Links (3/29/2009)

.NET

1. Moving files when the target file name already exists and is read only
2. ExceLINQ – Not Your Typical LINQ Provider
3. The Art of Debugging – A Developer’s Best Friend – Lesson 15 – Entering Break Mode for Exceptions

Web

1. Silverlight: Toolkit Control – TimePicker
2. jQuery Validation and ASP.Net Web Forms
3. 10 Best jQuery Datepickers Plugins
4. Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control CTP – Building a “Hello World!” Sample From Scratch
5. Running Silverlight 2 and Silverlight 3 on the Same Machine

Visual Studio

1. How to know when lines are a certain length in Visual Studio

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Pragmatic Bookshelf Goes Kindle-Compatible – also iPhone
2. Five Twitter Analytics Tools You Might Find Addictive
3. Estimating front-end development

Links (3/26/2009)

.NET

1. Tip 8 - Writing 'WHERE IN' style queries using LINQ to Entities
2. Using Custom Configuration Section and Configuration Manager class in .NET – 1
3. Using Custom Configuration Section and Configuration Manager class in .NET – 2
4. Announcing Gallio and MbUnit v3.0.6
5. An Extensive Examination of LINQ: The Ins and Outs of Query Operators
6. Twitter API - Submit a post in C#
7. Twitter API - Sending a Direct Message in C#
8. Adobe AIR versus Offline Silverlight
9. One gets you Ten. One DLL, Ten free WCF Debugger Visualizers
10. Refactoring: extract and override factory method
11. Building your own Mail Client using C#

Web

1. What's new on the DataGrid control in Silverlight 3 Beta
2. ASP.NET Tip/Trick: Use a Base Page Class for All Application Pages
3. Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices
4. 10 Best jQuery Plugins - March 2009
5. 8 jQuery Plugins that Utilize Google APIs
6. Silverlight ComboBox control and data binding
7. 30 Awesome Design Enhancing jQuery Plugins
8. Create astonishing iCal-like calendars with jQuery
9. 21 Important FAQ questions for WPF and SilverLight
10. Creating an Ajax Login Form With jQuery
11. 8 JavaScript solutions to common CSS problems
12. Detecting Network Status in Silverlight 3
13. Paging and Sorting ListViews with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery
14. Accordion, part 1
15. How to: Prevent the security dialog about unsecure items in IE – mixed content security prompt
16. JQuery Accessing the Client Generated ID of ASP.NET Controls

Visual Studio

1. Visual Studio Tip: Navigate to File by Typing File Name
2. My Visual Studio Twilight theme

Development/Miscellaneous

1. 16 Design Tools for Prototyping and Wireframing
2. DiffMerge - A Better Differencing Tool
3. 6 Tools for Beginning iPhone Development
4. iDaft: Hours of Fun Making Daft Punk Tunes
5. Creating an Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop VM on VMWare Fusion
6. Increase Firefox Speed and Decrease Firefox Memory Usage +20 Tips
7. Announcing Version 1.1 of CodeBurner: the Reference Tool for Firebug

Links (3/22/2009)

.NET

1. Twitter API - Get a list of your friends in C#
2. Code Snippets to Access Internal Classes and Members
3. Searching for an item in a list

Web

1. .NET Rocks on RIA Services and Business apps in Silverlight
2. Silverlight Toolkit March 2009 Release
3. .NET RIA Services: From Vision to Architecture
4. Silverlight 3: Activity Control
5. Silverlight Toolkit Release
6. The Microsoft Chart Controls
7. Adventures in MVC - Part II - The Model
8. Write a silverlight client to consume WCF service
9. jQuery UI 1.7.1
10. jQuery Memory Leak in UpdatePanel
11. jQuery Link Repository
12. Using Startup Parameters With Silverlight 2
13. Grouping in Silverlight DataGrid
14. SortDescriptions in Silverlight Datagrid

Visual Studio

1. ReSharper 4.5 – Red Bull for VS
2. DocBook 4.5 Intellisense for Visual Studio
3. Intellisense in XSLT

Links (3/19/2009)

.NET

1. Using Extension Methods to Verify Assumptions
2. Take a screenshot
3. Calling the Twitter API in C#

Web

1. ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released!
2. Silverlight 3 Emerges from the Shadows
3. Silverlight 3 Tools Beta Released!
4. Date Formatting with YUI - Part III
5. Fast XmlDocument to XDocument conversion with extension method
6. Partial page refresh with AJAX and JQuery in 3 minutes
7. Simple JQuery Modal Window Tutorial
8. WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern
9. jQuery Disable On Submit Plugin
10. jQuery - Using Slider as a Scrollbar
11. Synchronizing Scrollbars using JQuery
12. Create a Simple CSS + Javascript Tooltip with jQuery
13. A Glass Orb Button in Silverlight
14. 42: JavaScript best practices
15. Full Screen Mode in Silverlight
16. Silverlight/WPF FlipImage Animation
17. Silverlight Slideshow
18. Silverlight: Update on Video Source Code
19. Silverlight Charting is faster and better than ever [Silverlight Toolkit March 09 release now available!]

Visual Studio

1. Get Public Key Token of Strong Named (Signed) Assembly Using VS.NET Tools Menu
2. ReSharper Tip: Manual Code Reordering

Office

1. Information and Resources on VSTO 3.0 and outlook development
2. Office automation with VS 2008
3. OT: OfficeLabs Search Commands for Office 2007
4. Microsoft Excel and Twitter via Smart Tags in a VS 2008 Solution

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Search Multiple Labels in Gmail
2. History of Business Intelligence
3. Updates: Process Monitor v2.04, TCPView v2.54, VMMap v1.02, Testlimit v5.01, and Notmyfault
4. 99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications
5. iPhone 3.0 Adds Copy and Paste, MMS, Search, Notes Sync, and Tons More [IPhone 3.0]
6. Top ten Flex 3 books reviewed

Links (3/15/2009)

.NET

1. Speedy C#, Part 4: Using - and Understanding - CLR Profiler
2. Developing Reusable Controls with the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern

Web

1. New jQuery Plugin - ImageSwitch, amazing effect with simple code
2. What I Do When My jQuery Code Doesn’t Work
3. What I Use for Silverlight Development - Shawn Wildermuth
4. What I Use for Silverlight Development – Pete Brown
5. Modal Window in Silverlight
6. Silverlight Programming Video 1: Hello Silverlight
7. Include Files as Resources in Silverlight 2.0
8. Convert XElement to XmlNode (and Convert XmlNode to XElement)
9. Fast way to convert XmlDocument into XDocument
10. Displaying Today’s Date with XAML
11. Include Files in Application Package in Silverlight 2.0
12. Display action messages after any action performed using JQuery and CSS

Development

1. Make Ice Cream While You Wait For Your Food
2. Plugins! Plugins! Plugins! It must be TimeSnapper 3.4

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?

Links (3/8/2009)

.NET

1. .Net Developer Survey – Results
2. Some Extension Methods for working with the ADO.NET Entity Framework
3. Microsoft .Net 3.5 Charting Control

Web

1. Specialized Layout Panels for Silverlight
2. Easy Tooltip - jQuery plugin
3. Developing a basic plugin for jQuery: FlipClock
4. No-Compile Web User Controls
5. 5 IIS 7 Features Every Web Developer Should Know
6. ASP.NET Page Events Lifecycle – including master pages
7. Firefox Add-On: ColorZilla
8. DataTables (table plug-in for jQuery)
9. Silverlight ListBox Part II (Drag and drop in the same listbox and scroll)
10. 3 Quick Steps for a Painless Upgrade to jQuery 1.3
11. jQuery listmenu plugin
12. Live Email Validation with jQuery and RegExp
13. jQuery UI 1.7
14. What You Must Know About jQuery UI 1.7
15. Avoiding three common pain points for XML and Web services
16. Silverlight Deep Zoom and Office Add-ins

Visual Studio

1. Fix: Slow Debugging In Visual Studio
2. Cycle through Clipboard when using Visual Studio Editor

Development

1. PowerPoint 2007 Demo: Change the color of hyperlink
2. Configuring a Development Sandbox for the Azure CTP
3. PortableApps.com Platform v1.5 Released (with v2 coming in a few weeks) – Your App world is just a thumbdrive away…
4. Need Cross-Platform Device Note Taking App?
5. The Cost of Test Driven Development
6. Nice post listing several annoying habits some conference presenters have
7. More Hints and Tips for Your iPhone

Links (3/4/2009)

.NET

1. Default Values and Smarter Property Assessors
2. Understanding Garbage Collection in Microsoft.NET
3. 7 Steps to Write Your Own Custom Rule using FXCOP

Web

1. Silverlight 101: Make a GET request and a POST request.
2. Animated Ajax Record Deletion Using jQuery
3. jQuery Plugin for Requesting Ajax-like File Downloads
4. Build Your Own DataGrid for Silverlight: Step 1
5. 40 Useful JavaScript Libraries
6. How to "template" the Silverlight Calendar to behave like the Vista system calendar [Jason Cooke]
7. 43,439 reasons to use append() correctly
8. Flash v Silverlight Gallery
9. JQuery Slideshow Album
10. Right-Clicking in Silverlight 2 -- A Refinement
11. Use jQuery to catch and display ASP.NET AJAX service errors
12. Silverlight Drag Drop Manager on Codeplex

Miscellaneous

1. Updates: Sigcheck v1.6, Strings v2.41, VMMap v1.01
2. Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects
3. Enhancing Your Ubuntu Server
4. 50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials For Designers and Developers
5. 10 Tips for Working With Clients Remotely: Part 1
6. RSS +Twitter + Facebook + Flickr sur votre bureau
7. Create Dynamic Charts in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Beyond

Links (3/1/2009)

.NET

1. Check for Internet Connectivity

Web

1. Programming Windows Azure – Slides and Samples
2. Windows 7 Look-alike Taskbar Button Control in Silverlight – includes source
3. Slider Control in Silverlight
4. JSONView - View JSON documents in Firefox
5. Beginners Guide to jQuery UI - Part 2 – Widgets
6. 240 plugins jQuery
7. Silverlight Controls Accelerate Building of Rich Intelligence Applications
8. JavaScript Best Practices
9. Scatter Chart in Silverlight
10. Line Chart in Silverlight
11. Object Oriented CSS
12. 6 jQuery Chart Plugins For Your App
13. MIX09 Session comparing Flash to Silverlight

Visual Studio

1. Tip: Invoking Blend from Visual Studio
2. DesignerProperties.GetIsInDesignMode_ForRealz [How to: Reliably detect Silverlight design mode in Blend and Visual Studio]

Development

1. How do I learn Flex?
2. 10 Papers Every Software Architect Should Read (At Least Twice)
3. Canvas for OneNote