I am starting a short series of blog posts that will go over various techniques of working with data on Windows Phone 7. I am going to create a Silverlight application for the phone that gets local and remote data in a number of ways. I this first post I will build a WCF service …
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Continuing with previous post, I wanted to go over data annotations, some old and some new in CTP 5. Of course, everything you can do with data annotations, you can do with fluent API. Once important this to remember about data annotations is that they are used for validation as well as defining columns in …
Since I posted my last blog on building ASP.NET MVC 3 application using Razor view engine and Entity Framework code first CTP 4, both of these technologies underwent updates. Both are covered on Scott Guthrie’s blog. You can read MVC 3 RC 2 announcement. and Entity Framework CTP 5 announcement. In this post I will …
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In this post I will describe how to use MVC with a jquery grid control to display tabular data. To start with, there is a number of grids available, some even integrate with ASP.NET MVC by providing an MVC assembly that generates the javascript for the grid. One of these components in jqGrid. I am …
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In this post I will examine a couple of things. I am going to use jQuery calendar UI functionality to improve user interface. I will also add client side validation to my input form. First, let’s add calendar control. To do so, we have to download jQuery UI from .http://jqueryui.com/ Once this is completed, I …
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Today I will concentrate on refactoring existing code and adding other links to my application, such as delete and edit links. First things first, let’s do a bit of refactoring in advance of adding more views. As I noticed, edit, delete and create views are the same with the exception of title for the submit …
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First thing we want to do is create a controller for blog entries. To do so, we will right-click on Controllers folder, select Add, then Controller. On next screen we give it a name (BlogsController) and check the checkbox to create CRUD operations: First method we are going to fill is Index method that will …
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I this post I will walk through steps of creating an ASP.NET MVC 3 application using new code first entity framework CTP as data access and business layer. Just a few upfront comments. Both technologies are in preview state right now, but will likely be released in first half of next year. To get started …
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In this post I will take a look at the new features in the next release of entity framework. Primary feature set is centered around what is commonly referred to as “Code First” approach to Entity Framework. With code first approach you write the code first, then entity framework runtime dynamically figures out how to …
As I posted previously, I talked at Atlanta ReMix 2010 conference past Saturday. Entire event was a a success, we had over 200 people there. We had great presenters and good topics. My topic was “Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Azure: A Match Made for the Web” You can download PowerPoint presentation here. You can download …