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• ADO.NET : Working with DataSet, DataTable, DataColumn, DataRow and DataRelations

  By Christos S. on June 22, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Knowing to work with the offline ADO.NET classes such as DataSet and DataTable, is the Alpha and the Omega in ADO.NET before actually start queering real database data. You need to understand that ADO.NET divides it’s classes in two major… Read More ›

• Introduction to ADO.NET

  By Christos S. on June 15, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  If you aren’t new to .NET development you will be aware that there are several different ways to access and manipulate database data. New developers always use the build in Visual Studio features such as SqlDataSource or EntityDataSource. These are… Read More ›

• Retrieve JSON data from MVC Controllers in ASP.NET MVC

  By Christos S. on June 8, 2013 • ( 10 )

  

  Using unobtrusive AJAX in your MVC web applications can boost system’s performance. We have seen in previous post how to use unobtrusive AJAX to retrieve only partial views instead of full page requests, in ASP.NET MVC Framework. While being a… Read More ›

• Unobtrusive Ajax in ASP.NET MVC

  By Christos S. on May 12, 2013 • ( 13 )

  

  ASP.NET MVC Framework has built-in Ajax enabled helper methods for unobtrusive Ajax support, which simplify the process for Ajax calls in your MVC Web Applications. Those Ajax methods are based of course in jQuery, so if you are familiar with… Read More ›

• Ajax and jQuery in ASP.NET MVC

  By Christos S. on May 10, 2013 • ( 40 )

  

  Using jQuery and Ajax asynchronous calls can improve your web application’s performance dramatically. Ajax calls, request and retrieve only partial data giving the user a sense of a better interactive user interface experience. This post will show you how to… Read More ›

• LINQ to SQL : CRUD operations and Stored procedures

  By Christos S. on May 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The fundamentals operations that a storage system provides are the CRUD ones. CRUD stands for CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE and corresponds to the SQL statements INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE and DELETE respectively. This post will show you how to query CRUD… Read More ›

• LINQ to SQL : Data Modeling – Inheritance – Relationships

  By Christos S. on May 8, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  LINQ to SQL is a LINQ implementation which can be used to query relational Microsoft SQL Server database, in an object oriented way. You can create an object model (classes) that maps your relational database tables, then query against this… Read More ›

• Partial Views and Child Actions in ASP.NET MVC

  By Christos S. on May 7, 2013 • ( 10 )

  

  It’s common sense for Web Applications to make use of same code over and over again to display/render information and details for their domain objects. For example, an e-shop Web Application would probably render each product in the same way… Read More ›

• Generating Outgoing URLs in Views in ASP.NET MVC

  By Christos S. on May 7, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Almost all MVC Web applications allow users to navigate from one View to another, usually relying on including links in the first View which eventually targets the action method that generates the second. Using simple anchor HTML elements “a” and… Read More ›

• URL Routing in ASP.NET MVC – Part 2

  By Christos S. on May 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  This post continues our discussion on how ASP.NET MVC’s URL Routing System works. I assume you have already read Part 1 of the series cause I ‘m gonna work on the project we have created. In our MVC solution project… Read More ›