Debugging into asp.net mvc

http://weblogs.asp.net/gunnarpeipman/archive/2010/07/04/stepping-into-asp-net-mvc-source-code-with-visual-studio-debugger.aspx

Create a simple Restful WCF Service in Azure

Our target:

We will be creating a WCF Service in azure which will have rest based urls. The functionality of this wcf service along with rest based urls are:

Functionality	Rest based URL	HTTP Verb
View all Movies	movies/now-playing	GET

Coding the WCF Service:

Learning Windows Azure

I will be learning windows azure in the next few days and I will be documenting the same in this blog.

I will be learning Azure by building a sample application. The application requirement:

“The application will allow users to register / login using facebook /google/ live Ids. Registered users will be able to view movies, They will also be able to add movies, for each added movie they will get a credit. The users will be able to view the credit balance.”

Configuring dotnetpanel for google apps email

I recently had to configure google apps email for dotnetpanel, the following link was helpful for me in that regard. Special thanks to Shai Ben-Naphtali

Link:

http://blog.arvixe.com/dnp-dotnetpanel-setup-google-apps-mx-cname-and-spf-records/

Building dynamic html with Jquery

While reviewing the jquery code for a project developed at syneity. I came across the following javascript where dynamic html was handcoded and then applied to a table, we had encountered several such situations and it was a buggy experience. This blog details the refactoring i made to the same.

The problem:

 

A MVC “Add View” like Visual Studio Wizard.

Any one who has used asp.net mvc will have be entranced by the “Add View” and “Add Controller” features. This is implemented using Visual Studio Wizards, today we will look into how we can implement such a wizard. We will be using this wizard at SyneITY for our development process.

What will this wizard do?

Executing a T4 Template from the command line

A T4 Template is normally added to a project and this gets executed whenever the user adds the template to the project / whenever a user saves the text template. Now i had a requirement when i needed to execute the T4 template programmatically. I had the following options:

Options to execute a T4 text template programmatically:

• Implement the ITextTemplating interface.
• Use the TextTransform command line utility.