Atlanta Code Camp 2011 is Almost Here

This event is unique in that it is “for the community, by the community” and is free for all that desire to attend. In past years, the Atlanta Code Camp has provided free training and networking opportunities for 300 of the best, most motivated development professionals. With our larger facility, we’re expecting this year to …

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More on Client Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3

I posted a while ago on asynchronous saves in MVC 3.  One thing to note that after the new content is loaded into the browser, client side validation is broken.  The reason being is that content is only parsed once by unobtrusive jQuery validation.  To fix this issue I would need to force the validator …

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Asynchronous Controllers Calls to Save Data in ASP.NET MVC 3

On a few occasions I wondered if it is possible to simulate Silverlight Save behavior in ASP.NET MVC.  What I mean is to asynchronously call a service from an edit form, asynchronously process the results, and update view based on saved data.  This process is a bit more complicated in ASP.NET MVC because we have …

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ESRI Developers’ Meet Up in Atlanta

I will be delivering keynote at the local ESRI development meeting in Atlanta, GA next month.  Meeting will be held at Maggiano’s in Buckhead at 5 pm.  I will be talking about current application development landscape using Microsoft technologies.  I will be touching on Azure platform, phone development, Silverlight 5.0,  ASP.NET MVC and data platform …

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Microsoft Tech Ed 2011 Keynote

Today’s keynote was about two topics – Cloud and Devices. Cloud topic was first.  Here is what Microsoft Corporate VP talked about.  He relayed Microsoft’s perspective as to why cloud is important and why it will continue to grow and play an important role for many companies.  Three primary reasons are agility, focus and economics.  …

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Using WinDbg to Troubleshoot WCF Performance Issues

Yesterday I was working on a very interesting problem.  I am involved in developing a Silverlight application that is using WCF Services to communicate with a server to perform CRUD and business logic related operations.  All of a sudden QA started experiencing very slow performance testing application at random times.  Once we took a look, …

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Windows Phone 7 Unleashed Hackathon

Monday, May 16, 2011 6:00p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Register:  http://bit.ly/RegWP7Hackathon Don’t miss this opportunity to get hands on help with your Windows Phone 7 app, from the experts! This is a "hands on" hackathon where you will learn from Windows Phone 7, XNA and Azure experts how to build, scale and publish your Windows Phone …

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More on Asynchronous Processing in ASP.NET MVC 3

In this post I would like to cover a couple of asynchronous patterns that are available in ASP.NET MVC and jQuery as it is used in MVC. In all my previous examples related to MVC 3.0 I used regular controller class that is automatically created for a developer when New Item –> Controller is chosen …

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