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Announcing a new product line - Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:35:19 GMT

It is a great pleasure to announce our new product line - Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC. As the name suggest we are building a new UI component suite targeting the ASP.NET MVC framework. The new product line will not be based on RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax nor will it depend on ASP.NET Ajax or ASP.NET WebForms. No page lifecycle, ScriptManager dependency, viewstat...

Unit Testable HttpModule and HttpHandler - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:31:11 GMT

With the new System.Web.Abstraction namespace we can now easily write unit testable HttpModule and HttpHandler. In this post, I will show you how to write unit testable HttpModule and HttpHandler. Prior the release of System.Web.Abstraction the problem with unit testing of these web infrastructural items is HttpContext, it is sealed, no way to mock it with Rhino or Moq. The only option is to create the wrapper objects of these non-mockable objects but it has a very long tail like HttpRequest, HttpResponse, HttpSessionState, HttpServerUtility etc etc. And this is the exact thing that the System.Web.Abstraction provides, all wrappers around the non-mockable objects of HttpContext. But still, both the HttpModule and HttpHandler depends upon the original HttpContext which I hope will change in ASP.NET 4.0. till then we need to create a super layer for making it Unit Testable.

SQL Server Five methods converting rows to columns

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:16:03 GMT

Five methods converting rows to columns

The Open Source Projects on ASP.NET MVC - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:16:02 GMT

Last night the forehead four head has released the 1st chapter of their upcoming Wrox book along with a sample project NerdDinner and I think this is the best application to check if anyone is trying to lean the new ASP.NET MVC framework. And this is the list of currently available Open Source Projects developed in ASP.NET MVC. I am ordering it based ...

Use Event Aggregator to make your application more extensible

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:01:03 GMT

Recently, in KiGG/DotNetShoutout we have integrated Twitter, nothing complex, very basic thing like when a story is submitted or appears in the front page it will broadcast in Twitter and like our feed it will post the short url of the original story (Cant resist to do some shameless marketing for DotNetShoutout). Since it is a new requirement, initially I have modified the StoryService constructor to include the twitter client as a new argument and use it after the story is added in the database, the code is something like the following:...

Unit Testable Configuration Manager - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:31:19 GMT

If you are a TDD purist, you should know that accessing file system in Unit Test is violating the rule. But in our application, our infrastructural code often requires to access the configuration values form web.config/app.config. In this post, I will show you how can create a simple wrapper class which you can use in your unit tests without hitting the file ...

Implementing UnitOfWork Pattern In Linq To SQL Application

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:46:02 GMT

Implementing UnitOfWork Pattern In Linq To SQL Application In my previous post, I have shown how to create Linq to Sql Repository which will have the maximum code coverage, In this post, I will show a simple UnitOfWork class which will flash the changes back to your database. I will be again use my ongoing UnityCommonServiceLocatorMVC project. Lets assume that in your ASP.NET MVC application you have a method in your controller which will add a category and its associate product in the Northwind database.

ASP.NET MVC, Unity and Common Service Locator

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:30:40 GMT

In this post, I will show you how can you extend Microsoft Patterns & Practices Unity Application Block and use it in ASP.NET MVC in conjunction with Patterns & Practices Common Service Locator. Extending Unity Unity is a dependency injection container from MS Patterns & Practices team. But unlike the other containers it does not have any PerWebRequest...

Domain Model (Developing KiGG v2.0 Part 1) - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:31:05 GMT

As mention in my previous post that I will be discussing the technical side of **KiGG**. So this is the beginning and it will be a multi-part series. I will try to put as much detail as possible, do let me know if I missed anything. Just for a recap, KiGG is Web 2.0 style social news application where I am trying to exercise some of the best practice like TDD, DDD, SOLID etc with Microsoft supported tooling. If you want to see it in action just visit http://dotnetshoutout.com . KiGG is already a fully functional application, but here I am starting from scratch, so the actual code might not look the same with following but it will show you how it is evolved as I am going to post more on it over the time.

Silverlight Update 2.0.30523.8 Beta

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:56:04 GMT

Silverlight Update 2.0.30523.8 Beta. Microsoft Silverlight's new update released on 16th July 2008.

Received - Electronic Copy of "Silverlight 2 in

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:55:40 GMT

Received - Electronic Copy of "Silverlight 2 in Action". I have received the free electronic copy of "Silverlight 2 in Action". PDF Document. 3.86MB. Silverlight 2 in Action, Chad A. Campbell and John Stockton, MEAP Release: October 2007, Softbound print: September 2008 (est.) 425 pages, ISBN: 1-933988-42-8

Silverlight Developer Reference Posters

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:46:08 GMT

Silverlight Developer Reference Posters - Silverlight 1.1 & Silverlight 2

Silverlight Book - Apress Silverlight 2 Visual Essentials

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:37:48 GMT

Apress Silverlight 2 Visual Essentials is the last published book for Silverlight. Download Link: Apress.Silverlight.2.Visual.Essentials.Jun.2008.pdf I'm sharing this book for all silverlight developers. If you like the book, buy a printed copy from book store. If you need any book related help, send mail to books@amconlinebd.com

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part Five

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:31:02 GMT

In the last part I've shown how the VideoBrush can be used and videos can be animated by dividing MediaElement into two parts. In this demonstration of Silverlight animation I'll focus on transitional animation. We've seen this type of animation many times in movies, television commercials, music videos, in sting which we see at the beginning of any news. The wipe effect and dissolves are mostly used in film and television. There are other effects which fall into the category of wipe and dissolves.

Presenting Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Expression Blend 2.5 June Preview is now available which can be downloaded here. Now it's possible to edit the ControlTemplates from Blend using Visual State Manager to change the look and feel of the controls.

Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Download Links

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:46:02 GMT

Microsoft Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Download Links Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Installer (4.66 MB) & SDK Beta 2........................

Silverlight Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links Page

Sat, 31 May 2008 21:31:02 GMT

Silverlight Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links Page Hope these Tips, Tricks, Tutorials and Links will help your SILVERLIGHT development. - Iftekhar Ahmed Amit

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part Four

Sat, 31 May 2008 02:01:02 GMT

In this example I'll show you how animations can be performed using a VideoBrush. This is one of the examples that attracts the users attention by completing the animation at the right time. The video will be clipped and rotated during the animation.

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part Three

Mon, 26 May 2008 21:31:02 GMT

Here's an example of an animation where clicking a button will increase the size of the font of the button. First I've declared two constants of type double, one for the font size of the button at the initialization time, which is declared as initFontSize; and the other one at runtime when the button is clicked. When clicked, the event handler creates a DispatcherTimer that generates Tick events every tenth of a second. The TimerOnTick method here increases the FontSize by two units every tenth of a second until the size reaches 48 units, at which point the button is restored to its original size and the timer is stopped.

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part Two

Fri, 16 May 2008 21:31:07 GMT

I mentioned in the first article that a Storyboard controls animations with a timeline, and provides object and property targeting information for its child animations. This is the cornerstone of Silverlight animation. A Storyboard is a set of one or more animations. It is comparable to a <TransformGroup> element. Storyboard does exactly the same things for animations that <TransformGourp> does for transformations. Storyboard has a Children property that enables you to access all the animation objects within a given Storyboard. Animations do not add or remove elements, they temporarily alter the property values of existing elements. If you create a new Storyboard and add a new rectangle to the canvas, that rectangle will be available to all Storyboards, not just the current one. The rectangle was added to the scene's base canvas and is not specific to the active Storyboard.

Animation in-depth with Silverlight 2.0 Beta - Part One

Sat, 10 May 2008 04:16:02 GMT

Animation allows us to create attractive user interfaces. Animation is used to apply dazzling effects such as spin a logo or video, make text scroll, make images grow when the mouse is over them etc. Animation is much like varying the property value over time as far as Silverlight 2.0 is concerned. This will be clear if someone takes a closer look at the animated stuff done in Silverlight/WPF applications.

Beginning Silverlight - First Steps

Sat, 10 May 2008 06:31:02 GMT

I decided to get adventurous and see what all the fuss was about. So, I'm going to record my experiences as I try to "do something" with Silverlight! Fasten your seat belt and come on a drive-along.

Using Microsoft Expression Design to design the control in Silverlight

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:01:02 GMT

I've used Expression Blend in many occasions but I've never experimented with expression design since the release of this product. After the release of version 2.0 Beta of Expression Design this is the first time I'm using Microsoft Expression Design. In this demonstration I'll fix design of my control using Expression Design. Let's dig into the story .

ASP.NET MVC Action Filter - Caching and Compression

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:01:02 GMT

Playing with Action Filters

Kigg - Upgraded to MIX08 ASP.NET MVC Release

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:46:03 GMT

Kigg upgraded and few thoughts on ASP.NET MVC