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EF Code First Migrations August 2011 CTP Released
EF Code First is a great ORM tool which lets you to develop applications in a Domain Driven approach. One of the pain point of EF Code First was the data migrations when your domain model is changing. Finally the ADO.NET team is providing a data migration solution for EF Code First that will incrementally evolve the database schema as you model changes over time. The ADO.NET team has released the CTP version of Code First migration solution named EF Code First Migrations August 2011 CTP. EF Code First Migrations is available as NuGet package named EntityFramework.SqlMigrations. The following command in the NuGet console will install the the EF Code First Migrations
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User Activity logging in ASP.NET MVC app using Action Filter and log4net
In this post, I will demonstrate how to use an action filter to log user tracking information in an ASP.NET MVC app. The below action filter will take logged user name, controller name, action name, timestamp information and the value of route data id. These user tracking information will be logged using log4net logging framework.
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Using MvcPaging in ASP.NET MVC Apps
In this post, I will demonstrate how to use NuGet package MvcPaging in ASP.NET MVC apps. MvcPaging provides a Pager HtmlHelper that renders a pager based on a PagedList implementation. MvcPaging’s Pager helper is also providing Ajax functionality for the paging implementation. You can add MvcPaging package via NuGet. The following command in the NuGet console will install MvcPaging in your project.
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Microsoft MVP for the Second Time
Last Friday, I got an email from Microsoft stating that I have been awarded as Microsoft MVP again for 2011!! Now I became a Microsoft MVP for the second time in a row.