What to read on the weekend? Recommended, issue number 9

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 .

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• XNA RPG - XNA study on the example of building an RPG game (26-part guide) ( link );

WebForms:

• The Russian content management system Atilekt.CMS is available via the Web Platform Installer ( link );
• The list of events in GLOBAL.ASAX ( link );
• Project for ASP.NET- Git Web Access ( link );

ASP.NET MVC / WebMatrix:

• ASP.NET MVC 3 for beginners: add a date entry using jQueryUI and NuGet ( link );
• Orchard tutorial, part 1 - launching a blog ( link );
• Orchard Manual Part 2 ( link );
• Custom Role Provider. Part 1 ( link );
• Setting up templates T4 MvcScaffolding ( link );
• Session management of NHibernate in ASP.NET MVC applications (l ink );
• patterns & practices- Project Silk Drop 7 ( link );
• Use the Entity Framework Fluent API and Code First in ASP.NET MVC ( link );

HTML5, JavaScript, web standards:

• Working with CSS 3 in Expression Web ( link )
• Opinion on when to use Canvas and SVG ( link );
• New useful JavaScript CSS solutions for 2011. 16 fresh plug-ins for a web developer ( link );
• Results of testing speed JS in browsers ( link );
• IE9 Compat Inspector - a site analysis tool for problems with JavaScript ( link );
• JavaScript fractal using HTML5 ( link );
• 14 browser javascript - games using HTML5 ( link );
• Extend your jQuery applications with Amplify.js ( link );
• Useful jQuery Plugins - April 2011 ( link );
• Blasting logo using CSS3 and MooTools or jQuery ( link );

Silverlight / WP7:

• Creating an application for Windows Phone 7 from start to finish ( link );
• Silverlight 4 update from April 19 ( link );
• New mobile application contest for Windows Phone 7 ( link );
• Official guideline for using the Download for Windows Phone 7 button ( link );
• The official guide to building WP7 applications for working with SharePoint and UAG ( link );
• Silverlight 5.0 - Custom Markup Extensions and Roles ( link );
• Top FREE platforms, tools and controls for Windows Phone 7 ( link );
• Phoney Tools 1.0 ( link );
• Lessons on Silverlight PivotViewer ( link );
• Silverlight 5 Beta Rough Notes – Linked RichTextBoxes ( link );
• Silverlight 5 source codes are available for the 3D Housebuilder project shown in MIX11 ( link );
• XAML and Data Binding- Advanced features markup and data binding in Silverlight ( link );

Cloud technologies:

• The April update of the Windows Azure AppFabric SDK and the announcement of the availability of the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching Service ( link );
• 17 Visio diagrams describing how Windows Azure AppFabric scripts work Access Control Service ( link );
• Simple VPN organization using Windows Azure Connect ( link );
• Collect diagnostic data in your Windows Azure application ( link );
• Placing Ruby on Rails on Windows Azure - part 2 ( link );
• How to add MVC 3.01 project type to Azure Cloud Service wizard ( link );
• IIS extensions for Windows Azure ( link );

Instruments:

• A new version of the package manager NuGet 1.3 ( link );
• A preliminary version of SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 ( link );
• New versions of tools for migration of Oracle, Sybase, Access and MySQL databases to SQL ( link );
• And in Visual Studio there are External Tools ... ( link );
• An overview of the new tools from the WCF team that were presented on MIX11 ( link );
• Reflector Died? Long live JustDecompiler ( link );

Other:

• Microsoft Certified Professionals are paid 21% more ( link );
  
• Available online Russian edition of MSDN Magazine for February 2011 ( link );
  
• DevCon'11- published the final conference program ( link );
  
• Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and SQL Server 2008 SP2 products have received certification ( link );
  
• Dependency Injection pattern - three ways to implement ( link );
  
• Associations in EF 4.1 Code First Part 4 - Table Splitting ( link );
  
• Entity Framework- Database Initializers and EF Code First ( link );
  
• Accelerating Stackoverflow.com ( link );