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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...

ASP.NET MVC - Prevent Image Leeching with a Custom RouteHandler

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:38:29 GMT

Have you ever noticed an unusually high number of requests in your web server log files for image files? It may well be that someone is linking to your images from their own site, and basically stealing your bandwidth. Here's how to implement a custom RouteHandler within an ASP.NET MVC application to prevent people leeching your images.

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 ...

SSMS tab grouping with Tabs Studio

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:43:02 GMT

SQL Server Management Studio uses quite different scheme for tab names from Visual Studio. I've significantly improved SSMS support in the next Tabs Studio version...

Xaml color scheme generator

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:12:05 GMT

I've made a xaml color scheme generator that works with colorschemedesigner .com It generates a resource dictionary and xaml demo source. In the color scheme generator site, just export to xaml, and save to a file. In the generator, browse for that file, and click convert.

AutoMapper DSL design post-mortem

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:36:22 GMT

As I move towards the 1.0 release of AutoMapper, I'm already running in to things I wish I had done differently. I still will probably fix all of these eventually, but none of these design issues should prevent a release, especially since it's not any public functionality. A lot of it came from trying out designs in the open, but it can be difficult to change direction once it's out in the open and in production. The Fluent NHibernate guys have changed their API quite a bit up to release, for better or worse, and I wasn't too keen to follow that same path.

HTML based file upload/download to FTP server using HttpHandler in C#

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:23:30 GMT

In this article, i will examined how to upload/download file from HTML client to FTP server using HttpHandler in C#. This approach can be very handy for application integration. Here is our html code that will consume HttpHandlers.

C# 4.0-Dynamic Data Type, Difference between var and dynamic

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:53:22 GMT

C# 4.0 introduces a new keyword called 'Dynamic'. It can consume any object anything. Let's see some examples for that. dynamic intExample = 1; Response.Write(intExample); dynamic floatExample = 2.5; Response.Write(floatExample); dynamic stringExample = "DotNetJaps"; Response.Write(stringExample);

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.....

C++ Programming: The using and namespace keyword in C++

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:40:29 GMT

You may feel it is inconvenient to write std:: in front of cout and endl everytime. There is two solution provided by ANSI standard. It is done by use of the keyword using. The first solution is to tell the compiler at the beginning of your code that you will use standard library cout and endl.

C++ Programming: cout

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:39:11 GMT

In c++, cout is used to print data on the screen. The statement #include <iostream> is used add the file - iostream to the source code. The file - iostream (input-output-stream) is used by cout and its related function. Type cout followed by insertion operator (<<) followed by your data and terminate it by semi-colon.

C++ Programming: First C++ Program

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:34:29 GMT

<iostream> and <conio.h> which begins with #include are known as header files. It is also called as preprocessor directive. When you start the compiler the preprocessor runs first. The preprocessor will be discussed in detail in further chapters. The command #include is a preprocessor instruction that says, "What follows is a file-name. Find that file, read it, and replace it right here."

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.

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....

Git's guts: Branches, HEAD, and fast-forwards

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:58:11 GMT

Lets get some learning done. There are a few questions that keep cropping up when I introduce people to Git, so I thought I'd post some answers as a mini-series of blog posts. I'll cover some fundamentals, while trying not to retread too much ground that the fantastic Git community book already covers so well. Instead I'm going to talk about things that should help you understand what you and Git are doing day-to-day.

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

Visual Studio 2010 - Zoom Text Editor

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:36:36 GMT

New Features Of VS 2010 - Zoom Text Editor

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...

Architect's perspective on Silverlight 3

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Many .NET developers are becoming more and more interested in the Rich Internet Application development space, and in particular Silverlight. In this session we will step back from a detailed implementation technology and take a higher level look at Silverlight from the architect's perspective. We will discuss the types of applications where Silverlight makes sense and some scenarios where Silverlight may not be the appropriate technology. We will also delve into some of the architectural decisions that the architect must consider when writing applications for this platform and where some of the tradeoffs may lie.

Reflecting the entire layout panel in Silverlight 2 Beta 2

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:46:02 GMT

After my post on creating reflection with Silverlight 2 Beta . I was asked several times by couple of Silverlight enthusiasts questions like this : is there any way i can reflect an entire grid?, is it possible to make a reflection of lets say a grid with multiple buttons since there is no VisualBrush in Silverlight?, is there any chance to reflect some generic Control(Framework element etc)?. So I started to think about how entire Layout Panels like Grid,Canvas,Border etc. can be reflected. In WPF I did this stuff so easily. But in Silverlight I didn't find any any way till last night. The idea behind Layout reflection is , creating a mirror effect of a Container Control, which means child controls placed inside the container will also be reflected.

MVC vs. MVP: A Hillbilly's Journey

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:46:13 GMT

Yes, I know you've read this before so stop rolling your eyes and skip it if you're not interested. I'm not coming at this from the perspective of an expert imparting knowledge but as a hillbilly who has ignored the question too long. And now that I have to dive into it for the book, all the vagueness that I've been able to shunt aside to a little corner of my brain has surfaced like a long-lost brother beggin' for college money.

Do you think that you know how to deliver reports over the web?

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:18:11 GMT

It's amazing but although reports are the essential part of any business application, nowadays there is no simple, convenient, safe and universal way of distributing reports over the web. I know that many developers don't agree with this statement. Ok, let's analyze the difference between client and web reporting solutions.

Path to .NET 3.5 Developer Certification

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:31:05 GMT

If you are trying to figure out the new certification exams for Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) or Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) for .NET Framework 3.5 / Visual Studio 2008 then you may be interested in a diagram that I put together to helped me to visualize the path through the required certification exams.

Form validation with ASP.NET MVC preview 5

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:31:02 GMT

In earlier ASP.NET MVC previews, form validation was something that should be implemented "by hand". Since the new ASP.NET MVC preview 5, form validation has become more handy. Let me show you how you can add validation in such a ridiculously easy manner.

IPhone UI with Silverlight 2 beta 2

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:16:16 GMT

It's been quite a while since Microsoft has introduced the Beta 2 release of Silverlight. There are plenty of Silverlight enthusiasts who are passionate about this cross-platform browser application programming. They've already given us some useful and eye catching applications. Some applications have given us the feel that this is the future of web programming. I'm a great follower of WPF. In fact I've always been and will be. Silverlight has many things in common with WPF but also many different things missing, being a subset of WPF. For the last couple of days I was thinking about creating some eye-catching, innovative user interface but something common, something people have already seen. The idea was converting an existing user interface which was written using another platform, and of course using WPF.