8 Websites Every Microsoft .NET Developer Should Know About

There are currently millions of developers worldwide that are using Microsoft.NET technologies. If you are one of them or want to become one, then each of the websites listed here should be in your list of favorites, your list of bookmarks, or just written down on a piece of paper (yeah right, as if a .NET developer would use a pen and paper).

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10 really useful free Windows system tools

When compiling your essential Windows XP or Vista toolkit, it makes sense to source as many free tools as you possibly can.
But sometimes you don't know that you need a tool until you're presented with it. So check out this list of ten of our favourite free system tools and plug some gaps in your software collection. Prefer other apps?
List your favourite system tools in the comments.

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iPhone vs Stone

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Object Oriented Concepts Survey

You have done some programming for fun, or you are a professional that has been on one of those $2000 a day professional development courses, or read the latest book, or subscribed to the current in-RSS feed, so you know how you're supposed to write good code. But do you actually write code the way you've been told is The Way?They're researchers and know what they teach and know what all the research papers/books say, but you write the code - you know what really works and what's just so much theory. Here's your chance to tell them what you know.

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Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial

There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship. As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. I’m excited to announce that you can now download this free end-to-end tutorial chapter(it is a 14mb PDF file). It’s licensed under a “Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives” license – which means you can share, distribute, print, or hand it out to anyone.

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70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques

In this article, we present 70 new and useful JavaScript and AJAX techniques, all of which are of the highest quality and are more or less easy to configure. You will also find some very useful but better known techniques to use on almost any project you work on.

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40 Useful JavaScript Libraries

Popular JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, MooTools, Prototype, Dojo and YUI can be great for accomplishing common JavaScript tasks. These libraries provide many functions, whether the matter is related to events or effects or AJAX. And if one of these libraries can’t do the job, a plug-in probably exists that can.

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97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know

The following are the 97 axioms selected for the book, 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know, which will be published by O'Reilly Media in early 2009.
The contents are now being edited for publishing - you can see them here. All edits will be contributed back to the 97 Things web site on this page.

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