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Introducing Fluent MetadataProvider for ASP.NET MVC - Kazi

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:15:02 GMT

I have just included a Fluent Metadata provider in my open source System.Web.Mvc.Extensibility project. Currently it contains all of the features of the Built-in DataAnnotations Metadata provider that comes with the ASP.NET MVC 2 framework. Consider it as a holiday special from me for the ASP.NET MVC community :-). The main reason I am no...

More on Fluent MetadataProvider for ASP.NET MVC - Kazi Manzur Rashid

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:00:01 GMT

In my last post, one of the thing you complained about the maintaining view model meta data configuration in two separate place and I admit this becomes a pain when you skim through the codes. I have changed the implementation, so now you will be able to configure the meta data very much like the Fluent NHibernate or Entity Framework 4.0 Code ...

Meet my new ASP.NET MVC Extension - System.Web.Mvc-Kazi Manzur Rashid

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:15:00 GMT

After hearing Phil Haack and Scott Hanselman in their latest podcast and PDC session I decided to give a good look at the MvcTrubine project in this weekend. I totally agree the intend of this project, let your favorite IoC to rule everywhere, but I do not think it has been implemented in the correct way. There are three important design flaws that I found in MvcTurbine: Generic Component Registration API Rather than allowing you to use your preferred IoC registration features, it prefers to use its own generic syntax for component registration, which is simply wrong. In real application, we need more support from our IoC such as lifetime management, auto wiring, modularity like (Ninject/Autfac Modules, StructureMap Registry) etc. In case of this generic API we have to throw away the features of these IoCs. Missing Common Service Locator I think the Common Service Locator(CSL) has become the standard to abstract the underlying IoC from your application code and all the popular IoCs in .NET world has an adapter for CSL. But rather than using/extending it, it has its own version of service locator. Limited support for Action Filter injection It uses a host kinda Attribute to inject the dependencies into the actual action filter attribute and this host is not capable of passing the attribute specific values to the actual attribute and even if this feature is implemented in the future it will be based upon the string based property name which would work on top of reflection. Now, lets see how my new extension solves the above issues and how easily you can start plugging it in your application. First lets take a quick look of the project structure of this extension.

Data Types in Sql Server 2008

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:02:06 GMT

Sharing basic datatype info

Mindscape LightSpeed 3.0 - Advocating a Commercial ORM

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:30:04 GMT

Compares the features of Mindscape's LightSpeed 3.0 ORM with those of LINQ to SQL and NHibernate.

Mindscape WPF Themes released

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:45:00 GMT

Mindscape have released a suite of WPF themes to help developers deliver attractive applications faster than ever before. All source code is included so that UI tweaks can be made to create your own style or leave them as they are to have an Office 2007 style or Expression Blend look and feel.

Telerik ASP.NET MVC Grid Preview (Take 2) - Kazi Manzur Rashid

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:30:00 GMT

In the last post, I have shown you how you can extend the ASP.NET MVC2 templates and some of the issues of the current beta. In this post, I will show you how we are taking advantages of the new DisplayFor/EditorFor in our MVC Grid. One of the benefit of using those statements in our grid is, you can host any kind of component in an individual cell, obviously the first two components will be the DateTimePicker and NumericTextBox that we are going to include in our next release. One of the most requested feature since our last release is the inline editing support in the grid. In this, I will show you the inline editing of product of my last post, but this time with our Grid. The Grid should support both server and ajax editing, but in this example we will only discuss the server.....

Silverlight 4 and ESRI ArcGIS Server - COM interoperability

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:21:27 GMT

One of the most interesting new feature in Silverlight 4 is the COM interoperability functionality. This blog post shows how this can be used with ESRI software.

Implementing Delete Confirmation Dialog in the ListView (ASP.Net) - 2

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:43:33 GMT

This article describes how to implement delete confirmation dialog box in ListView control of asp.net. The author also described using resource file to display delete confirmation message in different language. A link to download the code (complete VS project) is also provided.

KiGG Design And Architecture - Part 2 Project Structure

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:15:00 GMT

In part 1 I talked about KiGG high level architecture. In this part I am going to talk about KiGG project structure and summarize the purpose of each project in the solution. I'll not go into deep details of each project. I'll save that for some other posts, just be patient with me and stay tuned.

SQL Server Soundex Functions

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:45:01 GMT

The forty-ninth part of the SQL Server Programming Fundamentals tutorial describes the Soundex functions that are provided by Transact-SQL (T-SQL). These functions allow strings to be compared according to their pronunciation by English speakers.

Automatically attaching VHD files in Windows 7 and Windows 2008

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:44:16 GMT

If you have played with the new VHD feature in windows 7 or windows 2008 then you know just how cool of a feature this is. However the problem is that when you reboot your machine you find that when it comes back up all your VHD files are no longer attached? Here is what I did to get around the issue.

Extending ASP.NET MVC 2 Templates - Kazi Manzur Rashid

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:45:00 GMT

One of the new features of ASP.NET MVC 2 is Templates (DisplayFor/EditorFor), Brad Wilson did a series of post which explains how the templates works, Please read it before you continue this post. Although he did an excellent job explaining the inner-details, but one thing you will notice that the object model in those examples are traversed from top to bottom or parent to child which is good for explaining the internal, but in our real application we need a bit more support. Lets take a trivial example, you are creating a create/edit screen for your Product, where each product has a associated Category and you want to show this category in a DropDownList, say we have a Product class like the....

Visual Studio 2010 - Highlighting References

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:47:12 GMT

This blog post explaining about the new feature "Highlighting References" introduced in VS 2010

priting using C#

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:29:56 GMT

printing is very easy case in all the task ,but when using ASP.NET, printing of web form is not that easy. if we're building a UI we usually do so by painting controls on the screen and allowing whoever developed them to worry about the whys and wherefores about how that control should look.

Exploring Silverlight behaviors: look Ma, no code!

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:02:08 GMT

Andrej Tozon has created this great Halloween scary sound player with the help of Silverlight behaviors. Check this cool article, it really deserves your attention.

Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC Survey - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:45:02 GMT

Dear readers, as you know that we have released our beta few weeks back, we are currently looking for your feedback on the existing features as well as the features that you would like to see in our next release. This is a very short survey only 4/5 screens to complete, click here to submit your valuable feedback. Thanks in advance for your precious...

Caching in .NET

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:35:58 GMT

A look into caching techniques in .Net

Access Outlook using C#

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:08:57 GMT

Now you can configure your Outlook using C# and access your mail using your own application , you can design that using C#

ASP.NET MVC View and Transaction - Kazi Manzur Rashid's

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Scott showed how to render the Grid in a Transaction. Certainly it does the job but in my opinion view component should not be responsible for this kind of cross cutting concerns, instead we can use the Action Filters. Lets see how we can utilize the Action Filter in this scenario instead of modifying the Grid code. What Scott is trying to do is encapsulate the data access operation in a transaction, the Action Filter has several methods which the ASP.NET MVC framework executes in different stages of a request. In this case, we will use the OnActionExecuting which fires before the code enters into the controller method to start a transaction and OnResultExecuted which fires when the view is processed, we will commit/rollback based upon the status, here is the code that would process the action result in a transaction:

Introduction to NCover, setting up for analysis

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:45:00 GMT

Taking a quick look at how to setup and use the NCover code coverage and analysis tool. Having the knowledge of the state of your code, is key to understanding the potential success and failures in your code. If having this knowledge is key to you, NCover is a great tool to help you better gain this knowledge

WSS / SharePoint: CustomListViewWebPart filtering fixed

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:19:42 GMT

Here's a updated version of my CustomListViewWebPart with filtering capabilities. A A nasty a bug in the way the filters were concatenated during the building of the filter chain is now fixed.

Configure Report Server in SQL Server 2008

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:18:39 GMT

Configure report server in SQL Server

Web Asset Enhancements in Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC - Kazi

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:00:01 GMT

In the recent release, there has been few enhancements in the Web Asset Management. One of the new thing that we introduced which was actually requested by the community is Shared Web Asset. In this post, I will show you, how to use it in your ASP.NET MVC...

DropDownList In A GridView

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:24:17 GMT

DropdownLists and GridView Dropdowns are basic controls just like a textbox with some items as a list.. Basically the dropdowns have the AutoPostBack property to have a PostBack while selecting items. This can happen when placed in a template column in GridView as well. DropDownList in Markup Dropdown can be placed inside template columns in a gridview. It is practical to place the dropdown in the EditItemTemplate. But for ease of explaining and easy understandings, I am keeping it under ItemTemplate