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Microsoft datajs API: A 5 Minutes Quick Start

Ajax enabled data centric applications are getting popular day by day in web development space. While these type of web applications provide rich user experience, building a robust and powerful application quickly is a great challenge for developers. Fortunately Microsoft has started providing great frameworks, plug-ins and APIs to facilitate this process. Last week Microsoft announced a new version of java-script API “datajs”, which is intended to help web developers to build data centric AJAX applications...
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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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T-4 Templates for ASP.NET Web Form Databound Control Friendly Logical Layers

I just released an open source project at codeplex, which includes a set of T-4 templates to enable you to build logical layers (i.e. DAL/BLL) with just few clicks! The logical layers implemented here are based on Entity Framework 4.0, ASP.NET Web Form Data Bound control friendly and fully unit testable. In this open source project you will get Entity Framework 4.0 based T-4 templates for following types of logical layers: Data Access Layer: Entity Framework 4.0 provides excellent ORM data access...
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.NETTER Code Starter Pack v1.0.beta Released

.NETTER Code Starter Pack contains a gallery of Visual Studio 2010 solutions leveraging latest and new technologies released by Microsoft. Each Visual Studio solution included here is focused to provide a very simple starting point for cutting edge development technologies and framework, using well known Northwind database. The current release of this project includes starter samples for the following technologies: ASP.NET Dynamic Data QuickStart (TBD) Azure Service Platform Windows Azure Hello World...
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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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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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Aggregator Provider Pattern: An Extension of Provider Pattern

Definition Aggregator Provider Pattern is an extension of Provider Pattern, which enables us to create and utilize multiple instance of the class having the same provider interface. In this pattern, there is an Aggregator class which implements the provider interface and contains a collection of instances of classes having the same provider interface. The underlying caller class of this aggregator is simply unaware of how many provider instances do the caller Provider Aggregator contains, but all...
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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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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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nAML: A New Revolutionary Way to Model Your .NET Applications!

Understanding the architecture and code in software application plays as major factors while building good software products. Having an easy to understand visual notation, not only helps architects to model the system efficiently, but also helps developers to quickly implement that, as well as it helps the re-engineering process to easily adopt the architectural model with respect to new requirement. A new visual modeling technique, termed as “nAML” (.NET Application Modeling Language) is being introduced...
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10 Tools Which I Still Use, Even I Have VSTS 2008

In my last post, titled "10 Tools Which I Left After Using VSTS 2008", I have included a list of 10 tools which I am not using currently, as I have the corresponding features available in Visual Studio Team System 2008. However, on the other hand, I am still using few tools even I have VSTS 2008! Here are 10 of among them.. 1. Code Smith: An excellent template based code generator. 2. Crystal FTP: Excellent FTP client tool. 3. Total Validator: One of the most powerful tool that I ever seen, which...
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10 Tools Which I Left After Using VSTS 2008

I have started using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2008, recently. Previously I worked with Visual Studio 2005. As a matter of fact I had to use lots of external tools to perform and speedup my development process. However, while working with VSTS 2008, it's very exciting for me that, I found replacements for most of the external tools there. Here are 10 tools which I left after using VSTS 2008: 1. Database Schema Compare External tool: Redgate SQL Compare VSTS 2008 tool: Menu -> Data ->...
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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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Design Factors 1: What is the type of business entity?

For .NET application, business entities can be categorized as Custom Entity, Typed DataSet and Generic DataSet. Custom Entities are generally simple and faster than DataSet, where as it includes more involvement from developer end, as opposed to DataSet, which includes lots of built-in functionality, along with several trade-off in performance end. Choosing the right business entity is one of the basic parts in the software architecture, which fits accordingly in application requirements and development...
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Software Design Tradeoff Factors

In perfect world you can get all of the best things in one place. But in real world it’s not. In software development there are some basic trade-offs when you consider a specific design feature. Exploring these considerations will help you to create the architecture that matches best with the given context. Performance Security (code level, encryption etc) VS Performance (code level) Caching: Memory VS Performance Object Oriented/Layered Code VS Performance Scalability VS Deployment (n-tier) User...
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Developer Grades: Where Do You Fall-in?

I am leading a mid size development team of 15 members. Recently I had to put grades on them to facilitate future assignments on projects. Just thought I could share those grade points, so that you have a quick asses! Grades Level Comments A+ Outstanding Fully fitted for enterprise level leadership and architecture. A Excellent Can be a core contributor in architecture for enterprise level projects. B+ Very Good Excellent implementer of the architectures for enterprise level projects defined by others....
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A Quick View to the Capabilities Which Can Make You a Great Developer

Regarding my previous experience in software development team, as developer and project manager, I’ve found some capabilities that are required to be a good developer to put a valuable effort in the development team. As mainly I have worked with web based database driven applications, these capabilities are closely or loosely relevant to that context. Of course you can consider some other capabilities regarding the software development context in broader sense, but here I consider the very basic...
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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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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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Looking to Atlas

As web 2.0 gets a major consideration among the web development technology, AJAX has taken the place here by providing rich user experience. All though it has not been possible to provide FULL strength of operating system UI, but AJAX gets popular due to it's new approach. Although AJAX is providing a new, rich experience to the users, but the technology, based on which it is being utilized is not new at all. AJAX is basically the acronym of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, as the elaboration says,...
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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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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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The Magic of Traceability Matrix

While working with outsourcing clients, a common problem appears, is the functional specification. Clients generally don't want to spend much time creating specs, try to write ASAP, which results an unfinished spec. While developing developers suffers a lot. First, it often gets confusing, the developer can't understand exactly what the spec is saying. Second, during the development (and also after seeing some demo), client discovers new features, which results much re-engineering on the code, as...
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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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Requirement Analysis Steps while Developing Software

Introduction This article provides a basic outline to discover, document requirement documents for a given software project. Some of the steps can be ignored if the application requirements are pretty simple or small. The Steps Research on Application Requirements This document includes the URL’s that are the web application and similar to the current project, which will be used to elicit the requirements. It also contains the necessary user name and password for the research sites, along with...
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Something about Requirement Engineering

What is Requirement Engineering? The primary issue that is scaled as the success of a software system is that, whether it is capable enough to meet all the requirements of its users, that is the satisfaction level of its users reflects its degree of success. Requirement Engineering includes some processes regarding this fact. A requirement engineering process is a set of structured activities to derive, validate and maintain systems requirements document [1, 2]. As an engineering task generally defined...
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Common UI Practices in ASP.NET Applications

Introduction When we start a new project, there are some common practices that should be followed on the following project. Regarding my development experience on previous 12 ASP.NET projects, I have listed some few practices which can be followed by a developer while developing an ASP.NET application. The Practices Login page: 1. Include cookie based “Remember me” check box. 2. Include a “Forgot password” link, the user can request for password. 3. There will be a test log-in...
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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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