2008 October 08 – Links for today
ASP.Net
Suprotim Agarwal’s Top 5 ASP.NET AJAX Articles You Must Read
C#
Matthew Podwysocki gives us a HUGE list of resources at Richmond Code Camp 2008.2 – Functional C# Recap
Vani Kulkarni does a nice job showing How to create and display funnel charts on a web page with C# and ASP.NET.
jQuery
Dave Ward on Using jQuery to enhance ASP.NET AJAX progress indication
Other
Joe Stagner reckons Artinsoft Aggiorno fixes your web pages with the software available at http://www.aggiorno.com/ – there is a free version for IE8 too
Kevin Pang notes the 10 Programming Proverbs Every Developer Should Know
Lindsey Lake is having a Love Affair With Woopra which looks totally awesome by the way, she also presents some Typography Essentials – Free Fonts, Tools and Tutorials and How to Use CSS Sprites With Son of Suckerfish Drop Downs and Even More Obscure Photoshop Essentials! The Free Photoshop Brushes Edition
Patterns & Practices
Shivprasad Koirala presents a fair body of work with .NET Design Pattern Interview Questions Part 4, Part 3, Part 2 and Part 1
Silverlight
Peter Bromberg has been sneakily doing a whole series on Doing Data with Silverlight 2 Silverlight 2 RC0. Part VIII : Using the Threadpool, Part VII: Custom Binary Serialization, Part VI: A Generic Request WebService, Part V: Realtime StockQuotes / Scrolling Display, Part IV: Browser / Cookie Interaction, Part III: Extract and decompress resources from your SilverLight xap file on demand, Part II: Data via ASMX and WCF web service, WebClient, and other modalities and Part I: Data and Databinding with Silverlight 2. Along with articles on Silverlight Cross-Domain / ClientAccessPolicy File checker and Silverlight: Dynamically add “favorites” bookmark link to Page Peter has been once seriously busy wee bee. Keep ‘em coming Peter. We can’t get enough
Karen Corby on the Silverlight HTTP Networking Stack – Part 1 (Site of Origin Communication)
Yavor Georgiev and his take on Databinding and the SyndicationFeed class
Rob Houweling has a couple of nifty articles on Creating a sketch application in Silverlight – Part 2, Saving the sketch on the server and Authentication in Silverlight using ASP.NET FormsAuthentication
Laurence Moroney with some pretty good reasons as to the how and why you might want to DeepZoom your Office Documents!
Martin Mihaylov presents his findings on The ProgressBar control in Silverlight 2
Karl Shifflett announces XAML Powertoys 3.1.0.2 with Silverlight support
Jonas Folleso and his YouCard, DiveLog and WebcamPOC updated for Silverlight 2 RC0
Bill Reiss announces Latest version of Silverlight Streaming helper classes and SLSExplorer and updates on a Breaking change to font embedding for Silverlight 2 RC0 and also gives a possible fix if you have Updated to Silverlight RC0 and now it’s broke? Cheers Bill.
Koen Zwikstra announces Silverlight Spy updated
SQL
Michael Coles and his take on A Google-like Full Text Search
Brian Knight’s Parameterizing SSRS Reports – SQL School Video
Samuel Vanga discusses Disabling a Trigger for a Specific SQL Statement or Session
Matt Berseth presents v0.2 of his Visit/PageView Cube – Creating a Hierarchy for the Source Dimension
UX
Glen Stansberry summarises 20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know
Smashing Magazine look at Retro and Vintage In Modern Web Design
WPF
Robbe Morris WPF – XAML Change Binding Attributes At Runtime