Links (5/13/2010)

.NET

1. Simplify, Shorten and Speed Up Your LINQ Statements with "Let" (blog.nitriq.com)
2. Entity Framework 4.0 POCO Classes and Data Services
3. C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: Complex numeric type
4. C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: BigInteger
5. C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: System.Tuple
6. REST to Objects in C#
7. Use Extension method to write cleaner code
8. All the posts in LINQ series
9. Exploring LINQ #3

Web

1. 5 CSS Methods to Style a Block with Background
2. jQuery - Handling Events using jQuery
3. Understanding CSS Specificity
4. jQuery Templates and Data Linking (and Microsoft contributing to jQuery)
5. AJAX in 5 minutes using jQuery
6. Using CSS with JSON
7. jQuery plugin that adds a gmail-like confirm-before-exit feature to a form
8. HTML5 Readiness Chart
9. HTML 5 : An introduction to its features
10. CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 Help Cheat Sheets (PDF)

Visual Studio

1. Visual Studio 2010 - Faster Startup with /nosplash
2. Visual Studio Gives You Tooltip Support with Resource Files
3. Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters Available
4. Customizing the Visual Studio 2010 Start Page
5. Pinning Projects and Solutions with Visual Studio 2010
6. Visual Studio 2010 – My Favorite Features
7. Visual Studio 2010 Simulcast (Part 3 of 6): SharePoint and Office Development
8. Visual Studio 2010 Simulcast (Part 4 of 6): Windows Development
9. Visual Studio 2010 Simulcast (Part 5 of 6): Web and Cloud Development
10. Visual Studio 2010 Simulcast (Part 6 of 6): Windows Phone 7 Development
11. Visual Studio 2010 Extension Manager (and the new VS 2010 PowerCommands Extension)

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Debug It!
2. SharpDevelop 3.2
3. Passwords you CAN write down? Secure passwords that you can carry in your wallet, PasswordCard to the rescue.
4. Balsamiq: Sample Architecture Mockup

SharePoint Links

Silverlight Links

Azure Links

Links (5/2/2010)

.NET

1. Layering enumerators
2. Reactive Framework Getting your LINQ on
3. C#: Adding Functionality to 3rd Party Libraries With Extension Methods
4. LINQ and Aggregate function

Web

1. High Performance JavaScript
2. Is the Future of the Web HTML5
3. What's Wrong With CSS
4. April 30th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio 2010
5. Tip: Replacing Html.Encode Calls With New Html Encoding Syntax
6. Create a Simple Interactive CSS Button with jQuery
7. jQuery Masonry – the answer to vertical flow layout
8. Custom Table Headers With the ASP.NET GridView Control
9. 40 Useful jQuery Techniques and Plugins
10. Playing with aspx page cycle using JustMock
11. 15 Excellent CSS Grid Systems For Web Designers
12. HTML 5 Presentation

Visual Studio

1. Visual Studio color schemes Repository
2. What's New In Visual Studio 2010
3. Download and Share Visual Studio Color Schemes
4. Your Visual Studio 2010 Dream Machine
5. The Best of Visual Studio 2010: Using the Call Hierarchy (C# Only)

Development/Miscellaneous

1. Balsamiq: age Break Strip / Tear / Rip
2. Save Significant Disk Space by Setting MaxPatchCacheSize to 0
3. 10 New UX Books To Look Out for in 2010
4. Reach out and touch your PowerPoint - pptPlex updated, says hello to PowerPoint 2010 and Windows 7 Multitouch
5. Tip: Use Evernote to remember the people you meet
6. Top 10 Reasons to invest in MSDN Subscriptions
7. Updates: LiveKd v4.0, AccessChk v5.0, LogonSessions v1.2 and serveral PsTools and a new Mark's Blog Post - The Case of the Printing Failure

SharePoint Links

Silverlight Links

Azure Links