Catching up on some reading
My blog reader’s bursting at the seams so I thought I’d try and play catch-up this morning – not quite down to a 0 inbox but not a bad effort. Here are a few things that grabbed me:
ASP.NET Related
- WebForms aren’t dead – Dave Sussman has his say on Web Forms vs MVC
- ASP.NET MVC 2 – A few posts by ScottGu on the next release of ASP.NET MVC
- ASP.NET MVC 2- Strongly Typed Html Helpers
- ASP.NET MVC 2- Model Validation
- Server-side resizing with WPF- now with JPG – Bertrand Le Roy revisits thumbnail image generation
Office Related
- VSTO Performance- Delay Loading and You (Stephen Peters) – Enabling lazy-loading of your add-in
- VSTO 2010 Runtime components explained (Aaron Cathcart) - Changes to the VSTO 2010 runtime
Silverlight Related
- Silverlight TV – Perspectives on Flash and Silverlight (via Adam Kinney)
- Flash to Silverlight Guide – Graphics, Images and Display List – Project Rosetta updated
- Image Blitting in Silverlight with WriteableBitmapEx – nice image effects in Silverlight
Web & IE Related
- IE Cumulative Security Update Now Available – install it asap
- HTML5 does databases – Pablo Castro talks about the database in the browser
Azure Related
- Colleague Eric Nelson has recently published a bunch of informative posts on practical aspects of Windows Azure
- Step by Step sign up for the 25 hour free Windows Azure Platform Introductory Special
- Step by Step sign up for the MSDN Subscriber offer for the Windows Azure Platform
- QandA- When do I get charged for compute hours on Windows Azure
- QandA- How do you avoid being charged unnecessarily for Windows Azure compute hours
Other Stuff
- What We Saw at CES- The Musical – Brilliant video of CES set to music (via Raymond Chen)
- 11 Most Painfully Obvious Newspaper Articles Ever – ties in well with my current news theme (also via Raymond Chen)
- How do I minimize a group of windows in Windows 7 from the taskbar – nice little tip for the taskbar
- T4MVC in MSDN Magazine – K.Scott Allen talks T4 templates for ASP.NET MVC in MSDN Magazine