One thing that every business app eventually needs is an ability to search for something and show results using paging. The reason for that is that too many rows in search result set can bring any application to its knees. Hence, you should always page search results. If you are building a web application, there …
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I blogged previously about building a generic Please Wait dialog with Twitter Bootstrap. One other common scenario that comes up in typical business application is the scenario when you need to show some information to the user and ask him to click a button to select an option based on this information. Essentially I am …
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First I would like to talk about using MVC views (CSHTML files) for Angular views. In my option, I like powerful features that MVC views bring to the table. I can for example, use my models to generate input controls and validation messages on the server automatically. More on that subject in subsequent posts. I …
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I was trying to install Redistributable package for one of the software systems I am working on on my Windows 8 64 bit machine. The install kept failing with an error. It stated: Error 1935. An error occurred during the installation of assembly component {XXXX I enabled MSI logging. As a result in the log …
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I was helping out a friend who is working on healthcare software. They would like to run the app on Azure. I am not sure how many of you have heard of HIPAA – Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It sets some rules for anyone who writes healthcare related software. One of the requirements …
In this post I will document how to quickly create a test harness page in ASP.NET MVC project that runs JavaScript tests using Jasmine unit test framework. First of all, let’s talk about project structure. I have traditional ASP.MVC project and I am using Angular framework to build Single Page Application. Hence, my project structure …
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It was pointed out to me that in some countries calendar week starts with Monday, not Sunday. I have been working for a bit to support this in my Calendar project. You can also install or upgrade the project via nuget. Please let me know what you think. To use new feature, just set the …
On occasion I maintain a project based on Entity Framework Database First approach. This project is using ObjectContext. I was recently working on a generic feature that was requiring me to find an entity based on primary key. In order to do this I have to dynamically create a where clause that filders data based …
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Yesterday I spoke on Entity Framework at Microsoft Integration Architects Atlanta users group, and wanted to post my slides and a sample project. Here is the session description. Entity Framework Code First End to End This session will cover the use Entity Framework in .NET based applications. Discussion will include model creation and organization as …
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I spoke at Atlanta Microsoft Developers Meet up yesterday. I did the following talk. Leveraging ASP.NET MVC and Knockout in a Web Application This session is all about leveraging the power of data binding from knockout and traditional ASP.NET MVC views with unobtrusive validation. We will see how we can inject knockout binding using …