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• State Management in ASP.NET (ViewState, SessionState & ApplicationState)

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

  

  One of the most crucial concepts in Web Development is the State management. In a nutshell, when you request a page from ASP.NET, the Web Server receives it, process it and finally sends the response back to the browser, discarding… Read More ›

• Caching SQL Server data in ASP.NET

  By Christos S. on October 27, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  In nowadays, you won’t find any large scale application that doesn’t make use of some kind of Caching technique. Caching application data can boost application performance and of course improves User interface experience. In ASP.NET there are several kind of… Read More ›

• Knockout.js with Web API : The perfect compination

  By Christos S. on October 19, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  We have seen in many posts on this blog, how to call asynchronously a Web API method from a simple HTML page, using jQuery Ajax. Each time we were retrieving some JSON formatted data, we had to update the respective… Read More ›

• Web API Custom Routing Constraints

  By Christos S. on October 13, 2013 • ( 14 )

  

  Have you ever tried to restrict a Web API route in the way to allow only certain kind of values for specific segments? You will probably have and the most common restriction someone will find out on the web is… Read More ›

• SqlCommand: The Entity Framework alternative to access databases

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

  

  SqlCommand is the alternative way to query, insert, update or delete database data. We have seen in lot’s of other posts on this blog, how to execute CRUD operations on a database using the Entity Framework and more specifically an… Read More ›

• Map CRUD Stored Procedures to Entities with Entity Framework

  By Christos S. on September 28, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  There are a few different ways to execute a Stored Procedure through a C# application, each of them following different principles. One of the most used approach is to use an SqlCommand object of type CommandType.StoredProcedure and invoke it’s ExecuteReader()… Read More ›

• Master-detail DropDown lists and Partial Views with jQuery Ajax in MVC

  By Christos S. on September 25, 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  Making use of jQuery Ajax calls in ASP.NET MVC can boost application’s performance. This way, you can GET or POST partial pieces of data from or to application server, without the need to send or retrieve back the entire page…. Read More ›

• WCF Self-Hosting multiple bindings

  By Christos S. on September 14, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  When building WCF Services there is this point when you have to make a critical decision: Which binding is the best for you service? Windows Communication Foundation comes with several different bindings, each of those created for specific situations and… Read More ›

• Related entities and live search with Web API and Entity Framework

  By Christos S. on September 8, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Retrieving and manipulating Entities with no related data using Web API and Entity Framework is quite easy and most times, by the time you create a Web API controller using a specific Model class and a DbContext instance you won’t… Read More ›

• ListView Control in ASP.NET 4.5

  By Christos S. on August 30, 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  ListView control is probably the best among all data bind build-in controls in ASP.NET Framework. It is used extensively by ASP.NET Web Forms developers and is preferred between other similar controls, such as the GridView or the DataList. The reason… Read More ›

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