2008 November 11 – Links for today

ASP.Net

Suprotim Agarwal provides 3 Different Ways to Display Progress in an ASP.NET AJAX Application

CSS

Stu Nicholls produces a gorgeous circular menu with sub menus

Other

Joe Stagner explains the URL Rewrite for IIS – SEO Friendly URLs love it !

pdestoop announces the WCF REST Starter Kit is now available on Codeplex

Max Pool tells us How To Organize A Gosh-Darn Good Resume

Noupe lists 30+ Creative Hi-Res Wallpapers Only for Designers - Some of these are really gorgeous

Sam Allen offers some Struct Examples and Tricks

Matt Gromes continues with My First Agile Project Part 11: A Tale of Two Dark Clouds

Robert Glass highlights Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering

Smashing Magazine lists 50 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes

The MS CRM Team outline Reports for CRM 4.0 using SQL Server 2008 and Report Builder 2.0 - this stuff looks like it is really shaping up

IBM’s Many eyes data visualization project

Bill Staples announces IIS7 URL Rewrite Extension is finished – download now!

Silverlight

James Bacon announces A new Silverlight framework for creating managed code splash screens, pre loaders and loader projects

Silverlight Girl details a Silverlight Loader Animation

Gerard Leblanc continues with Menus, part IV : collapsible menu. This is a great series – if you haven’t seen it yet, it is worth stopping by.

Jesse Liberty on Obtaining and Caching a Lot of Words

Robby Ingebretson on ToolBox Panels

John Papa offers a Free Teaser Chapter for Data Driven Services with Silverlight 2

Chris anderson continues Building a Silverlight Line-Of-Business Application – Part 3

Ineir shows us an Animation Along a Path for Silverlight

Jordan Knight displays how to Fire collection updated events from a special Silverlight ItemsControl

Dan Wahlin makes samples available from his Silverlight 2 Development Workshop

Ning Zhang presents the second parter on how to implement dependency property with validation, coercion and eventing on WPF and Silverlight

Mehdi Andaloussi gives a great Designer’s guid to styling Silverlight Toolkit Charting controls with a link to a lovely charting styleing guide to help along the way

David Anson lists A collection of great Silverlight Charting resources (ego point, all of these have been listed in these here pages )

SQL

Mike Ormond on Spatial Data and now the Spatial Wiki

Mohit Gupta suggests a strategy for Normalizing-Denormalized Tables

TDD

Brian Hunters Introduction to UI Unit Testing with UI Automation

UX

Dmitry brings news of a great presentation by they guys at Create with Context who have done a bunch of research into how people really use the iPhone and published their slides of their findings

WPF

Lees details Changing background of AutoCompleteBox

Tamir Khasno details an Auto scroll ListBox in WPF

The WPF Team annouces that a WPF Designer Hotfix is posted

Marcelo Ruiz discusses the Impact of text language on WPF