New Vista Springboard webcast

Miscellaneous

1. Flash for the iPhone confirmed at FOTB