Fun with Angela Smith library by James Chambers for C#

AngelaSmith is an awesome library created by James Chambers. This library is used to generate realistic test data. You can find more information about it from the following link.

https://github.com/MisterJames/AngelaSmith

As per documentation on the github, it is.

AngelaSmith is a library you can use to generate realistic test data. It is composed of several property fillers that can populate commonly named properties through reflection using an internal database of values or randomly created data. You can override any of the fillers, give AngelaSmith hints on how to fill them, or easily extend the property fillers using extension methods or MEF.

It’s an awesome realistic data generator library. You can generate object data as well list also. She can fill anything that you throw it to her.You can use it’s static methods to create objects for testing, design time data or seeding a database.

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Learning resources for ASP.NET MVC

I am getting lots of question regarding where to learn ASP.NET MVC. So I thought it will beneficial to write a blog post so that everyone get advantages of it. Today there are multiple resources available to learn ASP.NET MVC here I have listed some of the my favorite resources to learn ASP.NET MVC.

Videos:

Videos are great way to learn any technology and there are many video resources are available.

1) Pluralsight free videos on www.asp.net/mvc:

On the official asp.net mvc site Pluralsight has provided 8 free videos It it a great resource for any to get started with ASP.NET MVC. Some videos are there for ASP.NET MVC 3.0 but still it is worth learning it.

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Important Milestone achieved- 650th blog post

I am not super crazy about achieving mile stones but I just notice that I have completed 649 posts on blog. So I thought it will be good idea to write about few mile stones.

1. On April 2014, my blog completed 8 years. The first post I have ever written was at April 26,2006.
2. Today I have completed another important milestone this is 650th post I am writing and still going on. My passion for blogging never dropped I will still continue to write blog on my blog.

On this occasion, I would first like to thank my family who scarifies their time when I am writing blogs without their encouragement It would never possible to write blog and maintained it for almost 8 years.
I would also like to thank my readers. Without their love It would not have been possible to achieve this. Hopefully I will continue to write blog that will help you learn technology in some way.

Thanks again everybody for making this journey possible!!

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What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 5 Part-1 : Attribute Routing

ASP.NET MVC is a new buzz word in Microsoft.NET stack most of people have started learning into it. So recently before some time Microsoft has released a Major new version of ASP.NET MVC with ASP.NET MVC 5.x. There are lots of new features given with ASP.NET MVC 5.x versions and I’m going to write a few series of blog post to explain all the features in details. So stay tuned with that!!

In this blog post I’m going to explain attribute routing in ASP.NET MVC 5.

Routing in ASP.NET MVC:

From the first version of ASP.NET MVC It’s provides a routing out of box. You don’t need to do much about it. Routing is how ASP.NET MVC matches URL in browsers to action. Based on URL a particular action is called on particular controller and result will be provided as view.

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Free Get Involved Video from Scott Hanselman and Rob Conery

I have posted Why developer should blog? earlier where I have given various reasons why every developer should have a blog because it’s a great way to give back some thing to community and you can also market your self as a developer across community. Scott Hanselman and Rob Conery has created one of best video regarding same topic call Get Involved. Here they have explained how you can get out there and get involved with community with blogging, twitter, github , stackoverflow, user groups and conference. It will make you happier, more productive developer and inspire you take your career on next level.

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Visual Studio 2013, Team Explorer and GitHub

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Recently Git version controlling system has gained lots of popularity and more and more developers are using it for software development and version controlling. Microsoft also tied with Git with Visual Studio 2013. So if you use Visual Studio as your primary IDE and then its high time to learn about it. With Visual Studio 2013 team explorer you can easily tied code in your git repository so I thought it will be a good idea to write a blog post about How we can create git repository in local with team explorer in Visual Studio 2013 and publish it to github a well know open source a powerfull code hosting site for the open source projects.

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Visual Studio Command Window- A useful but unknown feature

All the Microsoft developers love visual studio as Integrated Development Environment(IDE) because it has build with lots and lots of features and developers are more productive then ever. But still there are lots of feature which are not popular among the developers. Visual studio command window is one of the best feature but still lots of developers are not aware about it. In this post we are going to learn about Visual Studio Command Window feature and we will see how we can increase productivity with this command window.

Command windows enables features of visual studio with commands. You can invoke command window via View-> Other windows –> Command window menu or via just pressing(Shortcut) Ctrl + Alt + A.

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