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Good Links, May 25, 2009

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Customers Connected Engineering (CCE): It is a way to build software with customers engaged in all phases of the Software development life cycle. its aim is “Software Built with customers, for customers”  http://shapingsoftware.com/2009/05/19/customer-connected-engineering/

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Good Links , May 18, 2009

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VS 2010 and .NET FW 4.0 Beta 1 released: http://samgentile.com/Web/vs2010-and-net-framework-4-0/visual-studio-2010-and-net-framework-4-beta-1-available-today/

Preview of the new features in VS2010:

http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/05/18/announcing-vs2010-net-framework-4-0-beta-1.aspx

CodeRush now free: http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Visual_Studio_Add-in/CodeRushX/

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Good Links, May 15, 2009

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30 HTML Best Practices for Beginners: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/30-html-best-practices-for-beginners/

30+ Eye-Opening Web Development Screen casts: http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/30-eye-opening-web-development-screencasts/

20 More Explosive Web Development Screen casts: http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/20-more-explosive-web-development-screencasts/

Design a Beautiful Website From Scratch: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/design-a-beautiful-website-from-scratch/

8 Characteristics Of Successful User Interfaces: http://www.usabilitypost.com/2009/04/15/8-characteristics-of-successful-user-interfaces/

JQuery for absolute beginners video series: http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/jquery-for-absolute-beginners-video-series/

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Generating Script to reproduce Database Schema AND data

Posted in Tips, tagged , , , on May 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »

Many times we need a script that reproduces a database schema along with some data; example: lookup tables values.

Turned out it can be done quite easily with the Publishing wizard that is a standard part of the Visual studio 2008.

All you need to do is open the database in the server explorer, right click on the database and select “Publish to provider”.

Screen shot

PublishDB

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Royalty free Icons

Posted in Good Links, tagged on May 5, 2009| Leave a Comment »

Free set of icons related to project management: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/27/project-icon-set-for-free-download/

Free icons set called “Bright” : http://min.frexy.com/article/bright_a_free_icon_set/

More free icons set from the same author:

http://min.frexy.com/article/milky_a_free_vector_icon_set_part_1/

http://min.frexy.com/article/milky_a_free_vector_icon_set_part_2/

http://min.frexy.com/article/milky_a_free_vector_icon_set_part_3/

http://min.frexy.com/article/milky_a_free_vector_icon_set_part_4/

Free set of icons related to financial items: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/09/finance-and-applications-a-free-icon-set/

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WPF MVVM Toolkit

Posted in Good Links, tagged , , on May 3, 2009| Leave a Comment »

Newly released WPF MVVM Toolkit : http://wpf.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=WPF%20Model-View-ViewModel%20Toolkit 

An Advanced MSDN Article explaining the MVVM Pattern: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419663.aspx

And a Channel 9 Video about MVVM: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Continuum/MVVM/

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