ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, EF, .NET

Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my Best of 2010 Summary for links to 100+ other posts I've done in the last year.
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ASP.NET

• 35 ASP.NET and VS 2010 What's New Videos: 35 free videos from Joe Stagner that highlight some of the new features that came in ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010.

• Filling in PDF Forms with ASP.NET and iTextSharp: Nice article by Scott Mitchell on how to populate PDF forms using ASP.NET and iTextSharp – an open source PDF library for .NET.

• Building and Using Custom OutputCache Providers with ASP.NET: A good MSDN Magazine article on how to outputcache ASP.NET Content with MongoDB and the AppFabric Cache Provider.

• Using ASP.NET, Membership and jQuery to Determine Username Availability: Nice article from Scott Mitchell that talks about how to build client-side UI that can better detect if a username has already been taken.

ASP.NET MVC

• Data Annotations Extensions: Nice post from Scott Kirkland that discusses a very cool NuGet package that provides a bunch of additional DataAnnotations that you can take advantage of.

• SessionLess Controllers in ASP.NET MVC 3: Good post from David Hayden that talks about the new [SessionState] attribute in ASP.NET MVC 3 and how you can use it to indicate session behavior on Controller classes.

• Templated Razor Delegates: Phil Haack has a nice post that discuses how to take advantage of Razor's Templated Delegate support.  This enables you to build some pretty cool templated HTML helpers.

• Defining Default Content for a Razor Layout Section: Another great post from Phil Haack – this one showing how you can use Razor's templated helper support (see above) to build a new Html.RenderSection() helper that supports default content.

• Integrating the jQuery UI date picker and adding a jQuery validate date range validator: Nice post from Stuart Leeks that looks at how you can use the jQuery UI date picker within ASP.NET MVC 3.

ASP.NET and jQuery

• jQuery 1.5 Visual Cheat Sheet: A free PDF that you can download and print which provides an easy way to lookup and remember jQuery APIs and commands.

• Building a Tree Picker Dialog using jQuery UI and the ASP.NET TreeView Control: Nice post by Gunnar on how to create a hierarchical tree-view dialog picker.

Entity Framework

• EF 4.1 Release is Coming: The ADO.NET Team blogs about the release plans for EF 4.1 – which includes the new "code first" support that I've done several blog posts about.  Final release coming soon!

• How to Generate EF Code First Model Classes from an Existing Database: Nice post from John Galloway on how you can quickly generate EF Code First POCO model classes from an existing database.

• Oracle Support for Entity Framework 4: Blog post from Oracle that announces the beta of their official EF provider – which allows you to use EF and EF Code First against Oracle database.

• Model-First in the Entity Framework 4: Nice MSDN article from Jon Fancey that talks about how to use a model-first development approach with EF4.

.NET

• C#/.NET Little Wonders: James Michael Hare has a nice post that links to a number of great C#/.NET articles he has written that shows off cool tips and tricks.

• 5 Helpful DateTime Extension Methods: Nice post from Scott Mitchell that shows off 5 useful DateTime extension methods that you can take advantage of.

Hope this helps,
Scott