Links (1/31/2010)

.NET

1. Sample Reflection.Emit code for using exception filters from C#
2. Custom String Methods using C#
3. String List of enum Names
4. Playing With LINQ: Getting Interface Property Implementations
5. Convert String to Date
6. The beauty of C# and Linq
7. Don't Use Try/Catch
8. Extension Methods on Types You Own?

Web

1. Nice “Quick Hit” Videos about ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010
2. Extensible Output Caching with ASP.NET 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)
3. About Technical Debates (and ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC debates in particular)
4. 20 Easy-to-Learn jQuery Animation Tutorials
5. Add a Google Reader Shared Items widget to any site with jQuery
6. Add a Last.fm widget to any web site with jQuery

Visual Studio

1. NDepend v3 is now 100% integrated in Visual Studio.
2. VS 2010 Tip #1 : Recent Projects > Start Page
3. VS 2010 Tip #2 : Close Start Page after Project Load
4. VS 2010 Tips #3 : Create New Project
5. VS 2010 Tips #4 : Enhanced DataTips for Debugging
6. Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Cards on CodePlex

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Portrait of a Basement Datacenter
2. Windows 7 Tip of the Week
3. New large DW and OLAP sample databases available: Contoso!
4. Phone (or SMS) Home with Google Chrome
5. How to Replace a Lost Cellphone Charger (For Free) [Cellphones]
6. Wrox PDF Ebooks DRM-free

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Links (1/24/2010)

.NET

1. D.C. and the Wrapper Factory
2. Selecting Static Results with Dynamic LINQ
3. Quick Tip: Parse String to Nullable Value
4. Community Links LVIII
5. RTM’d today: CLR via C#, Third Edition

Web

1. Getting Started with the ASP.net MVC Framework – Installation and “Hello World”
2. Do not allow HTML into the textbox
3. Learning jQuery 1.4: Remove() vs. Detach()
4. Creating Charts And Graphs Using jQuery
5. 12 really useful CSS tools
6. Firebug Demystified
7. Unwinding the page lifecycle events

Visual Studio

1. Making DevExpress & ReSharper Play Nicely
2. How to customize what files to search with Find in Files – vstipFind0005
3. New Visual Studio Tips Series

Development/Miscellaneous

1. What keeps you awake at night?
2. How To Master a Programming Language
3. A Simple ToDo List Application Made using Adobe AIR
4. Balsamiq: Browser Standard Toolbars

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Links (1/21/2010)

.NET

1. What’s the difference between a destructor and a finalizer?
2. Constructor over-injection anti-pattern
3. Constructor over-injection smell – follow up
4. Building an Enterprise Application with Entity Framework 4
5. Extension Method String.Reverse
6. How to create a simple Extension method. A simple example.

Web

1. 25 Tutorials and Resources for Learning jQuery UI
2. 21 Best jQuery Tooltip Plugins, Demos, Examples & Tutorials
3. Firebug 1.5 released!
4. 75+ Top jQuery Plugins to improve Your HTML Forms
5. Top 10 jQuery Snippets (including jquery 1.4)
6. Tip 50 – How to query a Data Service using JQuery

Visual Studio

1. ASP.NET Support in ReSharper 5
2. Visual Studio temporary projects
3. Some Visual Studio tips I picked up recently

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Voicemail Codes to Remember for ATT Phone Users
2. Be a Better Developer: 3 – Being a Researcher – Tips
3. Updates: ProcDump v1.72, Desktops v1.02, Sigcheck v1.65, DiskView v2.3
4. Get your users to help you reproduce errors with the Problem Steps Recorder

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Links (1/17/2010)

.NET

1. Replace Foreach with LINQ
2. Making Your Own 8K Homegrown Inversion of Control Container

Web

1. 6 CSS Tutorials That Take You From Beginner to Expert
2. jQuery 1.4 Released: The 15 New Features you Must Know
3. 8 Free & Best CSS Editors For Web Designers
4. ASP.NET MVC 2: Model Validation
5. ASP.NET Page Life Cycle Diagram

Visual Studio

1. April 12 is the New Release Date for Visual Studio 2010
2. Visual Studio and Windows Azure Training Kit Updates

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Should You Be a Generalist Or a Specialist?
2. Gmail for Windows 7
3. Slide Deck from Advanced Presentation Patterns at CodeMash
4. Are You Ready To Transfer To Chrome? - 30 Irreplaceable Chrome Extensions
5. Why should you invest in MSDN?
6. Updates: ProcDump v1.71

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Links (1/14/2010)

.NET

1. Quick Tip: Embedding and Accessing Schemas in .NET
2. Continuing to an outer loop
3. 16 Ways To Create IObservables without implementing IObservable
4. Why Can't I Access A Protected Member From A Derived Class? Part Six
5. Building custom LINQ expressions made easy with DynamicQueryable.

Web

1. Paging Records Sucks – Use jQuery to Scroll Just In Time
2. Cross-domain requests with jQuery!
3. The Weekly Source Code 47 - ASP.NET 3.5 Dynamic Data: FilterRepeaters and Dynamic Linq Query Generation
4. 45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript-Techniques
5. 70+ Beautiful CSS Techniques
6. Simple jQuery Page Dimmer
7. 13 jQuery User Interface Tutorials to Improve Your Designs

Visual Studio

1. How to transform old properties to automatic properties with a ‘simple’ search and replace
2. Writing plug-ins for ReSharper: Part 1 of Undefined

Development/Miscellaneous

1. How to create great work environments
2. Balsamiq: rowser Standard Toolbars
3. Step by Step sign up for the MSDN Subscriber offer for the Windows Azure Platform
4. 5753+ Beautiful Icons
5. Updates: ProcDump v1.7, AccessChk v4.24, Sigcheck v1.64, Desktops v1.01, LiveKd v3.13

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Links (1/10/2010)

.NET

1. Getting Last Quarter end and Next Quarter End Extension methods
2. How to get out of the GAC all the registered assemblies
3. Simplified Many-To-Many Relationships with LINQ to SQL

Web

1. A Collection Of CSS Pagination Styles
2. jQuery Animations: A 7-Step Program
3. Facebook Inbox grid style using jQuery, CSS, JSON, and ASP.NET
4. ASP.NET Performance - Part 2 – YSlow
5. JavaScript Wait While Loading Page Display Image

Development/Miscellaneous

1. 5 Tips on Getting PowerPoint to Sing!
2. Windows Azure Platform Benefits for MSDN Subscribers
3. Page Tabs in OneNote 2010
4. Making your code instantly readable...
5. A Democracy of Netbooks

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Links (1/7/2010)

.NET

1. More LINQ with System.Interactive – Functional fun and taming side-effects
2. Serializing ArrayLists of Disparate Objects to XML Strings

Web

1. Best Time Saving CSS Coding Tools You Should Know
2. Inheritance Patterns in YUI 3
3. 50 excellent tools to help you achieve various tasks in JavaScript
4. Scrolling to the Top and Bottom with jQuery

Development/Miscellaneous

1. 280 Slides - More Online Presentations
2. Windows Azure Lessons Learned: Quest Software
3. 100 Quotes Every Geek Should Know 

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Links (1/3/2010)

.NET

1. Streaming OLAP with the Reactive Extensions (RX) for .Net
2. More LINQ with System.Interactive – Sequences under construction
3. More LINQ with System.Interactive – Exploiting the code = data relationship
4. More LINQ with System.Interactive – More combinators for your Swiss Army Knife
5. The Essence of LINQ – MinLINQ
6. LINQSQO v4.0 and MinLINQ v1.0 Now Available for Download
7. The IDisposable Dispose Pattern
8. GridView using LINQ and Convert datetime to shortdate in LINQ.
9. Covert color to Hex using C#
10. LINQ to XML with Hierarchical XML, Optional Elements, and Namespaces
11. Fewer smaller .Net DLLs vs less large DLLs

Web

1. Best jQuery Content Slider Scripts and Tutorials
2. Do you know how to permanently redirect old incoming URL’s?
3. Death to confirmation dialogs with jquery.undoable
4. jQuery Plugin – Form To Wizard
5. Most Essential Best Practices to Improve and Optimize Your Markup and CSS
6. jQuery Multi Level Popup Menu
7. Secrets of IE8

Visual Studio

1. ReSharper 5.0 has awesome ASP.NET MVC support

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Azure Service Bus – Intro to Eventing in the App Fabric – Project Weather Cloud
2. Azure Service Bus – Eventing in the App Fabric – Project Weather Cloud – Creating the Weather Stations
3. Recovering from the depths of developer burn out - Some tips from the field
4. Evernote for iPhone 3.2.1 is live
5. My iTunes Rant
6. Hide Windows Language Updates in Windows 7
7. Latest release of Cropper works great on Windows 7 x64
8. Cool - PowerPoint Online
9. The decade in graphic form
10. eBook reader – I think I’ll pass!
11. Enable GodMode On Windows 7

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