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Part 1 - Listing Data from Database: Let us now learn ASP.NET MVC 2 from Scratch by actually developing a front end website for the Chinook database, which is an alternative to the traditional Northwind database. You can get the Chinook database from here. As always the best way to learn something is by working on it and doing something. The Chinook database has the following schema, a quick look will help us implementing the application in a efficient way. Let us first implement a grid view table...
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First of all, sorry for not posting for a quite long time. I have started working on designing and developing a charity website for blood donation. So all my leisure time was diverted into that. I will ensure that going forward, I post at least one post every week. Lets get into the topic of this week, without delaying any more time. I have always been using asp:Menu and asp:Treeview for transforming the sitemaps to super cool menu which are auto generated by ASP.NET for us. But I wanted more and...
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Download this article as a PDF Welcome back :) This week we are going to look at something more exciting and a much required feature for any twitter client – auto refresh so as to show new status updates. We are going to achieve this using Silverlight 4 Timers and a bit and refresh our datagrid every 2 minutes to show new updates. We will do this so that we do only minimal request to the twitter api, so that twitter does not block us – there is a limit of 150 request an hour. Let us get started now....
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In this post, we are going to look into implementing lists into our twitter application and also about enhancing the data grid to display the status messages in a pleasing way with the profile images. Twitter lists are really cool feature that they recently added, I love them and I’ve quite a few lists setup one for DOTNET gurus, SQL Server gurus and one for a few celebrities. You can follow them here. Now let us move onto our tutorial. 1) Lists can be subscribed to in two ways, one can be user’s...
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In this post, we will get ourselves familiar with one of the popular Twitter API – Twitterizer & the famous Facebook SDK which was recently released by Microsoft. We will be using them in quite few of our up coming project will be doing in the near future. Go to these pages and make sure you download the packages and have the DLLs ready. “Twitter”izer This is very famous .Net library to enable easy communication with Twitter. The official Google Code page for this is - http://code.google.com/p/tw...
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Welcome to the first part of the Silverlight 3 tutorial. I know SL4 Beta is out, but if you have your fundamentals right, versions are not a problem, just a little bit of study will keep you abreast of the latest version. Here are some prerequisites for this tutorials. Remember, our ultimate aim here is to create a Twitter client from Silverlight. Softwares required: 1) Visual Studio 2008 with SP1 2) Silverlight 3 Tools for VS2008 - here 3) Silverlight 3 SDK – here 4) Expression Blend 3 – I am not...
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We look to learn the Silverlight, WPF and ASP.NET MVC 2 over the next few months. We’ll start developing a data driven application to explore each one of these. I am now in the process of finding a sample database for use. We will start our tutorials from next week. Stay tuned until then. Technorati Tags: ASP.NET,MVC,Silverlight,WPF...
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I am Manickam Ramanathan, call me Max. My interest areas are, but not limited to .Net, SQL Server, Silverlight, WPF, Programming using APIs, ASP.NET MVC, Powershell. I was working for about an year in ASP.Net and SQL Server and then I came to downunder to do my Masters in IT at "The University of New South Wales". I was also working in a company during this time as a Part time .NET Developer. Now I have completed my studies and started working full time and now I am looking forward to explore and...
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