Links (1/29/2009)

.NET

1. Java To C# Orange Book – quite a few clients are moving to SharePoint from WPS.
2. Guidelines for Method Overloading
3. Reading Twitter Data with C# and LINQ
4. LINQ Performance - Part 1 - LINQ to Collection
5. Posting Twitter Updates From .Net
6. NDepend Analysis Inputs

Web

1. **** ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available
2. CSS Code Snippets : 15 Wicked Tricks
3. Using Javascript and ASP.NET Ajax to create a continuous list
4. Checklist for high quality websites part 2
5. What You Need to Know About jQuery 1.3
6. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript reference at your fingertips: FireScope add-on for Firefox
7. 25 jQuery Tutorials for Improved Navigation Menus
8. How to display tips by creating a jQuery plugin
9. 20 excellent footer designs
10. JavaScript Array Fun
11. Auto-Tab with jQuery
12. jQuery Tutorial: Selecting Multiple Select Form Elements on the Fly
13. Easy Slider 1.5 - The Easiest jQuery Plugin For Sliding Images and Content
14. Changing Form Input Styles on Focus with jQuery
15. Sending Mail via GMail with AspNetEmail and .NET
16. SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide: The Giveaway
17. A Lesson in DRY Learned with jQuery
18. DatePicker - jQuery plugin
19. How easy to create a slide tabbed box using jQuery

Development

1. Silence is Golden… especially when it’s Outlook
2. Drop dead gorgeous new Theme Pack for Windows 7 from Mike Swanson
3. chirp – Really Nice Looking WPF Twitter Client
4. More information about Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View

Links (1/25/2009)

.NET

1. Explaining Delegates in C# - Part 6 (Asynchronous Callback - Way 3)
2. Explaining Delegates in C# - Part 7 (Asynchronous Callback - Way 4)

Web

1. jQuery, JSON and ASP.NET
2. Test your websites in different versions of Internet Explorer

Visual Studio

1. Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts Wrap-up (MSDN Flash - Feb. 2, 2009)

Development

1. Windows 7 - Natively Booting from a .VHD file (Virtual PC image)
2. Can you tell me the meaning of the word "Polymorphism"?
3. Windows 7 Drivers
4. More Free Windows 7 Themes

Links (1/22/2009)

.NET

1. Explaining Delegates in C# - Part 4 (Asynchronous Callback - Way 1)
2. Explaining Delegates in C# - Part 5 (Asynchronous Callback - Way 2)
3. Introduction to NHibernate, pt. 4
4. Application Architecture Pocket Guides
5. Elegant way to raise an event
6. End User Friendly Enum’s – Using an attribute on your enum’s to enable friendly descriptions – do this all the time

Web

1. jQuery and ASP.NET
2. Some ASP.NET GridView UI Tips and Tricks using jQuery
3. Calling an ASP.NET web service asynchronously.
4. jQuery: Quick Tip: Prevent Animation Queue Buildup
5. Playing Accordion With CSS and jQuery
6. FileUpload : Page Cannot be displayed and maximum request length exceeded error
7. Enter and the Button Click Event
8. Firebug in IE? a dream come true!
9. SandRibbon for Silverlight
10. jQuery 1.3.1 Released
11. XML to JSON
12. How to Make a Smooth Animated Menu with jQuery

Visual Studio

1. Visual Studio 2008 Tips & Tricks for Developers

Development

1. Installing Virtual PC 2007 SP1 in Windows 7
2. How to make your Windows 7 ISO Bootable by USB Drive
3. Engineering the Windows 7 “Windows Experience Index” – good explanation on why my disk score is only 3.0
4. Fix MSI Installer or Windows Update Causing Explorer Stopped Working and Restart in Windows 7
5. SQM Client Causing Crashing in Windows 7
6. Hyper-V Remote Administration from Windows 7?

Links (1/18/2009)

.NET

1. Dynamically generating Word 2007 (.docx) documents using .net
2. Using LINQ in Excel VSTO with efficient Data Push to Excel Sheet

Web

1. 45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience
2. How to work with jQuery 1.3's new jQuery.Event object
3. Update: jQuery UI 1.6 Slider from a Select Element 

Visual Studio

1. Win7 and the LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entity designers

Development

1. A tip for those who intend to dual boot between Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2...
2. Hyper-V and Windows 2008 Workstation
3. Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts
4. My favorite Windows 7 feature so far - Resource Monitor

Links (1/15/2009)

.NET

1. Reflector add-in: Favorites
2. Community Convergence XLVIII
3. How many ways can you tell if a variable is a number in C#?
4. A Dissertation on .NET Properties
5. Application Architecture Guide 2.0
6. C# Code Header Designer 1.0 Released to MSDN Code Gallery

Web

1. XML Parsing with jQuery
2. The 20 Most Practical and Creative Uses of jQuery
3. 10 Smart Javascript Techniques For Manipulating Content
4. jQuery lesson learned: Close your tags

Development

1. Hardcoding Considered Harmful - or is it?
2. Updates: ZoomIt v3.0, Process Explorer v11.32, Autoruns v9.38
3. The Bumper List of Windows 7 Secrets
4. How to Copy an Assembly From the GAC to the File System
5. 100 Interview Questions for Software Developers
6. Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Mistakes

Links (1/11/2009)

.NET

1. Re: Abstracting Away From Exceptions
2. Using console GHTMDOC utility to convert HTML/ASPX files into PDF’s
3. Generic control creation.
4. Windows Powershell Best Inventory Tool Ever!
5. Kick the DateTime.Now addiction

Web

1. CSS tips that every beginning developer should know
2. ASP.NET tips: CustomBase class with Generic Class

Visual Studio

1. XML Comments: filterpriority
2. Ora, The Region Alternative

Development

1. 100 (Really) Beautiful iPhone Wallpapers

Links (1/8/2009)

.NET

1. Filtering List Items - The Yield Return Solution
2. Further attributes - method based validation and data conversion for business objects
3. Print to PDF

Web

1. DevExpress - 60 Free Controls
2. jQuery Selectors and ASP.Net Controls
3. Converting url to tinyURL in C#
4. iHttpHandler vs iHttpAsyncHandler
5. Building an iPhone Style Calendar Control
6. jQuery API: Filter & Find 

Visual Studio

1. Review: TechSmith Camtasia Studio 6.01
2. How to clear out the MRU list in VS 2008
3. Snippet Editor

Links (1/4/2009)

.NET

1. Model View Presenter (MVP)
2. File and Directory Path help from the man who brought us NDepend
3. .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Update Released

Web

1. Popup Calendar with JavaScript
2. Caching in jQuery
3. 40+ JavaScript and jQuery resources that will make you a better Web developer
4. jQuery :regex filter
5. tryGetValue in JavaScript
6. jQuery Character Table
7. Compressing JS files as part of your build process
8. 20 Excellent Examples of CSS Horizontal Menu
9. Understanding the jQuery Object returned from a jQuery Selector Query
10. 8 Sites with Excellent jQuery Navigation 

Visual Studio

1. Debugging With Tracepoints
2. Tip #39: Did you know… How to cancel a remote web operation in Visual Studio 2008?
3. IntelliSpell - checks the spelling of your comments, strings, and markup

Development

1. Grow a VMware virtual bootable hard disk (vmdk)
2. Diagnostic tracing your application with dynaTrace