Thoughts on .Net & Coding

Sometimes you need to select records for certain action using checkboxes. For example, you may select records for deleting and then delete them from the database. Consider the following screen shot that shows such an example in action.

If you are tracking the progress of ASP.NET 5 you are probably aware of the recent announcement regarding the naming changes to ASP.NET 5. Here my aim is to make you familiarize with these changes so that you can understand what's coming up next.

Uploading files is a common requirement in web applications. In ASP.NET MVC 6 uploading files and saving them on the server is quite easy. To that end this article shows how to do just that. It shows how to upload files through Form POST as well as through jQuery Ajax.

There are four lifetime options for a service being injected namely Singleton, Scoped, Transient and Instance. This article presents a quick overview of all these modes.

Now a days many ASP.NET applications use jQuery Ajax in one or the other way. jQuery methods such as $.ajax(), $.get() and $.post() are commonly used in such applications. When you make multiple Ajax calls from a single page you may take advantage of the global Ajax event handler methods of jQuery. To that end this article provides a quick reference of various global Ajax configuration methods that can simplify your jQuery code.

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series you developed a simple database driven application that displays a list of customers and also allows you to modify the customer details. Although the application is working as expected, it relies on the local instances of the NorthwindDbContext to get its job done. In this article we will use the Dependency Injection (DI) features of MVC 6 to inject the NorthwindDbContext into the controller class. Later we will also add repository support in the application.

In Part 1 of this series you created and configured a basic project using ASP.NET MVC 6. Although the project runs as expected and outputs a message in the browser, it isn't database driven yet. In this part we will add database support to the project so that you can modify customer details from the Northwind database.

If you are tracking the progress of ASP.NET 5, you are probably aware that Beta 8 of MVC 6 is now available. Although MVC 5.x is not going away anytime soon, it's good time to get a feel of how MVC 6 application development is going to be. To that end this article explains how a simple MVC 6 application can be developed from ground up using an Empty Project Template.