ASP.NET MVC as a JSON Service Provider for Richer Webs w MS Templates

polymorphicview.blogspot.com — This post shows how to utilize the ASP.NET MVC Framework, jQuery, and Microsoft Templating to become a JSON Service Provider to allow for rich Client AJAX driven Web Application. I have recently been doing a lot more Javascript Client side applications and working a lot closer with JSON objects to build complex web pages. The problem I typically run into is getting my C# POCO objects to translate to a JSON Object on the client side so I can work with it and change it and then post it back to the server to handle it appropriately. The basics of what I wanted was to seamlessly work with my Model data and it automatically handle converting to JSON or C# Objects at the correct layer. read more...

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Extension methods as a new Fluent Decorator Pattern?

polymorphicview.blogspot.com — So recently I have been on this kick to learn Design Patterns in Ruby, and to figure out all kinds of neat ways to do the same design patterns in a dynamic language that is as versatile and elegant as Ruby. While playing around with the decorator pattern in Ruby, I started trying to think of slick ways to accomplish the pattern in C# 3.0. read more...

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“The Next Web aka Web 3.0” and Silverlight's importance to it.

userfriendlythinking.com — I have recently been having some debates on Silverlight / AIRs importance to the web. Some of these people in the discussion often say that AJAX enabled web sites are enough for what you need on the web. I whole heartedly disagree with this assessment, so I thought I would make a blog posting about why I feel the importance of RIA development on the web is an important next step for our view of the web in the coming years ... read more...

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Developing a Robust Data-Driven UI Using WPF - Introduction.

ekampf.com — First post in a series. Discusses patterns for data-driven UI development in WPF. read more...

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Detailed Look: Key components in LINQ to SQL and their Key Roles

userfriendlythinking.com — Discuss the core concepts of what the DataContext and the Entity classes do and a description of how it does it. For the Entity class part, we will actually get down and dirty with how it actually accomplishes its responsibilities, since we can visibly see how it does it via the code generated for us. read more...

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Dynamic LINQ (Part 1: Using the LINQ Dynamic Query Library)

published 10 months, 15 days ago, submitted by Jemm 10 months, 15 days ago

weblogs.asp.net — While writing type-safe queries is great for most scenarios, there are cases where you want the flexibility to dynamically construct queries on the fly. For example: you might want to provide business intelligence UI within your application that allows an end-user business analyst to use drop-downs to build and express their own custom queries/views on top of data. read more...

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