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Video | Validation in ASP.NET MVC using IDataerrorinfo

Kinnar Shah — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:11:13 +0000

IoC and Dependency Injection With “Unity Application Blocks”

Kinnar Shah — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:49:39 +0000

Modern business applications consist of custom business objects and components that perform specific tasks or generic tasks within the application, in addition to components that individually address crosscutting concerns such as logging, authentication, authorization, caching, and exception handling.

The key to successfully building these types of applications is to achieve a decoupled or very loosely coupled design. Loosely coupled applications are more flexible and easier to maintain. They are also easier to test during development. You can mock up shims (lightweight mock implementations) of objects that have strong concrete dependencies, such as database connections, network connections, enterprise resource planning (ERP) connections, and rich user interface components.

Dependency injection is a prime technique for building loosely coupled applications. It provides ways to handle the dependencies between objects. For example, an object that processes customer information may depend on other objects that access the data store, validate the information, and check that the user is authorized to perform updates. Dependency injection techniques can ensure that the customer class correctly instantiates and populates all these objects, especially where the dependencies may be abstract.

Visual Studio 2010b2 and .NET Framework 4b2 Training Kit announced

Kinnar Shah — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:42:51 +0000

In sync with the release of VS2010b2 and .NET4b2, Microsoft has announced the release of it’s latest training kit.

The kit covers a wide range of topics including but not limited to:

C# 4.0
Visual Basic 10
F#
Parallel Extensions
Windows Communication Foundation
Windows Workflow
Windows Presentation Foundation
ASP.NET 4
MVC
Windows 7
Entity Framework
ADO.NET Data Services
Managed Extensibility Framework
Visual Studio Team System

You can download the kit from here…

Telerik releases CTP of it’s much awaited JQuery UI extensions for ASP.NET MVC

Kinnar Shah — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:39:25 +0000

Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC (CTP) extend the ASP.NET MVC framework by delivering a server-based framework that integrates with client-side modules based on popular JavaScript library, jQuery. Built from the ground up on the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC framework, these new UI extensions facilitate development of reusable AJAX scripting components and deliver WebForms-like productivity without sacrificing the patterns, practices, and guidance of ASP.NET MVC.

This first CTP of the Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC lays a foundation for the new UI extension framework, and offers a preview of its power by providing .NET wrappers for the following jQueryUI components:

Tab
Accordion
Date Picker
Slider
Progress Bar
Message Box

And with this you have a nifty script manager that downloads *only* the required script files with out you having to do any dirty work behind the scenes

You can check this video out for more details: