What to read on the weekend? Recommended, issue number 11

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 announcements by Tech-ed North America 2011 [ link ];
• 300+ video from TechEd conference reports are already available online [ link ];
• Announcement of innovations in Visual Studio vNext on Teched [ link ];
• What will happen in Visual Studio vNext [ link ];

HTML5, JavaScript, web standards :

• Spectacular gallery on jquery using sprite animation. Vol1 [ link ];
• Gradient Fill with CSS3 [ link ];
  
• Galactic- building the solar system in 3D on HTML5 [ link ];
  
• IE9 Performance Checklist [ link ];
  
• CSS3: box-sizing and page element sizes [ link ];
  
• Five useful CSS coding techniques and jQuery for creating more dynamic websites [ link ];
  
• jqMetro - plugin for jQuery to create interfaces in the style of Metro UI [ link ];
  
• jQuery HTML5 file upload [ link ];
  

WebForms:

• How to create a wiki in the shortest time [ link ];
• ASP.NET Windows session state management using Azure AppFabric Cache [ link ];
• Another ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit [ link ];
• Real understanding of ViewState [ link ];
• New free video courses on ASP.NET technologies [ link ];

ASP.NET MVC / WebMatrix :

• EF Code First and Data Scaffolding with ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update [ link ];
• What's inside ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update [ link ];
• Using Modernizr in MVC3 Tools Update for HTML5 localStorage [ link ];
• HTML5 improvements in ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update [ link ];
• Declarative HTML Helpers [ link ];
• About software development and efficiency - ASP.NET MVC 3 + Entity Framework 4.1 Code First [ link ];
• Localization in ASP.NET MVC - generation of resource files and localized views using templates [ link ];
• Step-by-step instructions on how to host ASP.NET MVC 3 applications on Windows Azure [ link ];

Silverlight / WP7 :

• Silverlight 5 Beta - low delay sound effects [ link ];
• Babylon Toolkit - a set of tools for working with 3D in Silverlight 5 [ link ];
• How to make a Windows Phone 7 Vibrate using C #? [ link ];
• XAML and Data Binding- again about StringFormat [ link ];
• Free e-book Designing for Windows Phone 7 [ link ];
• Silverlight Integration Pack for Enterprise Library 5.0 and other updates [ link ];
• Using Windows Azure to support push notifications for Windows Phone 7 [ link ];
• Free preview of ComponentOne Studio controls for Windows Phone [ link ];
• Silverlight 5 Beta - the third dimension [ link ];
• How to get the DeviceName and the Manufacturer of the Windows Phone device using C # [ link ];
• Unit testing in Silverlight 4 [ link ];
• Examples of 3D applications on Silverlight 5 [ link ];

Cloud technologies :

• Start and work with Hadoop in Windows Azure [ link ];
• The SharePoint and Windows Azure Development Kit [ link ];
• Cloud elasticity is a real case study [ link ];
• Updated Windows Azure Starter Kit tool for Java developers [ link ];
• Roles architecture in Windows Azure [ link ];
• New features added to Windows Azure Connect [ link ];
• Microsoft announces Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS, Android and the new version for Windows Phone [ link ];
• Updated Windows Azure Starter Kit tool for Java developers [ link ];
• Updated list of Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service [ link ];
• Getting started with Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS [ link ];
• Windows Azure ACS support in Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 [ link ];
• New version of Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 v1.2 released [ link ];
  
• Windows Azure AppFabric SDK 2.0 CTP Update (May) [ link ];
  
• Introduction to Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus May 2011 CTP [ link ];
  

Instruments

• Creating your video player using the Media Platform Player Framework for web, desktop and phone [ link ];
• Phalanger 2.1 - a new version of the PHP compiler for .NET has been released [ link ];
• The official Bing Maps control for iOS apps [ link ];
• SQL Server Compression Estimator [ link ];
• dotPeek is a free .NET decompiler from JetBrains [ link ];
• New version of FubuMVC Beta (0.9) [ link ];
• Release Nemerle 1.0 [ link ];

Other

• Less than two weeks left before the DevCon'11 conference! [ link ];
• Microsoft will once again support Russian programmers [ link ];
• Reveal REST secrets using WCF [ link ];
• Parallelism on .NET 4 and VS2010 [ link ];
• DynamicXml- “dynamic” wrapper for working with XML data [ link ];
• We write the first application on Mono Android [ link ];
• MSSql- Using the APPLY operator in TSql [ link ];
• New materials on SharePoint 2010 from Microsoft [ link ];
• Using Protocol Buffers on the .Net platform [ link and link ];
• Java SDK for TFS released [ link ];
• Scripts in .NET / Mono by means of the platform itself [ link ];