Working out with Amazon S3

weblogs.asp.net — Recently, I was bit playing around with amazon S3. This is said to be the cheapest storage for people who don't want to spend much of their brain cells thinking about DB issues. Now, Amazon S3 primarily supports Web service (SOAP) to store and query data out of the S3 server. The concept behind S3 is that you have to create a bucket and under it you can store as many objects you want. Generally for a particular account 100 is the threshold value for buckets. In this post, I will basically focus on configuring your proxy for uploading large files to amazon using WSE and optionally I will point out a cool browser extension for analyzing your S3 space and third party library alternative. .. read more...

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Using jQuery to do Ajax Form posts in Asp.net MVC

weblogs.asp.net — It is now official with Scott Guthrie's post that jQuery will be bundled with Asp.net. jQuery is a tiny 15K JavaScript library that contains features from UI tweaks, DOM manipulation to full Ajax control. In my last post, I have shown how to get going with Ajax.Form using Microsoft MVC Ajax library. In this post, I will show how to do Ajax form posts with jQuery but in Ajax.Form style. read more...

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Deploy, test and pack your code - Part 2 Using MsBuild

weblogs.asp.net — In part one of this packing series I have shown, how you can automate your build process, test and optionally mock by using the popular .net deployment tool NAnt. If you don't know what I am talking about and just landed here by help of search engine. Let me put the link below again. http://weblogs.asp.net/mehfuzh/archive/2008/08/30/deploy-test-and-pack-your-code-part-1-using-nant.aspx In this post, I will do a replay to mostly what I have talked in my last post but with MsBuild. read more...

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Lost (and found) Visual Studio Templates in Web Project

west-wind.com — So I just lost all of my project templates in Web projects. I've been working on a small utility page on my site that generates help documentation on the fly. I've been working happily along on this site when all of a sudden when I needed to add a config file to control debugging and authentication on this page/app. read more...

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LinqExtender 1.4 - Enhanced object tracking

weblogs.asp.net — Its been quite a while since I made any release of the toolkit. I basically, get into user requests, used it myself in LinqToFlickr project and came up with some new features and enhancements. In my last post, I already said update comment and photo feature in LinqToFlickr (Athena) , where the update tracking is actually comes from this toolkit. Book book = (from b in context where b.Id == 1 select b).Single(); ... read more...

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Making authenticated calls to flickr

weblogs.asp.net — There are few things to know , when getting photos from your stream , adding comments and overall doing adding and deletion of your photos. As with flickr you can take a look at this url => http://www.flickr.com/services/api/auth.spec.html for authentication spec to learn more. But with Athena (formerly known as LINQ.Flickr) it's pretty easy to get things going. Last week, I made an update to the FlickrXplorer (The MVC starter project you don't to want miss :-)) project that now enables you to add comments for photos. There is a one click login that will take you to flickr, ask you once for the permission to grant the app for data access and finally will take back you the place from where you were left off. .... read more...

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Implement Master-Detail layout with ASP.NET MVC

weblogs.asp.net — This is the first of posts that I am making to show out the things you can do with ASP.NET MVC, moreover what I have done while building a FlickrXplorer. I am bit lazy to write one article for it, so I thought rather to start it here. In this post, I will show how you can implement a master-detail application that invokes MVC controller to process its data and uses Ajax to do it in a non postback manner. .. read more...

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Firefox 3

blogs.telerik.com — Today is D-Day ("Download Day") for the much-anticipated version 3 of Mozilla's popular web browsing client, Firefox. In an effort to create more buzz around the launch, Mozilla has requested that users help them attempt a new Guinness World Record for most downloads in a 24-hour period by downloading the new Firefox release today. Over 1.7 million people from around the world pledged to download the new client today. read more...

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