Shiju Varghese's Blog
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NuGet – My favorite .Net OSS project of the year 2010
NuGet is my favorite .Net OSS project of the year 2010. NuGet is a free, open source, package management system for the .NET platform. NuGet is a member of the ASP.NET Open Source Gallery in the Outercurve Foundation. NuGet is very useful tool for .NET developers who are using open source libraries for their applications. NuGet enables .NET developers to easily discover, download, install and update packages into .NET projects. NuGet will handles dependency management between libraries. NuPack also makes it easy for .NET developers to create and publish packages for other .NET developers. Today, the .NET open source community is widely growing and providing huge set of useful libraries. Using NuGet, .NET developers can easily find and update these libraries into their .NET projects. The client-side NuPack tools provides full integration with Visual Studio 2010. You can get NuGet form its project site http://nuget.codeplex.com. Read the Getting Started page at Codeplex to learn how to use NuGet
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My .NET Technology picks for 2011
My Technology predictions for 2011
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ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate 2 Released
Microsoft has shipped Release Candidate version 2 for ASP.NET MVC 3. You can download the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate 2 from here . If you have installed Visual Studio Service Pack 1 Beta, you must install ASP.NET MVC 3 RC 2. Otherwise it will break the IntelliSense feature in the Razor views of ASP.NET MVC 3 RC1.
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Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta Released
Microsoft has been released beta version of Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1. The Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 beta comes with a go live license.
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Speaking on Razor View Engine
I will be speaking at the K-MUG (Kerala Microsoft User Group) on Razor View Engine. The event details available from here . In this session, I will give an introduction to Razor view engine and will demonstrate Razor syntax in ASP.NET MVC 3 Views and ASP.NET Web pages.
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ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate
ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate is available with Razor tooling support inside Visual Studio. You can download the ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate from here.
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Visual Studio Async CTP
Microsoft has announced the Community Technology Preview (CTP) version of Visual Studio Async.The new Visual Studio Async CTP provides a new syntax for asynchronous development using C# and VB.NET. You can download the Visual Studio Async CTP from here.
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My NoSQL Session at Microsoft Community Tech Day
I did a presentation titled “NoSQL databases in .NET Apps” at Microsoft Community Tech Day, Kochi organized by Kerala Microsoft User Group. The session was an introductory talk on NoSQL databases and demonstrated how to use NoSQL databases in .NET applications. I have given a demo on NoSQL approach using RavenDB and ASP.NET MVC. The slide for the demo available at http://www.slideshare.net/shijucv/nosql-database-in-net-apps and the source code is available from http://ravenmvc.codeplex.com
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Book Review : Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC
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Using the WebGrid Helper in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta
ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta is now supports to using ASP.NET Web Pages helpers in the Razor views. In this post, let us discuss on how to use WebGrid helper in our Razor view page of an ASP.NET MVC 3 application.
