Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Book Review : Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports

Again Marketing Team of Packt Publication (Jay Raval) has contacted me to review a book called “Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports” and I always have fun to review books so I said yes to them.  This blog post is all about reviewing a book “Reporting with Visual Studio and Crystal Reports”.

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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Enum support for views in ASP.NET MVC 5.1

Recently before some time Microsoft has announced release of ASP.NET MVC 5.1. It’s comes with tons of feature and  Enum support is one of them. In the earlier release of ASP.NET MVC there was no direct support for the Enums and in the views but with ASP.NET MVC 5.1 Microsoft is providing directly @html.EnumDropDownList for which directly creates a dropdown from the Enum itself. So What we are waiting for. Let’s take an example.

Example of Enum support for views in ASP.NET MVC 5.1:

Let’s create a new empty project for ASP.NET MVC from Visual Studio 2013 like following from File Menu-> New Project

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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Test Driven Development is your friend

I have seen lots developers are not seeing benefits of Test Driven development. When you do Test Driven development there are lots of benefits. So I thought it will be good idea to write a blog post about it.

What is Test Driven Development:

As per wikipedia Test Driven Development is

Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes an (initially failing) automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produces the minimum amount of code to pass that test, and finally refactors the new code to acceptable standards
Kent Ben an American software engineer and creator of extreme programming rediscovered this technique. There are three main indicators of Test Driven development.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Creating a WordPress blog on azure websites

In this post we are going to learn how we can create WordPress blog with Azure web sites.

What is Azure Web Sites?

Before some time Microsoft has released Azure web sites for South East Asia region. Windows Azure web sites offers secure and flexible deployment and scaling options for any kind of web application. You can use your existing tools to create and deploy applications to Azure Websites.

Windows Azure web site provides following features.
  • Provision and deploy fast
  • Secure platform that scales automatically
  • Great experience for Visual Studio developers. Even you can edit some code with online visual studio(Monaco).
  • Open and Flexible for anyone
  • Monitor and Alert
  • Auto scale to optimize cost and performance
  • A great gallery of most popular applications and easy direct deployment.
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Friday, April 11, 2014

Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook review

The marketing team from Packt Publication has given opportunity to Review Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook. So, this post is all about  reviewing Visual Studio 2013 Cookbook . It’s total 333 pages of long book with full converge of visual studio features.

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About Authors:

This book is written by Jeff Martin and Richards Banks both are quite experience person.

Jeff Martin is well known technology enthusiast and has been contributing writes for InfoQ(www.infoq.com) for over two years focusing on Microsoft .NET and related  platforms.  Readers are encouraged to follow @VSDevTips on twitter to receive updates of books and visual studio related stuff.

Richard Banks have more then 20 years of experience in software development. During his career his gone through various role like developer, team lead, project manager,CIO and CTO. He is a professional scrum trainer and runs Sydney ALT.NET user group and spoken at number of Microsoft events. You can find him on his blog http://www.richard-banks.org/

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

How to convert C# object into JSON string with JSON.NET

Before some time I have written a blog post – Converting a C# object into JSON string in that post one of reader Thomas Levesque commented that mostly people are using JSON.NET a popular high performance JSON for creating for .NET Created by James Newton- King. I agree with him if we are using .NET Framework 4.0 or higher version for earlier version still JavaScriptSerializer is good. So in this post we are going to learn How we can convert C# object into JSON string with JSON.NET framework.

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Dapper Micro ORM Series

Recently before some time I have created a blog post about list of blog post I have written about Petapoco Micro ORM. So one of the friend suggested I should write same kind of series post about Dapper Micro ORM so that reader of my blog can find the all the posts on same page. So that’s why I writing this blog post.

What is dapper:

Dapper is Micro ORM developed by Sam Saffron few years ago while he was working as lead developer at stack exchange. This ORM was developed specially for Stack Exchange QA sites like stackoverflow.com and superuser.com for the performance improvement. It has got a single file where all the code has been written. You can download dapper Micro ORM from the following location.

http://code.google.com/p/dapper-dot-net/

Dapper Micro ORM related posts on dotnetjalps.com:

Following is a list of post related to dapper Micro ORM that I have written on this blog.

Playing with dapper Micro ORM and ASP.NET MVC 3.0
Insert with Dapper Micro ORM and ASP.NET MVC 3
Edit/Update with dapper ORM and ASP.NET MVC 3
Delete with Dapper ORM and ASP.NET MVC 3

If I write blog post about dapper then I will keep adding into this list. That’s it.

Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more!!
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