2008 December 02 – Links for today

ASP.Net

ranganh with an intro to Charting in ASP.NET, ASP.NET Chart Controls for .NET 3.5 SP1

CSS

Peter looks at The new features of CSS3

jQuery

Jeffrey Way’s jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 5

Other

Martin Hinshelwood announces the TFS Event Handler v1.1 released

Justin Etheredge is Taking the Magic out of Expression<T>

WebResourceDepot lets us know about E-Commerce Design Showcase: ecommr “presenting interface & design elements of e-commerce websites”

Jacob Gube has 40+ Useful Cheat Sheets for Designers

Ian Cooper gives us an Introduction to NHibernate, Part 1

Jonathan van de veen on Building maintainable code with Visual Studio 2008 Code Metrics

Patrick Smacchia gives us his Lessons learned from a real-world focus on performance

WebResourceDepot gives us Circular: A Set Of 100+ Icons

Jeremy Miller provides A Gentle Quickstart for StructureMap 2.5

CodeZest points us at the Signs of a GOOD Manager / Team Lead

Smashin Magazine presents 100 Free High-Quality XHTML/CSS Templates

Marcelo Ruiz looks into Depth vs. width in ADO.NET Data Services $expand

Patterns & Practices

Glenn Block on Export Providers and Custom factories with MEF

Oleg Smirnov with The story about Ninja, Unity Application Block and Contextual Dependency Injection.

Brendan Enrick on Understanding the What and Why of the MVC Pattern

The Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL): Resources and Training

Silverlight

Hannes Preishuber looks at B# and Silverlight Isolated Storage

Jesse Liberty thinks On C# and VB and SandDock for Silverlight – Commercial floating windows
and Simple Expander – Silverlight Toolkit

David Yack on Silverlight MeasureOverride Watch Your Size

Peter Bromberg on an Autocomplete TextBox Stock Symbols and Chart

Identity Mine presen an Interactive Silverlight Christmas Card

Shawn Wildermuth on Using Content in ControlTemplates

Adam Kinney with DeepEarth – Maps served using Deep Zoom in Silverlight

Page Brooks is Tweaking OnApplyTemplate Event Timing in Silverlight 2

The Microsoft Dynamics team provide a Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Silverlight 2 direct calls sample

Gregg Jensen’s Flex Anchored Layout in Silverlight

cokkiy shows us how to create a Vista busy cursor like Silverlight control

Jonathan van de veen has some Random hints and tips on Silverlight as well as a look at Silverlight 2 Datagrids RowDetailsTemplate and databinding radiobuttons and Using the popup element in Silverlight\

Stefan Olson on Single Sourcing WPF and Silverlight

Mike Snow’s tips: Creating an Efficient Random Generator and Animating objects with DoubleAnimation

John Stockton publishes a nifty little Silverlight Trick: Inline Silverlight Apps

CCARPER announces Two new Silverlight MSN sites live; Crisis and Recovery – The Dow Jones Industrials and Ahead of the Curve

SQL

Brad McGhee on How to Hone Your DBA Skill Set

David Penton’s Introduction to SQL Profiler

Surface

Adam Kinney on Extending the Surface experience in the BMW app

WPF

Sacha Barber on LINQ To Entities Using WCF/WPF demo code

Shivanand Kamath with WPF – Working with XML file using Linq to XML

Stefan Olson provides A better WPF splash screen

Boris Eligulashvili on Managing Your WPF Splash Screen’s Lifecycle

Josh Smith expresses The Philosophies of MVVM

2008 November 29 – Links for today

CSS

Drew Douglass gives us 15 CSS tricks that must be learned

Other

Dmitry looks at a Scalable Content Box Using Only One Background Image

Karl Seguin continues his back to basics series with Delegates, Anonymous Methods and Lambda Expressions

John Medina announces Brain Rules in HD

Silverlight

The Expression Blend and Design guys help out with HELLO DEEPZOOMTOOLS.DLL : DEEP ZOOM IMAGE TILE GENERATION MADE EASY

Bryant Likes looks at Deep Zoom Image Generation with DeepZoomTools.DLL

WebResourceDepot guys look at Deep Zoom Images With Seadragon Ajax

Martin Mihaylov on Routed Events in Silverlight

David Solivan points us at a New Silverlight Book Written by Microsoft Techs Working on the “Front Lines”

SQL

Mr Denny continues his series with Back To Basics: Creating Indexes

TDD

Misko Hevery publishes his Guide: Writing Testable Code

2008 November 27 – Links for today

ASP.Net

Suprotim Agarwal on how to Access an AJAX Enabled WCF Service using ASP.NET and Client Script

Dan Wahlin with Getting Started with the ASP.NET 3.5 Chart Control

Scott Hanselman with Geolocation/Geotargeting (Reverse IP Address Lookup) in ASP.NET MVC made easy

jQuery

Jeffrey Way with jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 4

Other

Noupe is Pushing Photoshop to the Limit: 13 Most Advanced tutorials

Rob Ballou delves into Section 508: Uncle Sam’s Guide To Web Accessibility

Tracey Gradey suggests some Steps to choosing a successful colour scheme

Rick Strahl on WCF REST Services and AJAX Callbacks

Patterns & Practices

Justin Etheridge is Addicted To MEF – Part 1

Silverlight

Jafar Husain on Protected Dependency Properties Are Not Really

Tim Heuer highlights some New Silverlight Showcases and Feeds

Tim Greenfield on a Silverlight GroupBox control

Jonas Follesø asks Is Silverlight 2 Ready for Business Applications?

Wade Dorrell spotlights the fact that Treemap + Silverlight => Gasp!  or go straight to the demo

Ruurd Boeke presents Animating items part two

Mike Snow’s tip: Where to get the Localized Languages of Silverlight 2 Tools

Shawn Wildermuth has released the simple data driven app built during his Silverlight in Florida talk

Josh Wagoner on using the Path Data Parser

Seema Ramchandani answers What is the Silverlight Font?

The webdev guys detail Where to get the Localized Languages of Silverlight 2 Tools

Ning Zhang continues with Customize Silverlight Toolkit Controls: Expander

David Kelleys perspective on Silverlight Threading and Events

Arturo Toledo answers What tools should I install to get started with Silverlight authoring?

WPF

Marlon Grech on Avoiding CommandBinding in the XAML Code Behind files

Michael S. Scherotter gives some great links on How to Teach Yourself Expression Blend

Josh Twist’s WPF ScrollViewer Thumbnail

Ivan Towlson announces the Mindscape WPF Property Grid 2.0 is here

2008 November 26 – Links for today

ASP.Net

ykorotia looks at W3C_Validator with ASP .NET or how validate XHTML1.1

Scott Guthrie on the New ASP.NET Charting Control

David Ebbo on Using User Controls as Page Templates in Dynamic Data

Other

Bart Czernicki reviews the Best WCF Book and WCF Resource – 2nd Edition

Patterns & Practices

Glenn Block announces the MEF Re-factored, Preview 3 has shipped.

Silverlight

Jeff Wilcox covers the AutoCompleteBox control: The missing guide

Corey Schuman on Silverlight ToolTips – positioning and customizing

Mike Snow’s tips: Threading in Silverlight and How to call Page.xaml.cs from App.xaml.cs and Monitoring for App.Current Events – Startup, Shutdown, UnhandledException & Exit

Katrien De Graeve on Live Framework – storing data in a Mesh-enabled Silverlight web application in 4 steps

SQL

Kevin Cox with Best Practices for Integrated Full Text Search (iFTS) in SQL 2008

Robert Sheldon looks at SQL Server Index Basics

Pinal Dave makes an Interesting Observation about Order of Resultset without ORDER BY

UX

Robby Ingebretsen spotlights One Data Widget Dashboard to Rule Them All

The Processing language – “open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions”

WPF

Lester is Testing WPF apps using NUnit

The SDK guys bring us A DataGrid sample using XML data

Anders Bursjöö looks at Naming and conventions in XAML

Rico Mariani on Visual Studio Dialogue with WPF Performance Emphasis

2008 November 25 – Links for today

jQuery

Jeffrey Way with jQuery for Absolute Beginners: Day 3

Other

John Resig talks Browser Page Load Performance

Matt Grommes continues with My First Agile Project Part 13: Reflecting on The Decline of Agile 

Silverlight

Jeff Prosise with SILVERLIGHT ENIGMA SIMULATOR UPDATED (AND A LESSON ON INTERNATIONALIZATION)

Dan Wahlin on Using the Visual State Manager in Silverlight Templates

Amit looks at Creating a Silverlight Fade In and Out Popup Window

Emil Stoychev announces Silvester meets CodePlex

Silverlight 2 XAML Binding and Custom / Core Dependency Properties

Brian Likes compares Silverlight IValueConverter vs. TypeConverter

Jesse Liberty delves into Graphing – Silverlight Toolkit

Gerard Leblanc continues with Menus, part V : Sliding menu

Ning Zhangs loks at how to Customize Silverlight Toolkit Controls: NumericUpDown

SQL

Mr Denny goes Back To Basics: What’s the difference between a Scan and a Seek?

Ashish Mehta asks Are Your Indexes Being Used Effectively?

Tyler Chessman on Integrating SQL Server 2008 Spatial Capabilities with Microsoft Virtual Earth

Derek Comingore with Business Intelligence Explained for the DBA

Scott Selikoff expands some more with Denormalized Databases: A better example

TDD

Jonathan de Halleux and Nikolai Tillmann have published a code project article on Getting started with Automated White box Testing (and Pex)

WPF

Ruben Steins reminds us of Infragistics’ LOB examples

Adam Kinney gives Karl Shifflett a much deserved spotlight with XAML Power Toys from Karl Shifflett

2008 November 24 – Links for today

ASP.Net

Phil Haack on Combining JQuery Form Validation and Ajax Submission with ASP.NET

CSS

Lightpost Creative has a CSS Image Sprites Tutorial – Create Multiple Buttons With Rollovers

jQuery

Scott Guthrie’s introduction to jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008

Other

Sergio Pereira gives a great tip on getting Visual Studio to Please open my .aspx fast  – only really works if you too are a “source view kind of programmer”

Karl Seguin is going Back to basics: Generics

Sacha Barber shows us How To Create A WCF Client Proxy Without Having a Deployed WCF Service

Patterns & Practices

Xianzhong Zhu looks at Practicing the Chain of Responsibility Pattern

Silverlight

Nikhil Kothari on In-Place Editing for Silverlight using Styles and Templates

Kathy Kam with a really nice looking demo project: Silverlight Movies (Silverlight + Live Search) and the deck and demo for her Introduction to the Silverlight Controls Framework

Hannes Preishuber looks at Input Validation with Silverlight

David Betz on Understanding WCF Services in Silverlight 2

Ruurd Boeke on Efficiently animating items on movement and on Introducing TransitionContentControl

Suprotim Agarwal discusses Saving and Retrieving Images from IsolatedStorage

Codeplex project alert: Silverlight Validator & Input Toolkit

Jesse Liberty offers A Better Multi-Page Solution

Joseph Glasson talks about Silverlight 2 User Controls Communication

WPF

Jaime Rodriguez on Forwarding the DataGrid’s DataContext to it’s columns

Marlon Grech on ICollectionView explained

Ralph Arvesen on a Snapshot of XAML control, save to image

Paul Stovell on Validation Scopes: Draft

Martin Hinshelwood gives some Advice on using XamRibbon with Composite WPF

2008 November 21 – Links for today

ASP.Net

Dino Esposito presents some ASP.NET Presentation Patterns

Other

JD discusses Documentation, the Mindscape way

Marcelo Ruiz looks at Limiting how many entities are returned from an ADO.NET Data Service

Design Shard have some absolutely gorgeous work in Illustration Artists Showcase and Inspiration – Part 2

Johnny Lee highlights Some great Wiimote IR tracking projects

Josh Lane presents some Best Practices For Windows Workflow Foundation Apps

Dames McCaffrey asks What Makes A Good Software Tester?

Simon Segal has Julie Lerman Entity Framework Tutorials consolidated

Patterns & Practices

Ray Booysen makes his Code Available from MVVM Talk

Ray Houston with PTOM: The Composite Design Pattern

Ken Getz presents The ObservableCollection Class

Silverlight

Joel Neubeck on Developing a Casual Games with Silverlight 2 – Module 2

Mike Benkovich announces Twin Cities Silverlight Demo Code posted!

Felix Corke with A Step-by-Step Introduction to Styling, Templating, and Animating in Expression Blend

Katrien De Graeve on creating a Silverlight Mesh-enabled web application in 8 steps

Crocus Girl gives us a Silverlight Tip [AG_E_NETWORK_ERROR]

Justin Angel discusses Silverlight Design Time Extensibility and Silverlight Toolkit: Treeview, TreeViewItem & HierarchicalDataTemplate

Martin Mihaylov on Using the TreeView control in Silverlight 2

The SDK guys offer some advice on Using ViewportOrigin and ViewportWidth in Deep Zoom  and a subsequent update

Jesse Liberty with some advice on Becoming a Silverlight Programmer

Jon Flansders on SharePoint, Silverlight, and Virtual Earth

Bruce Abernethy uncovers the ImplicitStyleManager – Hidden Gem in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2008

Timmy Kokke on Silverlight Without Xaml

Manish Dalal with CROSS BROWSER CLIPBOARD : DATAGRID WITH EXCEL SUPPORT – PART 2

David Anson suggests if you are Having problems with layout? Switch to Plan B! [LayoutTransformControl scenarios for WPF]

Michael Demopoulos on Building a Live Mesh Silverlight Application

Lee on Customizing tooltip

SilverlightGirl discusses how to Obtain cool looking text without embedding fonts in Expression Blend 2

The SDK guys look at the Silverlight Toolkit and F1 Help

Rick Strahl enters the Silverlight space with Silverlight and Data Communications

Ning Zhang’s look at how to Customize Silverlight Toolkit Controls: NumericUpDown

SQL

Bennie Haelen is Investigating the new Spatial Types in SQL Server 2008 – Part 2

Edwin Sarmiento is Using Partitioned Tables with Multiple Filegroups for High Availability

Scott Selikoff explains Why too much Database Normalization can be a Bad Thing

Ken Simmons on how to Generate SQL Agent Job Schedule Report

TDD

Jeremy Miller recommends a Design For Testability

UX

Dmitry offers some thought provoking advice with De-clutter Your Interface With Hover Controls – definately worth considering.

Charlse Kreitzberg and Ambrose Little present The Human Face Of Software

Zef Fugaz makes Free UX Templates available

WPF

Martin Hinshelwood gives some Advice on using XamRibbon with Composite WPF

Mike Steadman with the mechanics of building a Custom Control Part 2

Charles Petzold looks at a Simple Cable Simulation

Mike Taulty has a series of posts on WPF and “Twistori”: Part 7 (of 7 :-)), Part 6, Part 5, Part 4, Part 3, Part 2 and the one that started it all

and a WPF: Experiment with Text Animation

Charles Petzold on how to Render Text On A Path With WPF

2008 November 19 – Links for today

ASP.Net

Suprotim Agarwal on Using jQuery with ASP.NET – A Beginner’s Guide

CSS

Jacob Gube with CSS Tip #1: Resetting Your Styles with CSS Reset

Other

Glen Stansberry on Develop a Social Media Website With These 10 Code Techniques

WebResourceDepot bring us 30+ High Quality And Free Vector Object Sets To Beautify Your Designs

Smashing Magazines 15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools

Christopher Khalil muses on Web 3.0, User Experience and Intelligent User Interfaces

Silverlight

Brian Goldfarb highlights MSN Germany with Silverlight wins IPTV Award 2008 – coolness

The announcement of Silverlight Feeds should make my life a lot easier 🙂

Corey Schumann on Embedding and Obfuscating fonts

Bert Czernicki on Silverlight clientaccesspolicy.xml files for the Enterprise (Part 1 of 2)

Justin Angel on SILVERLIGHT DESIGN TIME EXTENSIBILITY

Shemesh with Silverlight: GridSplitter with a collapse button

Steve at the Expression blog highlights a gorgeous 2.5D USERCONTROL FOR SILVERLIGHT 2

Mehdis Andaloussi discusses CREATING NEW ISM-COMPATIBLE THEMES

David Anson presents An unexceptional layout improvement [Two LayoutTransformControl fixes for Silverlight 2!]

Rudi Grobler announces the codeplex project WPF Themes Updated

Josh Smith on Emulating ICommandSource in Silverlight 2 and Putting Silverlight Commands to Use

Mike Snow’s Tip: New Silverlight 2 Web Site Clean Up Check List

Rob Zelt with Silverlight LOB Forms http://www.robzelt.com/blog/2008/11/19/Silverlight+LOB+Forms.aspx

Andy Beaulieu gives us a Preview of Upcoming Physics Fun

Peter McGrattan continues with Silverlight 2 WCF Polling Duplex Support – Part 4: Adding a WPF Client

Hannes Preishuber with instructions on how to show a line number within a datalist and get ID inside a Silverlight Datagrid when Button clicked

SQL

Craig Outcalt has some Tips for New DBAs

Bennie Haelen beings Investigating the new Spatial Types in SQL Server 2008 – Part 1

Ashish Mehta is Grouping Sets in SQL Server 2008

WPF

Mike Benkovich has an older post with a series of webcasts on learning to develop WPF applications

Sacha Barber on NUnit STA Threads & Testing WPF

Marlon Grech on how to Fix scrollbars for a dynamic layout in a Listview/ListBox

2008 November 18 – Links for today

ASP.Net

Rick Strahl: ASP.NET Connection Session Slides and Samples Posted

Gayani Devapriya discusses Dynamic Data Templates in ASP.NET 3.5

Don Wilson on how to Build a Shopping Cart in ASP.NET

Coding Standards

K Scott Allen asserts that Single Letter Variable Names Still Considered Harmful

Other

MS Research’s AutoCollage project allows you to create beautiful collages of your favorite pictures in a few clicks of a mouse

Lee Munroe highlights 15 Awesome T-shirt Websites For Geeks

AddedBytes.com have published an updated regular expressions cheat sheet

Patterns & Practices

Udi Dahans Intentions and Interfaces presentation is now available for download

Matt Gromes with My First Agile Project Part 12: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Our Retrospectives

Jeanne Boyarsky asks why do we violate law of demeter?

Silverlight

Martin Mihaylov on Changing the style of the selected row of the DataGrid control

Chris Hay asks Silverlight: Are sockets only suitable in intranets?

Suprotim Agarwal on DataBinding in Silverlight – Change property of a Silverlight UI Control at runtime based on another UI Control

Daniel Vaughan looks at Synchronous Web Service Calls with Silverlight 2: Dispelling the async-only myth

Ruurd Boeke is still Transitioning the content in an expander – part Two

Mike Snow’s tip on 3D Support in Silverlight 3

Michael Sync gives us a Book Review: Silverlight 2 in Action

Jeff Blankenburg spotlights Maciej Skierkowski’s United States Map in XAML

Nigel Parker spotlights filtering Deep Zoom composer photos with a colour picker

Scott Guthrie’s Update on Silverlight 2 – and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

Jason Beres posts a Silverlight Data Visualization Video “To get a peek at some of the prototypes that are being built in the development labs with our new Silverlight Data Visualization product”

Andy Beaulieu on Using the Live Search API 2.0 with Silverlight

Jesse Liberty details a couple of Silverlight Related Skills – Post #1

Jonas Follesø on Combining different Separated Presentation Patterns

SQL

Arup Chakraborty brings Performance testing and tuning for a beginner

John Sheesley looks at Using Object Dependencies in SQL Server 2008

UX

yugu brings us 36 Cool Custom Error 404 Pages

Janko Jovanovic asks What if your contact form fails?

WPF

Jaime Rodriguez experiments with MICROSOFT CLIENT CONTINUUM IN ACTION: THE SILVERLIGHT TOOLKIT CHARTS, RUNNING IN WPF

Evan Lang brings us a ShaderEffect Overview

2008 November 17 – Links for today

ASP.Net

Suprotim Agarwal with ASP.NET AJAX CollapsiblePanelExtender – Tips and Tricks

Vinod Unny helps with installing Charting in ASP.NET 3.5

Patterns & Practices

Vorleak Chy outlines the Strategy Design Pattern

Scott Mitchell gives us The Eight Commandments of Source Code Control

Silverlight

Boyan Nikolov with a Calculator for Silverlight

Scott Guthrie on Styling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend 2

Ning Zhang details the NumericUpDown Control in Silverlight Toolkit and DependencyProperty: Validation, Coercion & Change Handling (Part III: Dependency Property Code Snippet)

Suprotim Agarwal DataBinding in Silverlight – Change property of a Silverlight UI Control at runtime based on another UI Control

Jeff Handley on Silverlight Airlines with a ViewModel

Mike Snow’s tip: Data Collection Support in Silverlight

Jeff Wilcox spotlights the tollkit team blog and introduces the members in Toolkit posts: “Silverlight in Style,” dependency properties in WPF and Silverlight, and TreeView expansion

Jeff Blankenburg on Embedding Fonts In Silverlight 2, Calling Javascript From Silverlight 2, Creating A Simple Silverlight Animation and from waaaay back – Creating a WCF Service For Silverlight 2 and SQL

Jeff Paries on Sending email from Silverlight

Silverlight show guys present How to create your own Visual WebGui Silverlight theme

Michael Schwarz shows how to Encrypt your AJAX traffic using Microsoft Silverlight and Ajax.NET Professional

Mark Johnston found a Design Experience video – Tricky Business session from Silverlight usergroup in UK

Ivan Dragoev answers What is control styling?

Surface

Faisal spotlights SurfaceDJ from Vectorform

Adam Kinney announces Vectorform wins PhizzPop New York with Study Right

WPF

LearnWPF guys detail the XAML Compiler has issues with linked xaml files

Josh Smith recommends Using a ViewModel to Provide Meaningful Validation Error Messages

Rawwool Experiments with WPF animation to recreate some of Microsoft Health Common User Interface magic! 

Azam Sharp presents An article that gives an introduction to WPF templates

Mitsu’s WPF and Silverlight BookControls

Jeremiah Morrill announces a Small feature added to the WPF MediaKit