jQuery
James Padolsey gives us Some jQuery Shortcuts
Other
The Visual Web Dev team announce a Downloadable Hotfix: False C# compilation errors for ASP.NET code-behind files in SP1
Erm – really, so soon? Is Linq to SQL dead? Tim Mallalieu on Clarifying the message on L2S Futures, Orens thoughts on this and David Haydens
Sacha Barber goes in-depth with A Journey Into Expressions
Bill Wagner gives us a Book Review: Working with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers
Jacob Gube lists 40 Beautiful Free Icon Sets
Matt Gromes continues documenting My First Agile Project Part 10: 5 Important Issues for Teams
Silverlight
Brian Goldfarb reckons Silverlight + IIS Smooth Streaming is WOW
David Hill continues with Silverlight Navigation – Part 2
Ricky Tan brings us a Silverlight Futures Sneak Peek: Building Business Focused Applications
Gerard Leblanc continues Menus, part III : animated multi-level drop-down menu
Rob Houweling has Another one on repacking XAPs to reduce filesize
Jeff Wilcox reckons Renaming Xap to Zip is dead. Long live renaming Xap to Zip!
Joseph Ghassan on Silverlight 2.0 Dependency Properties And Routed Events
Bill Reiss discusses Offline Apps in Silverlight? and declares Creating a Mesh-enabled Silverlight web app is easy
Jordan gives a good look at Silverlight Animation Builder and Chainer
Jesse Liberty discusses On Learning New Technology – Controls Toolkit & Examples and Themes Revisited: The Implicit Style Manager [Updated!]
Dave Burke details My First Silverlight 2.0 Application Deployment Rodeo
Jeff Wilcox details Successful .Xap deployment with your CDN: Set the application/x-silverlight-app MIME type and Introducing the AutoCompleteBox with accompanying AutoCompleteBox: Video introduction
Pete Brown on Styling the Charts in the Silverlight Toolkit
John Stockton on Silverlight Training: Week 1 – Introduction to Silverlight
SLExtensions releases Alpha 2
Mel Lota shows Adding Silverlight Toolkit Controls to the Visual Studio Toolbox
Ning Zhang on Silverlight Toolkit Unit Test
Carole Snyder shows us Different kinds of controls you can make in Silverlight
Martin Grayson announces BLACKLIGHT – CONTROLS FOR DESIGNERS – V1.0 RELEASED!
Mike Ormond on Offline Silverlight Applications
Andy Beaulieu on Silverlight Futures: Building Business Focused Applications
Harsh Bardhan details Using the GridSplitter control with Silverlight 2
Dan Wahlin on Using Styles to Define Silverlight 2 Control Templates
Peter Bromberg on the Silverlight 2 Custom Stock Charts With Silverlight Toolkit
Get your free Silverlight Menu Library
SQL
Tim Chapman has More New SQL Server 2008 Features
Brad McGehee looks into SQL Server 2008: The New Data Types and not a single mention of beards in Characteristics of the Exceptional DBA
Isaac Kunen gives us an Introduction to Spatial Coordinate Systems: Flat Maps for a Round Planet
Aaron Bertrand shares My stored procedure “best practices” checklist
WPF
Marcelo Ruiz reckons Profiling WPF Tools – not just for WPF
Vincent Sibal brings the WPF DataGrid: Frozen Row Sample and the WPF DataGrid – DataGridComboBoxColumn v1 Intro
Josh Smith on Shader Effects with Shazzam
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