Sam Gentile's Blog (if (DeveloperTask == Communication && OS == Windows)

Pluralsight On-Demand!

I plan to have a full post on Pluralsight On- Demand! very soon. I became a subscriber recently and have found it to be an amazing training tool. Its just ike being in the classroom with the best instructors in the business and the courses cover the bulk of the current and upcoming Microsoft technology landscape with more being added every day. There were two recent additions that are very valauable.

• New Pluralsight On-Demand! Feature:Downloadable Slides
• Beta version of "Dublin" course published to Pluralsight On Demand!

Castle

• Castle Dynamic Proxy tutorial part XIII: Mix in this, mix in that
• Creating your own dynamic proxy

ASP.NET and Web Programming

• This is very interesting indeed. Introducing Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC. The source code has been uploaded to CodePlex under the Open Source MS-PL license. It is a very lightweight framework based upon jQuery and supports multiple view engines.
• Multiple instances of Visual Studio Development Server getting created
• ASP.NET 4.0 QueryExtender, AutoCompleteExtender and Update Panel: mashing it all up
• JavaScript: A tool too sharp?
• jQuery UI 1.8a1 - First preview release for jQuery UI 1.8 is out.

Software Design

• Refactoring Day 12: Break Dependencies
• Refactoring Day 13: Extract Method Object
• Command Query Separation?
• NCover 3.2 Released!

WCF/Identity Management/Azure

• Aaron: My latest whitepaper on WCF 4.0
• Claims based Authentication & Authorization: The Guide
• Deploying Your First Windows Azure Application

Silverlight/RIA

• Business Apps Example for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services July Update: Part 22: Separate Solution Files - The series that just keeps on giving! :)