ASP.NET AJAX 4.0
Fritz Onion talks about client-side data binding in ASP.NET AJAX 4.0.
C# 4.0
Kirill Osenkov has a nice sample for C# 4.0’s dynamic feature.
Design patterns
MVVM(Model-View-ViewModel) is a relatively new pattern around used especially in the WPF and Silverlight applications. More about it in the following articles:
- http://www.orbifold.net/default/?p=550
- http://russelleast.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/overview-of-the-modelview-viewmodel-mvvm-pattern-and-data-binding/
- http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/2009/05/05/view-model-the-movie-cast-your-vote.aspx
If you are looking for guidance, go check the MVVM toolkit for WPF.
Security
Using Windows Authentication across domain boundaries in enterprise environments is generally the source for many long hours trying to pin down the problem. As usual, Oleg Sych has a very useful article on the matter.
SQL Server 2008
Bob Beauchemin has a very interesting article on FileStreams which are one of the new features of SQL Server 2008.
NHibernate
If you were wondering what’s happening lately with Fluent NHibernate, go read James Gregory article!
ASP.NET Dynamic Data
Simone Ince has a nice article about adding ASP.NET Dynamic Data for an existing website. This is a common scenario that might be used for quickly adding an administration section to an existing website.
