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We spend 99% of our time working WITH projects and not setting them up; sometimes, we may need a little reminder. This is a quick, bare-bones guide (and a downloadable graphic guide) to remind us of the steps involved in setting up a code first entity framework MVC4 application (with a simple model ...

A great portion of mobile applications consumes data from HTTP services. This is usually achieved as a pull scenario in which apps initiate the data flow from the server. In many cases pushing data to the client is a more natural and potentially much better solution. In this blog post I will explore...

The final video in my little SOLID series the Dependency Inversion Principle, where we briefly go through why high level modules shouldn't depend on low level modules and low level modules should depend on abstractions.

Two weeks ago I got to spend four days attending the IDDD Tour by Vaughn Vernon. Although my book queue has only allowed me to shallowly browse the book, I had high hopes for this course. I anticipated a week of getting lectured on DDD with a few practical exercises, but was blown away by the openne...

An easy way to implement LESS (the dynamic stylesheet language) with MVC4 bundling. Very simple approach.

Validating the user input and showing a user-friendly error message is an important step in Web Application development. ASP.NET MVC framework provides validation features which helps developer to validate model values. The validation features in MVC allows you to write the validation using attribut...

I am doing a short series of blog posts on using FluentValidation with ASP.NET MVC. In this first instalment I cover the basics of installing via NuGet and replacing the standard data annotations validation.

After Microsoft announced software based Site-to-Site VPN support between Windows Azure Virtual Networks and Windows Server 2012 Routing And Remote Access I wrote a blog post on how easy it is to configure all of this: Setting up software based Site-to-Site VPN for Windows Azure with Windows Server ...

With the release of ASP.Net 4.5 web forms there are tons of features added in the ASP.Net and Unobtrusive validations support is one of them. We have already seen that kind of validation in ASP.Net MVC and now we are going to have that in ASP.Net web forms.

In SQL Server , Installation by default are case insensitive .This means that SQL Server ignores the case of the characters and treats the string 'Dot Net World' equal to the string 'dot net world'. SO how to perform case sensitive search in SQL?

This is the third part of a series of tutorials on C#. In this part we are going to discuss exciting features of C# like dynamic programming using the DLR or using the meta-data information known as reflection. We will also extend our knowledge on the .NET-Framework by getting to know the abstract S...

This post talks about the Visual Studio 2012’s IDE new features.

App ratings in mobile app stores are really broken. This post is mostly about the Windows Phone Store and Windows Store but may apply to Android and iOS as well.

I am a huge fan of ASP.NET MVC. It is leaps and bounds ahead of WebForms, and if you’re doing web development on the Microsoft platform, it’s arguably the best overall solution available. But it is far from perfect. One of the things that has bugged me about it since the very beginning is the def...