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XML Dictionary & Serialization in WCF

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:00:49 GMT

We all are quite conversant with the XmlWriter & XmlReader classes in System.Xml namespace.But not that much with the XmlDictionary ,XmlDictionaryReader & XmlDictionaryWriter present in System.Xml namespace in System.Runtime.Serialization assembly.These are used primarily by the WCF framework to optimize XML serialization/deserialization.In this post we will see how a XML Dictionary can be used to make XML writing/reading more optimized.

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 ...

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.

Capturing File Information

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:38:07 GMT

This article describes a simple approach to capturing and displaying file and file version information.

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.

.NET 4 Parallel Programming, Not So Fast. (Part 3)

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:11:53 GMT

A look into the performance of the parallel programing structures included with .NET 4.0

ASP.NET WebForms Best Practices

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:05:54 GMT

Collection of useful ASP.NET best practices.

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 21 - SizeDefinition

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:12:03 GMT

Windows Ribbon for WinForms, Part 21 - SizeDefinition After reviewing the MSDN documentation for the Windows Ribbon Framework I've discovered there is only one subject I haven't covered in my ribbon posts. This post comes to rectify this issue. This post is about how to define custom size definitions for ribbon group elements. The post is entirely about ribbon markup, so no changes to the Windows Ribbon for WinForms library. Nevertheless, I've uploaded a new sample "18-SizeDefinition" to the project s...

C++ Programming : Introduction

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 05:24:59 GMT

This blog is designed to help you teach yourself how to program with C++. It lays emphasis on the practical usage of the language, and helps you get up-to-speed with concepts that are most important in writing C++ application for real-world usage.

KiGG Design And Architecture - Part 2 Project Structure

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:15:00 GMT

In part 1 I talked about KiGG high level architecture. In this part I am going to talk about KiGG project structure and summarize the purpose of each project in the solution. I'll not go into deep details of each project. I'll save that for some other posts, just be patient with me and stay tuned.

Casts using "as" (Pitfalls and Best Practices to Prevent Them #5)

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:13:32 GMT

Well - "as" is faster to type than a "real" cast using two brackets and has the same result. Really?

The Evolution of Visual Basic

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:38:13 GMT

Evolution of Visual Basic from VB1 - VB10

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....

Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC Survey - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:45:02 GMT

Dear readers, as you know that we have released our beta few weeks back, we are currently looking for your feedback on the existing features as well as the features that you would like to see in our next release. This is a very short survey only 4/5 screens to complete, click here to submit your valuable feedback. Thanks in advance for your precious...

Access AssemblyInfo file and get product informations

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:36:31 GMT

This article tells you that .Net have the assemblyInfo file for every project and also have custom attributes to access the asseblyinfo file attributes.

Performance degrades in your Silverlight App!? What can you do?

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:43:22 GMT

Some time ago I had written Silverlight app and I confronted with difficulties of difference between WPF and Silverlight :). When I had vanquished mismatches I found that performance of my app was serous degraded. I have done a little investigate of ways that can help to correct this issues. 1. MaxFrameRate 2. EnableGPUAcceleration & BitmapCash 3. CompositionTarget.Rendering

Handy snippet for Sitecore CMS - Part 5 - Getting items from a Treelis

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:31:35 GMT

Hi there, In my previous post, you could get the items from a tree list field. In this post, we'll get them in another way: Sitecore.Data.Items.Item item = Sitecore.Context.Item; Sitecore.Data.Fields.MultilistField multilistField = item.Fields["TreeListField"]; Sitecore.Data.Items.Item[] items = multilistField.GetItems(); Hope this is usefull!

Caching in .NET

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:35:58 GMT

A look into caching techniques in .Net

SketchFlow Viewer

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:44:27 GMT

Learn more about Silverlight SketchFlow Viewer component

Server Side Validation With ASP.NET MVC And Data Annotations

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:30:03 GMT

The following article demonstrates how to perform server side validation using ASP.NET MVC and data annotations

ASP.NET MVC View and Transaction - Kazi Manzur Rashid's

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Scott showed how to render the Grid in a Transaction. Certainly it does the job but in my opinion view component should not be responsible for this kind of cross cutting concerns, instead we can use the Action Filters. Lets see how we can utilize the Action Filter in this scenario instead of modifying the Grid code. What Scott is trying to do is encapsulate the data access operation in a transaction, the Action Filter has several methods which the ASP.NET MVC framework executes in different stages of a request. In this case, we will use the OnActionExecuting which fires before the code enters into the controller method to start a transaction and OnResultExecuted which fires when the view is processed, we will commit/rollback based upon the status, here is the code that would process the action result in a transaction:

How to install IIS 7.0 on windows server 2008

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:49:15 GMT

This explains how to install IIS 7.0 on windows server 2008 by adding web server role in service manager.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object - VS 2008 SP1

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:05:38 GMT

This article Provides solution for this bug "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" in Visual Studio

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...