tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33770488933722951562024-10-06T23:51:47.533-05:00Mayank Srivastava : Developer, Technology enthusiast, Amateur musicianUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-9024394344207693532014-06-18T22:27:00.000-05:002014-06-18T22:36:55.069-05:00

It was a pleasure to present TDD as an evolving methodology and talk about its current state. I want to thank the group for active participation while discussing application design, benefits & challenges around the methodology. Also, thanks to Keith Franklin for the opportunity and organizing the event. The slides and demo code from the meet-up can be downloaded from GitHub here - https://

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-78512407576304314632013-12-22T16:38:00.001-06:002013-12-22T17:35:56.544-06:00

  Continuing from the previous post, lets look into what frameworks that are available to implement Web services (REST or SOAP). We will be talking about frameworks available in the Microsoft technology stack only. Lets take a look at all the options available: WCF classic The initial WCF SOAP stack also referred to as WCF classic now, was a unification of all the distributed application

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-4642333285781205422013-12-22T16:37:00.001-06:002013-12-22T17:35:18.456-06:00

  Continuing from the previous post, lets look into what are the big benefits that REST architecture style provides.       Why REST   There is a huge push for moving to REST and for good reasons, such as: Scalability While soap provided transport neutrality there were doubts and debates about performance & scalability of SOAP based services. REST on the other hand

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-77922640705841431072013-12-22T16:35:00.001-06:002013-12-22T17:32:56.120-06:00

  In this 3 part post we will talk about REST, what it is (part 1), why has it gained huge popularity in recent years (part 2) and what are the frameworks that we might or might not want to use, depending upon what we are trying to achieve (part 3). Where do we begin? To start with a formal definition - REST is an architectural style for the Web, to build services hosted and consumed over

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-17185134229707283582012-07-18T23:53:00.001-05:002013-04-09T13:18:06.548-05:00

It was a pleasure to present the exciting new features in ASP.NET MVC 4 RC, thanks to Keith Franklin and the great audience and . The slides and solution can be downloaded from here - http://blogs.mpspartners.com/mayanksrivastava/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=2 Feel free to reach out in case of any questions.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-27530321053056694622012-05-31T19:14:00.001-05:002013-04-09T14:49:12.274-05:00

Problem - Solution - Uninstall .Net 4.5 Wait for the uninstallation to finish. Finally to install Release candidates of .NET framework 4.5 and Visual studio 2012 again, Go to - http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-28807309907980410102012-03-04T03:39:00.001-06:002013-04-09T14:48:23.748-05:00

While trying to install Windows 8 Consumer preview on my Acer Iconia Tab W500, I ran into a few issues. It was a little problematic because I had Windows 8 Developer preview installed on it. But, I was able to finally install it and here are the steps for anyone else struggling - Create a bootable flash drive - You would need a USB flash drive with at least 4GB of available space. Download

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-18108833295530054562012-02-28T09:04:00.001-06:002013-04-09T14:50:09.223-05:00

HTML5 Cheat Sheet – Tags , Event Handler Attributes – made easy by InMotion Hosting. Tags - Event Handlers: The original post from InMotion hosting also includes a sheet for browser support but it seems to be outdated. To find out how your browser is doing and how do new and old, desktop and mobile  browser support HTML5, please visit – HTML5Test.com

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-54007188187293700092012-02-06T00:34:00.001-06:002012-09-27T13:23:38.816-05:00

“I blogged on this topic in September 2010 and received a few mail about showing how to add new entities (as opposed to update) and also an implementation of this in MVC 3.0 using Razor. While the concepts and explanation in the previous blogs still hold correct, here’s an implementation using MVC 3.0 and Razor with some improvements. My apologies for not posting this blog as sooner; also really

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-76085072494939889422011-08-09T23:31:00.001-05:002011-08-09T23:45:46.553-05:00

It was a privilege to present the second final session for ASP.NET MVC 3.0 @ SDC meetup, covering the design considerations around MVC. Many thanks to the event hosts and as always, the audience interaction in the end was the best part.   Following are the slides and solution from the presentation - Download slides here – | – Download the demo solution here.   Here are some if

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-24537848757486942011-07-14T21:52:00.001-05:002011-08-09T23:32:33.724-05:00

It was a great pleasure to present MVC 3.0 at Software Development Community (SDC) Chicago July 10th 2011. Thank to Joel Shaw, Michael Kappel and the organizing team. The audience interaction was great. I will try to accommodate demo for the previous session’s question in my the next session on August 7th.   Following are the slides and solution from the presentation - Download slides

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-23343085392720732232011-05-02T00:15:00.001-05:002011-05-02T00:44:59.542-05:00

  It was a privilege to present at CNUG, thanks to the great audience, Keith Franklin and the organizing team. You can download the slides and the demo solution from my presentation.   If you have any queries about the presentation / demo solution, feel free to send a mail or post a comment. I will get back as the earliest.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-47400477210011451262010-12-31T23:38:00.000-06:002011-01-14T13:19:56.736-06:00

Here’s the list of things that “really” caught my attention in 2010. By really I mean, not just caught my attention but made me spend time in it and go – “That is so cool!” I finally rated these developments of 2010 base on  #1 if they are entirely new (or how great are the 2010 features), #2 how much time I spent on it and #3 with how many people I went – “Hey did you hear about ….”

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-32446453193241174622010-10-13T10:20:00.001-05:002013-04-11T23:25:35.723-05:00

I recently gave a presentation within my organization, giving folks an introduction to the ASP.NET MVC framework and exploring what the 2.0 version has to offer. The response to the presentation was great, actually better than I expected. One of my colleagues also mentioned that there are many introductions to MVC out there but I drew the comparison between the MVC & Web Forms which kept

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-49203412197633373782010-09-16T22:39:00.001-05:002012-02-21T14:13:19.349-06:00

“This post and the demo solution is still valid for MVC 2.o. However, a new version of this post using MVC 3.0 and Razor with minor improvements is available here.” Continuing the previous post, let’s go ahead and implement the dialog extender for MVC forms (post actions). The mechanism will be similar with some details added. In case of a for we need to post to the server.  If the

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-21135933261624916462010-09-12T02:28:00.001-05:002012-02-21T14:14:22.873-06:00

“This post and the demo solution is still valid for MVC 2.o. However, a new version of this post Using MVC 3.0 and Razor with minor improvements is available here.” This idea came to me during a discussion at work. The requirement was to create put an Add/Edit form in a dialog box. I’ve always been against the idea of rendering the markup inside the dialog div before hand, as the user

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-50814587464439793382010-08-07T17:31:00.000-05:002010-08-07T17:32:00.226-05:00

This post in in continuation to my previous post where I create a progress dialog blocking the UI across asynchronous postbacks for WebForms. I will do the same thing here using Asp.Net MVC, except for the fact that there no such thing as postback in MVC, It’s all Get - Post -Put – Delete (a true web framework) . Much of the initial content will be common not identical. The goal here is to

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-14576011397252529472010-08-06T00:02:00.001-05:002010-12-01T17:21:42.698-06:00

The goal here is to not allow user to interact with the application, at the same time showing the user a dialog saying “Wait, let me first finish what you just asked me to do!” The version of jQuery that I’m using is 1.4.1 (downloadable here) and the version of jQuery UI I’m using is 1.8.2(downloadable here). I’ll be using ASP.NET 4.0 Web forms but this demo is valid for pervious version with

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-76471631020699744742010-07-21T12:50:00.002-05:002010-08-01T21:04:56.617-05:00

Ninject is a very cool open source Inversion of Control container and also has been promoted by some of the best in the industry. However, when I tried to implement Ninject V2 in my ASP.NET MVC 2 web application, I ran into the following error and spent a couple of frustrated hours going through blogs after blogs to make sure I’m implementing it right. So here’s the solution - Pull the

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-13523178455167596752010-05-06T13:26:00.002-05:002010-08-06T00:07:59.316-05:00

The scenario leading to this solution was: The home page of my application takes almost 30 seconds. Sounds ridicules but during this time, the application makes 6 service calls using 2 services and from 4 different databases loading huge data in the cache and session. So that, any subsequent request will be very fast. That was the initial requirement before I started designing this application.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-60941109623153913802010-05-05T12:10:00.002-05:002010-05-05T13:11:34.354-05:00

In my current project, we are using the Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax very heavily, specially the Telerik’s RadGrid. I liked the product, the ease to implement and clean Ajaxification of all kind of server controls is cool. However, while working with Telerik’s RadGrid a came across a couple of problems. Thanks to the Telerik support team those issues were answered and taken care of.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-68738594644621920292010-04-23T10:35:00.002-05:002010-12-15T14:03:25.555-06:00

A very good book by the authors that I admire and appreciate mentioned the use of a class called SQLAsyncResult to access data asynchronously using ADO.NET 2.0 via the callback approach. My attempt to try out an example failed as I couldn’t find the SQLAsyncResult class, not in the namespace, not in the MSDN library. However, I did find a post on ASP.NET forum about a dev’s unsuccessful hunt for

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-16072898232137412532010-03-30T14:21:00.004-05:002010-04-23T12:26:56.167-05:00

ADO.NET 2.0 enabled the infrastructure required for accessing data in asynchronous mode. Three standard approaches available to achieve this are: The Poll approach, The Wait approach & The Callback approach. The approach to choose will depend upon the scenario. Between the Poll and Wait approaches, the Wait approach is better. It provides a great deal of flexibility and efficiency with a

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-62114991539061956452010-03-10T11:42:00.005-06:002010-03-30T11:50:34.640-05:00

For most parts, our software industry is driven by buzzwords. It becomes difficult to tell your Director or Manager – “I understand that it is very cool but it probably is not the best fit for our application.” Especially after he just attended a meeting where other of his designation/role have been repeatedly using that buzzword and flaunting how they have implemented it in their applications. “

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3377048893372295156.post-14547191272512540242010-02-27T22:33:00.002-06:002010-02-27T22:43:15.938-06:00

WFC comes with multiple bindings out of the box, allowing us to customize each one of them. It also allows us to create Custom Bindings (using Windows SDK) and User-Defined Bindings (a custom class inherited form the Binding class that performs all steps needed to create bindings) Here I intend to discuss the basic bindings that come out of the box. We will not be going in details of each

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