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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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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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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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
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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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SP2 for SharePoint 3.0 Services: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953338
SP2 for Office SharePoint 2007 Server: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953334
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WPF Data binding with Entity Framework: http://thedatafarm.com/LearnEntityFramework/tutorials/wpf-databinding-with-entity-framework/
WPF data binding to Entity Framework Entities : http://blah.winsmarts.com/2007-2-WPF__DataBinding_with_any_object,_Including_LINQ-ADONET_Entity_FrameWork.aspx
Entity Framework tutorials: http://www.thedatafarm.com/Blog/2008/04/04/EightEntityFrameworkTutorialsOnDataDeveloperNET.aspx
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Resources for 70-502 exam (WPF): http://www.wpfdude.com/certification.aspx
SharePoint SDKs updated: http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2009/04/26/SharePoint-WSS-3.0-amp-MOSS-2007-SDK-Updated-April-2009.aspx
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The MVVM pattern in WPF applications: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419663.aspx
Using a CollectionViewSource to display Master-Detail sorted EntityCollections: :http://blog.nicktown.info/2008/12/10/using-a-collectionviewsource-to-display-a-sorted-entitycollection.aspx
Family tree WPF open source application: http://www.codeplex.com/familyshow
XAML WPF cheat sheet : http://blog.blueboxes.co.uk/2009/02/03/xaml-for-wpf-cheatsheet/
XAML binding cheat sheet : http://www.nbdtech.com/blog/archive/2009/02/02/wpf-xaml-data-binding-cheat-sheet.aspx
List of WPF applications: http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/tags/wpf/portfolio/default.aspx
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