Mehfuz's WebLog

In this post, i will show how you can generate SQL programmatically from M. Now, so far i have learnt that MGrammer is a contract that converts user’s input into MGraph. Now, Oslo by default comes with MSchema. Through MSchema you can define a type and extend it with MGraph to populate your repository. Here, i will use MSchema to define an entity object , then MGraph and finally run this through a custom SQL generator in C# to get my DDL statement similar to what you can generate by using intellipad that comes with Oslo SDK.

Just released LinqExtender 2.0. Over previous release , it contains generally bugs fixes. Overall, I have focused on striping out complexity as much as possible to keep you focused on your business logic. You can see the full list of features in the documentation that comes with it.

In my last post, I showed how to turn on Amazon S3 support in Sitefinity. In this post, I will show how to create a simple video site using the video library support that is bundled with 3.6 release. It is often required that you want to add a streaming video content to your site, either it could be a product demonstration or a getting started tutorial. Using third party video provider is one way to get the job done but sometimes it requires a lot of manual work, thus headache for managing them as the library grows bigger. 3.6 release breaks you free from all these and provides an easy way for creating , uploading and managing video content.

Here at Telerik, Sitefinity team is preparing for the 3.6 release next week. 3.6 comes with lot of core level enhancements and cool new features. Of which , I can't but mention one feature that will make most ISV vendors who want the power of CMS but want to let go their pain of managing large content. As, the title suggests its external storage support via Amazon S3. The data plan for hosting and transferring data to/from S3 server is pretty cheap these days in return to world class service with almost zero downtime that it offers which of course makes the most of your money. If you are not familiar with Sitefinity to add it is a product by Telerik  that comes with full content management features along with blogs, news, events, list and few other pre-made modules with easy setup and management via unique control designer.

In this post, I will show how to cook an LINQToTwitter library with LinqExtender. My target is to create it easily and over existing twitter API. I used Yedda Twitter library. Yedda library basically returns response in XML/JSON/RSS/ATOM format depending on the option provided. I used XML format and serialized it to objects.

There could be plenty of reason that you might need to do a cross domain web request in your application. One could be let's say you want to divert the resource pressure from your server to some third party content provider like Amazon S3. In my last post I have mentioned a bit about uploading content using WSE to S3 server. I also mentioned about the simple library located at www.codeplex.com/threesharp that does not necessarily require you to work in full trust mode. This is also true if you have a personalized startpage where you want your wideget developers to restrict to partiuclar URLs.

Recently, I was bit playing around with amazon S3. This is said to be the cheapest storage for people who don't want to spend much of their brain cells thinking about DB issues. Now, Amazon S3 primarily supports Web service (SOAP) to store and query data out of the S3 server. The concept behind S3 is that you have to create a bucket and under it you can store as many objects you want. Generally for a particular account 100 is the threshold value for buckets. In this post, I will basically focus on configuring your proxy for uploading large files to amazon using WSE and optionally I will point out a cool browser extension for analyzing your S3 space and third party library alternative.

This happens to be the first PDC for me. This year a lot of new technologies has been unveiled during the keynotes. One of the most focused is the Windows Azure. This happens to be the one stop shop for building and deploying your service oriented application from local to remote. We all know how slow it is to build service oriented application these days and Windows Azure is just the right tool that can make life easier over the course of time. There is a breakout session by Steve Mark that you might like to checkout if you have missed it. The session is a starting point for setting up your first Windows Azure app and it also shows a way to work with Asp.net MVC for things like uploading photos. Also, I found that you can use Azure for building async based queue service easily with asp.net.