Category: friday links

1. MVC 4 Fundamentals – Online Training Course for .NET Developers
2. Another large collection of Free Microsoft eBooks and Resource Kits for you, including: SharePoint 2013, Office 2013, Office 365, Duet 2.0, Azure, Cloud, Windows Phone, Lync, Dynamics CRM, and more. – Microsoft SMS&P Partner Community Blog – By Eric Ligman – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
3. Comparing Anonymous Objects in C# and VB — Visual Studio Magazine
4. How to Show Messenger-Like Popups Using AJAX: ASP Alliance
5. Infographic: A Map Of Every Big Idea, Ever | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
6. Documenting your ASP.Net Web API’s | John V. Petersen
7. Implementing MVC Two Factor Authentication with Google Authenticator – CodeProject
8. ASP.NET MVC: Handling Exceptions and 404 Errors
9. 22 Websites that are Beautiful and Useful – StumbleUpon
10. Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 now available! – Somasegar’s blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
11. BlendInsider – The Official Microsoft Blend Team Blog
12. Office Next – New file format options in the new Office

1. Practical ASP.NET MVC (3) tips – CodeProject
2. Razor 2.0 template engine, supporting layouts – CodeProject
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4. Motivate Employees: 5 Effective & Genuine Techniques | Inc.com
5. A Beginner’s Guide to Irrational Behavior | Coursera
6. Tie My Shoes, Please: How Persuasion Works : Shots – Health Blog : NPR
7. Making Time Stand Still. Awesome. – Association for Psychological Science
8. The 6 People You Need in Your Corner – Forbes
9. The Six Enemies of Greatness (and Happiness) – Forbes
10. Multiple Mobiles
11. Learn Java for Android Development: Introduction to Java
12. Warhorse studios: BLOG
13. The Psychology of Angry Birds #infographic | Adverblog
14. Tal Raviv — Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous
15. Five guys take same photo for 30 years – CNN.com
16. Convert Word Documents to Clean HTML
17. Free ASP.NET Training Videos from aspConf now available for download or streaming – Scott Hanselman
18. BSON (Binary JSON) and how your Web API can be even faster | StrathWeb
19. Unity Interception Techniques
20. Wrox Article : JavaScript DOM Ranges : Page 3 – Wrox
21. CQRS Journey
22. Task Exception Handling in .NET 4.5 – .NET Parallel Programming – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
23. 50 Top Open Source Tools for Big Data – Datamation
24. Using Cell-Level Encryption in SQL Server « Basit’s SQL Server Tips
25. The Seven Sins against TSQL Performance

Bad Business Analysts, Project Managers, and Relationships | BA Times
http://www.batimes.com/elizabeth-larson/bad-business-analysts-project-managers-and-relationships.html
The philosophy behind NAppUpdate « Code972
http://www.code972.com/blog/2012/06/the-philosophy-behind-nappupdate/

Templated Razor Delegates combined with Partial Views – Simon Ince’s Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/simonince/archive/2012/01/26/templated-razor-delegates-combined-with-partial-views.aspx

Foundation Single Page RWD Demo
http://edcharbeneau.github.com/FoundationSinglePageRWD/

The Six Pillars of Complete Developer Documentation
http://blog.programmableweb.com/2011/09/12/the-six-pillars-of-complete-developer-documentation/

Brad Wilson: Unobtrusive Client Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3
http://bradwilson.typepad.com/blog/2010/10/mvc3-unobtrusive-validation.html

Custom Data Annotation Validator Part II: Client Code
http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2011/02/22/custom-data-annotation-validator-part-ii-client-code.aspx

c# – Clientside Validation in "Self Validate Model" in ASP.NET-MVC3 – Stack Overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5155816/clientside-validation-in-self-validate-model-in-asp-net-mvc3

Q and A – EF 4.x POCO Entity Generator for C# extension
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/23df0450-5677-4926-96cc-173d02752313/view/Discussions/2

Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You – Joel on Software
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html

There’s no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) | Derek Sivers
http://sivers.org/kimo/

Scaffold your ASP.NET MVC 3 project with the MvcScaffolding package – Steve Sanderson’s blog – As seen on YouTube™
http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2011/01/13/scaffold-your-aspnet-mvc-3-project-with-the-mvcscaffolding-package/

Struggles of a coder: Editable Views in Entity Framework
http://www.lucbos.net/2011/10/editable-views-in-entity-framework.html

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2. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11608.e-book-gallery-for-microsoft-technologies.aspx
3. http://www.briantracy.com/blog/time-management/8-task-management-tips-to-stop-procrastinating-and-get-things-done?cmpid=2183&proid=1850
4. http://www.netmagazine.com/features/10-things-you-didnt-know-javascript-could-do
5. http://www.devreach.com/Event/News/12-04-24/Want_to_speak_at_DevReach_2012_Eager_to_share_your_passion_for_technology_with_hundreds_of_fellow_developers.aspx

1. AppHarbor API Contest – AppHarbor
2. How to use a T4 template for View Generation – ADO.NET Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
3. EF Caching with Jarek Kowalski’s Provider – ADO.NET Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
4. EF Power Tools Beta 2 Available – ADO.NET Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
5. Getting started with convention-based part registration in MEF 2 [Nick] – BCL Team Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
6. Using MEF 2 with ASP.NET MVC 3 [Nick] – BCL Team Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
7. Introducing MEF Lightweight Composition and an Updated Composition Provider for ASP.NET MVC [Nick] – BCL Team Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
8. How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a lightbulb? – Fabulous Adventures In Coding – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
9. Past performance is no guarantee of future results – Fabulous Adventures In Coding – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
10. Getting Started as a SharePoint Developer – Kirk Evans Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
11. Announcing the LightSwitch HTML Client! – Visual Studio LightSwitch Team Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
12. Get Online Access to 600 Microsoft Press books for $22.99 – Microsoft Press – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
13. Announcing New Windows Azure Services to Deliver “Hybrid Cloud” – Windows Azure – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
14. ArticleS.UncleBob.PrinciplesOfOod
15. Programmer Time Translation Table | Passion for Coding
16. Continuous Tests
17. Elegant Code » CQRS à la Greg Young
18. Doom3 Source Code Review: Introduction
19. So You Really Want to be an Agile Developer? « Think Different
20. Community Server Control Panel
21. Why bother writing an Windows 8 app?
22. Real World MVC 3 Development « Gregor’s work related blog
23. My Journey To and From Wikis: Why I Adopted Wikis, Why I Veered Away, and a New Model | I’d Rather Be Writing
24. How I stopped writing awesome code – jhovgaard.net
25. Lokad.CQRS Sample Project, from Lokad
26. Eventual consistency, CQRS and interaction design | Jimmy Bogard’s Blog
27. We’re all out of duct tape, try putting some cheap code on it – lucisferre
28. CQRS
29. Rethinking web service development – Matt Aimonetti
30. MiniProfiler
31. Performance Considerations for EF5
32. CLR – An Attribute-Free Approach to Configuring MEF
33. Kinect – Starting to Develop with Kinect
34. Linux în Windows Azure
35. A co-Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks – ACM Queue
36. Everything you need to know about Windows Azure Table Storage to use a scalable non-relational structured data store | Robbin Cremers vs Microsoft Technology
37. Stevey’s Blog Rants: Rich Programmer Food
38. Stevey’s Blog Rants: Portrait of a N00b
39. Stevey’s Blog Rants: Programming’s Dirtiest Little Secret
40. Basic Authentication with Asp.Net WebAPI | Steves Coding Blog
41. Fun with action filters | Steves Coding Blog
42. HOW TO: Use SQLite in C# Metro style app
43. Why Your Links Should Never Say “Click Here” – UX Movement
44. Windows Phone App Porting: Bridging the PhoneGap — Visual Studio Magazine
45. Seeing the SQL Generated by LINQ to Entity Queries — Visual Studio Magazine
46. The Incredibly Useful Sysinternals Suite — Visual Studio Magazine
47. Dates and JSON – Tales from the Evil Empire
48. If doctors would work like software engineers, no-one would consult them – Frans Bouma’s blog
49. June Azure Events: Meet Windows Azure (June 7), Learn Windows Azure (June 11), and worldwide DevCamps – Jon Galloway
50. Threading in C# – Free E-book
51. A List Apart: Articles: Building Books with CSS3
52. Using Asynchronous Methods in ASP.NET MVC 4 : Official Microsoft Site
53. Exception Handling in ASP.NET Web API : Official Microsoft Site
54. Amazon Web Services Aims to Make Life Easier for Windows Developers CIO.com
55. I, Interface – CodeProject
56. From the trenches – Improving scalability in .NET for Paycento – CodeProject
57. Stop using AutoMapper in your Data Access Code | Blog | DevTrends
58. Out of Duct Tape, Try Some Cheap Code – .NET Code Geeks
59. Good Developer, Bad Developer | Guy Nirpaz Blog
60. 12 Habits Standing Between You and What You Want
61. Sitting is Killing You » Medical Billing and Coding Certification
62. Validation In Razor Web Pages 2
63. Mindscape Blog » Blog Archive » Using the ASP.NET MVC Mini-Profiler with LightSpeed
64. Hosting Web API in Windows service at piotrwalat.net
65. Windows 8 Metro: Asynchrony made easy
66. Tracing Query Performance with Extended Events – Publishing | SolidQ
67. Control the execution order of your filters in ASP.NET Web API | StrathWeb
68. 10 resume mistakes to avoid | TechRepublic
69. Five must-have apps for your USB stick | TechRepublic
70. Technology – Alexis Madrigal – Sorry, Young Man, You’re Not the Most Important Demographic in Tech – The Atlantic
71. Today Software Magazine
72. Clarified CQRS
73. Signs that you’re a good programmer – Software Engineering Tips
74. Applying unobtrusive jquery validation to dynamic content in ASP.Net MVC | XHalent Coding…

1. Logging and Tracing WCF Soap Messages – CodeProject
2. Windows Phone Thoughts: Create Your Own Live Tiles From Any Web Page
3. Devhammer’s Den – Getting an App in the Windows Store: What, Why, and How
4. The ASP.NET Virtual Path Provider – An Example Implementation
5. Talking Stocks « blog maverick
6. Programing issues: How to secure connection string of a SQL server in a Winwdows Azure application
7. HTML5 WebSocket Cheat Sheet from DZone Refcardz – Free, professional tutorial guides for developers
8. Things You Should Never Do, Part I – Joel on Software
9. What The Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast | Fast Company

1. Top 7 Concerns of Migrating an ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure – JrzyShr Dev Guy – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
2. Claim-based-security for ASP.NET Web APIs using DotNetOpenAuth « Zulfiqar’s weblog
3. Attribute based routing in ASP.NET Web API | StrathWeb
4. geoffhudik.com – Tech – ASP.NET MVC 4 NUnit template
5. Kinect for Windows: Find user height accurately – CodeProject
6. Introducing Testing Domain – localtest.me – Scott Forsyth’s Blog
7. What’s new in MEF 2 Preview 4? [Alok, Nick] – BCL Team Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
8. Blogs > Why I Hate Unit Testing
9. Creating Zip Files Easily in .NET 4.5 – CodeProject
10. Developer Testing: How much test coverage do you need? – The Testivus Answer
11. How 17 Equations Changed the World | Brain Pickings

1. Managed Extensibility Framework – Building Composable Apps in .NET 4 with the Managed Extensibility Framework
2. EntityFunctions Methods (System.Data.Objects)
3. ANTS Performance Profiler for profiling your .NET code – Ahead of the game poster
4. Siri knows which is the best phone ever, and its not the iPhone | WMPoweruser
5. How to get your app into the Windows Store – Matt Harrington – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
6. Visual Studio Gallery
7. In Memoriam: Our Favorite Apps and Services That Have Gone Belly Up (and Their Replacements)
8. TFS Power Tools 2008 Powershell Snapin won’t run in on 64-bit in Windows 2008 R2?
9. Programing issues: Performance Counter Setup on Windows Azure
10. Free E-Books from Microsoft Press | Mike Hacker
11. Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived – The Oatmeal
12. How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell – The Oatmeal
13. Knockout 2.1 is out – Knock Me Out
14. ASP.NET Web API Updates – May 14 – Henrik’s Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
15. Sample Code – MSDN Examples in C#, VB.NET, C++, JavaScript, F#
16. Kendo Blog Posts > Hello Services / WebAPI, REST, JSON and AJAX
17. My First Experience with ASP.NET Web API 101 : Sam Gentile’s Blog
18. Free .NET decompiler :: JetBrains dotPeek
19. AJAX File Uploads with jQuery and MVC 3
20. Optimistic concurrency support in HTTP and WebAPI – part 2 | Tudor Turcu – blog
21. 15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy
22. Blogging about : Adding Gravatar To An ASP MVC Project
23. Blogging about : Create a Selfexpanding Textarea using Javascript
24. Introducing GitHub For Windows
25. Parse
26. Additional Considerations When Using ASP.Net MVC Cross-site Request Forgery Prevention – Ed Hintz (MSFT) – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
27. What The Fuck Is My Career Objective
28. IIS 7.0 Server-Side : IIS 7.0 Two-Level Authentication with Forms Authentication and Windows Authentication

1. Logging and Tracing WCF Soap Messages – CodeProject
2. Kinect for Windows: Find user height accurately – CodeProject
3. Interview Questions for .NET Framework
4. geoffhudik.com – Tech – ASP.NET MVC 4 NUnit template
5. Top 7 Concerns of Migrating an ASP.NET Application to Windows Azure – JrzyShr Dev Guy – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
6. How 17 Equations Changed the World | Brain Pickings
7. Developer Testing: How much test coverage do you need? – The Testivus Answer
8. Windows Phone Thoughts: Create Your Own Live Tiles From Any Web Page
9. Devhammer’s Den – Getting an App in the Windows Store: What, Why, and How
10. Creating Zip Files Easily in .NET 4.5 – CodeProject
11. Introducing Testing Domain – localtest.me – Scott Forsyth’s Blog

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2. Ardalis – Beyond Role Based Authorization in ASPNET MVC
3. The Service Locator Pattern
4. Brad Wilson: Task Parallel Library and Servers, Part 1: Introduction
5. How WebAPI does Parameter Binding – Mike Stall’s .NET Debugging Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
6. VibrantCode – What’s new in Razor v2
7. jQuery Menu: Dropdown, iPod Drilldown, and Flyout styles with ARIA Support and ThemeRoller Ready | Filament Group, Inc., Boston, MA
8. Stephen Forte`s Blog – Communication struggles at a small company
9. Moment.js – A lightweight javascript date library
10. leonidas/transparency
11. Try Transparency
12. The Big Glossary of Open Source JavaScript and Web Frameworks with Cool Names – Scott Hanselman
13. Hello World Using JavaScript – Closure Tools — Google Developers
14. Using Compression on Windows Phone 7.5 – Share-n-dipity – Site Home – TechNet Blogs
15. Walkthrough: Creating an Asynchronous HTTP Handler
16. Redesigning my blog for adaptive layout
17. Demonstrating Responsive Design
18. ASP.NET MVC: Add HTML5 Microdata to your applications using Metadata Providers – CodeProject®
19. #Conspiracy – Romania, a surprise
20. Siderite’s Blog: programming
21. Decoupling Backbone Apps From WebSockets | ThoughtStream.new :derick_bailey
22. Html5 Offline Cache Integration with ASP.NET MVC Bundle – Kazi Manzur Rashid
23. Consultancy and Hiring – Kazi Manzur Rashid
24. ASP.NET MVC ViewModel usage and pick your best pattern – Kazi Manzur Rashid
25. WPF RichText Editor – CodeProject®
26. Be first + Be Smarter + Cheat = ???
27. XAML to HTML Conversion Demo
28. 15 Things People Absolutely Hate About Your Website
29. 10 classic mistakes that plague software development projects | TechRepublic
30. RSS & Atom MediaTypeFormatter for ASP.NET WebAPI | StrathWeb
31. Golden Rule – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
32. Web Dev Report – 5 Things Web Developers Need to Know About CSS
33. Computer Science 101 | Coursera
34. First round playing with Memcached
35. Beware of big Task Parallel Library Operations – Ayende @ Rahien
36. When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed | News | The Week UK
37. Consuming ASP.NET Web API Web Services with RestSharp In the trenches with .NET by Harvey Kandola
38. restsharp/RestSharp
39. HTTP Message Handlers : Official Microsoft Site
40. So, you you want to write software?: Life Without Objects
41. How we made our home page load faster – The Official DeskAway Blog
42. Common.Logging and compatibility with other libraries – CodeProject®
43. John Sheehan : The API Developer Experience Baseline
44. JSIL – .NET to JavaScript compiler
45. Brad Wilson: Task Parallel Library and Servers, Part 4: TaskHelpers
46. Android fans: pay for your apps, please | PC Pro blog
47. RIM To Developers: We’ll Make Sure Your App Earns At Least $10K In Its First Year | TechCrunch
48. firstImpression.js: A micro-library for detecting new visitors – Ravelrumba by Rob Flaherty
49. How to Market and Promote your Games and Apps Part 1/4 | Ray Wenderlich
50. How to Market and Promote your Games and Apps Part 2/4 | Ray Wenderlich
51. Why $7.99 beats $0.99 | Six to Start
52. Enhanced ObservableCollection with ability to delay or disable notifications – CodeProject®
53. Injecting method calls to existing methods of an assembly – CodeProject®
54. Localization in ASP.NET MVC with Griffin.MvcContrib : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Forums
55. Managing app lifecycle so your apps feel always alive – Windows 8 app developer blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
56. Creating a great tile experience (part 1) – Windows 8 app developer blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
57. Async/Await FAQ – Parallel Programming with .NET – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
58. Inbox Zero
59. A Visual Browser History, from Netscape 4 to Mozilla Firefox – The Andrew Turnbull Mozilla Network
60. ASP.NET MVC: Resolve or Inject? That’s the Issue…
61. Why do web sites and software take so long to build? And why is it so hard? at Scott Porad
62. OrmHate
63. CQRS
64. Clarified CQRS
65. The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don’t make sense anymore – Scott Hanselman
66. Introducing the App Center – Facebook Developers