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• Distributed Transactions in WCF services – Part 3

  By Christos S. on April 23, 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  Enabling distributed transaction propagation in WCF services is a tricky task and several factors and parameters need to be considered. Previous posts showed you that by default distributed transactions aren’t supported even if you enclose your operations you want to… Read More ›

• Understand ASP.NET Page Life Cycle and Data Control Events

  By Christos S. on April 18, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  If you are an ASP.NET developer you should definitely understand the Page’s Life Cycle stages and all events raise during that cycle. Server controls also raise their own events and because of the fact that their life cycle is strongly… Read More ›

• Distributed Transactions in WCF services – Part 2

  By Christos S. on April 17, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  By default distributed transactions aren’t supported in WCF services in this post is going to prove it. We will continue from the Part 1 from these series, where we created all our service layers. Next thing we have to do… Read More ›

• Distributed Transactions in WCF services – Part 1

  By Christos S. on April 17, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Enabling distributed transactions in WCF services is quite complicated task since several considerations and configurations have to been done. But let’s start from the beginning and ask ourselves why on earth would someone wanted to support transactions in a WCF… Read More ›

• Managing State and Service Instances in a WCF service : Part 3 – Maintaining State with the PerCall Instance Context Mode

  By Christos S. on April 16, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  This post will show you how to maintain State with the PerCall Instance Context Mode. This is the third part of the series, discussing how to manage State and Service instances in WCF services. In the first two posts, we… Read More ›

• Create your own User Control in ASP.NET

  By Christos S. on April 15, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  As a matter of fact, the build in Web Server controls in ASP.NET, allow you to create very good looking and functional Web pages without any effort. There are several built in data sources which you can use and access… Read More ›

• LINQ to Objects queries

  By Christos S. on April 14, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  In previous post we saw the fundamentals around querying data using LINQ . There are three basic LINQ implementations and this post will give you code examples for the main implementation of the Microsoft Language Integrated Query, LINQ to Objects. In… Read More ›

• LINQ queries Basics

  By Christos S. on April 13, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  As a developer you must learn that knowing to manipulate data in your applications is a must. There are several different techniques to access data sources such as XML files, text files, excel files, databases etc, and LINQ is one… Read More ›

• Managing State and Service Instances in a WCF service – The case of a ShoppingCart : Part 2

  By Christos S. on April 11, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  This post will continue our discussion about managing state and service instances in a WCF service. In a previous post we created a WCF service holding a shoppingCart list private instance variable, where clients consuming that service could store their… Read More ›

• Edit GridView control using SqlDataSource and Template fields in ASP.NET 4.5

  By Christos S. on April 10, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  In a previous post we saw how easy is to bind data to a GridView control, without using a build in Data Sources. In this post we will use an SqlDataSource control which will retrieve some data from a database… Read More ›