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Hey jQuery lovers, ASP.NET AJAX can do Ajax too!

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:32:19 GMT

Learn how to make Ajax requests easy with the ASP.NET AJAX client-side library.

ASP.NET AJAX & Type-safe parameters

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:55:29 GMT

Learn how to use the "new" parameter-type-checking feature of the ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 client library.

Operation could destabilize the runtime - Reflection.Emit and common p

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:20:12 GMT

In the last post i said about LinqtExtender implementing necessary property and injecting specific settings for entity objects. The issue i have is that it works fine under full / high trust settings but when running in medium trust it gives the following error: Ouch.. it is only happening while i am the using the extender from medium trus...

Extending your existing API or legacy data classes to support LINQ

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:19:30 GMT

While developing LinqExtender, i have come across various scenarios that people don't want to extent any query class or even implement any interface. Also, it is almost absurd when they have to add new extender specific attributes to their entity class. It is though not very important for people creating new provider with small codebase but with large...

Learning the Adapter Pattern

Fri, 01 May 2009 08:31:02 GMT

Taking a look at how you can use the Adapter Design Pattern in your applications.

Using of JSON Result in Asp.net MVC 1.0

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:30:04 GMT

In a post few month back , i showed how can i simulate a callback using JQuery and ASP.NET with my experimental FlickrXplorer project. More detail on this can be found at the following URL http://weblogs.asp.net/mehfuzh/archive/2008/10/13/using-jquery-to-do-ajax-form-posts-in-asp-net-mvc.aspx Now, what i have done here is basically, i did an AJAX call to the controller and rendered the view result in a div. One thing about this way is that i am able to make the view strongly typed as i first rendered view using standard way with all the strongly type ViewData.Model. It is nice for rendering views with small amount of html in it (Like , tag lists), but slow for big outputs. The best practice for all these is to use the JSONResult. Here, i will show a small example of how i render the comment list in FlickrXplorer using JSON result and JQuery $.Post in conjunction to make the AJAX request.

Programmatically generating SQL(DDL) from M

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:05:17 GMT

In this post, i will show how you can generate SQL programmatically from M. Now, so far i have learnt that MGrammer is a contract that converts user's input into MGraph. Now, Oslo by default comes with MSchema. Through MSchema you can define a type and extend it with MGraph to populate your repository. Here, i will use MSchema to define an entity object , then MGraph and finally run this through a custom SQL generator in C# to get my DDL statement similar to what you can generate by using intellipad that comes with Oslo SDK. More ...

Essential LINQ Published

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:01:02 GMT

There was a knock on my door this morning. By the time I could make it to the front of the house, the delivery man was gone, but he had left behind a box full red and white books, each with the title Essential LINQ. On the cover was my name, and the name of my good friend Dinesh Kulkarni. This was, of course, a box full of the first copies of my most recent book. They had a arrived at my house on a most propitious date: the first day of spring.

Create custom LINQ providers fluently

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:01:02 GMT

Just released LinqExtender 2.0. Over previous release , it contains generally bugs fixes. Overall, I have focused on striping out complexity as much as possible to keep you focused on your business logic. You can see the full list of features in the documentation that comes with it.

Adding streaming video content to your site

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:39:55 GMT

In my last post, I showed how to turn on Amazon S3 support in Sitefinity. In this post, I will show how to create a simple video site using the video library support that is bundled with 3.6 release. It is often required that you want to add a streaming video content to your site, either it could be a product demonstration or a getting started tutorial. Using third party video provider is one way to get the job done but sometimes it requires a lot of manual work, thus headache for managing them as the library grows bigger. 3.6 release breaks you free from all these and provides an easy way for creating , uploading and managing video content.

Amazon S3 support in Sitefinity 3.6

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:41:12 GMT

Here at Telerik, Sitefinity team is preparing for the 3.6 release next week. 3.6 comes with lot of core level enhancements and cool new features. Of which , I can't but mention one feature that will make most ISV vendors who want the power of CMS but want to let go their pain of managing large content. As, the title suggests its external storage support via Amazon S3. The data plan for hosting and transferring data to/from S3 server is pretty cheap these days in return to world class service with almost zero downtime that it offers which of course makes the most of your money. If you are not familiar with Sitefinity to add it is a product by Telerik that comes with full content management features along with blogs, news, events, list and few other pre-made modules with easy setup and management via unique control designer.

Hidden Features of C#

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:01:02 GMT

In this article, I'll just link to a pretty great StackOverFlow Question about Hidden Features of C#. Most of C# Features are obscure for us and need some explanations, the following list and explain how to use it.

Creating LINQToTwitter library using LinqExtender

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:02:05 GMT

In this post, I will show how to cook an LINQToTwitter library with LinqExtender. My target is to create it easily and over existing twitter API. I used Yedda Twitter library. Yedda library basically returns response in XML/JSON/RSS/ATOM format depending on the option provided. I used XML format and serialized it to objects.

Making cross domain web requests in asp.net with medium trust enabled

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:52:56 GMT

There could be plenty of reasons that you might need to do a cross domain web request in your application. One could be let's say you want to divert the resource pressure from your server to some third party provider like Amazon S3. In my last post I have mentioned a bit about uploading content using WSE to S3 server. I have also mentioned about the simple library located at www.codeplex.com/threesharp that does not necessarily require you to work in full trust mode.It does simple HttpRequest and only concern for you is to be able get the call though out of your shared hosting.

Working out with Amazon S3

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:14:10 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 20:27:03 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

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:03:19 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

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:58:06 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

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:52:27 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 13:46:10 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 17:19:37 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 15:13:17 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

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:37:54 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 15:42:31 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 17:10:05 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.