Links (12/28/2008)

.NET

1. Secrets of Extension Methods: Part I
2. Secrets of Extension Methods: Part II
3. Create Word Documents using .NET without Interop
4. An attribute based approach to business object validation
5. Create docx files using c# without com

Web

1. Problems with opening CHM Help files from Network or Internet
2. A Simple Log4Net Example in ASP.NET
3. Peeling Away the jQuery Wrapper and Finding an Array
4. Apply Expand All and Collapse All to Collapsible Panels in ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery

Visual Studio

1. Early Christmas: Sticky Notes
2. My new favorite ReSharper features

Links (12/21/2008)

.NET

1. Using let in LINQ to Objects - Part 2

Web

1. Advanced Basics: What Causes a JIT?
2. Silverlight 2 DataGrid December 2008 Release
3. 25 Excellent Tips and Tricks of jQuery
4. Four Helpful Features to Add to Your Base Page Class
5. Building XPath Queries
6. Advanced CSS Accordion Effect 
7. Blueprints Example: View-Presenter, Part 2

Visual Studio

1. Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts for Compiling (MSDN Flash - Dec. 29, 2008)
2. Did you know that today’s tip on msinfo32.exe ends the series? -#382

Development

1. An introduction to Adobe Flex for beginners - Part 1
2. Updates: Autoruns v9.37, AccessChk v4.23

Links (12/18/2008)

.NET

1. State Machines With Enumerations
2. Explaining Delegates in C# - Part 1 (Callback and Multicast delegates)
3. Explaining Delegates in C# - Part 2 (Events)
4. PowerShell How-To - Part 1

Web

1. Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips
2. jQuery :random filter
3. Animate your message boxes with jQuery 

Visual Studio

1. Blueprints Example: View-Presenter, Part 1
2. Did you know… How to turn on or off Dynamic Help? – #378
3. Did you know… You can go directly to the installed code samples from within Visual Studio? - #379
4. Did you know… There is an Open Source command in Visual Studio? - #380
5. Did you know… How to optimize Visual Studio for multi-monitors? - #381
6. Visual Studio Tips & Tricks Listing
7. Early Peek at ReSharper 4.5 Features

Development

1. The Ultimate Web Developer’s Christmas Wish List
2. SQL Server 2008 Management Studio: Saving changes is not permitted.
3. Consider separate Booleans instead of a single enumeration field
4. Google’s Top 10 Hidden Treasures
5. Sync Google Calendar, Gmail, Reader with iPhone
6. 7 Good Rules to Log Exceptions 

Links (12/14/2008)

.NET

1. Linq features to make smaller code
2. ToString function for Generic List
3. Helper functions to find pattern contaned in string from pattern List
4. More C# Attribute annoyances

Web

1. 37 Phenomenal jQuery Plugins and Demos for Developers
2. How <%# Bind %> Works
3. jQuery Countdown Plugin
4. Extending jQuery’s selector capabilities 

Visual Studio

1. Did you know… You can narrow search results by turning off partial matches? - #377
2. Visual Studio Tips & Tricks for Developers:- This includes some shortcuts features in Visual Studio 2008 which will increase your productivity

Development

1. Null Object - design pattern
2. Building a Better Resume for Developers
3. Real-time code reviews with CommitMonitor

Links (12/11/2008)

.NET

1. Long time no post, here is something for fun, any object to a dictionary using an extension method!
2. Code Coverage : Use It Wisely
3. Attributes are lousy decorators
4. Dynamic Sorting with Linq

Web

1. 3 reasons why you should let Google host jQuery for you
2. ASP.Net PageMethods To The Rescue
3. 37 Phenomenal jQuery Plugins and Demos for Developers 

Visual Studio

1. Did you know… You can use F1 to get Help anywhere, even in a web browser - #373
2. Did you know… How to sync your current help page with the Contents tree, even if the option isn’t available? - #374
3. Did you know… You can save search queries, but not sure about the filters? - #375
4. Did you know… How to tweak your search results? - #376
5. Did you know? You can unwind the call stack from exceptions (Bill Horst)
6. New StyleCop for R# release

Development

1. Who Scraped Over My Disk?
2. Updates: Process Monitor v2.03, Autoruns v9.36, Disk Usage v1.33, Process Explorer v11.31

Links (12/7/2008)

.NET

1. Easy Data Access Layer
2. Ternary If Statement in C#
3. List With Events

Web

1. Event Pooling with jQuery Using Bind and Trigger: Managing Complex Javascript

Visual Studio

1. MSDN Flash: Keyboard Visual Studio Tips & Tricks for Dec 15. 2008
2. My Favorite Visual Studio Tips
3. Did you know… You can create toolbar buttons to quickly toggle your favorite VS Settings? – #372

Development

1. Tools That I Use Daily
2. TooManyTabs Manages Firefox Tabs, Frees Up Memory [Featured Firefox Extension]
3. 7 ways to write beautiful code
4. 10 Geeky Gifts for Under $10

Links (12/4/2008)

.NET

1. The EventLog and Message limits
2. Improving Debugging And Testing Through Assertions
3. TestDriven.NET 2.18 + NUnit 2.5 Beta
4. Regex Performance Tip
5. Introduction to NHibernate, Part 1
6. Do not pass data between static methods using static data members.

Web

1. Emitting XML via LINQ
2. Simple jQuery Spy Effect
3. jQuery and ASP.NET Article Part 2 Posted
4. How to Write Valid URL Query String Parameters
5. Updated JQuery ResizeComplete method
6. Dec 2nd Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight/WPF
7. Microsoft Chart Controls for ASP.NET and Windows Forms

Visual Studio

1. Did you know… You can double-click on the properties folder in the Solution Explorer to open the project properties page - #368
2. Did you know… You can use Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDn to switch among the project properties tags? - #369
3. Did you know… There’s a macro for listing out all the keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio? - #370
4. Did you know… How to remove items from the Recent Projects and Recent Files menus? - #371

5. MSDN Flash: Keyboard Visual Studio Tips & Tricks for Nov 17. 2007
6. Becoming a ReSharper Samurai - Part 2 

Development

1. SQL SERVER - 2008 - Install SQL Server 2008 - How to Upgrade to SQL Server 2008 - Installation Tutorial
2. Best Code Syntax Highlighter for Snippets in your Blog
3. For your screenshots...FireShot
4. How a screen reader see your page, use Fangs
5. Memory Leak Detection Using Windbg
6. The Fat Controller