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Working out with Amazon S3

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:14:10 GMT

Recently, I was bit playing around with amazon S3. This is said to be the cheapest storage for people who don't want to spend much of their brain cells thinking about DB issues. Now, Amazon S3 primarily supports Web service (SOAP) to store and query data out of the S3 server. The concept behind S3 is that you have to create a bucket and under it you can store as many objects you want. Generally for a particular account 100 is the threshold value for buckets. In this post, I will basically focus on configuring your proxy for uploading large files to amazon using WSE and optionally I will point out a cool browser extension for analyzing your S3 space and third party library alternative. ..

LinqExtender 1.4.2 - Supporting Complex type arguments

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:27:03 GMT

I just made a quick update to the existing release of LinqExtender. I recently found a bug while building a feature for FlickrXplorer is that if you use constant type query with orderby clause it does pretty well, but it simply does not do well with complex ones. I have used the same logic that I have used for where clause arguments. Also, it will be out of the scope for this post to drill it down all the LinqExtender logic fort hat. But I would put a brief overview on it that can help you out while building your own IQueryable implementation.

Using jQuery to do Ajax Form posts in Asp.net MVC

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:03:19 GMT

It is now official with Scott Guthrie's post that jQuery will be bundled with Asp.net. jQuery is a tiny 15K JavaScript library that contains features from UI tweaks, DOM manipulation to full Ajax control. In my last post, I have shown how to get going with Ajax.Form using Microsoft MVC Ajax library. In this post, I will show how to do Ajax form posts with jQuery but in Ajax.Form style.

Asp.net MVC more Form post scenarios and Ajax

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:58:06 GMT

In the flickr explorer app made with Asp.net MVC and Athena, I was trying out some form post scenarios. In this post, I will add few things regarding mvc form post and Ajax that is common to FlickrXplorer but can be used in general. Now, Asp.net MVC has some new Ajax features, one of this is the Ajax form post. With this, you can easily make your web app actions Ajax enabled. The syntax is pretty simple....

Deploy, test and pack your code - Part 2 Using MsBuild

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:52:27 GMT

In part one of this packing series I have shown, how you can automate your build process, test and optionally mock by using the popular .net deployment tool NAnt. If you don't know what I am talking about and just landed here by help of search engine. Let me put the link below again. http://weblogs.asp.net/mehfuzh/archive/2008/08/30/deploy-test-and-pack-your-code-part-1-using-nant.aspx In this post, I will do a replay to mostly what I have talked in my last post but with MsBuild.

Fluent NHibernate - Working with NHibernate without configuration file

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:46:10 GMT

"I believe that the most important reason why NHibernate is not more widely adopted by general DEV population is exactly the "Java XML configuration" PIA feeling you have while working with it. Great news for all of us from that group: NHibernate is possible to be used WITHOUT configuration files! "

Deploy, test and pack your code - Part 1 Using NAnt

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:19:37 GMT

this part, I show a way to build and deploy your project using NAnt. As, you already might know that NAnt is a tiny deployment tool that enables you to create a deployment package with some *.build files which contains nothing but few XML directives. ...

Lost (and found) Visual Studio Templates in Web Project

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:13:17 GMT

So I just lost all of my project templates in Web projects. I've been working on a small utility page on my site that generates help documentation on the fly. I've been working happily along on this site when all of a sudden when I needed to add a config file to control debugging and authentication on this page/app.

Bundle SQL script with build process using MSBuild

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:37:54 GMT

We are making a sample application , demo or startup kit or a toolkit with test project that requires some sql script. We generally ship in a readme.txt that says it all. But hey, how about having the script under automated process , like if my sql server and VS 2008 is in place, with the click of Ctrl + Shift + B everything gets ready. Here, we will do just right that. ...

LinqExtender 1.4 - Enhanced object tracking

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:42:31 GMT

Its been quite a while since I made any release of the toolkit. I basically, get into user requests, used it myself in LinqToFlickr project and came up with some new features and enhancements. In my last post, I already said update comment and photo feature in LinqToFlickr (Athena) , where the update tracking is actually comes from this toolkit. Book book = (from b in context where b.Id == 1 select b).Single(); ...

Athena - A LINQ to flickr API (Release 1.4)

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:10:05 GMT

Last week, I released a new version of LINQ.flickr, which I named as Athena from release 1.4. It covers few features from flickr service, also now I have updated it with the latest LINQExtender (pre release version) containing updated Object Tracking Service (OTS) that will enable it to update photos and comments as if like LINQ to SQL.

Making authenticated calls to flickr

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:20:28 GMT

There are few things to know , when getting photos from your stream , adding comments and overall doing adding and deletion of your photos. As with flickr you can take a look at this url => http://www.flickr.com/services/api/auth.spec.html for authentication spec to learn more. But with Athena (formerly known as LINQ.Flickr) it's pretty easy to get things going. Last week, I made an update to the FlickrXplorer (The MVC starter project you don't to want miss :-)) project that now enables you to add comments for photos. There is a one click login that will take you to flickr, ask you once for the permission to grant the app for data access and finally will take back you the place from where you were left off. ....

Things to know for hosting your ASP.NET MVC app

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:45:45 GMT

When you are planning to host your asp.net MVC application under IIS7 integrated mode environment. There are few easy tweaks that can make your application or starter kit work right out of the box but also can save a lot of your time finding things out. You might see a Http 404 page if default document is not configured properly. The one way of getting this around by using the following ..

Replacing Loaded Assemblies - Paulo Morgado

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Paulo shows us how to load, unload and replace assemblies at runtime.

Implement Master-Detail layout with ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:52:13 GMT

This is the first of posts that I am making to show out the things you can do with ASP.NET MVC, moreover what I have done while building a FlickrXplorer. I am bit lazy to write one article for it, so I thought rather to start it here. In this post, I will show how you can implement a master-detail application that invokes MVC controller to process its data and uses Ajax to do it in a non postback manner. ..

The ASP.NET MVC Information Portal

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A content aggregator of everything related to ASP.NET MVC

Twitter much?

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:11:37 GMT

Are you a Telerik fan? If so, rest assured that we are coming up with new ways for you to stay connected and up-to-date on the latest and greatest news from the Telerik team. And if social networking sites, community forums, and blogs aren't enough, we've got a new treat for you today. I'm proud to announce our presence on Twitter!

Firefox 3

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:41:12 GMT

Today is D-Day ("Download Day") for the much-anticipated version 3 of Mozilla's popular web browsing client, Firefox. In an effort to create more buzz around the launch, Mozilla has requested that users help them attempt a new Guinness World Record for most downloads in a 24-hour period by downloading the new Firefox release today. Over 1.7 million people from around the world pledged to download the new client today.

Replace SortedDictionary with LINQ query - Part 2 (with comparison)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:12:17 GMT

In my previous post, I have said that using LINQ query instead of SortedDictionary not only could be useful , elegant but also less processor intensive. In this post, I will show you a real comparison between ....

WPF: Custom control style and theme resources

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:01:45 GMT

Hi everyone. I'm Jordan Dimitrov from the WPF team. I'm planing to post about .Net, first with few post about WPF. My first post is about resources and themes.

WPF Line Drawing and the Device-Pixel-(In)dependence

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:33:19 GMT

As you are probably aware resolution and device independence is one of the fundamental design goals of WPF. In order to achieve the desired effect the framework does not work directly with physical (device-dependent) pixels but abstracts this notion into device-independent measuring units like inches

Replace SortedDictionary with LINQ query

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:45:43 GMT

With LINQ.Flickr it is quite necessary to get signature on parameters in order to do authenticated flickr photo get. As with the signature, it has sorted by parameter then to be hashed by MD5. Previously, I used to use SortedDictionary dictionary to do so, but thinking a little bit I learned that we actually don't need SortedDictionary anymore......

Ensure - load javascript and html snippet on-demand

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:14:34 GMT

A tiny javascript library that provides a handy function "ensure" which allows you to load Javascript, HTML, CSS on-demand and then execute your code. Ensure ensures that relevent Javascript and HTML snippets are already in the browser DOM before executing your code that uses them.

RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax and IronPython

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:13:50 GMT

We recently received a request if RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax support IronPython and the answer is "yes". Yesterday ...

ASP.NET MVC Support with Visual Web Developer 2008 Express

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:16:03 GMT

Last week I blogged about the ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 release. One important thing I forgot to mention about this release is that you can now use it with both Visual Studio 2008 as well as the free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express edition...