To all a wondrous holiday season and prosperous and fulfilling new year.
My family and I are off for a couple of weeks to start the road trip that is visiting the families for the holiday season. As a result I am not sure how much online time there will be and I am truly anxious as to the size of unread articles upon my return. Either way, things are going to be quiet until we get back. Until the next one, have fun!
Scott Hanselman posts a well articulated response to some of the community goings on in ASP.NET MVC Samples, Oxite, and Community
Dmitry Fadeyev on the Pressed Button State With CSS
Joren Rapin offers CSS Navigation Rollovers With Drop-downs
Sylvain Galineau presents The CSS Corner: Alternate Style Sheets
Jon Hobbs-Smith offers Improve your jQuery – 25 excellent tips
NetTuts spotlight the rather nifty jQuery Cheat Sheet
The Microsoft SDL Threat Modeling Tool v3
Roger Johansson on how to Find inline CSS and JavaScript with Inline Code Finder
Shawn Wildermuth on ADO.NET Data Services for Multiple Databases?
Dirk Metzmacher presents 60 Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials
Scott Koon highlights Wubi – Ubuntu Installer for Windows
Katrien De Graeve announces Unity for Silverlight by P&P group has been released
Jonathan van de Veen with his Adventures while building a Silverlight Enterprise application part #1
Page Brooks announces Silverlight Contrib 2008.0.0 – Alpha 3 Available!
Boyan Mihylov with Silverlight SEO
The Swiss MSDN team have release their thoughts on WPF vs. Silverlight for Intranet Line of Business apps
Koen Zwijstra released his Parts & States presentation
Karl Shifflett with details of a WPF Toolkit DatePicker Memory Leak Problem and Using WPF Binding StringFormat Property with Nullable Types
Rick Barraza writes (and subsequently revised by Adam Kinney) a tutorial with Silverlight Trigonometry – play with the demo in the middle of the article. It is stunning.
Timmy Kokke on Sending queryparameters to Silverlight
David Kelley on Scrubbing Timeline MediaElement
Derek Hatchard with an interesting sideline post on The Netbook Resolution Conundrum
Eric Havir highlights Surface in Day the Earth Stood Still and Spotted: Library with Microsoft Surface
Ivo Manolov with an Introduction to TestApi – Part1: Input Injection APIs
James Bacon with a Fix for invalid XAML error – the member is not recognized or accessible when using ControlTemplate
Dr Z on Building and Deploying WPF Applications Using the .NET Client Profile
Kurt Brockett with IdentityMine on Channel9 – XAML Guidelines, Part 1
Nick Berardi is Introducing the ASP.NET MVC (Part 1) – The Model-View-Controller Pattern
Scott Koon outlines some of the issues with Oxite in NEW ASP.NET MVC SAMPLE – OXITE – NEEDS SOME TLC
Karl Seguin lends his voice to those not most impressed by Oxite in Oxite – Oh Dear Lord Why?!
Jeffrey Way continues with jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 10
Brian Reindel on how to Create an Amazon Books Widget with jQuery and XML thought this one might be good for a Silverlight widget too 
Smashing Magazine with some stunning Light Blurs Brushes and Decoration Pack For Photoshop
Gotta love this one – Css Juice’s 13 Online Generators for Web 2.0 Design
W3C Web Standard Defines Accessibility for Next Generation Web
Jeff Attwood’s My Scaling Hero
Rick Strahl on Removing the .SVC Extension from WCF REST URLs
Glen Stansberry lists 10 Steps to Learn a New Coding Language Fast
Davy Brion on The Importance Of Releasing Your Components Through Windsor
Rob Reynolds with The Real Reason to Use IoC/DI (Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection) and a Container Like Windsor
Microsoft’s Code Analysis Tool .NET (CAT.NET) v1 CTP – 32 bit - “a binary code analysis tool that helps identify common variants of certain prevailing vulnerabilities that can give rise to common attack vectors such as Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), SQL Injection and XPath Injection”
Mike Demopoulos spotlight’s Mark Dawson’s work with Silverlight Photosynth Viewer
Tim Anderson’s First steps with offline Silverlight and Live Framework
Bryant Likes on Silverlight Dependency Properties
Jeff Prosise on SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON XAMLREADER.LOAD
Jeff Wilcox on AutoCompleteBox without cycling navigation and Adding page up and down support to AutoCompleteBox
Dave Anson on Expanded access to Silverlight 2’s generic.xaml resources [SilverlightDefaultStyleBrowser updated for better compatibility!]
Michael Washington with a great wee Silverlight Dashboard implementation
Robby Ingebretsen on Free Typefaces for Your WPF of Silverlight Project
Michael Wolf on a Silverlight ConfigurationManager
Andy Beaulieu announces the release of the Physics Helper Beta 3
Eric Havir on Hotel 1000 and Microsoft Surface
Jakob Nielson on Interaction Elasticity
Dmitry Fadeyev lists 10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs
Speckyboy lists 37 Phenomenal jQuery Plugins and Demos for Developers
WebResourceDepot spotlights 25 Amazing JavaScript Games (Some Fun And Inspiration) and Free CSS Menus: Styled Menus
Germán Schuager on jQuery Autocomplete + JSON + ASP.NET MVC
Noupe spotlights the Templatica launch
Thought this was a brilliant post from Davy Brion on Bridging The Gap Between Requirements And Code
Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library V3.0 Beta
Jesse Liberty on Sorting a List
Nigel Sampson asks Why won’t Generic.xaml work?
Ning Zhang looks at a Design Time Features in Silverlight Toolkit
Mike Demopoulos spotlights Felix Wang’s work with the excellent Create Silverlight photo galleries from your Flickr account with Mooncake
Alexey Zakharov provides a Silverlight Tip: Splash screen issues.
Jon Galloway looks at Silverlight Crossdomain Access Workarounds
Mike Ormond looks at Silverlight No Selection ListBox and ViewBox
Jose Fajardo with What a beautiful, thou distracting, flash website! Let’s do it in Silverlight
Einar Ingebrigtsen on INotifyPropertyChanged revisited
Kirupa Chinnathambi posts a great tutorial on Easing in Silverlight and WPF
Kevin Dockx on Silverlight: Easily Reading Application Settings from Configuration File (web.config)
Kevin Simmons offers some advice on SQL Server 2008 Sparse Columns Identifying Columns For Conversion
Jeremy Miller with a comprehensive post on Design and Testability
WebResourcesDepot spotlight MephoBox: Website Interface Collections
Beth Massi on Formatting Data in WPF Controls
András Pálinkás on MapperCommandBinding – Mapping commands in WPF
Marlon Grech on AttachedCommandBehavior V2 aka ACB
Charles Petzold on WPF Retained Graphics and the SubPropertiesDoNotAffectRender Flag
The All Web Design Blog lists 30+ CSS Cheat Sheets & Quick Reference Guides
James Padolsey on Extending jQuery’s selector capabilities
Jeffrey Way continues with jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 9
Kirk Evans on Understanding Tracking in Windows Workflow Foundation
Adrian Gondelle spotlights the Stunning 128 free icons by wefunction
Google have released a Browser Security Handbook
Justin offers his C# Design Patterns – The Decorator Pattern
Bert Czernicki with WCF 101 – Understanding Transfer Security Visually
Michael Demopoulos on Thumbtack from Microsoft Live Labs – Collect, Organize, Share
Frank Kelly offers some advice on How to Motivate Developers – A three step framework
Dmitry offers some sage design advice with Take a Step Back to See the Big Picture
Jacob Gube presents 20 Excellent Websites for Learning Ajax
Shawn Oster on Working with Units of Measure in a NumericUpDown
Kevin Dockx with Silverlight: Scale from Sender-popup animation
David Anson with Great Silverlight charts are still just a click away [ChartBuilder sample and source code updated for Charting's December 08 release]
Jeff Wilcox with Silverlight AutoCompleteBox: What’s new in the December release
Rick Strahl asks SilverLight ListBox Selections or what’s with SelectionChanged Events?
Jeff Handley on Custom Controls Everywhere – In XAML
Denis Gobo presents The Ten Most Asked SQL Server Questions And Their Answers
Scott Koon on Mocking IDataReader Using Rhino.Mocks 3.5
Peter van Ooijen reckons WPF = Code + Markup (Custom pushpins for DeepEarth)
Karl Shifflett announces his WPF M-V-VM Series Begins which links out to the WPF & Silverlight Line of Business UI Design Pattern Home Page
Ivan Towlson on Smart editors for the WPF Property Grid meet smart templates
A fairly quiet one today
WCF Test Harness available on CodePlex
David Kelley presents some Silverlight 2 Performance Best Practices
Robbe Morris with Silverlight Line Of Business Applications With Offline WPF Version
Stephen Dunlap looks at a Digg style Silverlight Pager Control
Russell Greenspan with How-To #11: Build a Silverlight ToolbarButton user control
Jerry Evans on (Much) Faster Silverlight Scrolling
Jeff Wilcox with a great article on Silverlight Charting: Creating rich data point tooltips
Jonathan van der Veen looks at Storing Silverlight DataGrid settings
Vincent Sibal on WPF TestApi and DataGrid Sample
Amit looks at Using Command Binding to Enhance Any WPF Control
Adam Kinney: Oh, Oxite, we love this open source .NET blog software
Stephen brings us the incredible CSS Stacked Bar Graphs
Smashing Magazine’s excellent list of 50 really useful CSS tools
Jacob Gube asks Six Questions: Eric Meyer on CSS3
Adrian Gondelle on how to Create a smooth tabbed menu in jQuery
Amirthalingam Prasanna looks at Offline data for occasionally connected applications
Kirk Evans on Understanding Persistence in Windows Workflow Foundation
Noupe presents the 50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008
Chris Anderson continues with Building a Silverlight Line-Of-Business Application – Part 5
David Kelley gives some Architectural Best Practices for Silverlight 2.0
Rob Zelt looks at Silverlight 2 Controls – Styles and Templates
Jonas Follesø releases code and video of his Silverlight Designer and Developer Network Presentation
Ruurd Boeke announces the Silverlight controls toolkit december released – expect a slew of similar announcements, but this is the first I saw.
Jeff Wilcox announces Silverlight unit test framework – updated source and binaries now available and Announcing the availability of the Silverlight Toolkit December 2008 release and on a different note Reid Borsuk releases an MD5 implementation for Silverlight 2 in pure open source goodness
David Anson details Silverlight Charting gets a host of improvements [Silverlight Toolkit December 08 release now available!]
Rodney illustrates Keywords, Brackets, Identifiers and Ridiculous
Darren Announcing ToneGrid – Collaborative Music Creation for Microsoft Surface
Jeremy Miller on Design and Testability
Glen Stansberry lists 10 Principles of the UI Design Masters
Radu Martin looks at the WPF content model and layout
Niamtu Dragos offers a XAML ComboBox Style
The guys at WindowsClient have released the WPF Application Quality Guide
Justin continues looking at Working With ASP.Net MVC Part 2 – The Model And The Repository Pattern
Jeffrey Way continues with jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 8
An absolute cracker from Jeffrey Zeldman on 20 signs you don’t want that web design project
Matt Gromes continues with My First Agile Project Part 14: Did We Need A Coach? Does Anyone?
Chris Heilmann on Liberated Accessibility at A-Tag in Vienna
Joe Stagner recommends we Download Oxite – the Code we use to run the MIX Web site
Patrick Smacchia Advices on partitioning code through .NET assemblies
Rudi Grobler on how to make a existing application extendible using MEF
Jesse Liberty discusses A complex home for very some simple Toollkit examples
Robby Ingebretsen on Running Custom Code / Firing Custom Events from Within Storyboards
Mark Monster on Combining Silverlight and Google Chart API and Getting the NTLM Username into your Silverlight application
Nigel Sampson on Beginning a Silverlight Animation framework
Miguel de Icaza looks at some incredible bits when Moonlight goes 3D
David Kelley releases his DevTeach Conference Content – Best Practices, Hacking Silverlight, Controls
Evan Lang gives a D3DImage Overview
Lester follows up on Ivo’s announcement yesterday about the launch of a WPF Test Helper Library
Crikey, work has been a wee bit hectic recently with everything needing to be done before the festive season. As a result this has fallen behind a little. However the rest of the world didn’t 
There have been a lot of really good posts / articles over the last few days and I think I have finally managed to catch up. Phew! Anyway here goes with today’s links. Enjoy.
Andrea Colaci looks at Executing Asynchronous Tasks in ASP.NET
Phil Haack discusses some Known Installation Issues With ASP.NET MVC
Suprotim Agarwal on Creating CollapsiblePanelExtender Functionality using ASP.NET and jQuery
Steve Smith gives an SEO Tip Move Hidden ASPNET Fields To Bottom of Page
Colin Angus Mackay on Data Visualization with the Virtual Earth ASP.NET Controls
Howard van Rooijen announces a New StyleCop for R# release
Jeffrey Way continues with jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 7
Alex Villmann with How to Setup a Dedicated Web Server for Free
Eugenio Pace on Architecting Cloud Applications for the Enterprise – Part I – Introducing the Actors
Microsoft Research “Boku” preview
Martin Hinshelwood announces TFS Event Handler v1.3 released
Smashing Magazine’s 50 Excellent Digital Photography Photoshop Tutorials and Designing The Holy Search Box: Examples And Best Practices
David Hill on UI Composition Patterns
Rudi Grobler on MEF: Taking extensibility to the next level
Karl Seguin picks up the SOLID baton with Get SOLID: Single Responsibility Principle
Pádraic Brady on The M in MVC: Why Models are Misunderstood and Unappreciated
Nick Kramer BeginAnimation for Silverlight 2
Ronnie Saurenmann on Error Logging in Silverlight 2 with IIS and the Isolated Storage
Kirupa Chinnathambi on Using Initialization Parameters in Silverlight
Martin Grayson announces BLACKLIGHT V2.0 (DEC08) IS HERE!
Sacha Barber on How To Bind To Generic Method In XAML
Mike Snow’s Tip: Animating Objects with DoubleAnimationUsingKeyFrames
Jesse Liberty has published a Creating Skinnable Custom Controls – Video and a Tutorial on multi-page applications posted and The Wrap Panel
Mike Ormond on his Adventures with the Silverlight Viewbox
Pete Brown on Pie Chart Styling in the Silverlight Toolkit – Cross-Slice Gradients
Matthias Shapiro and his Final-ish Silverlight Color Picker Utility and How To Give a Silverlight 2 Gadget a Transparent Background and How To Write a Custom Event in Silverlight and Tips for Creating a Silverlight 2 Gadget for Vista and Getting a MouseLeftButtonDown or MouseLeftButtonUp Event From Your TextBox
Boyan Nikolov with a HTML header + Silverlight plug-in scenario
Tim Heuer with Event (analytics) tracking in Silverlight and announces The Silverlight Application Corner
Azret Botash looks at Silverlight on a Desktop
Bert Czernicki informs that Silverlight enabled WCF Service Template is Bad Practice
Jeremiah Morrill gives a Silverlight MVVM Example
Josh Twist looks at Making the ScrollViewerThumbnail interactive
Brad Cunningham on Think outside the TextBox
Alex Golesh gives a Silverlight Tip: How to Inject and Execute JavaScript Function(s) on-the-fly from Silverlight
C Carper on Silverlight, PlayReady and BSkyB
Jordan Knight announces SDDN Site Updated – With Video!
Harsh Bardhan on Selecting and Displaying Images and Text Files from a Client Machine using Silverlight 2
Ofir Shemesh on Silverlight: GridSplitter with a collapse button (V2)
Jacek Ciereszko on how to Improve installation experience in Silverlight 2.0
Jeff Wilcox on Creating a testable WebClient for Silverlight unit testing
Michael Wolf looks at Silverlight and Encryption
Osore Watashi on the Custom Panel in Silverlight: Advanced Canvas
Chris Idzerda on PathGeometry Figures Property XAML Attribute Syntax in Silverlight
Bill Reiss offers A simple Silverlight game particle system and An improved Silverlight Sprite class
Page Brooks on Building a Resizable Silverlight Control
Bill Reiss on Embedding a F# class library in a Silverlight 2 Application
David Justice on Azure 1/10 + Facebook Connect 1/2 + Silverlight 2/5 = Fun
Chris Szurgot on building a Silverlight Gadget (Version of Snowflake App)
David Bird lists some Free Tools for the SQL Server DBA Part 2
Karen Delaney on Using a Nonclustered Index to Avoid a Sort
Ivo Manalov announces TestApi v.0.1 Released
Suprotim Agarwal is Exploring the ASP.NET 3.5 Chart Controls
Dave Bush on jQuery – Events
Bob Familiar posts ARCast.TV – Steve Michelotti of e.imagination on High Performance Web Solutions
Janko Jovanovic announces his Best of the web – November 2008
Sarah Perez on how to Mount SkyDrive As A Virtual Drive In Windows
Drew Douglass posts his The 75 Most Enlightening Design Tutorials
Justin Etheridge is still Addicted To MEF – Part 2
Josh Twist is Controllerizing the ScrollViewer Thumbnail
Page Brooks on Using ReSharper with Silverlight
Alex Golesh has some Quick Silverlight Tips: Control Reflection, Control Properties Data Binding, Window Title and Status Bar text (IE only)
Azret Botash has started a series on Silverlight Line of Business Applications: Part 1 – Getting Started
Tim Heuer pens some Silverlight install experience best practices
Keith Craig and System.Windows.MessageBox in Silverlight 2.0 RTW
Michael S. Scherotter publishes An Interview with the Developer of a Silverlight 2 Ribbon Interface
Matthias Shapiro’s Mac Style Button Tray In Silverlight
dineshasanka announces MapDotNet Enables Geospatial Data Visualization for Microsoft Single View Platform
