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A good way to keep your entities clean

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:04:04 GMT

This tutorial will show you how to keep your entities and your views clean by translating entities to viewmodels. It is a good practice to do this because it keeps your files clean, it avoids certain security problems and it's more flexible, as you will read in this article. The examples are using C# and ASP.NET MVC, but the concept is pretty generic and can be applied to virtually every programming language or framework.

Microsoft datajs API: A 5 Minutes Quick Start

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:05:34 GMT

Last week Microsoft announced a new version of java-script API "datajs", which is intended to help web developers to build data centric AJAX applications quickly, along with utilizing modern browsers features (such as HTML5 local storage, IndexDB etc) and protocols (such as oData). Datajs is designed to be small, fast and easy to use. While datajs includes lots of cool features, today in this post, I will have a very basic introductory quick start so that any developer can have an idea how datajs can be implemented in different application architecture.

Learn Entity Framework 4 and ASP.NET 4 - Employee Info Starter Kit

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:38:47 GMT

ASP.NET MVP Ashraful Alam is one such developer who has released an open source project called the "Employee Info Starter Kit v5.0", which is a project template that bundles most of the new and existing features available in ASP.NET 4.0, Entity Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. This starter kit is fully documented and well tested.

Employee Info Starter Kit (v5.0) is Released

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:21:13 GMT

Employee Info Starter Kit is highly influenced by the concept 'Pareto Principle' or 80-20 rule. where it is targeted to enable a web developer to gain 80% productivity with 20% of effort with respect to learning curve and production. Employee Info Starter Kit v5.0 is out! Check it out to enjoy cool ASP.NET and Entity Framework 4.0 Features!

Flatten your architecture: Simplicity as a core value

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:19:17 GMT

Ayende discusses how a seemingly well structured yet complex application architecture which follows SOLID principles isn't always the best thing when it comes to reading data (and tuning for performance)

Creating Multi-Project Templates with Wizard Using Visual Studio 2010

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:10:53 GMT

A VSIX file enables us to install Visual Studio extensions (tools, controls, template etc) with few clicks. I have created a simple example of creating multi-project templates with wizard using Visual Studio 2010, which generates VSIX file.

ASP.NET and HTML5 Local Storage

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:50:42 GMT

Use HTML5 local storage (aka DOM storage) to dramatically improve the performance of your data-driven ASP.NET applications. This blog entry discusses how you can use local storage to store database records in the browser.

T-4 Templates for ASP.NET Web Form Friendly Logical Layers

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:14:03 GMT

This is an open source project which includes a set of T-4 templates to enable you to build logical layers (i.e. DAL/BLL) with just few clicks! The logical layers implemented here are based on Entity Framework 4.0, ASP.NET Web Form Data Bound control friendly and fully unit testable.

T-4 Templates for ASP.NET Web Form Databound Control Friendly Logical

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:22:56 GMT

This is an open source project at codeplex, which includes a set of T-4 templates that will enable you to build ASP.NET Web Form Data Bound controls friendly testable logical layer based on Entity Framework 4.0 with just few clicks!

Building an HTML5 App with ASP.NET

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:06:33 GMT

Describes how to create a JavaScript Reference by taking advantage of HTML5 features such as local storage, and offline manifests. Also demonstrates how to build server-side JavaScript unit tests for an Ajax application.

Webinar: Deliver robust software with Automated Error Reporting

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:33:03 GMT

SmartAssembly's lead developer, Alex Davies, will demonstrate how to use Automated Error Reporting to fix bugs and deliver robust software worthy of commendation. Register for the webinar and find out more.

.NETTER Code Starter Pack - v1.0.beta Released

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:45:21 GMT

'.NETTER Code Starter Pack' contains a gallery of Visual Studio 2010 solutions leveraging latest and new technologies and frameworks based on Microsoft .NET Framework. Each Visual Studio solution included here is focused to provide a very simple starting point for cutting edge development technologies and framework, using well known Northwind database (for database driven scenarios).

Learn ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 - Free Tutorials

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:14:02 GMT

I recently started a new series on Entity Framework 4.0. If you are interested in learning Entity Framework 4.0, check out this series!

Ten Cool Visual Studio 2010 Features

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:00:00 GMT

The 10 most useful new features in Visual Studio 2010.

Employee Info Starter Kit - Visual Studio 2010 Version Available

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:15:01 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 came up with lots of exciting features to make software developers life easier. A new version (v4.0.0) of Employee Info Starter Kit is now available in both MSDN Code Gallery and CodePlex. Chckout the latest version of this starter kit to enjoy cool features available in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0.

PlantUML Editor: A fast and simple UML editor using WPF

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:45:00 GMT

A WPF client to design UML diagrams at the speed of coding. Forget all mouse based designers. This is the future of UML diagram design.

T4 Templates in Entity Framework 4

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:46:50 GMT

T4 templates or Text Template Transformation Toolkit is a mean of creating a code generation artifacts which can save a lot of time. This technology is a part of Visual Studio since 2005 but was one of those technologies that were kept in secret by Microsoft. Almost all the code generation stuff that is being used in Visual Studio in technologies such as MVC, Entity Framework,...

Selective Unit Testing - Costs and Benefits

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:30:00 GMT

Test Driven Development is widely regarded as a hallmark technique of professional software development, but should you really do it all the time? Steve Sanderson argues that unit tests yield significant practical business value only for certain kinds of code. This blog post suggests what might be the underlying forces that determine whether unit tests will justify the long-term expense of creating and maintaining them. These ideas are then applied to structuring an ASP.NET MVC application.

MsSqlSpatial Demo using Google Maps

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:15:01 GMT

Shows how to use the MsSqlSpatial library with Google Maps GIS application.

Presentation at Microsoft Day @ Dhaka - Tanzim Saqib on .NET discovery

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:45:00 GMT

Presentation slide for the "Development in ASP.NET [WebForms, LINQ, Dynamic Data]" session on Microsoft Day @ Dhaka

Visual Studio 2010: Web.config transforms

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:15:00 GMT

Recently I wrote about Visual Studio 2010 and multiple web.config files support. Let's see how to play with web.config transformation so we can use one configuration on development environment and the other for production environment.

LINQ to SQL is NOT dead!

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:00:03 GMT

Ever since Microsoft announced that the Entity Framework was their ORM of choice, people everywhere have been saying, "LINQ to SQL is dead!" A lot of people feel like they're not allowed to use LINQ to SQL anymore and that they have to use Entity Framework instead. In fact, LINQ to SQL is not only alive and well, Microsoft has even announced LINQ to SQL improvements in .NET 4.0, including finally adding using ITable<T> for tables instead of Table<T>, which makes it much easier to test. Combine that with this open source tool that will create an IDataContext interface for you and you're on your way to testable LINQ to SQL. So no, LINQ to SQL is not dead!!

Overview of .NET 4.0 features - C# 4.0 Named and Optional Parameters

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:45:05 GMT

The concept of Optional parameters is not new and exists in other languages such as C++. Infact, the functionality is a part of the .NET framework and exists is in VB.NET. Optional parameters will be introduced in C# 4.0 and can be used to call a method without having to specify all the arguments. The intent of this feature is to assist in writing concise code and in COM interoperability.

5 Quick Steps to Get Introduced with VSTS and TFS 2010 Beta 1

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:15:00 GMT

As the Beta 1 releases is pretty infant, there are very limited resources available in the web and community, so I just wanted to gather all of the useful resources with respect to these two tool in one places, so that anyone can move forward from installation to first "Hello VSTS/TFS" excitement smoothly.

My Dot Net Developer's tools list, and more.

Wed, 27 May 2009 02:00:01 GMT

I gave a brownbag presentation at my current client recently about the common tools (in addition to Visual Studio), that I use on a regular basis for working with .NET or web development in general. I also threw in some non-development tools that are a part of my day to day life and make things easier. Here's the complete list: