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  • ASP .NET MVC & Charting

    Thursday, August 19, 2010

    At some point in our career as Web developers we've been asked to add a visual representation of data, commonly known as charts. Charting is an integral part of a line of business application. They represent data in a subtlety manner, making easier to interpret compiled data and make decisions from it. A chart can take a large variety of forms, however there are common features that provide the chart with its ability to extract meaning from data.

    There are many options to render data on your Web application depending on your needs. We are going to discuss some of the options and see an example of how to do it on an ASP .NET MVC project. This might help us choose from the overwhelming offer of free components out there.

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  • TIP/Trick: Use DataPager control with ListView and Custom Data Source

    Monday, July 19, 2010

    Paging tabular data retrieved through a database query has been a long time need in transactional line of business applications. With time the ways of achieving this in ASP .NET have evolved into very easy solutions. On the previous version of the framework, .NET framework 3.5 (currently to the date they are now on 4.0) two server-side user controls where introduced, the ListView and the DataPager.

    They idea behind the ListView control is to provide the developer with more control over the markup output while providing the data-bound experience of previous controls. The ListView control displays data based on user defined templates, which is extremely convenient for styling purposes. It also reduces to zero the garbage markup automatically generated by older controls like the GridView.

    The DataPager in the other hand, is product of the decoupling of the paging feature from the data-bound controls that implement the IPageableItemContainer interface. Providing more freedom when it comes to paging customization on regards of functionality and appearance.

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  • How to use Membership/Role Provider and when to use custom implementations

    Sunday, February 28, 2010

    Authentication is a must have feature for every system. Every system administrator needs to give an identity to the ones using their system. Which leads us, developers, to make this repetitive process something easier to implement and reuse every now and then on any application that may need user login.

    I've seen many "authentication frameworks" which encapsulate simple verification routines into assemblies, that can be implemented as easy as just creating a reference and running a sql script against the DB. What the heck! Even I made one of those and felt 1337 because of my glorious creation. But! That was until I meet the provider model, which reduced the greatness of my crappy "framework" or I may say, reinvention of the wheel.

    The provider model involves many other things that go a lot further than just user authentication, resource permissions, etc. For now I'll address the ones related to user management and their default implementation.

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  • Oxite: Blog Description & Profile Management

    Sunday, January 10, 2010

    Following my Oxite blog post series, I add some extra functionality to the administration panel of the blog engine as well as some little changes to the blog engine title, shown on the front-end. Also I'll use this oportunity to give a little insight about Oxite's core and internal structure.

    Let's vent first...

    If you search and read reviews you may notice that Oxite it's not considered to be good at all. Actually is not referred as a Microsoft ASP .NET MVC Framework guidance project, not even a starter kit. Adding to that I'm absolutely sure when I say it's not even close to a "Best Practices & Patterns" repository for ASP .NET MVC Framework enthusiasts.

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