What to read on the weekend? Recommended, issue number 3

This is a selection of articles on the topic of web development on the .NET platform (and not only). The day before the weekend, I offer a set of interesting links that should be visited during the free moments on the weekend to learn something new and interesting.

You can follow the cycle of these tips at the following link .

Subject number:

• important update for Entity Framework 4.1 [ link ];
• working with Entity Framework 4.1 in ASP.NET MVC [ link ];

WebForms:

• using the benefits of Windows Azure CDN in ASP.NET [ link ];
• Employee Info Starter Kit v5.0.RC - start-up project on ASP.NET Web Forms [ link ];
• MVP framework for ASP.NET [ link ];
• Altairis Web UI Toolkit [ link ] components and controls;

ASP.NET MVC:

• NuGet-package of the week: job description MvcMailer [ link ];
• [Russian] continuation of the series of articles “ASP.NET MVC 3 in details” [ link ];
• building an application oriented to work with data using ASP.NET MVC and ExtJS [ link ];
• uploading files to Razor using jQuery Uploadify Plugin [ link ];
• comparing MVC implementations in ASP.NET and Java [ link ];
• HTML5 application on ASP.NET MVC using Visual Studio 2010 [ link ];

Instruments:

• Internet Explorer 9 released, new demos http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ , additional tools [ link ];
• released prebuilt development toolkits available through a quick, automated installation in the Web Platform Installer [ link ];
• Web Application Gallery Web Platform Installer [ link ];

Other:

• released MonoMac framework - .NET for MacOS [ link ];
• federated authentication in Windows Azure Web Role using the AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) [ link ];
• new version of Visual Studio LightSwitch Beta 2 released! [ link ];
• [video] demonstration of an example of a LightSwitch application used by Microsoft [ link ];
• The story of the emergence of generics in C # /. NET [ link ];
• transition to C # and the .NET Framework for Java developers [ link ];
• Python support in Visual Studio [ link ].