Links (4/30/2009)

.NET

1. Setting the Initial Focus to a ListView item
2. C# case insensitve string replace?
3. Instantiating a Dictionary from a LINQ projection
4. Instantiating a Dictionary from a LINQ projection, part 2
5. TestDriven.Net 2.21: Now includes NUnit 2.5 RC

Web

1. Create a jQuery Context Menu for Treeview
2. jQuery Collapsible Panel
3. How To: jQuery Event Delegation
4. PDF for Silverlight
5. jQuery Twitter API plugin
6. 22 amazing JQuery - Modal - Plugins
7. Demystifying the jQuery selectors optimization
8. Google Charts to Make Your Site Look Cooler
9. Silverlight Navigation Part 3
10. Gotchas for Web Services in Silverlight
11. Keyword Highlight on a web page using jquery
12. jQuery Performance Rules - Best Practices for Speeding Up jQuery
13. Using the Generic Dictionary with JSON web services…
14. The Mystery Of CSS Sprites: Techniques, Tools And Tutorials
15. Paging with the Silverlight RIA services DomainDataSource

Visual Studio

1. Tip #59: Did you know…How you can automatically format unformatted HTML on paste in VS?
2. Configuring Reflector in Visual Studio 2008
3. Random Visual Studio 2008 Tips #2
4. ReSharper coolness of the day: TODOs and NotImplementedException

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Evernote + Twitter = Instant Memories
2. QuickOffice for iPhone
3. Installing Ubuntu 9.04: A Designers/Development Environment
4. Where do shortcuts in “My Network Places” come from?
5. Vista/Server 2008 Not Shutting Down

Links (4/26/2009)

.NET

1. Tip 15 - How to avoid loading unnecessary Properties
2. Disable Special Keys in Win App C#

Web

1. Prototyping with SketchFlow
2. ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!)
3. Enable JavaScript specific CSS with one line of jQuery
4. Minimalist jQuery: 11 useful plugins under 4K
5. FirstFloor Silverlight Document Viewer for XPS

Visual Studio

1. Tip #54: Did you know…How you can turn off intellisense for HTML/ CSS editors
2. Tip #55: Did you know...How to change Start-Up Options and Instances of ASP.Net Development Server in a Multi-project Solution
3. Tip#56: Did you know… How to update JScript Intellisense manually
4. JetBrains TeamCity 4.5 is available

Development/Miscellaneous

1. May's Toolbox Column Now Online
2. New: More Social Partners on Windows Live
3. Re-review of Kinesis
4. Flattening XML Data in SQL Server
5. Do’s and Don’ts of Video Tutorials.

Links (4/23/2009)

.NET

1. Sorting a collection using a IComparer
2. How to Use LINQ GroupBy
3. Free Chart Controls for .NET: Windows and Web – Handy Links
4. Show me the memory: Tool for visualizing virtual memory usage and GC heap usage.
5. LINQ to Objects – Debugging
6. TestDriven.Net 2.20: Improved NCover Integration

Web

1. 25+ jQuery Plugins that enhance and beautify HTML form elements
2. Leisure Suit Larry in Javascript, and it's open source!
3. Sliding Top Menu With jQuery
4. Drag and Drop with Persistence using JQuery
5. How to test jQuery enabled Apps using JSON with Visual Studio
6. MVP Delivers World’s First Silverlight Ribbon Control!
7. Write out-of-browser (OOB) Silverlight apps in three steps
8. Evented Programming With jQuery
9. The 20 Most Practical and Creative Uses of jQuery
10. Validation in ASP.NET using jQuery
11. Silverlight ListBox: Part I - Using multiple templates in a ListBox
12. Silverlight ListBox Part II (Drag and drop in the same listbox and scroll)
13. Creating a Cool UI effect on ASP.NET Panels using jQuery
14. Building ASP.NET Reporting OLAP-Based Application Part-1
15. Building ASP.NET Reporting OLAP-Based Application Part-2
16. Building ASP.NET Reporting OLAP-Based Application Part-3
17. Silverlight ObjectDataSource
18. Top 10 Jquery Examples with Live Demos | MyPHPDunia
19. Silverlight 3 - Create a nice Navigation Flip

Visual Studio

1. Tip # 53: Did you know... How to edit the templates for gridview in VS designer?
2. Random Visual Studio 2008 Tips #1
3. ReSharper coolness of the day: generated constructor visibility
4. Dark IDE Colors v2.0

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Evernote’s New Twitter Functionality
2. Installing Windows From a Bootable USB Drive
3. Installing Windows Server 2008
4. Taking Your Presentations Beyond Bullet Points…Online E-Lessons Weekly
5. The Coolest Screensaver Ever?
6. Create a Twitter-like logo
7. Requirements: You Must Not Write “The System Shall…”
8. Windows Live Writer Tip #6 – Inserting Quotes
9. Updates: VMMap v1.1, Active Directory Explorer v1.2
10. 18 Seriously Helpful Cheat Sheets for Easier Coding
11. Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Vista
12. VirtualBox Virtual Machine Software: A Hands-On Review
13. Canonical punts Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope

Links (4/16/2009)

Web

1. 10 beautiful Sliding Panel with jQuery Tutorials
2. 10 Best jQuery Sliders
3. Create Vertical Scrolling Menu with CSS and jQuery
4. Send attachments with jQuery
5. A brief look at the Google Chart API
6. Using jQuery Grid With ASP.NET MVC
7. Silverlight Simple Animation
8. Adaptive Rendering in ASP.NET MVC
9. Simple JavaScript Debugger using jQuery
10. tabSwitch
11. A Closable jQuery Plug-in
12. Handling MouseEnter and MouseLeave Events in jQuery
13. Add support for iPhone in ASP.NET

Visual Studio

1. Resharper Tip of the Day: Moving Chunks of Code

Development/Miscellaneous

1. 10 tweaks to make Windows 7 even better
2. Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 4/13/2009+
3. An Absolute Beginner's Guide to iPhone Development
4. Friendly cheatsheets for developers
5. Job Seekers Take Notice
6. 9 Brilliant Ways To Ensure Client Satisfaction and Project Success
7. Setting up Subversion 1.6 Server
8. This weeks Deal: GRAW 2 Co-Op Collection 2
9. Building a Cloudsourced Business

Links (4/12/2009)

.NET

1. Using GZipStream to zip all files in folder
2. The Twitter Search API made easy with Linq to XML
3. Check if user have Administrator rights

Web

1. Accordion Part 5: AccordionButton
2. Creating a New Silverlight Project in Visual Studio 2008
3. Create Uniform Social Bookmarking Widgets
4. Use jQuery to Decorate Links
5. Selecting Parent Nodes using jQuery
6. 40 Exceptional jQuery Interface Techniques and Tutorials
7. Gmail custom Buttons
8. Virtual Earth API Release Information, April 2009

Visual Studio

1. ReSharper 4.5 released

Development/Miscellaneous

1. IE8: Disabling the loopback check, 401.1 Unauthorized: Logon Failed
2. Overview: VirtualBox 2.2.0
3. The Beginner's Guide to Creating Virtual Machines with VirtualBox
4. Why cheap developers will cost you

SharePoint Saturday Atlanta

A quick reminder that the SharePoint Saturday Atlanta event is almost here! The free, all-day event will take place on 4/18 at the Microsoft Office on Sanctuary Pkwy in Alpharetta, GA.

Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for ‘SharePoint Saturday’ event.  SharePoint Saturday is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics.  SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint!

This is an excellent opportunity to spend the day with SharePoint. If you are a SharePoint veteran or interested in exploring SharePoint, this is a perfect opportunity to learn more on SharePoint. There will be many sessions which cover all spectrums. Sessions are broken out by IT Pro, Developer, Architect, Designer, End-User, and Business. There will be many SharePoint MVPs and other SharePoint professionals speaking and in attendance. Come see why the SharePoint community is so incredible to work with.

The registration link is: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=136991

Hope to see you there.

Links (4/9/2009)

.NET

1. “Illustrated C# 2008” Free as in eBook curtsey of Red Gate
2. Find which dll / exe created a window.

Web

1. Nobody likes seeing the hourglass... [Keep your application responsive with BackgroundTaskManager on WPF and Silverlight]
2. The benefits of Cloud Computing
3. 50+ Amazing Jquery Examples- Part1
4. jQuery 101 UG Samples and Slides
5. Web 2.0 AJAX Portal using jQuery, ASP.NET 3.5, Silverlight, Linq to SQL, WF and Unity
6. jQuery Tutorial: Displaying loading GIF image while loading content using AJAX
7. jQuery & .NET
8. Exploring jQuery Selectors
9. Publishing an ASP.NET Web Application in IIS
10. JSMag April 2009 available
11. Top 10 jQuery Plugins and Resources
12. Showcase Of Well-Designed Tabbed Navigation
13. 5 Reasons You Should Take a Closer Look at ASP.NET MVC
14. SharePoint Map Chart Web Part - Dead Simple Data Visualization for Geographic SharePoint List Data
15. Six easy ways to customize your site by using Web Parts
16. Reflecting over JSON Data to Simplify Control Updates with jQuery

Visual Studio

1. **** ReSharper 4.5 Released
2. CodeRush, when code smells...

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Quit Begging People To Steal Your Twitter Account!
2. SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1
3. Migrating From Windows To Ubuntu - A Community Driven Guide
4. 6 Free Tools that every Windows Programmer should Install
5. Updates: Autoruns v9.41
6. Alone in the Dark with Microsoft Desktop Virtualization
7. Release: Sun VirtualBox 2.2
8. Release: VMware Workstation 6.5.2

Links (4/5/2009)

.NET

1. Twitter for Office Communicator
2. log4net documentation
3. The Weekly Source Code 40 - TweetSharp and Introducing Tweet Sandwich

Web

1. Firefox Add-On: YSlow
2. Silverlight Revisited
3. Sample ASPX page to show security details in ASP.NET
4. Create a Ajax based Form Submission with jQuery
5. jQuery Special Events
6. Exactly Twitter like Follow and Remove buttons with jQuery and Ajax
7. jQuery Menu: Dropdown, iPod Drilldown, and Flyout styles with ARIA Support and ThemeRoller Ready
8. Extjs quick start guide for jQuery Developers
9. Build a Simple Application with .Net RIA Services (Silverlight 3) – Part 1 A simple 3-tier layers application in ASP.NET

Visual Studio

1. Shared Assembly Info in Visual Studio Projects
2. Best Practices for .NET Assembly Versioning

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Specialist vs. Generalist: Who Wins?
2. Free Flex Builder for Unemployed Developers

Links (4/2/2009)

.NET

1. Framework Design Guidelines Book: Extra Content from the DVD Posted
2. Announcing Gallio and MbUnit v3.0.6 Update 1.

Web

1. ASP.NET MVC 1.0
2. Build a Content Slider with jQuery
3. FileUpload within UpdatePanel
4. 11 jQuery Plugins to Enhance HTML Dropdowns
5. Temporary ASP.NET Files Are Not Deleted
6. Using "negative sleeps" to improve responsiveness in VB web apps
7. Build REST Services with WCF REST Starter Kit…
8. Debugging Silverlight Application
9. Implementing a Silverlight based ‘Vertical’ tickertape
10. Using JQuery to intercept the click of an asp:Button
11. Silverlight 3 TreeView with Huge Number of Dynamic Tree Items
12. A Glass Orb Button in Silverlight
13. 25 Powerful and Useful jQuery Tutorials for Developers and Designers
14. Resizing images without loss of quality
15. jQuery - Rotating Ad Functionality
16. Make a Mega Drop-Down Menu with jQuery
17. 10 Simple and Impressive Design Techniques

Visual Studio

1. Tip #50: Did you know…How to absolute position the controls in Visual Studio Designer?
2. ReSharper Tip of the Day: Peek at opening brace

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Paving my machine for a fresh 2009 - First-Pass Must-Haves
2. Updates: Autoruns v9.4, BgInfo v4.15, ZoomIt v3.03 | New Mark's Blog post: Pushing the Limits of Windows: Paged and Nonpaged Pool
3. Five resume tips for IT consultants