Links for Work: ASP.NETand stuff

I've been busy at work, mostly with taking out the budgeting functionalities in our HR-based Training module and turning it into a standalone web application. This gave me a few interesting architectural challenges as I decoupled the software, and later reintegrated it back into the main product in a more modular approach. Basically, we wanted to reuse the Training module's budgeting component in our Recruitment module.

This exercise also let me play with some of the newer technologies, like LINQ and ASP.NET 3.5 which have somehow fueled my obsession with things like code base reduction, doing things declaratively with ASP.NET, and a new-found preoccupation with performance which in a lot of cases have lead me down the dark path of premature optimization. Anyway, many interesting lessons learnt, and a few more days and I'll be off this project. Here are some interesting links which I've collected:
Asynchronous ASP.NET pages
Using JSON with ASP.NET 3.5
Self Sorting GridView with LINQ Expression Trees
7 tricks to simplify your programs with LINQ
Loading and Executing JavaScript Files From JavaScript, ASP.NET AJAX
Try-catching in a single line of code

Previous work-related posts here on this blog:
Partial rendering without UpdatePanel
Detecting a BLOB's MIME type