New and Notable 405
Cloud Computing/Azure
- Should IT Fear the Cloud or Embrace It? - David Pallmann explores the impact to IT faced with the challenges presented to it by cloud computing, even in the face of a compelling business story
- Gold Coast .Net SIG Azure Development Talk - Slides and Demo - Steve Nagy shares his slides and demo of his talk that started with an overview of the platform, and then dived into Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Servives.
WCF/WF
- RC docs are live! - The UE team created more than ~200 WCF/WF sample readmes for the release and the doc links are listed
- Samples for WF 4.0 and WCF 4.0 Release Candidate - Speaking of those samples, they are now available for download
Software DevelopmentTools
Linq to SQL Profiler 1.0 Released - Ayende's Linq to SQL Profiler has gone 1.0
VS2010 Command Prompt Here - Travis has updated his Command Prompt Round-Up to support a VS2010 "Command Prompt Here" command prompt
WPF
- Getting Started with WPF: Hello World in multiple flavors - Pete Brown has written what I consider the best introduction to WPF in this blog post which takes you through various permutations of HelloWorld with different features of WPF
- Getting Started with WPF: Button Controls Part 1 - Button is a Content Control - In This one, Pete explains how to do a fair amount of customization using the content property of a button
- Getting Started with WPF: Button Control - Basic Styling - In this post, Pete covers styling and builds up the background for templating, the backbone of what makes Silverlight so powerful
jQuery
- jQuery 1.4.2 Released - Second minor release on top of jQuery 1.4, fixing some outstanding bugs and some new features
- Consuming WCF/ASMX/REST Service Using jQuery - This step by step tutorial demonstrates how to consume WCF, ASMX and REST services using jQuery
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