Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Installing Nuget package with package manager console step by step overview.

I have already blogged about NuGet in earlier post about how to install NuGet packages to your project with wizard. NuGet Extension also provides an package manager console to add library to your projects. Let’s install a blogml package via package manager console. So if you still not installed NuGet exntension then please read my earlier post here that explains how to install the NuGet Extension.

Once you are done with installing NuGet Extension to go to package manager console. You have to click Tools->Library package manager –>Package Manager console like following.

PcakgeManagerConsole

Once you click that menu you will get package manager console like following. PackageManagerConsolewindow

One you load an command line is available to you just need to write command to find packages and then you need to write command to install packages. let’s first see how many packages are available with the NuGet Extension. So first you have to write ‘get-package –remote’ command in command line to see what packages are available as following.

PackageCommand

So It will load all the packages available in NuGet Now let’s filter some package via command. Suppose I want to install BlogML library to my project then I have to type ‘get-package –remote filter blogml’ and it will load all the packages that will contain BlogML like following.

FilterBlogML

Now let’s install BlogML library to my project for that I have to type ‘install-package blogml’ and it will install the package like following.

InstallingPackage

That’s it you can see Now your package is installed on your project and you find it in reference of your project like following.

BlogMLReference

It will also create packages.config and you can see installed packages there like following.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
<package id="blogml" version="2.1.0" />
</packages>

So that’s it as you can see its very easy to install NuGet package and its very convenient to install packages with this. Hope this help you. Stay tuned for more… Happy Programming..


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Monday, January 24, 2011

Getting Started with NuGet Packages step by step overview.

We can all see lots of buzz about NuGet in asp.net world. So I decided to explore it. let’s explore it in some details. Following is a explanation of NuGet Extension on the code plex here.



"NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to add, remove, and update libraries and tools in Visual Studio projects that use the .NET Framework. When you add a library or tool, NuGet copies files to your solution and automatically makes whatever changes are needed in your project, such as adding references and changing your app.config or web.config file. When you remove a library, NuGet removes files and reverses whatever changes it made in your project so that no clutter is left."

So in simple words is a Visual Studio Extension which will help you the add,remove and update libraries in your visual studio project.

Installing NuGet

Let’s see how we can install it. For that first you have to go thorough the Tools->Extension Manager and then search for nuget and it will appear in the list like below.

NugetInstallation

After that click on download and it will download and install it from the web. Make sure your computer has access to internet. Once you download your nugest extension it will ask you to restart visual studio. So once your are restarted you are ready with nuget packages.

How to install packages with NuGet

Here, I am going to install Entity Framework code first CTP 5 package with NuGet. To install that package first you have to go right click your project and then click add Library Reference Package like following.

AddLibraryPackage

After that a reference dialog will appear their you have click online and search entity as we need to install entity framework ctp. After searching the right package click on install it will start installing your package. Following is screen host of add library package reference dialog.

EntityFramework

After clicking install EFlicence dialog will appear like this.

EFCodeFirst

Click on I Accept and install will install package.After installing package a green icon will appear on top as indication of your successful installation like following.

AfterInstallation

Now after clicking on close if you see on your project reference An Entity framework is added to your project reference like following.

EntityFrameworkReference

Also you can see a package.config will be added to your project. like following.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
<package id="EFCodeFirst" version="0.8" />
</packages>
That's it your package is installed and ready to use in your application. There is another way of adding packages with package console is also there. I will explain this on future blog posts. Hope you liked this. Stay tuned for more..
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Programmatically creating asp.net request and handling response

Recently one of the my friends asked about how to create a web request in asp.net to a url outside of project. So I decided to write a small blog post regarding this. This web request can be easily created with httpwebrequest class and you can easily consume the response we are getting from this. This kind of request can be very useful when you are implementing payment gateways or other third party components. Following is a code for it. It is very easy.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;

namespace Experiment
{
public partial class WebForm1 : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string url = "http://localhost:1798/WebForm2.aspx";
HttpWebRequest httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
httpWebRequest.Method = "POST";
httpWebRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";

HttpWebResponse httpWebResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse();
Stream responseStream = httpWebResponse.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(responseStream);
string response = streamReader.ReadToEnd();

Response.Write(Response);
}
}
}
Here in the above code you can see I have created a webrequest with system.net name space and then I have typecast that request in HttpWebRequest Class. There are several parameters are available with request like method which HTML submit method you want to use like “Get” or “Post”. After that I have created a object of HTTPResponse and then with the help of stream reader I have print a response we are getting from the URL.

That’s it. It’s very easy. Hope you will find it useful. Stay tuned for more. Happy Programming..

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Saturday, January 22, 2011

JQuery UI 1.8.9 new version launch today

JQuery UI contains great controls and it’s very useful when developing sites. Today a new version of Jquery UI is launched.

You can find more details about that from following link.

http://blog.jqueryui.com/2011/01/jquery-ui-1-8-9/

It’s contains Bug fixes for Datepicker, Tabs and other things and also contains some localization improvements on the date picker.

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Multi Monitor Support in Visual Studio 2010

In this blog post we are going to see an new feature for multi monitor support in Visual Studio 2010. In Visual Studio 2010 you can drag windows outside IDE and thus you can use in different monitor. That’s feature is very useful if developer is having multiple monitor and he can work different windows at same time.

You just need to drag window outside the IDE and new windows will open just like following.

Multi monitor support in Visual Studio 2010

That’s it you can drag this windows any where. Visual studio 2010 also provide facility to open different IDE in different windows and developer work on multiple solutions at time.

Hope you liked it. Stay tuned for more!!. Happy Programming..

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Friday, January 21, 2011

HTML and Java Script code snippets in Visual Studio 2010

We all love Visual Studio as great IDE and Microsoft is providing more and more features for that IDE. Let’s investigate one of great features that Microsoft has given with Visual Studio 2010.

What is code snippets?

Code snippets is a one of the cool feature that given in Visual Studio IDE. If you know the chunks of the code that you need to type over and over again throughout the code then this code snippets feature will help you on this. For example your exception handling code. Your redirection code everything you need more can be putted in the code snippets.

You can insert code snippets via right click –> Insert code snippets and there is also a short code is also available to bring up directly code snippets via pressing ctrl-K+ ctrl-X. Following is look of basic code snippets window.

CodeSnippets with visual studio 2010

You can put your code snippets. Below is link for creating code snippets in Visual Studio 2010.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165394.aspx

HTML and Java Script Code snippets in Visual Studio 2010

Till visual studio 2008 the code snippets are provide only on the code behind file. But with Visual Studio 2010 now you can have that in HTML and as well Java Script code snippets also and even If you have asp.net MVC installed with Visual Studio 2010. You can have code snippets for that also.

Here you can see HTML code snippets in asp.net web form file below.

HTMLCodeSnippet in visual Studio 2010

Same way you can have it Javascript code snippets also like following.

JavascriptSnippets

Isn’t that cool? Stay tuned for more!! Happy programming.

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Thursday, January 13, 2011

HTTP Module in details

I know this post may sound like very beginner level. But I have already posted two topics regarding HTTP Handler and HTTP module and this will explain how http module works in the system. I have already posted What is the difference between HttpModule and HTTPHandler here. Same way I have posted about an HTTP Handler example here as people are still confused with it. In this post I am going to explain about HTTP Module in detail.

What is HTTP Module?

As we all know that when ASP.NET Runtimes receives any request it will execute a series of HTTP Pipeline extensible objects. HTTP Module and HTTP handler play important role in extending this HTTP Pipelines. HTTP Module are classes that will pre and post process request as they pass into HTTP Pipelines. So It’s one kind of filter we can say which will do some procession on begin request and end request.

If we have to create HTTP Module we have to implement System.Web.IHttpModule interface in our custom class. An IHTTP Module contains two method dispose where you can write your clean up code and another is Init where your can write your custom code to handle request. Here you can your event handler that will execute at the time of begin request and end request.

Let’s create an HTTP Module which will just print text in browser with every request. Here is the code for that.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

namespace Experiment
{
public class MyHttpModule:IHttpModule
{
public void Dispose()
{
//add clean up code here if required
}

public void Init(HttpApplication context)
{
context.BeginRequest+=new EventHandler(context_BeginRequest);
context.EndRequest+=new EventHandler(context_EndRequest);

}
public void context_BeginRequest(object o, EventArgs args)
{
HttpApplication app = (HttpApplication)o;
if (app != null)
{
app.Response.Write("<h1>Begin Request Executed</h1>");
}
}
public void context_EndRequest(object o, EventArgs args)
{
HttpApplication app = (HttpApplication)o;
if (app != null)
{
app.Response.Write("<h1>End Request Executed</h1>");
}
}
}
}
Here in above code you can see that I have created two event handler context_Beginrequest and context_EndRequest which will execute at begin request and end request when request are processed. In this event handler I have just written a code to print text on browser.

Now In order enable this HTTP Module in HTTP pipeline we have to put a settings in web.config HTTPModules section to tell which HTTPModule is enabled. Below is code for HTTPModule.

<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
<httpModules>
<add name="MyHttpModule" type="Experiment.MyHttpModule,Experiment"/>
</httpModules>
</system.web>

</configuration>

Now I just have created a sample webform with following code in HTML like following.
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<B>test of HTTP Module</B>
</form>
Now let’s run this web form in browser and you can see here it the output as expected.

HTTPModule

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DotNetJalps Nnews- New feed address.

Hello All,

I am moving my feeds to new address so please update your feeds with my new address. Earlier there was two or three feed address and that’s why there were some confusion between the feed address among readers. So I decided to just keep one feed address for all and so I am migrating my all the feeds to following address with feed burner. There will one feed address all the things in blog. So please please update your feed address.

Following is my feed address with feed burner.

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Still my old feed address will be available for next 30 days and then it will be deleted so please please migrate to this new feed address. 

All reader of the this blog very important because without their support It would not be possible to write blogs. So any suggestion or anything that could make my blog better is always welcome. Please read my blogs regularly and I will also try my best write my blog continuously.

I am still saying that blogging is important now days. It will increase your confidence as well in future it will be integral part of your resume. So if you are still not started blogging then start it immediately. Please read my blog post why a developer should write blog and start working on blog. Because it a shadow of your knowledge to out side world and with blogging your writing and communication skills will also improve that help you in your professional life.

Till that.. Happy programming..Stay tuned for more.

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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Converting a generic list into JSON string and then handling it in java script

We all know that JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is very useful in case of manipulating string on client side with java script and its performance is very good over browsers so let’s create a simple example where convert a Generic List then we will convert this list into JSON string and then we will call this web service from java script and will handle in java script.

To do this we need a info class(Type) and for that class we are going to create generic list. Here is code for that I have created simple class with two properties UserId and UserName

public class UserInfo
{
public int UserId { get; set; }
public string UserName { get; set; }
}
Now Let’s create a web service and web method will create a class and then we will convert this with in JSON string with JavaScriptSerializer class. Here is web service class.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Services;

namespace Experiment.WebService
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for WsApplicationUser
/// </summary>
[WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")]
[WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]
[System.ComponentModel.ToolboxItem(false)]
// To allow this Web Service to be called from script, using ASP.NET AJAX, uncomment the following line.
[System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]
public class WsApplicationUser : System.Web.Services.WebService
{

[WebMethod]
public string GetUserList()
{
List<UserInfo> userList = new List<UserInfo>();
for (int i = 1; i <= 5; i++)
{
UserInfo userInfo = new UserInfo();
userInfo.UserId = i;
userInfo.UserName = string.Format("{0}{1}", "J", i.ToString());
userList.Add(userInfo);

}
System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer jSearializer = new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer();
return jSearializer.Serialize(userList);
}
}
}

Note: Here you must have this attribute here in web service class ‘[System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]’ as this attribute will enable web service to call from client side.Now we have created a web service class let’s create a java script function ‘GetUserList’ which will call web service from JavaScript like following
function GetUserList() {
Experiment.WebService.WsApplicationUser.GetUserList(ReuqestCompleteCallback, RequestFailedCallback);

}
After as you can see we have inserted two call back function ReuqestCompleteCallback and RequestFailedCallback which handle errors and result from web service. ReuqestCompleteCallback will handle result of web service and if and error comes then RequestFailedCallback will print the error. Following is code for both function.
function ReuqestCompleteCallback(result) {

result = eval(result);
var divResult = document.getElementById("divUserList");
CreateUserListTable(result);

}
function RequestFailedCallback(error) {

var stackTrace = error.get_stackTrace();
var message = error.get_message();
var statusCode = error.get_statusCode();
var exceptionType = error.get_exceptionType();
var timedout = error.get_timedOut();

// Display the error.
var divResult = document.getElementById("divUserList");
divResult.innerHTML = "Stack Trace: " + stackTrace + "<br/>" +
"Service Error: " + message + "<br/>" +
"Status Code: " + statusCode + "<br/>" +
"Exception Type: " + exceptionType + "<br/>" +
"Timedout: " + timedout;
}

Here in above there is a function called you can see that we have use ‘eval’ function which parse string in enumerable form. Then we are calling a function call ‘CreateUserListTable’ which will create a table string and paste string in the a div. Here is code for that function.
function CreateUserListTable(userList) {

var tablestring = '<table ><tr><td>UsreID</td><td>UserName</td></tr>';

for (var i = 0, len = userList.length; i < len; ++i)
{
tablestring=tablestring + "<tr>";
tablestring=tablestring + "<td>" + userList[i].UserId + "</td>";
tablestring=tablestring + "<td>" + userList[i].UserName + "</td>";
tablestring=tablestring + "</tr>";
}
tablestring = tablestring + "</table>";
var divResult = document.getElementById("divUserList");
divResult.innerHTML = tablestring;
}
Now let’s create div which will have all html that is generated from this function. Here is code of my web page. We also need to add a script reference to enable web service from client side. Here is all HTML code we have.
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<asp:ScriptManager ID="myScirptManger" runat="Server">
<Services>
<asp:ServiceReference Path="~/WebService/WsApplicationUser.asmx" />
</Services>
</asp:ScriptManager>

<div id="divUserList">
</div>
</form>
Now as we have not defined where we are going to call ‘GetUserList’ function so let’s call this function on windows onload event of javascript like following.
window.onload=GetUserList();
That’s it. Now let’s run it on browser to see whether it’s work or not and here is the output in browser as expected.

JSON string output in browser

That’s it. This was very basic example but you can crate your own JavaScript enabled grid from this and you can see possibilities are unlimited here. Stay tuned for more.. Happy programming..
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Distinct operator in Linq

Linq operator provides great flexibility and easy way of coding. Let’s again take one more example of distinct operator. As name suggest it will find the distinct elements from IEnumerable. Let’s take an example of array in console application and then we will again print array to see is it working or not. Below is the code for that. In this application I have integer array which contains duplicate elements and then I will apply distinct operator to this and then I will print again result of distinct operators to actually see whether its working or not.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace Experiment
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
int[] intArray = { 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 };
var uniqueIntegers = intArray.Distinct();
foreach (var uInteger in uniqueIntegers)
{
Console.WriteLine(uInteger);
}
Console.ReadKey();

}
}
}
Below is output as expected..
DisntictResult

That’s cool..Stay tuned for more.. Happy programming.
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Saturday, January 8, 2011

ASP.NET 4.0- Html Encoded Expressions

We all know <%=expression%> features in asp.net. We can print any string on page from there. Mostly we are using them in asp.net mvc. Now we have one new features with asp.net 4.0 that we have HTML Encoded Expressions and this prevent Cross scripting attack as we are html encoding them.

ASP.NET 4.0 introduces a new expression syntax <%: expression %> which automatically convert string into html encoded. Let’s take an example for that.

I have just created an hello word protected method which will return a simple string which contains characters that needed to be HTML Encoded. Below is code for that.

protected static string HelloWorld()
{
return "Hello World!!! returns from function()!!!>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>";
}
Now let’s use the that hello world in our page html like below. I am going to use both expression to give you exact difference.
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<strong><%: HelloWorld()%></strong>
</div>
<div>
<strong><%= HelloWorld()%></strong>
</div>
</form>

Now let’s run the application and you can see in browser both look similar.

HtmlEncodedExpression

But when look into page source html in browser like below you can clearly see one is HTML Encoded and another one is not.

HtmlEncodeView with html encoding

That’s it.. It’s cool.. Stay tuned for more.. Happy Programming
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Sunday, January 2, 2011

.NET Framework 4.0-Guid.Parse Method

In earlier version of .NET framework we don’t have Guid.Parse method Now we have an Guid.Parse method in .NET Framework and it’s work like any parse method. Let’s see it by an example. Let’s create console application for that.

class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string newID = "f718943d-757d-4975-947b-3dbff1205be6";
Guid myGuId = Guid.Parse(newID);
Console.WriteLine(myGuId.ToString());
Console.ReadLine();


}
}
and as expected here is the out put for that.

Guid

That’s is it’s cool. Stay tuned for more..Happy programming..
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Creating an HttpHandler to handle request of your own extension

I have already posted about http handler in details before some time here. Now let’s create an http handler which will handle my custom extension. For that we need to create a http handlers class which will implement Ihttphandler. As we are implementing IHttpHandler we need to implement one method called process request and another one is isReusable property. The process request function will handle all the request of my custom extension.

so Here is the code for my http handler class.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;

namespace Experiement
{
public class MyExtensionHandler:IHttpHandler
{
public MyExtensionHandler()
{
//Implement intialization here
}

bool IHttpHandler.IsReusable
{
get { return true; }
}

void IHttpHandler.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
{
string excuttablepath = context.Request.AppRelativeCurrentExecutionFilePath;

if (excuttablepath.Contains("HelloWorld.dotnetjalps"))
{
Page page = new HelloWorld();
page.AppRelativeVirtualPath = context.Request.AppRelativeCurrentExecutionFilePath;
page.ProcessRequest(context);

}
}
}
}
Here in above code you can see that in process request function I am getting current executable path and then I am processing that page.

Now Lets create a page with extension .dotnetjalps and then we will process this page with above created http handler. so let’s create it.

Creating your own extension

It will create a page like following.

Extension

Now let’s write some thing in page load Event like following.


using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

namespace Experiement
{
public partial class HelloWorld : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Response.Write("Hello World");
}
}
}

Now we have to tell our web server that we want to process request from this .dotnetjalps extension through our custom http handler for that we need to add a tag in httphandler sections of web.config like following.

<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
<httpHandlers>
<add verb="*" path="*.dotnetjalps" type="Experiement.MyExtensionHandler,Experiement"/>
</httpHandlers>
</system.web>
</configuration>
That’s it now run that page into browser and it will execute like following in browser

Browser

That’s you.. Isn’t it cool.. Stay tuned for more.. Happy programming..
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Thanks All the readers and community and Happy new year to all of you.

This is my first blog post for new year 2011 and I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the readers for making my blog very successful and accepting me a community member. As year 2010 has lots of up down in IT filed it was recession period and now we almost recovered from it.

Personally year 2010 has been very successful to me as I have been awarded as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for visual C#. And It was one of the greatest achievement of my life. I would like to take this opportunity to thanks Microsoft for this and thanks all friends specially Jacob Sebastian who has given me guidance any time I required it.

I have been also awarded dzone most valuable blogger this year and it was a nice surprise from dzone. I would like thanks dzone for this.

Once again I am wishing you happy new year and may this year will bring success to all of you. One more thing I have found that I have met lots of people who is quite intelligent and exceptional developers and IT professionals but they are not blogging their stuff. I would say please my blog post a why a developer should write blog and Start blogging immediately because unless and until you don’t blog community will not know what you are doing. 

Till then happy blogging and programming ... Stay tuned for more..

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