What to read on the weekend? Recommended

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

    Topic of the issue :

    Mega-selection of video materials for development on 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 manuals, AJAX Control Toolkit [ link ];
    • 29 videos: ASP.NET Security Guides [ link ];
    • 17 videos: introduction to development on WebMatrix [ link ];
    • 24 videos: working with IIS, deploying ASP.NET sites [ link ];
    • 61 videos: ASP.NET MVC application building guides [ link ];
    • 17 videos: ASP.NET MVC data access guides [ link ];
    • 5 videos: ASP.NET MVC security guides [ link ].
    WebForms:
    • Styling a GridView with jQuery [ link ] Theme Switch
    • How does EnableViewStateMAC make ViewState safer? [ link ];
    • podcast: [ link ];
    • Cookieless Session State [ link ] description ;
    • dynamic controls in ASP.NET [ link ].
    ASP.NET MVC:
    • more than two dozen video materials of the mvcConf conference [ 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-made infrastructure application template for MVC + Razor [ link ];
    • unobtrusive JavaScript, client validation, and dynamic content in MVC 3 [ link ];
    • two articles on the cool Razor features from Phil Haack: Templated Razor Delegates and Defining Default Content For A Razor Layout Section .
    Other:
    • W3C released updated CSS3 specifications [ link ];
    • Announcement of Entity Framework 4.1, what to expect? [ link ];
    • a lot of material on Windows Azure 1.3 [ link ];
    • video: Drupal 7 deployment on Windows Azure [ link ];
    • free jQuery [ link ] training course ;
    • presentation: .NET - a cool platform for startups [ link ];
    • Orchard’s new feature is Recipes [ link ].
    Useful tools:
    • Visual Studio 2010 new version of productivity tools released [ link ];
    • Sprite and Image Optimization Preview 3 toolkit [ link ] released;
    • a new version of Paint.NET 3.5.8 [ link ] has been released;
    • user interface for minimizing Ajax Minifier 4.0 JavaScript files [ link ].

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