What is .NET Core and ASP.NET Core

.NET developers are familiar with .NET’s own web development framework which is ASP.NET. The ASP.NET framework supports a magnitude of higher level web development frameworks such as Web Forms, Web  Pages, MVC, Web API, SignalR. The ASP.NET framework was and currently is solid framework for developing...

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Display Loading Indicator with Interceptors in Angular

Most Single Page Applications (SPA) written in Angular, utilize a plethora of asynchronous service calls in the background, some completing instantly and some taking a very long duration just because your ISP provides blazing speeds. Nevertheless, during such situation, it is essential that you display...

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Entity Framework Core 1.0 Database-First to Code-First

There is much interest within the .NET development community with the announcement of the new introduction of ASP.NET 5aka ASP Core 1.0, formerly known as ASP.NET 5 and Entity Framework 7 formerly known as Entity Framework Core 1.0. The highlight of these technologies is the ability to develop applications...

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SignalR – Real-time application development

Introduction Real-time applications for the web are none other than usual client-server applications with one distinct feature, that being they accomplish functionality with very little (near real-time) or zero latency (real-time). There have been a number of traditional approaches in the past that...

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Service Reference Generation using svcutil.exe

Duplicate objects being generated. When working with generating a single service reference code file for multiple services I encountered an issue where one of the services being used exposes a System.Data.Dataset as the return datatype. The issue i had was that the generated objects seemed to get duplicated and generated in two different ways as shown and below,   The code below is gerated...

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Entity Framework 5 with enums

Entity Framework 4 and earlier version limitations Enums or Enumration Types are a very useful feature in .NET framework, that lets you define a collection of logical options as a specific type. Although this feature is a part of the language, it was not supported by the ADO.NET Entity Framework....

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WCF Client Request / Response Message Inspection

Very recently I encountered a requirement for inspection of WCF messages passed to and from a service. This feature was required on the client side as the client applications requirement was to store these messages as log entries in the database. Although WCF does not support this out-of-the-box, it was pretty darn easy to implement it just by implementing two (out of many) interfaces in the WFC...

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Tree View Checkbox JQuery Selection

Adding JQuery Hierachical Selection Asp.Net TreeView control is a useful control when hierarchical data representation is required in an .aspx page. The Treeview control inherently supports enabling of checkboxes for node level selection. I came a across a problem where I needed a solution for the following, 1. Checking a node should cause all its child nodes to be selected. 2. Checking a node should...

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Introduction to C# and R Integration using R-(D)COM Server

Introduction Quantitative analysis in the financial industry space plays a major role by providing services with the use of numerical, statistical and quantitative techniques. Such services may include investment management, portfolio optimization, risk management, derivative pricing, etc. In many...

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Asp.Net Multiple Row Edit GridView Control

About the ASP.NET Gridview The Asp.Net GridView control is a versatile control when a web based application requires tabular data that can be manipulated with. It enables not just presentation of data but also extended functionality to perform selecting, editing, deleting and paging to name a few. ASP.NET...

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