SQL Data Decimation by Date Range and Nth Record(www.arroyocode.com)

submitted by Arroyocode(101) 3 days, 15 hours ago

Data decimation (aka Down Sampling) of large SQL datasets allows application to quickly visualize trends in data over large historical periods greatly improving application performance. Combining a custom date range and a SQL Modulo operator, quickly and evenly display long periods of data. read more...

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IronJSMVC: Script ASP.NET MVC in JavaScript using IronJS(pietschsoft.com)

submitted by pwhe23(972) 3 days, 19 hours ago

Personally, I enjoy writing much of my applications using a statically typed language such as C#. However, I would really prefer to be able to write UI logic and script certain parts of my applications using a dynamic language if I could. I was thinking about this and the following question came to mind: What would it be like to write an ASP.NET MVC application entirely using JavaScript? read more...

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MVC Strongly-Typed Action Helpers - They're Back!(chriscavanagh.wordpress.com)

submitted by BobStrogg(1033) 4 days, 18 hours ago

Way back in 2009, the MVC Futures assembly introduced “strongly-typed action helpers”. They allowed you to render links using lambda expressions pointing directly to the actions on your controller, rather than using strings. Here's an alternative implementation that aims to resolve some of the performance issues they had. read more...

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Using ASP.NET MVC 4, ApiControllers and SQL Server 2012(galratner.com)

submitted by galratner(334) 5 days, 2 hours ago

ASP.NET MVC continues to innovate and in its current version (4) it offers support for Web APIs. Today we are going to examine a real life scenario of using Web APIs along with MVC 4 as we are utilizing the Google Earth plug-in to mark a defined area and SQL Server 2012 geography type to help us persist and calculate GIS data. In our example we are going to mark an area on the globe using a polygon, calculate the center of the area, find all of the coffee shops closest to the center of the area and arrange them by distance. We are going to mark them on the map as well as show a full list including ranking. read more...

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INotifyPropertyChanged with Compile Time Checking(www.codecapers.com)

submitted by threenine39(329) 5 days, 7 hours ago

neat little tips for wpf read more...

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Behaviour-Driven Development in .NET with SpecFlow and White(devblog.cloudreach.co.uk)

submitted by MikeBorozdin(1146) 5 days, 13 hours ago

This article gives an overview of behaviour-driven development (BDD), talks about .NET tools for BDD (SpecFlow) and UI testing (White) and proceeds with a working example giving hands on BDD in .NET read more...

1 comment |category: Architecture |Views: 194

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IoC & Convention over Configuration in an Agile world(www.infoq.com)

submitted by wladek(38) 6 days, 8 hours ago

James Kovacs (http://www.jameskovacs.com) is highly regarded figure in the .NET consulting community. The video linked in this kick is a great talk on how to simplify your codebase using Convention over Configuration with your IoC container. It also briefly touches on some other topics like testing, app bootstrap/initialization, and lots of details regarding the Castle container itself. To download the FakeVader application he uses in his talk check it out on github: https://github.com/JamesKovacs/fakevader read more...

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EF 4.1+ POCO, Repository and Specification Pattern Framework(huyrua.wordpress.com)

submitted by wladek(38) 6 days, 8 hours ago

I've been playing around with Code First EF implementations for awhile now and by far the best implementation I've seen is a framework by Huy Rua. It has the following functionality baked in: True Separation of Concerns for entities (no need for a data annotations dependency). A Generic Repository. This should do the trick for 80% of your standard CRUD operations without the need for repo's per entity. Supports multiple DbContext's and builds them dynamically. And finally a straightforward Specification pattern implementation. I use it as a base data layer for all my projects. read more...

1 comment |category: Database |Views: 249

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Windows 8 Metro: Something about application life-cycle(www.silverlightshow.net)

submitted by KMillerr(2072) 6 days, 8 hours ago

Also if currently you are probably running Windows 8 on a virtual machine or luckily on a computer, there is not any doubt that this new operating system and especially the metro-style interface is dedicated to touch enabled devices like tablets. The plans of Microsoft infact include the new WOA keywork where the acronym stands for Windows On ARM that is the aim of making available this interface on a wide set of mobile devices that currently embrace this successful processor architecture. Running on a tablet does not only imply a different input interface like the touch screen, but also it requires a careful use of system resources that are not always large on this kind of device. This is the reason why metro-style applications have an application lifecycle that is mostly similar to the Windows Phone than of classical desktop apps. read more...

1 comment |category: Windows 8 |Views: 43

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Developer Productivity Tools and Visual Studio Extensions(www.mehdi-khalili.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 6 days, 8 hours ago

Mehdi Khalili shares what's in his toolbox for Visual Studio. It's a curated list of some of the best productivity boosters available. read more...

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A Basic Guide to Building Chrome Extensions(deanhume.com)

submitted by deanomachino(764) 6 days, 13 hours ago

Google Chrome has come a long way since it's early days. I am a big fan of the Chrome Developer tools and use it in my day to day development. There are also loads of great tools and extensions that are on offer at the Chrome store, and most are available to download for free. Depending on your requirements, creating a Chrome extension is really quick and easy - all it requires is a little knowledge of JavaScript and HTML. In this post, I am going to run through a tutorial that shows you how to create a small Chrome extension that allows you to display the top 5 posts on this blog from the RSS feed in a popup. It is a pretty basic example, but will give you a good understanding of Chrome extension development. read more...

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Code First Approach using Entity Framework 4.1, Inversion of Control, (dotnetslackers.com)

submitted by akhilmittal20(66) 6 days, 16 hours ago

Code First Approach using Entity Framework 4.1, Inversion of Control read more...

2 comments |category: MVC |Views: 205

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Create Separate Web API’s Action for Mobile Request: ASP.NET MVC 4(techbrij.com)

submitted by urenjoy(337) 7 days, 9 hours ago

This article explains how to implement separate actions for mobile request keeping same URL format in Web API. read more...

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C#/.NET Little Wonders: Select() and Where() with Indexes(www.blackrabbitcoder.net)

submitted by BlackRabbitCoder(661) 9 days, 21 hours ago

We’ve talked about the Select() and Where() LINQ extension methods before. The Select() method lets you project from the source type to a new type, and the Where() method lets you filter the list of items to the ones you are interested in. Most people know of these methods in their simplest form, where they simply take a projection and predicate respectively that operates on just an element. However, there are overloads for both of these methods that take a delegate that operates on both the element and the index of the element. read more...

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Basic HTTP authentication in ASP.NET Web API using membership provider(www.piotrwalat.net)

submitted by pwalat(44) 9 days, 22 hours ago

Blog pos showingt how to provide Basic HTTP authentication in ASP.NET Web API with support for membership and role providers by extending framework’s AuthotrizeAttribute. read more...

1 comment |category: MVC |Views: 260

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Noninvasive Unit Testing in ASP.NET MVC4 – A Microsoft Fakes Deep Dive(www.richonsoftware.com)

submitted by czyzer(55) 9 days, 23 hours ago

A lot of today’s unit testing technologies require significant invasive code changes in order to unit test appropriately. In this post Microsoft Fakes in VS11 is used to apply noninvasive testing techniques to test a default "Internet Application" MVC 4 project making absolutely no code changes at all. read more...

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