MVVM Pattern

The most useful pattern for WPF and Silverlight apps.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd419663.aspx

Microsoft Excel Web Queries

Pulling data from an external website to an Excel spread sheet can be easy with Excel Web Queries. Web Queries fetches html tables from the web page that you specify and lets you select the ones containing data you want to put into your worksheet.

Web scraping without writing c0de that is!!

More Illustrations Here

Obfuscating .Net Assemblies and more..

Smart Assembly – “The powerful and user-friendly solution for .NET assemblies' efficient merging, pruning, obfuscation and automatic exception reporting for easy post-deployment debugging.”

Profiling .Net Apps

A few interesting reads that i bumped into..

A few speed improvements..

Ants memory profiler

The hidden memory allocation cost

-------SQL Server Related-------

Calling stored procedures from different sources

Transact sql formatting standards

A hired gun for Microsoft, in pursuit of Google

A very inspiring read about an engineer called Qi Lu.

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/22814/a-hired-gun-microsoft-pursuit.html