Microsoft TechDays 2013 in Hyderabad

This TechDays is exclusively for developers, where the attendees get to be a part of Technical and Coding Sessions. It will be a unique opportunity for you to learn the design/technical tenets in building an ‘Immersive Windows 8′ App. During the event, we will take you through a series of activities to help you complete…

ByShravan Kumar KasagoniJan 2, 20130Comments

GENERAL

Book: Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide from Abhijit Jana

My friend Abhijit Jana recently published a book “Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide”. The book covers step-by-step tutorial to demonstrate the API usage with well explanation and code sample for beginners. What you will learn from this book: If you are looking for a complete tutorial on Kinect, this book will help you to…

ByShravan Kumar KasagoniDec 29, 20120Comments

ASP.NET MVC

Bundling & Minification with dot-less (dynamic CSS for .NET) in MVC 4

LESS is the dynamic style sheet language LESS extends CSS with dynamic behaviour such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. LESS runs on both the client-side (Chrome, Safari, Firefox) and server-side, with Node.js and Rhino. .less is the LESS JavaScript library implementation for .NET, Find more info about .less at http://www.dotlesscss.org/. This article is going…

ByShravan Kumar KasagoniSep 26, 20122Comments

ASP.NET MVC

Bundling and Minification in ASP.NET MVC 4

The bundling and minification feature enables you to reduce the number of HTTP requests that a Web page needs to make by combining individual files into a single, bundled file for scripts and CSS. It can then reduce the overall size of those requests by minifying the contents of the bundle. Minifying can include activities…

ByShravan Kumar KasagoniSep 24, 20125Comments

ASP.NET MVC MOBILE

Display Modes in ASP.NET MVC 4

This is my first article after the availability of ASP.NET MVC 4 RTM & Visual Studio 2012 RTM. Here is the brand new Visual Studio 2012 logo: ASP.NET MVC 4 includes set of features for mobile development, one of them is Display Modes. The new Display Modes feature lets an application select views depending on…

ByShravan Kumar KasagoniSep 11, 20121Comment

ASP.NET MVC

Child Action Methods in ASP.NET MVC

Any public method in a controller class is an action method. Every action method in a controller class can be invoked via an URL from web browser or a view page in application. My scenario is some dynamic information (data) need to displayed on couple pages in my application. Generally we end up in adding…

ByShravan Kumar KasagoniAug 16, 20120Comments

ASP.NET MVC TIPS & TRICKS

Difference between Html.RenderAction and Html.Action

Html.RenderAction() and Html.Action() methods are available in ChildActionExtensions (System.Web.Mvc.Html) class in ASP.NET MVC. Generally both methods are used for calling action methods or child action methods and rendering the result of action method in view. @Html.Action() – Invokes the specified child action method and returns the result as an HTML string. @{ Html.RenderAction(); } –…

ByShravan Kumar KasagoniAug 12, 20122Comments

ASP.NET MVC TIPS & TRICKS

Improvements in Razor in ASP.NET MVC 4

First version of razor is shipped with ASP.NET MVC 3. ASP.NET MVC 4 come with Razor V2.0. Razor V2.0 includes some tiny & happy features. URL Resolution Enhancements: We use the relative URL for any resources (images, scripts, css) in code , for example : <script src=”~/Scripts/jquery-1.8.2.js”></script> But in runtime we should resolve the full…

ByShravan Kumar KasagoniAug 10, 20120Comments

COMMUNITY NEWS

aspConf – Online ASP.NET Conference – July 17-18

aspConf is a virtual conference focused on one thing: showcasing the ASP.NET stack as the platform for great web applications.

ByShravan Kumar KasagoniJul 12, 20120Comments

ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET WEB FORMS

OData Querying Support in ASP.NET Web API

The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol for querying and updating data that provides a way to unlock your data and free it from silos that exist in applications today. OData does this by applying and building upon Web technologies such as HTTP, Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) and JSON to provide access to…

ByShravan Kumar KasagoniJul 8, 20120Comments