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Employee Info Starter Kit: Project Mission

Employee Info Starter Kit is an open source ASP.NET project template that is intended to address different types of real world challenges faced by web application developers when performing common CRUD operations. Using a single database table ‘Employee’, it illustrates how to utilize Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0, Entity Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 effectively in that context. Employee Info Starter Kit is highly influenced by the concept ‘Pareto Principle’ or 80-20 rule. where it is targeted to ...
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Employee Info Starter Kit (v4.0.0) - Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 Version is Available Now

Employee Info Starter Kit is a ASP.NET based web application, which includes very simple user requirements, where we can create, read, update and delete (crud) the employee info of a company. Based on just a database table, it explores and solves most of the major problems in web development architectural space. This open source starter kit extensively uses major features available in latest Visual Studio, ASP.NET and Sql Server to make robust, scalable, secured and maintainable web applications ...
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My MVP Award is Renewed!

Yesterday I’ve been informed that I’ve gained the Most Valuable Professional award again for next year, in ASP.NET category. This is the third time I have received this award, which is pretty exciting. Here is my MVP profile: https://mvp.support.microso... Special thanks to few Microsoft employees including Technical Fellow Brain Harry, Sr. Program Manager Joe Stagner, Lead Product Manager Dan Fernandez and South Asia MVP Lead Abhishek Kant who encouraged and supported me in several ...
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Microsoft Day @ Dhaka: Community Feedback, Pictures and Resources

Thanks everybody who Participated in the event Microsoft Day @ Dhaka, held on 20 June 2009 at IDB Auditorium, Dhaka. It was an excellent gathering of 250+ professionals, specially developers in Bangladesh. Besides the knowledge sharing stuffs, the event was very successful to create a social gathering of technical professionals. I was really found it pretty nice that, I have meet at least 20+ guys there, whom I knew and meet virtually before. The good news for the community is, we will be organizing ...
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See You on Microsoft Day @ Dhaka!

Microsoft Community in Bangladesh proudly presents Microsoft Day @ Dhaka. This is a special day dedicated to all Microsoft technology professionals and students in Bangladesh. We will be having the best Microsoft community technologists from Bangladesh - Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) delivering sessions at the event. This technology marathon is a great opportunity to learn from the best and network with each other. Both Microsoft developers and networking professionals would find the ...
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5 Quick Steps to Get Introduced with Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server 2010 (Beta 1)

Last month (May 2009) Microsoft has released its first beta for Visual Studio Team System 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 release, two of the most waited and wanted tools in developer community. From my point of view these two releases are going to be one of the most historical releases, as lots of really cool stuffs has been added with respect to the last version. However, as the Beta 1 releases are pretty infant, there are very limited resources available in the web and community, so I just ...
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Announcement: The Official Site of “ASP.NET Developers, Bangladesh” has Changed

ASP.NET Developers, Bangladesh is a group of professional developers, which focuses the latest development trends in ASP.NET and it’s related technologies. This professional group is member of INETA (International .NET Association) and Culminis. The previous group site address has been changed, as it was hosted at MSN group, which was closed from March 2009. All of the previous group members and those who are not yet been member but interested to share and learn new cutting edge technologies are ...
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Top 10 Favorite Performance Counters in Web Site Load Testing Using VSTS 2008

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System/Test Edition provides an excellent tool to perform web site load testing. Using this load testing tool, you can monitor and measure the site performance along with system status with respect to a given load/stress. Fortunately VSTS provides a support for wide range of performance counters, from web page request per second to condition of physical disk, memories. Unfortunately, they are too huge that, initially testers/designers get overwhelmed with all of those, ...
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Agile Software Development: More About Human Ideology, Rather Machine or Technology!

In the recent trend of software development and information technology, Agile has been a Buzz word among the developer community. There are three types of guys, while a new hype gets introduced. First, who really ignores it, as it is being hype, second, who really get excited about it, but really not very aware to utilize the concept properly, and the third, who really don’t care about whether it is hype or not, but cares to utilize and adopt it properly. It’s very hopeful that the third type of ...
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July 2008 Recap: Panel Discussion, Blogging, Developer Group and Finally Winning Community Credit Award!

I have been awarded by Community Credit, for the monthly community contribution competition of July 2008. One of my main contributions for July 2008, besides blogging, moderating developer group etc, was organizing a panel discussion and seminar with 120+ students of American International University - Bangladesh. Along with Mr Enam Noor, we had a nice time with students, while providing them a guideline to get prepared for industry standard software development. Along with the support of my current ...
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Employee Info Starter Kit on Official ASP.NET Site

Employee Info Starter Kit is an asp.net starter kit, which demonstrates the use of simple CRUD operations for maintaining a company's employee information. It has been developed by me as a guideline for building enterprise level projects. In last few months this starter kit placed in the top chart at code.msdn.microsoft.com for several times regarding the popularity. A very exciting news for all of Employee Info Starter Kit fans is yesterday this starter kit has been placed in the front page of Official ...
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I am MVP Again! Cheers!

It's great pleasure for me that Microsoft has awarded me as MVP (in ASP.NET category) again this year! I become MVP for the second time, for my contribution in developer community. Check out my MVP profile here. Besides, another interesting news to be shared with all, in the last weekly show of Channel 9, two of my posts published here 10 Tools Which I Left After Using VSTS 2008 and 10 Tools Which I Still Use, Even I Have VSTS 2008 has been discussed. Thanks Microsoft for your recognition! It really ...
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Traceability in Layered Architecture: A Roadmap

Traceability in layered architecture lets software architects to define, utilize, reuse and re-engineer existing, current and future application architecture in more structured way. This article provides a roadmap to trace multi-layer architectures easily. Introduction Multi layer architecture is one of the most popular and proven model in the current trend of software development. It lets software designers and developers to easily isolate user interface, business logic and data access logic. In ...
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Using Nested Master Page in ASP.NET

Master page made the developers life extremely easy where all of the core design (specially headers, footers etc) can be designed and defined in one page which then can be inherited by all the pages in the application without requiring adding the header, footers etc explicitly. However master pages can also be nested, that is in a application, where are there two (or more) set of designs to be followed in two or more set of pages, along with following some common design components (such as header, ...
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Using .NET 2.0 Generics for Custom Entity Collection

Generics is a new feature in .NET 2.0 which allows us to create a data structure without committing to a specific data type. In the early age of .net 2.0 (i.e. .net 1.x), while using custom entity model in our application data architecture, we had to create a separate class regarding the collection for each of custom entity. The custom entity public class SystemUser { public string _Name, _Password; public SystemUser(string name, string password) { _Name = name; _Password = password; } public string ...
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ASP.NET Role Based Security: The Basics

Authentication and authorization is the two basic part of the user-end security in asp.net web applications. After to successful authentication of a user, authorization takes the place according to which the authenticated user are allowed to access to the corresponding resources in the web application. Role based security is very basic requirements in the current trend of web applications. Mostly there are two roles involved, which are registered user and the admin users. However in a web application ...
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Wikimapia: Describing own place!

I become a fan of Wikimapia with in few minutes, after checking it! How easy to find out your desired location and can mark it with your own words if you wish! Being combined with Google Map, this site enables to browse any place in the world via web, without installing Google client side software. The picture below shows my sweet home using wikimedia! The concept of "wiki" is to enable users to put their own text in site content, so being integrated with Google Map, it lets you to mark any area. ...
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Few Enhancement Suggestions for GWB

GeeksWithBlogs is becoming on of the most popular provider in blog space. I really wish for the best for it. Recently I noticed some of the great enhancements is being implemented here, which will definitely increase it's popularity among bloggers and readers. Besides there, I have some other ideas which can be considered: 1. I wish to have the full source codes available in zip for some code related post. Definitely I would love this type of feature, to have a single place where i can share my source ...
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I Become a Community Credit Member

Thanks to community credit to consider me as a member! Being a member of community member, my posts in GWB will be automatically be approved for the credit points. Thanks to GWB as well as to support for this cool stuff! Technorati Tags: community,blog ...
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Creating a Performance Benchmark Framework for Your .NET Codes

Performance is a one of the basic requirements in the most of the current trend of web applications. While designing software architecture, there are several technologies kept available for the designers. Among these available options, some of techniques may includes multiple solutions, combining of those can create a case, where the basic performance output can't be determined based on the common sense and/or in depth knowledge on the corresponding topics. In short, based upon different options ...
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Performing Long Running Operation with Asynchronous Page in ASP.NET 2.0

Technorati Tags: asp.net,async,web service,performance,database There are few cases in current web applications, where it involves long running operations. For instance, a system admin uploads 1 gig of data in the system, which will be processed by the system for 30-40 minutes to be splitted and putted properly in the database system, as well as notifying other system user regarding the availability if data. In the traditional approach of web application, the user has to wait for the whole time until ...
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Few Words From A Fresh MVP

One of the famous quotes of Socrates that drives me all the time is: "Know Thyself". Around the world there are lots of things which might be in your interest on not. Knowing yourself doesn't only mean to find your choices, it also includes the facts, which don't belong to your choice as well as! Knowing what I don't know Well, so I need to know myself. As a technical guy, how do I know where I can be the best fit or where I can be comfortable to explore my ideas to create new but necessary things? ...
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Object Oriented Tagging : Adding Power to Web 2.0 Tags!

One of the basic consideration in web 2.0 concept is 'tagging' where any contents in the web can be associated with one or more tags, which can be shared among social community network. It lets others to find any content according to their chosen tag. Tag is nothing, but a way to categorize any web content. In real world, any visitor can quickly reach to a content thru it's associated tags, can thus get a basic idea about whether s/he will consider it to read/download etc. "Search" is older concept ...
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40000+ Touches with My Community Friends

It's a great wonder for me my article titled Common UI Practices in ASP.NET Applications at codeproject has reached 30,418 hits so far! This article was published in March 2006, and was honored to be a recommended article by the official web site of ASP.NET. In this article, I discussed few tips and guidelines regarding the UI issues while developing an ASP.NET based web application, along with some useful resource links. It's great pleasure for me, around 30k+ developers read my article to find ...
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Attached with 'Culminis'

Culminis is an international organization devoted to the development and growth of the IT community. After getting the membership from INETA, our group ASP.NET Developer, Bangladesh, got the membership of this organization. As the group leader, today I have accessed the resource site of this community and surprised with the resources and organization of it. We really feel ourselves to find better and better ways to explore our experience with other professionals and communities, as well as have greater ...
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Being Placed in INETA Newsletter October 2006!

"INETA (International .NET Association) is the next evolution in user group communities" as it is told in the web site of this organization, I really found it true when I was first interested about INETA. This fast growing .NET based developer association expanding it's activities with a real driving force. The fact which made me more surprised that, it has been successful to put .NET developers the whole world in an umbrella, according with very useful resources, pure dedication of expert group ...
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Me, My Groups and INETA

Rather being involved on core coding, this month I was pretty busy on project management, user requirements analysis and of course in developer community activities. For last few days I tried to get the membership of my own developer group, where me and my other mates shares their ideas and thoughts. As the group leader, finally I was able to get the recognition from INETA (International .NET Association). For verification purpose I was called from Microsoft, Bangladesh office, which was a good surprise ...
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Common Sharable Content: A Missing Feature of Web 2.0

Lets consider the situation: I have 6 categories of resumes and portfolios which are used for different purposes (i.e. for professional job, contract, personal, marriage, research proposal, university admission purposes etc). I have to provide those with recent information when needed. Also I am a developer, who has blogs, profiles among several online community, forum, sites, for instance in 20 sites. Among those, of course there are some information which are being changed very frequently (i.e. ...
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.NET 3.0 — A Sea In Paradise !!!

Microsoft is changing it’s development technology very frequently. By the early of this year I started to learn .net 2.0 and VS.NET 2005 seriously, and with in few months I was just able to capture few new features of this, although I was also engaged with project management, UML, Ajax and other software engineering issues, as I need to be on the track with other development tracks. Well, not only Microsoft, but also other technologies, relevant to software development is changing very frequently. ...
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“Hello .NET 3.0 Installation!”

When a new development technology comes, the first thing that makes the developers busy, crazy and tensed is “how I can see the first ‘Hello World?’” Well of course you need to successfully install the corresponding software into your pc, then can write a new or open an provided sample, generally which is as simple as showing the “Hello World” message. After then the developer goes through the more complex samples, finds good tutorials and start discuss about it ...
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Web 2.0 — What Do I feel?

Starting from the static page, Web 1.0 has been turned to dynamic contents (like Google, yahoo etc), where users can interact with web pages, by providing instructions and contents through graphical interfaces. In short web 1.0 dealt with human-machine communication through web, accessible through wide range of operating system platforms, which was been possible by using http and html. Besides human to machine communication, the concept of web 2.0 concentrates on the following issues, that I have ...
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No Comments??

I have started blogging on http://www.geekswithblogs.net/ around a week ago. Previously I blogged in msn space regularly about my current development experiences at http://spaces.msn.com/joycs... Well from the user statistics list everyday I found that only 4/5 readers are coming to my blog space and they are coming from search engines(mostly from Google). I was a bit upset to find this and tried to find a good space where I can put my technical blogs, Unfortunately in internet I could not found ...
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Problems of Software Developers in Bangladesh

1. INTRODUCTION As computer technology offers efficient and high performance information processing, it has got popularity over the home, office users in the whole world. By the decade of 1990, in Bangladesh, it has also taken an important role. Since during this time PCs become more user friendly and attractive, the number of users had been increased. Beside the general users, in Bangladesh, a number of Software Developers has been increased as well as. Many of Computer Science and Engineering graduates ...
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Enterprise Application Solution: A Component Based Approach

1. INTRODUCTION The trend of Information Technology has taken a big aspect over the whole world. It has got the trust of various types of users, especially of business organizations by offering the way to optimize the business processes.To achieve high performance with respect to information technology, it’s obvious that a company should contain a well organized computer based information system, containing an application solution that reflects the business strategies, business processes, business ...
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