What to read on the weekend? Recommended, issue number 8

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 .

Themes of the issue:

• MIX'11: more than a hundred video reports are available for download ( link );
• a series of articles: “Silverlight 5 - what's new” - part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , part 4 ;

ASP.NET MVC / WebMatrix:

• Glimpse - server firebug for ASP.NET projects ( link );
• WebMatrix-work with the mobile client definition package from 51Degrees.mobi ( link );
• ASP.NET MVC 3 - using scaffolding controllers ( link );
• Recipe import / export module in Orchard CMS 1.1 ( link );
• ReSharper 6 will offer deep support for Razor ( link );
• Demo application MVC Music Store v3.0 for exploring ASP.NET MVC ( link );
• Razor- output sections in the master pages of the master pages ( link );
• ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update, now with Drop-Down Lists! ( link );

HTML5, JavaScript, Web Standards:

• PaintbrushJS library - application of new HTML5 features ( link );
• ReSharper 6 will offer support for JavaScript unit testing with QUnit ( link );
• How to create a simple horizontal drop-down menu with jQuery ( link );

Silverlight / WP7:

• Microsoft and Nokia announced the early signing of a partnership agreement ( link );
• Work Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) with Windows Phone 7 ( link );
• Wintellect Silverlight Touch Library - a library of multitouch, gestures and manipulations for Silverlight ( link );
• XNA for the Web is Silverlight 5 ( link );
• MIX11-what Windows Phone OS codename “Mango” ( link ) will bring us;
• Demonstration of PivotViewer vNext ( link );
• Using the CameraCaptureTask in Windows Phone 7 ( link );
• Mix11 + Microsoft PivotViewer ( link );
• New Silverlight 5 feature by style reference ( link );
• Silverlight 5 - Rich Text and Overflow ( link );

Cloud technologies:

• New version of Windows Azure SDK for PHP v3.0.0 Beta ( link );
• A selection of descriptions of cloud deployments within Microsoft ( link );
• Windows Azure SDK 1.4 Refresh is available with Web Deploy support ( link );
• A tool for migrating sites to Windows Azure with minimal effort ( link );
• Microsoft cloud services BPOS-F received a FISMA certificate ( link );
• Microsoft Office 365 comes to Russia ( link );
• The Office 365 Developer Training Kit has been released ( link );

Instruments:

• Updated some Microsoft development tools for Windows Azure, WCF Data Services, Async CTP, TPL Dataflow, and Identity Foundation ( link );
• New version of Microsoft F # (April 2011 CTP) ( link );
• What's new in Visual Studio Async CTP (SP1 Refresh) ( link );
• Accelerate Visual Studio Part I. Unity Builds ( link );

Other:

• The PowerShell Language Specification is released under the Community Promise ( link );
• WCF jQuery Support ( link );
• Two days game ( link );
• Microsoft Web API - the REST is done by WCF (Part 1) ( link );
• Microsoft + Open Source = Happy .NET Developers ( link );