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?