Links (12/27/2009)

.NET

1. Sort List and use Array.ForEach()
2. LINQ Part 2 – LINQ for XML
3. LINQ Part 3 – LINQ for SQL
4. Using LINQ and reflection to find matching properties of objects
5. More LINQ with System.Interactive – Getting Started
6. More LINQ with System.Interactive – The Ultimate Imperative
7. More LINQ with System.Interactive – Exceptional Exception Handling
8. Strip the last word from a string
9. My favorites .Net development toolkits

Web

1. Specify multiple selectors with jQuery
2. jQuery Hide/Close Link
3. Top 10 jQuery Modal Box Plugins
4. 6 Spectacular CSS Generation Tools For Developers
5. jQuery hoverImage plugin
6. 25 Rounded Corners Techniques with CSS
7. Guided Tour: jQuery - Array wannabes
8. ASP.NET MVC Unleashed by Stephen Walther
9. 25+ Highly Useful jQuery Plugins Bringing Life back to HTML Tables
10. Organizing JavaScript for Event Pooling with jQuery
11. JavaScript Part 5 - The Client Side

Visual Studio

1. Note to Self: ReSharper’s action lists issue

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Huge Evernote for iPhone Update: Offline notebooks and more!
2. Windows Azure benefits for MSDN Premium Subscribers can be used for live applications. Sign up from January 4th
3. Fiddler is bigger and better than I thought
4. Business Process Modeling for Software Developers
5. Using RAMDisk to Speed Build Times
6. The Most Effective Words To Use With Customers

SharePoint Links

Silverlight Links

Links (12/20/2009)

.NET

1. Array.ForEach method
2. C# Delegates, Anonymous Methods, and Lambda Expressions – O My!
3. My MonoTouch ebook is out - Build iPhone apps with C# and run on the iPhone
4. Effectus: Building UI based on conventions

Web

1. Moving your ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure – Part II
2. What You Need To Know About Behavioral CSS
3. Learning jQuery: Optimize Using Modal Window or Dialog Box in JQuery UI
4. appendTo Brings jQuery Curriculum to the Enterprise
5. Tip#100: Did you know… How to view ASP.NET trace information?
6. SmtpClient and Locked File Attachments

Visual Studio

1. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Update

Development/Miscellaneous

1. XBoxGames Databases for SQL Server 2005 and 2008
2. My Bloggers of The Year 2009 

Links (12/17/2009)

Web

1. 20 Best jQuery Tips and Tricks Collection
2. JavaScript Part 1 - hello JavaScript!
3. JavaScript Part 2 - The Free Stuff
4. JavaScript Part 3 - Prototype Based Language
5. JavaScript Part 4 - the "this" operator
6. soapUI 3.5 beta1 - The Protocol Release
7. Using setTimeout to Delay Showing Event-Delegation Tooltips
8. Binding Multiple Events to Reduce Redundancy with Event-Delegation Tooltips
9. 50+ jQuery Plugins for Form Enhancements
10. How to parse JSON from C#
11. Feature List jQuery Plugin
12. 10 CSS Snippets to Save Precious Time
13. A free standing ASP.NET Pager Web Control

Development/Miscellaneous

1. “Everything You Need to Know About Azure as a Developer” 18 part course on msdev.com updated to include four new Windows Azure AppFabric sessions

SharePoint Links

Silverlight Links

Links (12/13/2009)

Web

1. Styling HTML Lists with CSS: Techniques and Resources
2. Use Less to reduce CSS clutter!

Visual Studio

1. VS2010 Menu Text Looks Corrupt Under VMWare Workstation 7
2. PaulStovell.com Visual Studio Colour Scheme – Will check this out. I have been bored with black as well.

Development/Miscellaneous

1. How to Keep Your Skills Current as a Developer
2. Top 15+ Best Practices for Writing Super Readable Code
3. VMWare Memory Issue
4. Bored with you standard presentation slides?
5. VirtualBox Live Show – What’s New in VirtualBox 3.1

Silverlight Links

SharePoint Links

Links (12/10/2009)

.NET

1. Coming soon: Jeffrey Richter’s CLR via C#, Third Edition
2. Demystifying LINQ Aggregates
3. C# Code to send an email
4. LINQ query operators and null lists
5. Query transformations are syntactic
6. Free (reg-ware) PowerShell v1 eBook (593 pages) – “SAPIEN’s Windows Powershell V1.0: TFM”
7. More On The Death of If-Else
8. A LINQ Tutorial: Adding/Updating/Deleting Data

Web

1. What’s New in YUI Test 3.0.0
2. Why Flash Might Not Be Good For Your Website
3. JSON versus XML: Your Choice Matters More Than You Think
4. Beautiful Slide Out Navigation Revised
5. Making a Fresh Content Accordion
6. 23 Best jQuery Facebook Style Plugins

Development/Miscellaneous

1. First Steps to Downloading the Azure SDK
2. Deploying Azure apps in 1000 words or less
3. Absolute Step 1 for getting started with Azure
4. Balsamiq: Android Controls
5. Writing User Friendly Content
6. Speed Tracer - a tool for Chrome to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications

SharePoint 2007/2010 Links

Silverlight 3/4 Links

Links (12/6/2009)

.NET

1. Differences between using the ‘Convert’ class vs. casting (Part 2 of 2)
2. Better than Contains()

Web

1. CSS and jQuery Tutorial: Overlay with Slide Out Box
2. 15 amazing jquery tabs tutorials

Visual Studio

1. Most Amazing ReFactor Using ReSharper EAP 5.0 I’ve Seen!
2. ReSharper is amazing, take N

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Azure Start Guide – Step by Step Installation Guide
2. Google Voice Videos
3. Dan Bricklin's Note Taker for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch

Silverlight Links

SharePoint Links

Links (12/3/2009)

.NET

1. LINQ Part 1 – LINQ for XML

Web

1. Pushing Your Buttons With Practical CSS3
2. Simple Tooltip for Huge Number of Elements
3. Beautiful Slide Out Navigation: A CSS and jQuery Tutorial
4. 15 Handpicked Fresh and Useful jQuery Tutorials
5. 35 Most Wanted Firefox Add-ons for Web Developers and Designers
6. Google boosts Chrome dev tools

Visual Studio

1. LINQ to Visual Studio Solution
2. 131 jQuery Snippets for Visual Studio 2010

Development/Miscellaneous

1. VirtualBox 3.1 Killer Features
2. Updates: VMMap v2.5, Disk2vhd v1.4; Sigcheck v1.63; Autoruns v9.57; PsExec v1.97; PsKill v1.13 and a new Mark's Windows Internals Session video from PDC 2009
3. Balsamiq: Google Maps Mockup
4. Azure Benefits for MSDN Subscribers
5. Setting Notepad++ to work with the C# compiler
6. Review: Zeo Personal Sleep Coach