Links (6/28/2009)

.NET

1. Architecting Your Data Access Layer with the Entity Framework

Web

1. Silverlight Coding Competition – win USD $10,000!
2. A case of lost session variables when using out of process session state
3. Custom Events in jQuery
4. Playing with Sprites and jQuery: animated menu
5. CSS text-shadow Fun: Realtime Lighting Demo
6. Best Practices to optimize CSS - an academic exercise
7. CSS Drop Cap Effect
8. Silverlight: Quick Tip: LINQ & Data Binding notifications
9. How to create a custom jQuery selector with a parameter
10. jQuery simple unordered list filter
11. AJAX Multiple File Upload Form Using jQuery
12. JQuery PeriodicalUpdater (AJAX long polling/server polling) | Enfranchised Mind
13. FireQuery: Firebug enhancements for jQuery
14. Check your Silverlight 2 apps for compatibility with Silverlight 3

Visual Studio

1. Useful VS Key Sequences/Shortcuts

Links (6/25/2009)

.NET

1. Tip #83: Did you know... You can get the name of the calling method from the stack using reflection?
2. Exporting a DataTable to Excel (DataTable to CSV)
3. Real World Interfaces in C#
4. Refactoring with LINQ & Iterators: FindDescendantControl and GetDescendantControls

Web

1. Connecting your Silverlight Applications to Web and Data services (WebClient)
2. SilverBullet #4 – System.Windows.ApplicationIdentity
3. Moving ListItems between Two ListBox – Client Side Approach
4. Are we done with XML yet? hello JINI
5. Silverlight FAQ part 2 (Animations and Transformations)
6. 10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance
7. Learning: Flex and XML as easy as 1…2…3
8. The Google Code Blog: How we improved performance on Google Code
9. 8 jquery plugin to enhance your HTML form element
10. Easy Ajax with jQuery
11. jQuery Impromptu
12. jQuery Plugin: betterTip
13. Essential Practices for Styling Your CSS
14. Silverlight MultiBindings, How to attached mutiple bindings to a single property.
15. SilverLight FAQ's - Part 3

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Your questions: what do I like about Windows 7? Windows Easy Transfer for migrating your life to a new PC
2. 10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To
3. Sampson gets a new home – beautiful Newf
4. Notebook Sharing and Collaboration: Phase 1

Links (6/22/2009)

.NET

1. Add Extension Methods in LinqPad
2. Refactor ForEach to AddRange
3. TreeViewAdv for .Net (a Free/OSS C# WinForm TreeView component) v1.7 Released

Web

1. 100+ Massive CSS Toolbox
2. jQuery Ribbon
3. Control-Oriented Vs. Data-Oriented Programming in Silverlight
4. Adventures in MVVM -- Ball of Mud vs MVVM
5. Intermediate JQuery
6. A jQuery Plugin for a Flash-like interactive map
7. jQuery and Ajax Best Demos Part-2
8. Rebuilding The Google Blog Bar; jQuery-ed Version
9. jQuery Secrets with Dave Ward
10. A Basic Custom Layout in silverLight
11. How to make Horizontal Sliding menu using CSS
12. $10,000 for the Best Silverlight App!

Visual Studio

1. How To Inspect the Content of a Program Database (PDB) File
2. Xcode one ups #region in Visual Studio
3. Does Add References make you crazy? Dread using it because you hate the wait? Check this out… The “Fast Add Reference Dialog” VS Addin

Development/Miscellaneous

1. 25 iPhone Apps For The Mobile Web Worker
2. From Concept to Production - Prototyping with Blend 3 & SketchFlow
3. Blend 3 – Great Feature #2 – Master/Details Screens
4. One day with Balsamiq Mockups: a review

Links (6/18/2009)

.NET

1. Enumerations, structs and Extension Methods
2. Determine Whether an Assembly was compiled in Debug Mode
3. TestDriven.Net 2.22 RTM - What’s New?

Web

1. flickrVIEWR – A flickr viewer in Silverlight – Part 1
2. flickrVIEWR – A flickr viewer in Silverlight – Part 2
3. Silverlight and Search crawling some tips
4. How We Did It: SharePoint.Microsoft.com
5. New release of "Silverlight Count Down Control"
6. SilverBullet #3 - System.Windows.Input.FocusManager
7. Changing design colors with jquery
8. Big javascript post
9. Forcing a GridView to use clean html for use with jQuery plug-ins
10. JQuery Pop-Up Window Plugin, Degrades Gracefully
11. JQuery LightBox Max Height and Width
12. MVVM light toolkit (Silverlight edition) posted
13. Quick Tip: Outline Elements on Hover
14. How To Bind To Generic Method In XAML
15. How to Submit a Form with AJAX in jQuery
16. JQuery Autocomplete with WCF services
17. Silverlight 3 Behaviors : Double Click Trigger
18. jQuery Dock Menu Tutorial Revisit - Dock at Bottom
19. Why do I keep getting prompted to install Silverlight on some websites?
20. Reading querystring using javascript
21. jQuery Introducing iPhone-style Checkboxes
22. Image Flip Using jQuery
23. 10+ useful jQuery Plugins for web development
24. A jQuery “flash like” menu

Visual Studio

1. Tip #81: Did you know... How to Select the CSS Schema for Intellisense and CSS Properties?

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Big Update: Evernote for iPhone 3.0 is Here
2. Quotation Plug-in for Windows Live Writer
3. Screenshots of TweetDeck for iPhone
4. 50 Excellent 3D Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
5. VMware Workstation 7 enters in private beta

Links (6/15/2009)

.NET

1. How to properly convert SecureString to String

Web

1. Turning Off ASP.Net Validators
2. Awesome WPF/Silverlight Guidance
3. Silverlight toolkit with ADO.NET Data services , Drill-down Charts using Astoria
4. First Steps in Silverlight 2 and Expression Blend 2
5. Animated menu with jquery
6. Professional Flash Media Player: ActionScript 3.0
7. Flash vs Silverlight
8. Stunning jQuery animations
9. JavaScript: Not your father's inheritance model - Part 1
10. JavaScript: Not your father's inheritance model - Part 2
11. Smart Columns w/ CSS & jQuery
12. jQuery Infinite Carousel
13. Using jQuery To Manipulate and Filter Data
14. 20 Amazing jQuery Plugins and 65 Excellent jQuery Resources
15. jQuery SuperBox!
16. 15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS
17. One way, two way and one time bindings using Silverlight
18. Using Embedded Fonts in Silverlight 2
19. New York Times Silverlight Kit version 1.0.7 Released
20. Silverlight: ave I Missed The Bus?

Visual Studio

1. Tip# 77: Did you know… How to enable Page Level Tracing for your ASP.NET pages?

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Balsamiq: Tree Table
2. Laptop Configuration for Hardcore Demos
3. Looking at a bug we fixed in OneNote 2007 SP2
4. Guidelines for writing good individual review comments
5. Five Things I Do With Every Ubuntu Installation
6. A Couple of Quick Ubuntu Tips
7. 100 Excellent iPhone Apps for Web Designers and Developers

Links (6/10/2009)

.NET

1. Stripping the Decimal From a Value in .NET

Web

1. StackPanel, DockPanel and scrolling items
2. Adding Rows in GridView
3. Adding Rows in GridView with Edit, Update and Delete Functionality
4. The ViewModel Pattern in Silverlight – An Example
5. jQuery Sliding Tab Menu for Sidebar Tutorial
6. SilverBullet #1 – System.Environment
7. SilverBullet #2 – System.Json
8. How to Build a jQuery Treeview
9. SilverLight 2.0: Setting the Background of a Button
10. Using the Silverlight Accordion Control
11. 11 keystrokes that made my jQuery selector run 10x faster
12. .NET RIA Services roadmap update
13. Using google analytics data in your application
14. 5 commonly neglected parts of websites
15. CrossSlide - A jQuery plugin to create Ken Burns pan and cross-fade animations
16. Ten CSS tricks you may not know
17. Fluent Silverlight – Part 3 – Binding Events to Commands
18. Submit multiple forms with jQuery and Ajax.
19. Source Code for JQuery ASP.NET Controls

Visual Studio

1. You can use Visual Studio to debug itself!
2. FxCop: How To Use It

Development/Miscellaneous

1. How to Improve Long Warning Messages
2. Change of the background image on the logon screen in Windows 7
3. Windows 7 Logo Changer
4. Model View Presenter (MVP) design pattern and data binding
5. Release: VMware Converter 4.0.1
6. News: JetBrains TeamCity 4.5.2 Available

Links (6/7/2009)

.NET

1. Introduction to NHibernate, pt. 7
2. Textbox Class for Numeric Input only

Web

1. Check your Silverlight 2 apps for compatibility with Silverlight 3
2. Silverlight Tips & Tricks: Make Silverlight DataGrid be more MVVM friendly =)
3. June 7th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio
4. jQuery idleTimer plugin
5. jQuery: show plain text in a password field and then make it a regular password field on focus
6. REST - What the Heck Is It?
7. Data Grid View Filter PopUp
8. jQuery Tools vs jQuery UI
9. jQuery AJAX Tabs with ThickBox enabled
10. Jquery Tools: A Jquery UI Alternative
11. Using jQuery Visited Plug-In
12. Best of Tooltips Scripts With JavaScript, Ajax & CSS
13. Adding ToolTip for each List Item.

Visual Studio

1. Getting Started with jQuery in Visual Studio 2008

Development/Miscellaneous

1. How to Remove the .NET ClickOnce Firefox Extension
2. Updates: VMMap v2.0, ClockRes v2.0
3. 10+ Stunning Websites for Download Free Icon Sets
4. More Amazing Ubuntu Tips in 5 parts

Links (6/4/2009)

.NET

1. Debugging .NET Applications … a power course (day 1/2)
2. Debugging .NET Applications … a power course (day 2/2)
3. How to Use LINQ to Get a Count of Duplicates in a List
4. Simple group slicing in XSLT
5. Getting the index of an item in a LINQ query

Web

1. jQuery Image Map
2. jQuery TOOLS - The UI library for the Web
3. Automatic DataGrid refresh in SilverLight
4. Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS
5. Displaying a Confirmation Dialog with the JQuery UI Dialog
6. Silverlight and WCF Authentication Issues
7. Fluent Silverlight – Part 1
8. Fluent Silverlight – Part 2 – Binding Properties
9. Fluent Silverlight - Auto Wiring INotifyPropertyChanged
10. The Ultimate jQuery List
11. Advanced docking using jQuery
12. Slick jQuery Slideshow Plugin: s3Slider
13. Cross domain access policy in Silverlight applications
14. Facebook like suggestions with jQuery content appears and disappears.
15. jQuery Masonry - A Layout Plugin for jQuery
16. HTTP Post from SilverLight application to a REST Service
17. Silverlight how to: Add a user control to another user control
18. XAML By FARR: Resource Dictionaries Vs User Control Resources
19. Choose Your Best WYSIWYG Editor
20. Silverlight 2 Web Service Part III - Single object Get and Update from database
21. Animated Navigation Bar Using jQuery 

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Is there a way to connect OneNote notebooks w/ Confluence Wiki pages? Or to easily migrate content from OneNote to Confluence?
2. 9 Crucial UI Features of Social Media and Networking Sites
3. Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices – Utils Class
4. Firefox users flip out over sneak MS add-on
5. Windows Server 2008: Reclaiming Disk Space After Installing Service Pack 2
6. Ubuntu Themes: 61 Awesome Themes for Linux

Learning jQuery 1.3 Review

I wrote a book review for Learning jQuery 1.3 over on my SharePoint site.

Link