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- Service Dependencies
- DateTimeFormatInfo Class
- Windows Explorer's Startup Folder
- Common Regular Expressions
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- Obsolescing Your Code
AJAX
Architecture
ASP.NET
- Forget 404: Customising Your Page Not Found
- Confirming Delete ASP.NET
- Confirming Delete ASP.NET within datagrid
- Stress Testing
- Export a DataGrid to Excel
- Set Focus on Control
C#
- ViewState Property
CSS
DHTML
Entity Framework
- Entity Extensions
Javascript
JQuery
LINQ
Silverlight
SQL Server
- Find a string in SQL
- Loop using Temp Table
- Loop using Min Function
- Loop using Generating ID method
- Loop using Cursor
- Loop using Select Statement
- Loop Using Max
- Change Owner of an Object in SQL Server 2000
- Change the owner of all db objects
- Login ID owns object - determine objects
- Change all database object owners to dbo stored proc
- Find Duplicate Entries
- Find string value in any column
TSQL
- Return string from stored procedure
- T-SQL code to concatenate all the values of a column into one row
- UDF to convert a string to proper case
- Find string in database
- Return Last Matching String (function)
- Return Proper Case String (function)
- Return Title Case String (function)
- Returns Split (function)
- Change owners of database objects.
- Beginning date of any week in a year
- Pick Random Row TSQL
- TSQL Code to get Last Day of Month
- Return Comma Delimited Select
- Variable List to Table (function)
- RaiseError
- RaiseError
- First Day of Month
- Monday of the Current Week
- Monday of the Current Week 2
- First Day of the Year
- First Day of the Quarter
- Midnight for the Current Day
- Last Day of Prior Month
- Last Day of Prior Year
- Last Day of Current Month
- First Monday of the Month
VB.NET
- Create Datatable
- HashTable Sample
- ArrayList Sample
- File Name without Full Path or Extension
- Short Circuiting Expression (AndAlso / AndOr)
- DirectCast
- Clipboard Access
- SendKeys
VS.NET
- TODO List
WCF
XML

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.NET
- .Net Code Contracts + XML Comments = (as good as) peanut butter and chocolate? (Greg)
AJAX
- New release of the Ajax Control Toolkit (Tales from the Evil Empire : Microsoft AJAX Library)
Architecture
ASP.NET
C#
- C# 4.0 New Features, Videos, Articles and Books (noreply@blogger.com (Suprotim Agarwal))
- Simplistic Object Copying in .NET (Rick Strahl)
- Craig's Utility Library v1.5 – Sometimes we just need that Image to ASCII art converter (and all those other cool things in Craig’s grab-bag o’ code) (Greg)
CSS
- 50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design (Cameron Chapman)
DHTML
Entity Framework
- N-Tier Application Patterns with Entity Framework (Beth Massi)
Javascript
- 24 JavaScript Best Practices for Beginners (Jeffrey Way)
JQuery
- jQuery 1.4.1 Intellisense with Visual Studio (ScottGu)
- 5 Ways to Make Ajax Calls with jQuery (Park)
LINQ
- LINQ to SQL tips and tricks #3 (Damien Guard)
- How to improve your LINQ query performance by 5 X times ? ((author unknown))
- LinqToSQL A Detailed Review (jesseliberty)
- Chat room questions from the EF Tips & Tricks webcast (Julie)
- LINQ to SQL cheat sheet (Damien Guard)
Silverlight
- Top 25 Silverlight Articles (editorial@silverlightshow.net ( Silverlight Show))
- A list of useful Silverlight Tools (editorial@silverlightshow.net ( Silverlight Show))
- 5 Simple Steps to Commanding in Silverlight (John Papa)
- What a beautiful, though distracting, flash website! Let's do it in Silverlight! (Jose Fajardo)
- It took me under 5 minutes to realize the power of behaviors! (Jose Fajardo)
- New SL4 Feature: Commanding (shawn@wildermuth.com (Shawn Wildermuth))
- Josh Smith’s Advanced MVVM Book (Karl Shifflett)
- MVVM – It’s Not Kool-Aid* (jesseliberty)
- New Article – Getting Started with WCF RIA Services (dwahlin)
- 3 New Websites for Silverlight Community (editorial@silverlightshow.net ( Silverlight Show))
- Telerik Commanding mechanism for Silverlight Overview (Silverlight Team)
- Architecting SL4 Apps with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM - Part 4 (of 3) (shawn@wildermuth.com (Shawn Wildermuth))
- Getting Started with the MVVM Pattern in Silverlight Applications (dwahlin)
- Architecting SL4 Applications with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM - Part 2 (shawn@wildermuth.com (Shawn Wildermuth))
- Architecting Silverlight 4 with RIA Services, MEF and MVVM - Part 1 (shawn@wildermuth.com (Shawn Wildermuth))
- MVVM Light Toolkit V3 Alpha 3 for WPF4/SL4 (Laurent Bugnion)
- Building ContosoSales - The RIA Services Keynote Demo (Jeff Handley)
- 10 shortcuts worth discovering in Expression Blend 3 (Silverlight Team)
- Announcing the Bing Maps Silverlight Control (Silverlight Team)
- Making an object re-usable as a User Control in Blend (Gavin Wignall)
- Patterns-Based Silverlight Development – Part I – Getting Started (RobBagby)
- Dynamically Setting Initialization Parameters in Silverlight Application (editorial@silverlightshow.net ( Silverlight Show))
- 5 Minute Overview of MVVM in Silverlight (John Papa)
- Previewing Websites in Multiple Browsers with Expression Web 3’s SuperPreview (dwahlin)
- Four Expression 3 Starter Kits, two for Blend and two for Web, focusing on Sketchflow, Gaming, SuperPreview and SilverLight. (Greg)
- Sharing Source with Silverlight (Jeff Handley)
- Making ViewModel Easier (Jeff Handley)
- Silverlight 3 Released (ScottGu)
- ViewModel with MVC/Navigation in Silverlight (Nikhil Kothari's Weblog)
SQL Server
- SELECT from a Stored Procedure (ssmith)
- Free (reg-ware) SQL Server eBook - "SQL Server Tacklebox" from Red Gate (Greg)
TSQL
VB.NET
VS.NET
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit – February Release (aka the VS2010 RC Compatible release) – We’re talking 602MB of VS/.Net training stuff here… (Greg)
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit – February Release (aka the VS2010 RC Compatible release) – We’re talking 602MB of VS/.Net training stuff here… (Greg)
- Miller on DNR TV -- Intelligent Code Generation in Visual Studio with CodeRush (Mark Miller (Developer Express))
- Miller on DNR TV -- Intelligent Code Generation in Visual Studio with CodeRush (Mark Miller (Developer Express))
- A couple interesting Visual Studio Add-ins - Markup Tamer to tame your XML layout and Configuration Section Designer, a visual design surface for Configuration Sections (Greg)
- A couple interesting Visual Studio Add-ins - Markup Tamer to tame your XML layout and Configuration Section Designer, a visual design surface for Configuration Sections (Greg)
- Microsoft Web Platform Installer (ScottGu)
- Microsoft Web Platform Installer (ScottGu)
- Performance and Memory Milestones in CodeRush and Refactor! Pro - Preview of 9.2 (Mark Miller (Developer Express))
- Performance and Memory Milestones in CodeRush and Refactor! Pro - Preview of 9.2 (Mark Miller (Developer Express))
WCF
- Running a WCF Service on IIS 7 (dwahlin)
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Core to these principles is a systematic approach to the development of software with a strong lifecycle and process management emphasis through adoption of mature technologies.

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