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23Nov/0811

iDevCenter is back!

A few years ago, when I had begun learning ASP.NET and Web Development, I found a nice and lovely guy who was very professional at that age. We were both university students (in different universities) then and was studying Mathematics; me, Pure Mathematics and he, Applied Mathematics. Almost every night, we were chatting using poor dialup connections and he was opening new doors of knowledge to me. He was a professional and pioneer developer and coder at age of 20-21.

I’m talking about my dear friend, Soheil Rashidi. But you may ask why I’m talking about this nostalgia?! Soheil had a website dedicated to Persian language developers to provide articles and useful resources for them. We call it iDevCenter (or iDC). About 2-3 years ago Soheil suddenly stopped iDC because of what he calls an ‘Unresponsive Model’. Now I can officially and proudly announce re-launch of one of my most favorite Persian websites in field of coding and development. Yeah iDevCenter.com is back!

New iDevCenter is completely different from what is was 2 years ago. iDevCenter v3.0 is a powerful Link Directory + a nice Wiki. All old iDevCenter members can login to their accounts using the same username and password (except one poor person that only I and Soheil know :-D). All information are categorized using tags and you can easily find relevant information.

If you’re Iranian or know Persian language I invite you to take a deep look at how Soheil rocks on iDevCenter.com!

 

And special message for my dear Soheil: A world of congratulations and sweet dreams for you :-*

Filed under: .NET General, ASP.NET, Mathematics, Personal, Training, Tutorial, Web Development 11 Comments
15Sep/0822

Source Control for .NET Developers, The open source approach

Independent developers who don’t work in a team may think that source control is not necessary for them because nobody else works on their projects but this is a big mistake!

Before I lost some source codes which was on my previous dead laptop I didn’t feel I need source control for my projects but after that incident I started to research about possible source control approaches for .NET developers and Visual Studio and in this post I want to share results with you.

There are two main source control systems: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) and Subversion (SVN). I was looking for a system that covers the following specifications:

  • Free technology.
  • Free Ad-on for Visual Studio.
  • Free server to host source codes.

My choice was SVN which is initiated by CollabNet Inc. because it’s free and open source and also has an official ad-on for Visual Studio which is offered by CollabNet. AnkhSVN is a very good free tool to implement all source control activities right inside Visual Studio. You can download it for Visual Studio 2008 here.

By now, you have the technology and tools to control your source and take care of them but there is one another requirement. You need a server that supports SVN to host your source codes and absolutely you look for a free one ;-) Assembla is a good choice because it offers a free package as well as paid commercial packages. One you register, you can define various workspaces with unlimited team size in your free 250 MB storage space.

You’ve almost done, now you can start Visual Studio, open a solution or project, right click on it and add it to SVN. It’s so simple and easy.

In Assembla you can receive source control comparison (Diff), source history and many more features.

In brief, you have to take these 2 steps:

  1. Download AnkhSVN.
  2. Register at Assembla.
  3. Start protecting your code inside Visual Studio!
Filed under: .NET General, Download, Tools 22 Comments
24Aug/0816

ASP.NET MVC Tutorial in PDF format

We are getting closer to official release of Microsoft ASP.NET MVC. There are couple of tutorials and videos to get started with this new approach to enterprise web applications development. I found an eight part series of tutorial (in both C# and VB) on ASP.NET Website; good news is that all of these tutorial parts are available in PDF format too. I downloaded all of them and compress them in a single .rar file.

You can download it at http://www.sharplife.net/Files/ASPNETMVCTutorialPDFVersion.rar (approx. 1.7 MB).

 

Enjoy ;-)

Filed under: .NET General, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, C#, Download, Microsoft, Tutorial, Web Development 16 Comments
1Jul/081

How to use ASP.NET Membership in a Console Application

It’s so easy to use powerful ASP.NET Membership, Role and Profile provider in a Windows or Console application. Only one key point remains here; you should add an app.config file to your Console or Windows application and include these nodes in that:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<configuration>
    <connectionStrings>
        <add name="SQLConnString" connectionString="SERVER=(local);DATABASE=SampleApp;UID=sa;PWD=123"/>
    </connectionStrings>
    <system.web>

        <membership defaultProvider="SampleAppMembershipProvider">
            <providers>
                <add name="SampleAppMembershipProvider"
                     connectionStringName="SQLConnString"
                      applicationName="SampleAppMembership"
                      enablePasswordReset="true"
                      enablePasswordRetrieval="false"
                      passwordFormat="Hashed"
                      maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="100"
                      minRequiredPasswordLength="5"
                      minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0"
                      requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false"
                      requiresUniqueEmail="true"
                      passwordAttemptWindow="5"
                      passwordStrengthRegularExpression=""
                      type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider" />
            </providers>
        </membership>

        <profile defaultProvider="SampleAppProfileProvider">
            <providers>
                <add name="SampleAppProfileProvider"
                type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider"
                connectionStringName="SQLConnString"/>
            </providers>
            <properties>
                <add name="FirstName" type="System.String" />
                <add name="LastName" type="System.String" />
                <add name="Email" type="System.String" />
                <add name="Website" type="System.String" />
                <add name="Address" type="System.String" />
                <add name="Note" type="System.String" />
                <add name="Phone" type="System.String" />
                <add name="Fax" type="System.String" />
                <add name="Feature" type="System.Int32" />
            </properties>
        </profile>

        <roleManager enabled="true" cacheRolesInCookie="true" defaultProvider="SampleAppSqlRoleProvider"                  cookieName=".ASPXSampleAppROLES" cookiePath="/" cookieTimeout="30" cookieRequireSSL="false"                  cookieSlidingExpiration="true" createPersistentCookie="false" cookieProtection="All">
            <providers>
                <clear/>
                <add name="SampleAppSqlRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider,                       System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"                       connectionStringName="SQLConnString" applicationName="SampleAppRoles"/>
            </providers>
        </roleManager>
    </system.web>
</configuration>
Filed under: .NET General, ASP.NET, Security 1 Comment
5Nov/074

Download .netTiers Documentation

A few days ago, I found some free time to study some articles and documentation about .netTiers. I tested it on some of my previous projects and result was great. Professional software architecture in generated code, smart code generation based on database tables and columns, ease of use, etc. are amazing features of this open source template for CodeSmith.

.netTiers official website has a documenation you can read online but how I searched, I couldn't find any offline version of this documentation to download. So I saved all documentation sections as HTML files and also created PDF version of each page. You can download this documentation in a compress file here (3.7 MB).

Filed under: .NET General, C#, Download, Tools 4 Comments
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