Dot Net Tricks Tutorial - For Beginners & Professionals

 

Various Domain modelling approaches in Entity Framework

A business domain is populated with related and interconnected entities which have its own properties and behavior. Most important thing is that each entity may have a state and can be bound to a possibly dynamic list of validation rules. EF allow developers to focus on the business domain and to model it in terms of classes.

 

Understanding ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding

Scaffolding is a technique used by many MVC frameworks like ASP.NET MVC, Ruby on Rails, Cake PHP and Node.JS etc., to generate code for basic CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) operations against your database effectively. Further you can edit or customize this auto generated code according to your need.

 

Understanding MVC, MVP and MVVM Design Patterns

There are three most popular MV-* design patterns: MVC, MVP and MVVM. These are widely used by the various technologies. In this article, I will provide my opinion on these three.

 

Understanding AJAX Helpers in ASP.NET MVC

AJAX Helpers are used to create AJAX enabled elements like as Ajax enabled forms and links which performs request asynchronously. AJAX Helpers are extension methods of AJAXHelper class which exist in System.Web.Mvc.Ajax namespace.

 

Understanding HTML Helpers in ASP.NET MVC

An HTML Helper is just a method that returns a HTML string. The string can represent any type of content that you want. For example, you can use HTML Helpers to render standard HTML tags like HTML <input>, <button> and <img> tags etc.

 

Persisting Data with TempData

TempData is used to pass data from current request to subsequent request (means redirecting from one page to another). It’s life is very short and lies only till the target view is fully loaded. But you can persist data in TempData by calling Keep() method.

 

Entity Framework 6 Code First Migrations with Multiple Data Contexts

Entity Framework code first migrations allows you to create a new database or to update existing database based on your model classes. Entity Framework5 code first migrations is only able to manage a single DbContext per physical database instance. Now, Entity Framework6 code first migrations is able to manage multiple DbContext per physical database instance.

 

Understanding ASP.NET MVC Filters and Attributes

ASP.NET MVC provides a simple way to inject your piece of code or logic either before or after an action is executed. This is achieved by decorating the controllers or actions with ASP.NET MVC attributes or custom attributes. An attribute or custom attribute implements the ASP.NET MVC filters(filter interface) and can contain your piece of code or logic.

 

Detailed ASP.NET MVC Pipeline

ASP.NET MVC is an open source framework built on the top of Microsoft .NET Framework to develop web application that enables a clean separation of code. ASP.NET MVC framework is the most customizable and extensible platform shipped by Microsoft. In this article, you will learn the detail pipeline of ASP.NET MVC.

 

Custom Authentication and Authorization in ASP.NET MVC

When standard types of authentication do not meet your requirements, you need to modify an authentication mechanism to create a custom solution. A user context has principal which represents the identity and roles for that user. A user is authenticated by its identity and assigned roles to a user determine about authorization or permission to access resources.

 

Understanding jQuery Mobile Toolbars

jQuery Mobile offers two standard types of toolbars: Headers and Footers. Header bar may contain the page title, search button, back button, navigation links or navbar. Typically header bar is the first element inside each mobile page.

 

Understanding jQuery Mobile Theming Framework and Transition Effects

jQuery Mobile provides a powerful theming framework that allows you to customize color schemes provided by jQuery Mobile. By using jQuery Mobile ThemeRoller, you can develop a customize theme for your application and can download your custom CSS file and include it in your application.

 

Understanding jQuery Mobile Events

jQuery mobile is made on the top of jQuery Library and jQuery offers various events for handling user interaction. In addition, jQuery Mobile also offers various native events that are especially made for mobile devices. The jQuery mobile events can be categorized into four categories as given below:

 

Understanding jQuery Mobile Buttons

Buttons are created with the help of standard HTML anchor and input elements, then enhanced by jQuery Mobile to make them more attractive and useable on a mobile device. Typically, anchor links (a elements) are used to make navigation buttons, and input or button elements are used to make buttons for form submission.

 

Understanding jQuery Mobile Pages

A jQuery Mobile webpage must start with an HTML5 doctype to take full advantage of all of the framework's features. In the head section of a webpage, references to jQuery, jQuery Mobile and the mobile theme CSS are also all required. jQuery Mobile has guidelines on the structure of pages themselves.