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ASP.NET MVC Hosting - ASP.NET MVC Framework Information

raymondcc — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:11:00 GMT

ASP.NET MVC Framework Description

As shown from the diagram above, the ASP.NET MVC included in 3 main frameworks which each of the framework performs specifics functions for the web applications. MVC is a framework methodology that divides an application's implementation into three component roles: models, views, and controllers.

* "Models" in a MVC based application are the components of the application that are responsible for maintaining state. Often this state is persisted inside a database (for example: we might have a Product class that is used to represent order data from the Products table inside SQL).

* "Views" in a MVC based application are the components responsible for displaying the application's user interface. Typically this UI is created off of the model data (for example: we might create an Product "Edit" view that surfaces textboxes, dropdowns and checkboxes based on the current state of a Product object).

* "Controllers" in a MVC based application are the components responsible for handling end user interaction, manipulating the model, and ultimately choosing a view to render to display UI. In a MVC application the view is only about displaying information - it is the controller that handles and responds to user input and interaction.

One of the benefits of using a MVC methodology is that it helps enforce a clean separation of concerns between the models, views and controllers within an application. Maintaining a clean separation of concerns makes the testing of applications much easier, since the contract between different application components are more clearly defined and articulated.

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Some Advantages of ASP.NET Content Management Systems for You

raymondcc — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:07:00 GMT

Overview on ASP.NET Content Management System, Do you Need to Use it?

The role of ASP Content Management System is not limited. The tools available help in publishing, formatting the content. Even if you want to search, index or retrieve the site them this is too possible. So many features doesn’t mean that one requires specialized knowledge (HTML or FTP). So if you are the one who owns a website and want to make the changes all by yourself, then you can do so.

Similarly, if you are a content writer and want to upload new blogs/ articles, news section, categories or press releases, simply with the help of ASP Content Management System, you can do so.

Even webmasters/ admin managers on logging through the secure area on site and make required changes. Some of the advantages of using ASP content management systems are:

* Cost effective and efficient way of uploading making the changes on the websites.

* Helps you in tracking the possible changes made by different content editors.

* Facilitates easy uploading of the content and making updates.

* Greater flexibility in terms of using of content and its presentation.

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Microsoft Expression Web - Will it be a Popular Web Editor for ASP.NET?

raymondcc — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:53:00 GMT

Microsoft Expression Web - Most Popular Web Editor for ASP.NET?

Microsoft Expression Web, code-named Quartz, is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and general web design program by Microsoft, replacing Microsoft FrontPage. It is part of the Expression Studio suite from Microsoft. Expression Web allows authoring of web pages integrating XML, CSS 2.1, ASP.NET 2.0, XHTML, XSLT and JavaScript into sites. It requires the .NET Framework 2.0 to operate.

The second version, Expression Web 2, however included with full native support for PHP and Silverlight. Editing classic ASP is supported but not on the same page with ASP.NET and there is no classic ASP IntelliSense support. On the CSS website editing process, you can choose between automatically generated CSS styles or generate them manually for absolute control over the type of rule created and its precise location.

Microsoft Expression Web provides the ability to install add-ins from third-party developers, extending the capabilities of Expression Web. The program received a four-star rating from PC Magazine, which labeled it as a more cost-effective option compared to the main competitor, Adobe Dreamweaver. "Even if money is no object, Expression Web 2 might be your better choice," Editor Edward Mendelson wrote. That's is the main reason why Microsoft Expression web become one of the most popular asp.net website editing software available on the market.

How to LINQ to SQL 2008 Entities in C#?

raymondcc — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:07:00 GMT

In this demonstration, we are using the latest version of Visual Studio.NET 2008.

Visual Studio.NET 2008 makes it very easy for us to create LINQ to SQL Entities using the Object Relational Designer. What it does is creates classes and methods that relate to the database columns and tables. This makes it possible for us to communicate with the data using LINQ (Language Integrated Query).

For this example, we will be using a SQL 2008 database with one table and three columns - id, name, and city.
Once we have our database set up, we will create a new class to represent the database table structure. It should look something like this:

using System;
using System.Data.Linq.Mapping;

[Table(Name="tblPeople")]
public class people
{
[Column(IsPrimaryKey=true, IsDbGenerated=true)]
public int Id { get; set; }

[Column(CanBeNull=true)]
public string name { get; set; }

[Column(CanBeNull=true)]
public string city { get; set; }

public people()
{

}
}

It is advised to always include the table name in the class, although it is not really required if the class is named the same as the table in the SQL database.
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ASP.NET Arhitecture - How ASP.NET Scripts Functional on Applications

raymondcc — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:14:00 GMT

Detailed Description of ASP.NET 3 Layers Architecture

Layer 1 - ASP.NET Presentation Layer - Presentation Layer is responsible for displaying user interface to either programmer or end user. Programmer uses this layer for designing purpose and to get the data back and forth. In ASP.NET it includes ASPX pages, user controls, server controls and sometimes security related classes and objects.

Layer 2 - ASP.NET Business Layer - The Business layer works as a mediator to transfer the data from presentation layer. In the three tier architecture the data access layer is not made to interact with the presentation layer. The architecture in ASP.NET includes using SqlClient or OleDb objects to retrieve, update and delete data from SQL Server or Access databases and passing the data retrieved to the presentation layer in a DataReader or DataSet object, or a custom collection object. The Data layer gets the data from the business layer and sends it to the database or vice versa.

Layer 3 - ASP.NET Data Layer - The Data layer gets the data from the business layer and sends it to the database or gets the data from the database and sends it to the business layer. In ASP .NET it is an SQL Server or Access database. It can also be Oracle, mySQL or even XML. These 3 layers plays an important roles on making the ASP.NET technologies fully functional including all ASP.NET hosting websites software.

ASP.NET AJAX Integration with .NET Framework 3.5

raymondcc — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:44:00 GMT

.Net Framework 3.5 in ASP.NET 3.5 are integrate with ASP.NET Ajax functions.

.NET 3.5 now includes built-in support for all ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 features. Users can now use Visual Studio 2008 to target both existing ASP.NET applications built with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, as well as target the new version of ASP.NET AJAX built-into .NET 3.5. Facts about .NET 3.5 Framework with ASP.NET AJAX: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 built as a separate download so that users can install AJAX directly on ASP.NET 2.0. The good news is, with the latest .NET Framework 3.5, all of the

ASP.NET AJAX has been build in with ASP.NET, users are not require to install the ASP.NET AJAX separately when testing or deploying the applications. Another good things is that when user create a new ASP.NET application or web applications with Visual Studio 2008 that uses the .NET 3.5 framework, Visual Studio 2008 will automatically add the AJAX registrations within the applications.

Setting for ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 to Use with ASP.NET AJAX 3.5: Users who use Visual Studio 2008 to open an existing ASP.NET 2.0 application that uses ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, he / she able to choose to upgrade the application to use .NET 3.5 (and the version of ASP.NET AJAX included within it). Upgrading an ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 application to .NET 3.5 does not require any amendment of the application code, and will be able to complete within minutes. For more information about ASP.NET Ajax hosting, ASP.NET 3.5 hosting / .NET Framework 3.5 hosting, please log on to http://www.seekdotnet.com or contact SeekDotNet.com at http://seekdotnet.com/contactus.aspx.

ASP.NET MVC Framework Specifications and Functions to Developers

raymondcc — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:22:00 GMT

ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC) Framework Features

The ASP.NET MVC Framework couples the models, views and controllers using interface-based contracts, thereby allowing each component to be easily tested independently. By default, the view engine in the MVC framework uses regular .aspx pages to design the layout of the user interface pages onto which the data is composed. However, different View Engines can be used (for example, you can create a View Engine based on XSLT files. Additionally, rather than the default ASP.NET post back model, any interactions are routed to the controllers using the ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 Routing mechanism.

The ASP.NET MVC Framework is a Model-view-controller framework which Microsoft is adding to ASP.NET. It allows software developers to build a Web application as a composition of three roles: Model, View and Controller. A Model represents the state of a particular aspect of the application. Frequently, a model maps to a database table with the entries in the table representing the state of the table. A Controller handles interactions and updates the model to reflect a change in state of the application. A View extracts necessary information from a model and renders a user interface to display that

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Ajax Web Hosting - Advantages and Disadvantages of Ajax

raymondcc — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:33:00 GMT

Ajax Overview

Ajax, or AJAX is a group of inter related web development techniques used to create interactive web applications. With ASP.NET Ajax, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page reactions. These are some users comments regarding the usability of AJAX on the web applications

Ajax Advantages

1) Since scripts and style sheets only have to be requested once using Ajax, then this will allow smaller amount of connections to the web server, thus reducing loading time for the web applications. 2) Users can now expecting the loading time of the application to be faster or more responsive, even if the application has not changed on the server side. 3) The use of asynchronous requests allows the client's Web browser user interface to be more interactive and to respond quickly to inputs, and sections of pages can also be reloaded individually.

Ajax Disadvantages

1) Testing tools for Ajax often do not understand Ajax event models, data models, and protocols. 2) Pages dynamically created using successive Ajax requests do not automatically register themselves with the browser's history engine, so clicking the browser's "back" button may not return the user to an earlier state of the Ajax-enabled page, but may instead return them to the last full page visited before it. 3) Dynamic web page updates also make it difficult for a user to bookmark a particular state of the application. 4) Any user whose browser does not support Ajax or JavaScript, or simply has JavaScript disabled, will not be able to use its functionality. 5) In some cases, overuse of Ajax will caused the web page not index properly by the search engines because because most web crawlers do not execute JavaScript code on the particular web page. There are pro and cons of using Ajax on your web application, however ,with proper knowledge and programming skills, you will be able to turn the cons into the valuable assets for your Ajax web applications. One of the recommended Ajax hosting provider is SeekDotNet.com. Log on and contact seekdotnet.com for more information about Ajax hosting at http://www.seekdotnet.com/contactus.aspx

Build Your Web Application With ASP.NET 3.5 / .NET Framework 3.5

raymondcc — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:00:00 GMT

.NET Framework 3.5 Overview

Version 3.5 of the .NET Framework was released on 19 November 2007, but it is not included with Windows Server 2008. As with .NET Framework 3.0, version 3.5 uses the CLR of version 2.0. In addition, it installs .NET Framework 2.0 SP1, (.NET Framework 2.0 SP2 with 3.5 SP1) and .NET Framework 3.0 SP1 (.NET Framework 3.0 SP2 with 3.5 SP1), which adds some methods and properties to the BCL classes in version 2.0 which are required for version 3.5 features such as Language Integrated Query (LINQ). These changes do not affect applications written for version 2.0.

Build Your Web Application With ASP.NET 3.5 / .NET Framework 3.5

Here are some of the improvement that end users / developers will gain by creating a web application using the latest .NET Framework.

1 - ASP.NET Dynamic Data, which provides a rich scaffolding framework that enables rapid data driven development without writing code, and a new addition to ASP.NET AJAX that provides support for managing browser history (back button support).

2 - Performance improvements to WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), including a faster startup time and improved performance for Bitmap effects.

3 - ClickOnce applications which will display a customized branding, and ClickOnce error dialog boxes support links to application-specific support sites.

4 - LINQ to SQL includes new support for the new date and file stream capabilities in SQL Server 2008.

5 - The ADO.NET Data Services Framework makes data service creation over any data source.

6 - Windows Communication Foundation now makes the DataContract Serializer easier to use.

7 - The .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server (SqlClient) adds new support for file stream and sparse column capabilities. Currently, the latest version of .NET Framework ever released is .NET Framework Service Pack 1. It can be downloaded here. Congratulates for all the developers that take advantages of this new released of .NET Framework. You may want to check out this reliable ASP hosting provider who constantly upgrade the hosting control panel and fully compatible for .NET Framework 3.5 with ASP.NET 3.5 hosting.

Windows Sharepoing Hosting Features

raymondcc — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:43:00 GMT

The Advantages of Windows Sharepoint Hosting

1 - Discovered the solutions straight to your business requiremens Small, medium or even world class organizations seeking a more customized deployment can get started quickly with application templates for addressing specific business processes or sets of tasks.

2 - Business security made easy to users Windows SharePoint able to increase the security of information resources, while decreasing cost and complexity associated with site provisioning, site management, and support.

3 - Take file sharing to a new level storage capabilities for all level of users in a company Enable workspaces with document storage and retrieval features, including check-in/check-out functionality, version history, custom metadata, and customizable views.

4 - Improve team productivity - the main company priority Connect people with the information and resources they need. Users can create team workspaces, coordinate calendars, organize documents, and receive important notifications and updates through communication.

5 - Feeling slow loading time with SharePoint interface? Not at all with SharePoint 3.0! The intelligence of Windows SharePoint improvements in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 include enhanced views and menus that simplify navigation within and among SharePoint sites. Integration with familiar productivity tools, including programs in the Microsoft Office system

6 - Now you can manage your documents easier than you thought Users have the ability to view revisions to documents and restore to previous versions, and the control to set document- and item-level security. It is good start for SharePoint hosting now to get more updates and features!

Why Developers Choose ASP.NET?

raymondcc — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:31:00 GMT

Top Reasons Why Developers Choose ASP.NET:
1 - Under ASP.NET web development work, developers are enabled to perform a variety of web development jobs such as custom software applications, mobile games, web applications, product development, ecommerce shopping cart and database management.

2 - They enjoy writing very less code for the development of large applications, it offers server-side programming model to make the development work simpler.

3 - According to the ASP.NET experts it is popularized as latest version of Microsoft's Active Server Pages technology (ASP) and widely developers are using this technology for the development of dynamic websites, XML web services and web applications.

4 - Writing web pages in ASP.NET are easier as it provides source code and HTML together, execution of source code on server provides power & flexibility, fast compilation of source code in first request of page because server saves the compiled version for the next time, more security of application source code.

5 - ASP.NET technology updates very frequently from time to time. It’s latest in 2008 version 3.5 service pack released with Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1. Large ASP.NET developers join the community and share knowledge on this powerful scripts.

6 - Technology is having power for the development of large sized enterprise applications for the big companies.

What are your reasons of using ASP.NET for developing your own / corporate website? Please post your reviews and feedback here.

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osCommerce 3.0 Hosting Supported in SeekDotNet.com Hosting Plans.

raymondcc — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:13:00 GMT

Professional ASP.NET web hosting provider - SeekDotNet.com announced the release of the osCommerce 3.0 versions 5.0 in all ASP.NET and Windows web hosting plans.

SeekDotNet.com is the among the few top web hosting company that tested and offer ASP.NET hosting plan that compliance with osCommerce 3.0 hosting.

osCommerce 3.0 are made to showcase the new features being worked on and to generalize a version specific for testing to help fix and improve subsequent alpha releases for a final, stable, secure, and production ready 3.0 releases.

Some new features on osCommerce 3.0 hosting:

# New object-oriented framework (alpha 1)

# New installation routine (alpha 1)

# register_globals and magic_quotes_gpc compatibility (alpha 1)

# New template structure implementation (alpha 1)

# Search-engine optimizations (alpha 1)

# Service modules (alpha 1)

# Checkout procedure cleanup (alpha 2)

# New language definitions implementation (alpha 2)

# Updated payment modules with post-transaction actions

# Catalog front-end, administration tool, and installation routine combined

# XHTML/CSS based default template layout for the catalog side

# Multiple product images implementation

# New action modules

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Community Server Version 2008.5 SP1 Hosting Integrated in All SeekDotNet.com Web Hosting Plans

raymondcc — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:28:00 GMT

Reliable ASP.NET web hosting provider - SeekDotNet.com announced the integration of the latest Community Server version 2008.5 SP1 hosting in all web hosting plans.

SeekDotNet.com is the among the pioneer of few hosting company that tested and offer ASP.NET hosting plan that support the brand new Community Server 2008.5 SP1 hosting.

Some Community Server 2008.5 SP1 hosting major fixes and upgrades:

1) Blogs - Fixed Blog control panel comment editor page so it actually works.

2) Forums - Forum subscription link no longer shows for anonymous users.

3) General - Updated ServerPopulatedPopupMenuBase to ensure that reused menus are visible before populating them via AJAX.

4) Groups - Whenever you delete a group, it now also deletes the sub applications in that group. This allows you to properly delete an entire group.

5) Wiki - Editing a wiki comment no longer loses the comments formatting.

SeekDotNet.com research and development team believe that with the new version of Community Server 2008.5 SP1, users can now setup their discussion or community group very easily.

Existing clients can install and configure Community Server 2008.5 SP1 at web server immediately. SeekDotNet.com welcomes more new clients to sign up for Community Server 2008.5 SP1 supported web hosting plans. For information on Community Server hosting, please visit http://www.seekdotnet.com/communityserverhosting.aspx

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DotNetNuke 5.0 Hosting Integrated in SeekDotNet.com ASP.NET Hosting Plans

raymondcc — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:14:00 GMT

Professional ASP.NET web hosting provider - SeekDotNet.com announced the release of the DotNetNuke version 5.0 in all ASP.NET Hosting and Windows web hosting plans.

SeekDotNet.com is the among the few top web hosting company that tested and offer ASP.NET hosting plan that support the DotNetNuke 5.0

Unlike 4.9.1, DNN 5 was a massive change that involved hundreds of bug fixes, changes and enhancements. A large number of the bug fixes and a few of the changes were back ported to the 4.8.x and 4.9.x branches

Some major fix/ change on DotNetNuke 5.0 hosting:

1) Added support for Internet Explorer 8 Web Slices. Administrators can configure any module to use IE8 Web Slices including the ability to set time-to-live and expiration values.

2) Updated the installation services to support manifest files for all extension types.

3) Added ability to deny permissions in the permissions grid. This new feature extends the permission framework to give administrators greater flexibility in defining permissions.

4) Added Widget framework. The new Widget framework allows you to quickly add JavaScript/html widgets to your site with very little effort.

5) Added jQuery support to the core platform. jQuery will now be distributed as part of the DotNetNuke installation and will be available for use by module developers.

Existing clients will be able to install or upgrade the brand new DotNetnuke 5.0 hosting immediately from the control panel systems. New clients can also enjoy the privilege from DotNetNuke 5.0 by signing up one of the ASP.NET web hosting plan with us.

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