Links (6/15/2010)

.NET

1. LINQPad Has Replaced Snippet Compiler in my ToolBox
2. Sometimes an enum is not the best idea
3. Conditional Attribute
4. Checking For Empty Enumerations
5. C#: System.Lazy and the Singleton Design Pattern
6. C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: C# 4 Named Parameters
7. C# 4.0/BCL 4 Series: C# 4 Optional Parameters
8. Caveats of C# 4.0 optional parameters
9. Linq To Dataset: Display the contents of several tables in a data control

Web

1. Spicing Up Your Website With jQuery Goodness
2. It's Here! Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4.0 Ship
3. What’s new in ASP.NET 4.0: Core Features
4. MVC 2 Presentation – Final Demo
5. Sesame Data Browser: filtering, sorting, selecting and linking
6. HTML5 should not mean “Requires Safari”
7. Using LinqPad to Query OData Services – Screencast
8. Rich Tooltips With jQuery
9. Using transactions with LINQ-to-SQL
10. Tabbed Content with Navigation using jQuery UI
11. Mouseless Browsing
12. HTML5 And Flash: Why It’s Not A War, And Why Flash Won’t Die
13. 35 jQuery Tutorials You Must Know
14. ASP.NET Page Curls using jQuery
15. Overview of XSLT

Visual Studio

1. Free download: Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools
2. Silverlight 4 Tools for VS 2010 and WCF RIA Services Released
3. Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tool Extensions
4. The Best Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools, Power Commands and Extensions
5. The Ultimate Visual Studio 2010 Resources Page
6. ReSharper snippet for a Custom Exception
7. ReSharper PowerToys gone OSS
8. Announcing the first Visual Studio Pro Power Tools!
9. VSGesture v2 for VS 2010 – Adding mouse gesture support to VS 2010 (No, not those “hand gestures” I see you doing at your screen… ;)
10. VS 2010 productivity improvements, Part II
11. Code Rush Vs. ReSharper
12. Make the Visual Studio 2010 IDE colors look like Visual Studio 2008

Development/Miscellaneous

1. New Tool: Sysinternals RAMMap v1.0
2. Updates: Coreinfo v2.1, Process Monitor v2.91, Disk Usage v1.34 and a book Making it Big in Software
3. Update: Autoruns v10.01
4. Wanna Job? Where is your online CV?
5. What is PowerPivot?
6. PowerPivot is the analysts/managers killer app
7. Office 2010 Professional Plus (Top 10 reasons to upgrade)
8. Disable Password Complexity/Expiration etc. Policy on Windows Server 2008
9. How to Write Crisp and Effective Emails
10. Mapping a SkyDrive Folder in Windows Explorer II (an even easier way than before)
11. Resurrecting User Interface Prototypes (Without Creating Zombies)
12. Scroll Banner or Text in Silverlight

SharePoint Links

Silverlight Links