Daily Links 30/04/2008

Deferred execution with LinQ
LinQ queries don't necessarily get executed on the line they are declared...

Subversion so easy, even your wife can use it
yeah, this guy slept on the couch a few nights I'm sure :)

Using the Grid control in Silverlight 2 Beta 1
The Grid Control is pretty central (at least for the meantime) to layout of Silverlight UI

Share files on-line

TFS Client download
Free Team Foundation Client install for Visual Studio.

LinQ to XML in 3 easy steps

Going Open Source Series & Working With Open Source Companies - 3 RedMonk White Papers

TestDriven .NET now has support for Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1
Only ad-hoc tests supported thus far though

Hacking Visual Studio to Use More Than 2Gigabytes of Memory

Defining Silverlight DataGrid Columns at Runtime

Silverlight - the song

Implementing Generic Caching

Daily Links 04/12/2007

.NET Framework detection sample code

Top 10 reasons why NOT to buy Visual Studio 2008

Tricks to increase SQL Server query performance

Golden Rule of Web Caching

SQL Server 2008 will have IntelliSense

AjaxDataControls GridView Part One

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit and Web Deployment Project Releases for VS 2008

Daily Links - 01/11/2007

Subsonic
Autogen'd DAL
5 reasons why subsonic is better than sliced bread

Regionerate
"open-source tool for developers and team leaders that allows you to automatically apply layout rules on C# code."

Caching In 10 Minutes

Gmail gets IMAP (free of course!)

Care about event memory leaks

Object Orientated JavaScript Widgets

Daily Links - 11/10/2007

Layered Architecture, Dependency Injection, and Dependency Inversion

Database Performance Optimization - Denormalization using MySQL Triggers

Caching in ASP.NET while making sure that cache data is synch'ed with the database - in 3.5 minutes

Google Gears
"open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality"
"Gears provides three key features:
* A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server
* A database, to store and access data from within the browser
* A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background"

Speed Up Your Site! 8 ASP.NET Performance Tips

43 Exceptionally useful AJAX Applications

Daily Links - 04/10/2007

More articles wrt [Distributed] caching
Caching Architecture Guide for .NET Framework Applications
NCache - distributed caching for .NET

NHibernate for .NET - persistence framework for .NET (also provides model whereby you can "plug in" the caching mechanism)
"It handles persisting plain .NET objects to and from an underlying relational database."

Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries

Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format
Highly compressed XML standard for across-the-wire transactions. Links are from
previous post comments, but I thought it interesting enough to link here.
Implementation from 3rd party vendor: AgileDelta

Daily Links - 03/10/2007

A Raw Serializer
Good article on serialization covering Binary, XML, Compression and Encryption of data streams

Surface computing hands-on article

Utilities.NET
"Utilities.NET is a collection of helper classes and components for quickly solving common .NET programming tasks."

Profiling .NET Applications
Tutorial on profiling .NET applications using ANTS

Subversion 1.5 features

Some articles on [Distributed] Caching:
Distributed Caching with Memcached
Domain Objects Caching Pattern for .NET
Web Caching Architectures: Hierarchical and Distributed Caching

Logitech vs M$ Bluetooth mouse comparision