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DotNET News & Notes 3/15/2010

“One man's crappy software is another man's full time job.” - Jessica Gaston

Server Side

• Spark View Engine Updated for ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM
  Woot!
• The Single Page Interface Pattern
• The official announcements of the release of ASP.NET MVC 2 are still rolling in.
  And the source is available too.
• ASP.NET 4.0 Part 12, Routing Helper Functions
• ASP.NET: Cannot use a leading .. to exit above the top directory
• MvcContrib Grid Part 6 – Sorting
• Sending HTML emails with ASP.NET MVC2 and MVCContrib
• WebForms vs MVC (again)
• What's New in ASP.NET 4.0 – Better ViewState Control
• MVC 2 Strongly Typed HTML Helper and Enhanced Validation Sample
• Asp.Net MVC 2 Areas
• What's New in ASP.NET 4.0 – SEO Enhancements with MetaKeywords and MetaDescription properties
  More about SEO Improvements in ASP.NET 4

Client Side

• jQuery Boston: The Video
• Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – From Blocking to Async
• Your jQuery Selector Context Can Be A jQuery Object

General Programming

• Code Bubbles - A very interesting coding UX
  Pretty interesting.
• Determining Whether a String Is Contained Within a String Array (Case Insensitive)
• Do not name a class the same as its namespace, Part One
  And part two.
• LINQ to Object Part #2: Filtering and Sorting
• Programming Practices: Part 1 – Watching from a distance
• Advanced Castle Windsor – generic typed factories, auto-release and more
• FluentValidation 1.2 RC available
• “Icky” Decisions
• Map / Reduce – A visual explanation
  And the follow up What is map/reduce for, anyway?
• A better way to auto-run T4MVC when you build
• Why does Visual Studio 2010 convert my projects?

Everything Else

• Some of the ways to keep up with MIX10
• Are You Playing Checker or Chess? - YAGNI Revisited
• The cult of busy
• Learning, a way of procrastinate?

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