Good Links to Resources on Software Development

Online research is a regular activity that all software developers perform during day to day development. Sometimes, it takes some time and effort to find a good resource that explains the subject matter well and in a simpler understandable form. Below is a listing of good, in my opinion, resources that I came across during my day to day life as a software engineer. I continually update this post with new resources and also refer it daily to quickly find past resources without having to use a search engine each time. I thought to make this list as a blog post as it might save some time someone else too.

Web

• ASP.NET MVC 2: Model Validation
• CSS Tip #2: Structural Naming Convention in CSS
• How To Compose HTML ID and Class Names like a Rockstar
• Razor Functions and Helpers
• Creating your own MVC View Engine For MVC Application
• Using Razor from a Console Application
• Host your own Web Server in your application using IIS 7.0 Hostable Web Core
• CSS Font Stack: Includes web font styles with browser compatibility and syntax
• Installing and Running node.js applications within IIS on Windows - Are you mad?
• Which Is Right for Me? 22 Responsive CSS Frameworks and Boilerplates Explained
• Creating a CSS layout from Scratch
• Responsive CSS Framework Comparison
• CSS Grids & Responsive Frameworks Comparison
• CSS Framework Comparison
• px – em – % – pt – keyword

Architecture

• Building Composable Apps in .NET 4 with the Managed Extensibility Framework
• Simple Example of Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in Silverlight
• Managed Extensibility Framework - A Look
• Ten Reasons to use the Managed Extensibility Framework
• MEF or Managed Extensibility Framework and Lazy<T> – Being Lazy with MEF, Custom Export Attributes etc
• ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
• Defining Web-scoped parts with MEF
• Modular ASP.NET MVC using the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), Part One
• Exports and Metadata: Explains how to filter export parts
• Declaring Exports: Explains how to export classes, properties, and methods
• Looking Around at Circular References in MEF
• How to Debug and Diagnose MEF Failures

C#

• C# Delegates, Anonymous Methods, and Lambda Expressions – O My!
• Expression Tree Basics
• How to use LINQ methods to compare objects of custom types

Data Layer

• Code-First Development with Entity Framework 4
• Data Annotations in the Entity Framework and Code First
• Simple Code First with Entity Framework 4 - Magic Unicorn Feature CTP 4
• Demystifying Entity Framework Strategies: Loading Related Data : A good resource that explains the different loading methods available and how the Entity Framework works under the hood in each case.
• IRepository: one size does not fit all

Deployment:

• Merging .NET assemblies using ILMerge

Visual Studio:

• Ultimate Guide to speed up Visual Studio
• Do you have MSDN at work? Use Visual Studio Ultimate for free at home?

Testing

• Testability and Entity Framework 4.0