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Common tools/technologies in web development world

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:54:07 +0000

Tools/Technologies

Nuget: http://nuget.org/ [Makes it easy to install/upgrade software for Visual Studio]
Modernizr: http://modernizr.com/ [Makes it easy to test for HTML5/CSS3/browser features]
Knockout http://knockoutjs.com/ [Implementing MVVM in Javascript]
JqGrid for MVC: http://www.trirand.net/demoaspnetmvc.aspx [Fully featured Ajax/JQuery Grid]
Web API: http://www.asp.net/web-api [HTTP Services that support many clients/data formats]
Code mirror: http://codemirror.net/ [Helps developing - code/documentation/tutorials pages]
SignalR: https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR [real-time,multi-user web apps development]
PageBus: http://developer.tibco.com/pagebus/default.jsp [Pub/Sub in Javascript -From TIBCO]
Aptana: http://aptana.com/ IDE for CSS3/HTML5 development
JSON.NET http://json.codeplex.com/ [JSON framework for .NET]

Videos

ASP.NET MVC -Web-API http://www.viddler.com/v/58195ad7

IIS 7.5 ASP.NET 4.0 : Implementing application warm up with AlwaysRunning StartMode

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:24:01 +0000

With ASP.NET 4.0, IIS 7.5 and Windows 2008 R2, we can easily implement application initialization code that gets called right after application pool restart.

Following are useful links with all details you need.

http://www.asp.net/whitepapers/aspnet4

http://weblogs.asp.net/gunnarpeipman/archive/2010/01/31/asp-net-4-0-how-to-use-application-warm-up-class.aspx

ASP.NET MVC 4, JQuery Mobile, HTML5

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:42:33 +0000

Must to watch video on ASP.NET MVC 4, JQuery Mobile, HTML5:

http://channel9.msdn.com/events/BUILD/BUILD2011/TOOL-803T

SQL Server 2008 and ADO.NET: Passing Collections as a parameter to stored procedure [Using TVP]

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:54:05 +0000

You can pass collections as Stored procedure parameter in SQL Server 2008. This is very useful in many scenarios.

Following are few options to send:

1. Easiest option is to send DataTable that has same column names as UDT in database

2. With little bit of extra code any custom collections can be passed as TVP [by popluating meta-data and SqlDataRecord collection].

Please see this excellent article for more details: http://www.sommarskog.se/arrays-in-sql-2008.html

Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2011 – where to start

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:49:16 +0000

Following are few useful links:
http://www.buildwindows.com/

Below article has good FAQ and some clarity on Windows 8:
http://stevesmithblog.com/blog/analyzing-windows-8-and-winrt/

Windows 8 Developer Preview download: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516

Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview download: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/vstudio/hh127353

Silverlight Unit Testing Framework and UI Automation

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:58:19 +0000

Home page: http://silverlight.codeplex.com/
To know more on this check out: http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2010/05/silverlight-testing-at-teched-2010/

1Code on CodePlex – Extremely useful collection of Microsoft .NET code samples

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:08:56 +0000

Thanks to a friend of mine for sharing these details with me. I downloaded and tried few samples. These samples are extensive, very well documented and simple to follow.
Thanks to people behind this: http://1code.codeplex.com

Thanks to WordPress

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:06:50 +0000

I found WordPress extremely useful and powerful and wanted to dedicate one post for this. Thanks to everyone who contributed in making WordPress a great success.
Please visit: http://www.wordpress.org
For easy installation on slef-hosting you can try: http://www.bitnami.org
You want to learn quickly about WordPress: you can try videos [montly $25 is worth spending] at: http://www.lynda.com

Web Development using latest Microsoft Technologies

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:52:28 +0000

In this article, focus is on web development using recent Microsoft Technologies. My goal is to provide clear practical approach that helps you use these new tools/technologies right away. To be specific I will be covering: Windows Azure, SQL Azure, Azure Queues, ASP.NET MVC2, EF 4.0, VS 2010, Ajax, JQuery/JQueryUI and Silverlight. I will also cover few common trends in web development: Blogs, CSS, debugging tools in browser etc

Power of LINQ to XML and LINQ to Objects

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:49:08 +0000

This article focuses on working with XML and how to get best out of LINQ to XML and LINQ to Objects. Focus of this article is to you show the power of LINQ to Xml and get you started on LINQ with practical examples. We will discuss specific scenario of finding difference between two XML files and applying changes. Instead of creating a tool and end-to-end solution, I preferred to pick up what areas you might hit and how to solve few problems using different techniques.