What to read on the weekend? Recommend

This is the first trial release of a selection of interesting links to articles on the development of web applications on the .NET platform (and not only). Today I present the first selection of articles that will be useful to read in free time on the weekend. Most of the articles are written in English, but over time, I hope to publish more links to Russian-language articles.

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Mega-selection of video materials on the development of ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET MVC and WebMatrix:

• 35 videos: What's new in ASP.NET and a quick introduction to new features [ link ];
• 114 videos: ASP.NET data access guides [ link ];
• 155 videos: AJAX, AJAX Control Toolkit [ link ];
• Video 29: ASP.NET Security Guide [ link ];
• 17 video: introduction to development on WebMatrix [ link ];
• 24 videos: work with IIS, deployment of ASP.NET sites [ link ];
• Video 61: ASP.NET MVC Application Building Guides [ link ];
• Video 17: ASP.NET MVC Data Access Guides [ link ];
• Video 5: ASP.NET MVC Security Guides [ link ].

WebForms:

• styling the GridView element with the jQuery [ link ] theme switch;
• How does EnableViewStateMAC make ViewState safer? [ link ];
• podcast: <ASP.NET Web Forms - Reports of My Death have been exaggerated, with Damian Edwards /> [ link ];
• Cookieless Session State [ link ];
• dynamic controls in ASP.NET [ link ].

ASP.NET MVC:

• more than two dozen video materials of the conference mvcConf [ link ];
• comparison of the ASP.NET MVC platform and Ruby On Rails [ link ];
• presentation: introduction to ASP.NET MVC 3 [ link ];
• Project Silk - a comprehensive guide from the Patterns & Practices group on building modern web applications [ link ] ;
• presentations with MVC & jQuery WebCamp [ link ];
• using partial MVC views with jQuery Templates [ link ];
• protection of MVC applications from CSRF attacks using jQuery 1.5 [ link ];
• ready infrastructure application template on MVC + Razor [ link ];
• unobtrusive JavaScript, client validation and dynamic content in MVC 3 [ link ];
• Two articles on Razor cool features from Phil Haak: Templated Razor Delegates and Defining Default Content For A Razor Layout Section .

Other:

• W3C has released updated CSS3 specifications [ link ];
• Entity Framework 4.1 announcement, what to expect? [ link ];
• the mass of material on Windows Azure 1.3 [ link ];
• Video: Deploy Drupal 7 to Windows Azure [ link ];
• jQuery free course [ link ];
• presentation: .NET is a cool platform for start-ups [ link ];
• New Orchard - Recipes [ link ].

Useful tools:

• A new version of Visual Studio 2010 productivity tools has been released [ link ];
• a new version of the toolkit Sprite and Image Optimization Preview 3 [ link ];
• A new version of Paint.NET 3.5.8 has been released [ link ];
• user interface to Ajax Minifier 4.0 [ link ] JavaScript file minimizer.