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Links For August 20th 2008

Ajax:
Ra Ajax: Ajax for .NET
Cancelling an Asynchronous PostBack in ASP.NET Ajax
65 Excellent jQuery Resources (tutorials,cheat sheets,ebooks,demos,plugins…)
Easily build powerful client-side AJAX paging, using jQuery

Web:
The lessons of CSS frameworks
Making creating DOM-based applications less of a hassle
15 Quick Ways to Shrink Page Load Times

LINQ:
Increase LINQ Query Performance
Find Duplicates using LINQ

Other:
Timeline of Project Astoria
VB 2008 Language Deep Dive - Presentation Materials (Jonathan Aneja)

ADO.Net:
Many To Many Mappings in Entity Framework

Links For August 20th 2008

Links For August 19th 2008

WPF:
Building a WPF Application: Part 3
Testing Browser Based WPF Applications

Web Applications:
Scaling Web Application - Recommended Readings

LINQ:
A Beginners Guide to use LINQ to SQL within ASP.NET in Visual Studio 2008 and CSharp(C#).
LINQ really is hot stuff for .NET developers.

TechED:
Great TechEd US Sessions available to view online

Tools:
New Fiddler Timeline view is awesome!

Silverlight:
Deep Fried Bytes Episode 10: A Practical Look at Silverlight Part 2

CLR:
CLR Updates in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Links For August 19th 2008

Links For August 17th 2008

WCF:
Screencast - Creating your First WCF Service

ASP.Net:
ASP.NET Performance: High CPU Utilization Case Studies And Solutions

Other:
System.Data.Services
7 things to remember while building a web application - Part I
Thinking In Rest - Part 2
Debugging in .NET – Resources
Encrypt Configuration Sections in ASP.NET 2.0 using Visual Studio 2005

.Net 3.5:
.NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit

From My Blog:
MySQL WorkBench - A great tool for your databases
MySQL WorkBench - A great tool for your databases (Part - 2)

Links For August 17th 2008

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1

Well this is a bit old news (6 days old), but a very important one. Definitely worth a mention even after 6 days.

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* Improved WPF designers
* SQL Server 2008 support
* ADO.NET Entity Designer
* Visual Basic and Visual C++ components and tools (including an MFC-based Office 2007 style ‘Ribbon’)
* Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server (TFS) addresses customer feedback on version control usability and performance, email integration with work item tracking and full support for hosting on SQL Server 2008
* Richer JavaScript support, enhanced AJAX and data tools, and Web site deployment improvements

* Performance increases between 20-45% for WPF-based applications – without having to change any code
* WCF improvements that give developers more control over the way they access data and services
* Streamlined installation experience for client applications
* Improvements in the area of data platform, such as the ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and support for SQL Server 2008’s new features

SP1 provides a .NET Framework install version that is optimized for .NET-based client applications. The size of this optimized runtime is less than 28 MB.

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1

Pex: Automated Exploratory Testing for .NET

Pex (Program EXploration) is an intelligent assistant to the programmer. From a parameterized unit test, it automatically produces a traditional unit test suite with high code coverage. In addition, it suggests to the programmer how to fix the bugs.

Pex generates Unit Tests from hand-written Parameterized Unit Tests through Automated Exploratory Testing based on Dynamic Symbolic Execution.
• Unit Tests: parameterless methods that test a single unit of code
• Parameterized Unit Tests: same as above, but with parameters
• Automated Exploratory Testing: A tool-supported process of running, learning and testing code at the same time
• Dynamic Symbolic Execution: A combination of static analysis and runtime monitoring to compute test inputs.

Channel 9 Video Regarding Pex

Pex: Automated Exploratory Testing for .NET