JavaScript, JSON, JQuery, Ext links

Links related to JavaScript, JSON, JQuery:

• The Complete Reference for Any jQuery Developer
• Ext 2.2 – API Documentation
• Ajax quick start FAQ
• 45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience

Software Dev Tools

Some of links related to software development tools:

• 25 Must-Have Thumb Drive Apps for Geeks
• My (Web) Tools of the Trade
• A Complete Tune-Up for Your Ailing Computer – Free
• Resource Guide to Free Microsoft Software and Online Services
• 92 Tutorial Videos on Visual Studio Team System 2008.
• Processing Global Mouse and Keyboard Hooks in C#

WCF Related Links

Following are a few links related to WCF:

• Screencast: Creating your First WCF Service
• Screencast: Configuring WCF Services with Endpoints

WPF Related Links

Following are some links that are related to WPF:

• Building a WPF Application: Part 0
• Building a WPF Application: Part 1
• Building a WPF Application: Part 2
• Building a WPF Application: Part 3
• WPF: A Beginner’s Guide – Part 1 (Layout), Part 2 (XAML vs Code / Markup Extensions And Resources), Part 3 (Commands And Events), Part 4 (Dependency Properties), Part 5(DataBinding), Part 6 (Styles/Templates)
  
• A Guided Tour of WPF — Part 1(XAML),   Part 2 (Layout), Part 3 (Data binding), Part 4 (Data templates and triggers), Part 5 (Styles)
• WPF Controls – A Visual Quick Start
• WPF Tutorial

Design Pattern Related

Here are some links on Design Patterns:

• David Cumps’ Design Pattern Articles
• Design Patterns – Part 1: incorporating design patterns into your software projects
• Design Patterns – Part 2: observer design pattern
• Design Patterns – Part 3: factory pattern
• Design Patterns – Part 4: singleton pattern
• Design Patterns – Part 5: command pattern and its uses
• Design Patterns – Part 6: adapter pattern
• Design Patterns – Part 7: template pattern
• Great Design Pattern Resources
• Strategy Design Pattern
• PTOM: The Composite Design Pattern
• PTOM: The Decorator Pattern
• PTOM: Command and Conquer Your UI Coupling Problems

SQL Server Stuff

Following are a few articles about SQL Server:

• Use SqlBulkCopy to Quickly Load Data from your Client to SQL Server
• SQL SERVER – Introduction to JOINs – Basic of JOINs
• SQL Bulk Copy with C#.Net
• SQL Server Interview Q&A
• Tip: Using Full Text Search With a Table-Valued Function

Series articles on SQL For Programmers:

• SQL For Developers – 9 Reasons to bother – August 13th, 2008
• SQL for Programmers – CREATE/DROP Database – August 20th, 2008
• SQL For Programmers – CREATE TABLE – August 22nd, 2008
• SQL For Programmers – ALTERing the TABLE – September 1st, 2008
• SQL For Programmers – Finding a String – September 3rd, 2008
• SQL For Programmers – Finding IN a List – September 8th, 2008
• SQL For Programmers – Stored Procedures (Better than LINQ) – September 10th, 2008
• SQL For Programmers – Stored Procedure Basics – September 16th, 2008
• Basic SQL Commands – SQL For Programmers – September 18th, 2008
• SQL IF/WHILE Blocks – SQL For Programmers – September 30th, 2008
• SQL WHILE – SQL For Programmers – October 2nd, 2008
• Temporary Tables – SQL For Programmers – October 7th, 2008
• SQL CURSOR – SQL For Programmers – October 13th, 2008
• SQL CURSOR Performance – SQL For Programmers – October 22nd, 2008
• Random in SQL – SQL For Programmers – November 4th, 2008
• SQL – Filtering WHERE condition on two rows – November 26th, 2008
• SQL – Transactions – April 15th, 2009

Speedy C# Series

A set of speedy C# articles:

• Part 1: Optimizing Long if-else or switch Branches
• Part 2: Optimizing Memory Allocations – Pooling and Reusing Objects
• Part 3: Understanding Memory References, Pinned Objects, and Pointers
• Part 4: Using – and Understanding – CLR Profiler
• Part 5: Using Threads with Waits, or Don’t Kill your CPU

A set of C# delegates articles:

• Callback and Multicast delegates
• Events
• One more Event
• Asynchronous Callback – Way 1 – BeginInvoke > EndInvoke
• Asynchronous Callback – Way 2 – BeginInvoke >AsyncWaitHandle.WaitOne(x) > EndInvoke >AsynWaitHandle.Close()
• Asynchronous Callback – Way 3 – BeginInvoke > Poll for result’s IsCompleted > EndInvoke
• Explaining Delegates in C# – Part 7 (Asynchronous Callback – Way 4)
• Video – Getting Started with LINQ in .NET 3.5
• Basics of LINQ and Lambda Expressions
• 101 LINQ Samples
• Hooked on LINQ – Developers’ Wiki
• An Extensive Examination of LINQ: Lambda Expressions and Anonymous Types
• Delegates and Events in C#
• New Language Feature: Lambda Expressions
• Anonymous Methods (C# Programming Guide)

Related articles:

• Using LINQ to query things other than a DB

Software Architecture Interview Questions

Following are a series of questions:

• Part 1: Design Pattern
• Part 2: Interpeter,Iterator , Mediator , Memento and Observer
  
• Part 3: State Pattern, Stratergy pattern,Visitor pattern, Adapter and fly weight
• Part 4: Bridge, Composite, Facade, Chain Of Responsibility, Proxy, and Template Patterns
• UML Interview Questions Part 1
• UML interview questions part 2
• SOA Interview questions Part 1
• Caching Interview Questions Part 1
• Caching Interview Questions Part 2
• ASP.Net Interview Question Part 1
• ASP.Net Interview Question Part 2
• ASP.Net Interview Question Part 3
• ADO.Net Interview Question Part 2
• Six Sigma Interview Questions
• SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers
• 201 Best Questions to Ask on Your Interview
• Design Pattern Interview questions: Part 1
• 10 Papers Every Software Architect Should Read (At Least Twice)

Silverlight Related Links

Here are some links to Silverlight:

• Silverlight – GetStarted
• Silverlight Show
• 44 Silverlight Videos
• Silverlight Tutorial: How to animate a ball being thrown and bouncing
• Sample Silverlight Applications
• Silverlight tip: shortcut simple properties
• Introduction to Layout Controls in Silverlight 2
• Free Silverlight and WPF goodness for all!
• Silverlight Spy
• Silverlight Tutorial: How to create a skinnable custom control
• A Personal Guide to Getting Started with Silverlight
• Debugging Silverlight applications with windbg and sos.dll
• CoolMenu: A Silverlight Menu Control
• Basic customizations of the DataGrid