Mehfuz's WebLog

It is now official from a post by great Scott Guthrie that jQuery is bundled with Asp.net MVC Beta. jQuery is a tiny 15K JavaScript library that contains features from UI tweaks, DOM manipulation to full Ajax control. In my last post, I have shown how to get going with Ajax.Form using Microsoft MVC Ajax library. In this post, I will show how to do Ajax form posts with jQuery but in Ajax.Form style.

In the flickr explorer app made with Asp.net MVC and Athena, I was trying out some form post scenarios. In this post, I will add few things regarding MVC form post and Ajax that is common to FlickrXplorer but can be used in general.

In part one of this packing series I have shown, how you can automate your build process, test and optionally mock by using the popular .net deployment tool NAnt. If you don't know what I am talking about and just landed here by help of search engine. Let me put the link below again.

In this part, I show a way to build and deploy your project using NAnt. As, you already might know that NAnt is a tiny deployment tool that enables you to create a deployment package with some  *.build files which contains nothing but few XML directives.

We are making a sample application, demo or startup kit or a toolkit with test project that requires some SQL scripts. We generally ship in a readme.txt that says it all. But hey, how about having the script under automated process , like if my SQL Server and VS 2008 is in place, with the click of Ctrl + Shift + B everything gets ready. Here, we will do just right that.

Its been quite a while since I made any release of the toolkit. I basically, get into user requests, used it myself in LinqToFlickr project and came up with some new features and enhancements.

Last week, I released a new version of LINQ.flickr, which I named as Athena from release 1.4. It covers few features from flickr service, also now I have updated it with the latest LINQExtender (pre release version)  containing updated Object Tracking Service (OTS) that will enable it to update photos and comments as if like LINQ to SQL.

There are few things to know , when getting photos from your stream , adding comments and overall doing adding and deletion of your photos. As with flickr you can take a look at this url => http://www.flickr.com/services/api/auth.spec.html  for authentication spec to learn more. But with Athena (formerly known as LINQ.Flickr) it's pretty easy to get things going. Last week, I made an update to the FlickrXplorer (The MVC starter project you don't want to miss :-)) project that now enables you to add comments for photos. There is a one click login that will take you to flickr, ask you once for the permission to grant the app for data access and finally will take you back to the place from where you were left off.