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Just released System.Web.Mvc.Extensibility Beta - Kazi Manzur Rashid

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:10:32 GMT

Just released System.Web.Mvc.Extensibility Beta I am announcing the beta of System.Web.Mvc.Extensibility. There has been quite a few changes in this release :Added support for PerWebRequest lifetime. Removed the "base" suffix from the abstract class. I am dropping the Autofac. After struggling quite a few days to add PerWebRequest support, I came to the conclusion that adding such support re...

Measuring the Performance of Asynchronous Controllers

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:15:00 GMT

It's easy enough to start using Asynchronous Controllers with ASP.NET MVC 2.0. But how do you know whether it's giving you any benefits? You might be surprised to learn that, in many default scenarios, you won't get any benefit unless you also make some crucial configuration changes. In this blog post you'll see a simple way to load test your asynchronous controllers, and find a rundown of important configuration options that will dramatically affect their behavior.

Table Per Concrete Type Inheritance in Entity Framework

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:49:04 GMT

The last inheritance mapping that I'm going to write about is the Table Per Concrete Type inheritance (TPC). This inheritance type is very rare but you should be aware of how to create it when it is needed. You can read about TPT and TPH from here and from here.

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 ...

Free EBook for Developing High Quality Applications using .NET

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:30:00 GMT

The Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition is a Must Have EBook for Developers and Solution Architects

Using jQuery To Hijack ASP.NET MVC Form Posts

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:15:00 GMT

The following article demonstrates how to hijack ASP.NET MVC form posts using jQuery.

How our Customer Experience Improvement Program improved Gibraltar 2.1

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:30:00 GMT

The Gibraltar CEIP helped us find and resolve a large number of unreported issues, all without requiring our customers to lift a finger. Read the story for real numbers you can use to understand what the same techniques might mean for your application.

Supporting OpenId in an asp.net MVC site

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:30:04 GMT

Introduction to OpenID on an asp.net MVC web site. On 3 minutes or so.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta - Strongly Typed UI Helpers

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:45:06 GMT

The following article demonstrates how to use ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta's strongly typed UI helpers.

ASP.NET MVC 2 RC and My List of Requirements - Kazi Manzur Rashid

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:12:07 GMT

As you already know ASP.NET MVC 2 hits the RC, as far as I know this is the last release before the final. There has been quite a few things that the ASP.NET MVC team has added since the v1.0. I know people says human nature is "More you get the more you want", but the requirements that I am presenting here is not new, instead these are the enhance...

6 Of My Favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:30:01 GMT

A few of my favorite Visual Studio Shortcuts to make my life and yours just a bit easier!

5 Very Useful C# Attributes

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:30:09 GMT

A look at some of the useful attributes in c#

Exploring .Net 4 Features - Tuples

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:15:00 GMT

Taking a look at some of the new features which are part of .Net 4. We will be focusing this episode on Tuples. Tuples allow you to return multiple values from a method with simplicity and ease by allowing you to dynamically create a return object which is typed for your specific needs.

Mastering jQuery now available at TekPub | Encosia

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:00:05 GMT

Dave and I launch a new series on TekPub about Mastering JQuery.

Difference TempTable and Table Variable

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:00:00 GMT

A Myth Busted. Recently, I have been conducting many training sessions at a leading technology company in India. During the discussion of temp table and table variable, I quite commonly hear that Table Variables are stored in memory and Temp Tables are stored in TempDB. I would like to bust this misconception by suggesting following: Temp Table and Table Variable - both are created in TempDB and not in memory.

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.

15 reasons why you should start using Model Driven Development (MDD)

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:45:06 GMT

Johan den Haan has written a compelling piece over at Enterprise Architect on why you should start using MDD. He lists 15 advantages of Model-Driven Development that focus in on productivity, quality and alignment.

ARCast.TV - Rocky Lhotka on Development Frameworks

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:15:04 GMT

It is difficult to strike a balance between the optimal architecture and over architecting a solution. Joe Shirey sits down with Rocky Lhotka , the creator of the CSLA.NET framework, to discuss how he balances what should and should not be in his framework.

3M Multi-touch Developer Kit on Windows 7

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:30:01 GMT

The 3M Multi-touch Developer kit consists of a 19-inch, 16:10 metal-housed LCD display with desktop stand and USB HID interface. This kit provides software developers with the necessary tools to create next-generation, true multi-touch applications in support of the upcoming release of the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system. One unique aspect about the multitouch developer kit is that it supports 10-finger multi-touch input. For more technical detail visit 3M's web site here.

Windows Azure in 20 Minutes!

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:15:01 GMT

I had the opportunity to present The Windows Azure Platform at the 2nd Annual ISV Architects Workshop in New York City on December 10,2009. My thanks to my associate Gunther Lenz who is the local Microsoft ISV Architect Evangelist for the opportunity.

131 jQuery Snippets for Visual Studio 2010

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:45:00 GMT

I've started a new project to create jQuery Code Snippets for Visual Studio 2010 now that it supports HTML and JavaScript snippets. There are 131 so far.

Silverlight 4 - Review of all the Cool New Features

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:15:00 GMT

Check-out this comprehensive blog post by Tim Heuer - who outlines all the cool new SL4 features announced at the PDC in November - with links to videos and code samples to help you get started with each new capability. Here is a link to his complete blog post: http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx

Tuple in C# 4.0

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:51:43 GMT

Tuple provides us with a way to group elements of disparate data types together.This is present in functional languages like Haskell and also dynamic languages like Python.

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.....