Google DataTable .NET Wrapper library got its third version (v3.0.0). In this post I will highlight the changes. For basic information about the library check a previous post of how to use the Google DataTable .Net Wrapper Library To download or consult the source code please visit the project’s CodePlex page or install directly from Visual Studio by using Nuget PM> Install-Package Google.DataTable.Net.Wrapper Custom object properties [... read more]
In the previous post I’ve described how to use the library and what are the main characteristics. For sure there is more to come and follow up, so stay tuned. In this post, I would like to describe the big performance improvements made in the meantime, as I was not fully happy with the serialization performance in the first version. As I have just submitted a [... read more]
As I have just published the Google DataTable .Net Wrapper project on CodePlex, the following post intends to be a quick introduction on the rationale on why this project has been created and its implementation. Quick Project Background While working on the implementation of the www.linktotweet.com web site, which is one of my side projects, I had to choose a way of displaying charts in [... read more]
In the last few days I was intensively working with MsBuild, as I had to automate the building and deployment of 3 projects to a large amount of environments. In order to achieve this, an obvious choice was to use the MsBuild, which in my opinion is a great framework that perfectly fits with the .NET world. Obviously there is a learning curve, but once [... read more]
This is the second post of the series about how to load dynamically external content to a html page by using jQuery AJAX capabilities. If you want to know how to use the load() method please check the previous post. There are mainly 4 ways of how jQuery library enables the AJAX requests, and this article covers the second one in the list. using the [... read more]
This is the first post of the series about how to load dynamically external content to a html page by using jQuery AJAX capabilities. If you are new to AJAX, please check this short introduction Ajax (an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications. With Ajax, web applications can [... read more]
Microsoft WCF framework is the Microsoft (de-facto) platform for developing SOAP Web Services. Even though in the latest .NET 4 version there are many improvements like: simplified configuration and better support for REST web services type, personally I have a love-hate relationship with it because I believe that is not the easiest platform to work on, especially when it comes to the configuration. Dependency Injection [... read more]
Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 comes with a large amount of new features and improvements in almost all areas. The changes introduced in the “unit testing” and generally “testing” area are very significative. I’ve read the following sentence in one of the Microsoft slides and I couldn’t agree more: The Visual Studio 11 Unit Testing experience is focused on developers writing and running unit tests while [... read more]
Among many tasks performed during the project life cycle, one thing that simply cannot be avoided is the task estimation. Accurate time estimation is a crucial skill in project management, and it affects all the other phases of the project. The project planning is depending on accurate estimation and Stakeholders often judge if a project was successful or not depending on whether it has been [... read more]
Whenever you are working on a database solution that involves more than one deployment environment you need to be sure that you are running the same database schema and usually the same reference data. If you were to manage manually various databases in order to be sure that there are no differences, you would spend long hours with no guarantee when you were done that [... read more]
If you are working on a project that has international visibility, as I currently do, where customers from all around the world are able to use your system and perhaps there are few offshore teams building some services that your application depends from, then for sure you had to deal with Time Zones issues. There are around 40 time zones and most of them on [... read more]
In this short tutorial I will show how to create quickly a RESTful service by using Visual Studio 2012, ASP.NET Web API and Advanced REST Client. Download a fully working example that covers all the code mentioned in the post: FirstAspNetWebApi_20120920.zip If you liked the article, please share this page to your twitter followers . Let’s quickly learn some basic concepts: RESTful service REST acronym [... read more]
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