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In default template of asp.net mvc 4.0, Layout.cshtml has following code for menu: <nav> <ul id=”menu”> <li>@Html.ActionLink(“Home”, “Index”, “Home”)</li> <li>@Html.ActionLink(“About”, “About”, “Home”)</li> <li>@Html.ActionLink(“Contact”, “Contact”, “Home”)</li> </ul></nav> Which is hard-coded for all users. We’ll create partial view for menu to reduce complexity. Right click on Shared folder in Views > select Add > click ViewEnter Name: _Menu and set “Create as a partial view” option true > click AddIt’ll open blank cshtml page. Define Menu Items: In normal asp.net webforms app, Sitemap file is used to define structure. Here we’ll define…

If you’re new to ASP.NET MVC, you might be wondering what these two things are and when to use each one. If you’ve been using MVC and are just new to version 3 of MVC, you are probably wondering what this new ViewBag is for and if it’s different from the ViewData you’ve been using. In the beginning of the Summer, I had the opportunity to explain this difference to the two NimblePros interns when they started working on ASP.NET MVC 3 for the first time. This post should serve…

SoapUI is a free and open source cross-platform Functional Testing solution. With an easy-to-use graphical interface, and enterprise-class features, SoapUI allows you to easily and rapidly create and execute automated functional, regression, compliance, and load tests. In a single test environment, SoapUI provides complete test coverage and supports all the standard protocols and technologies. There are simply no limits to what you can do with your tests. Meet SoapUI, the world’s most complete testing tool! Easy from the start Even if you’ve never used SoapUI before, you’ll find that creating…

The error is: [A]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection cannot be cast to [B]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection. Type A originates from ‘System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ in the context ‘Default’ at location ‘C:\windows\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Web.WebPages.Razor\v4.0_2.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll’. Type B originates from ‘System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ in the context ‘Default’ at location ‘C:\Users\e.rossini\AppData\Local\Temp\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\55c43b6b\aa340995\assembly\dl3\a83c308f\965a638d_c896cf01\System.Web.WebPages.Razor.dll’. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.InvalidCastException: [A]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection cannot be cast to [B]System.Web.WebPages.Razor.Configuration.HostSection. Type A originates from ‘System.Web.WebPages.Razor, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ in…

According to Microsft in this article is should see an option ‘Code First From Database’ when adding a new item to the project under ‘ADO.NET Entity Data Model’ in step 3. Where is it the component for Code First like following picture? For installing in Visual Studio 2012 or 2013 this functions you can download the install for this link https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40762

  namespace PSC{ public class Bollettini { public bool getCode(string strCode) { bool rtn = true; if (strCode.Length != 50) { return false; } int first = Convert.ToInt16(strCode.Substring(0, 2)); Bollettino = strCode.Substring(2, first); int second = Convert.ToInt16(strCode.Substring(first + 2, 2)); Contocorrente = strCode.Substring(first + 4, second); int third = Convert.ToInt16(strCode.Substring(first + second + 4, 2)); string tmp = strCode.Substring(first + second + 6, third); Importo = Convert.ToDecimal(tmp) / 100; int fouth = Convert.ToInt16(strCode.Substring(first + second + third + 6, 1)); Codice = strCode.Substring(first + second + third + 7, fouth);…

ASP.NET MVC 4 was released in beta by the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Developer Team and it comes with a number of really cool features: Bundling and Minification Support of CSS and JavaScript, Database Migrations using Entity Framework 4.3, Web APIs, Mobile Web with support for jQuery Mobile, Real Time Communication via SignalR, and Asynchronous Support. The Database Migrations using Entity Framework Code-First is really cool and is very much like Rails where you can change your code and then via Package Manager add migrations and update your database as your…

using System;using System.Text;using Google.GData.Client;using System.Net;using System.Xml;using System.Text.RegularExpressions;namespace BloggerDevSample{ class ConsoleSample { /** Lists the user’s blogs. */ static void ListUserBlogs(Service service) { Console.WriteLine(“\nRetrieving a list of blogs”); FeedQuery query = new FeedQuery(); // Retrieving a list of blogs query.Uri = new Uri(“https://www.blogger.com/feeds/default/blogs”); AtomFeed feed = null; feed = service.Query(query); foreach (AtomEntry entry in feed.Entries) { Console.WriteLine(” Blog title: ” + entry.Title.Text); } } /** Lists the user’s blogs and returns the URI for posting new entries * to the blog which the user selected. */ static Uri SelectUserBlog(Service service) {…

First download and install Google API from here:https://code.google.com/p/google-gdata/downloads/list Add a reference to “Google Data API Core Library”,and use the following function: public static bool AddPost(string title, string bodyHTML, string[] labels) {     Service service = new Service(“blogger”, “<program name>”);     service.Credentials = new GDataCredentials(“<username>”, “<password>”);     AtomEntry newPost = new AtomEntry();     newPost.Title.Text = title;     newPost.Content = new AtomContent();     newPost.Content.Content = bodyHTML;     newPost.Content.Type = “html”;     foreach (string label in labels)     {         AtomCategory cat = new AtomCategory();         cat.Scheme = new Uri(“https://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#”);         cat.Term =…

This article demonstrates how to create / show a lock screen icon that will identify your Windows Phone 8 app on the lock screen. Here are a few quick steps you can follow: Step1. Create a new Windows Phone 8 application project in Visual Studio. Step2. Add a PNG image to your project, that will be displayed on the lock screen. Image requirements: Size: 38 x 38 Type: PNG Colors: The image must contain only white pixels, optionally  with some level of transparency Add a sample icon that meets the…

Live tiles are one of the signature features of Windows Phone and are used to represent your app on the start screen of the phone and give the user quick access to your app. Live tiles also enable apps to show notifications to the user on the home screen and starting with Windows Phone 8 – on the lock screen. While, the Primary (or default) tile appears on the phone’s start screen only when a user pins your application, secondary tiles are created programmatically by the application and multiple such…

Using Live Tiles in Windows Phone applications give new fresh way of communication with users. We can provide various information via Live Tiles to the user using text or images. This post will explain how to create custom live tiles with custom formatted text on the secondary tile using Flip template which is default Tile template. You can find more general info about Tiles on Tiles for Windows Phone MSDN page. Introduction When working with Live Tiles you provide default Tile images for Flip Template using WMAppManifest.xml file from Assets/Tiles folder:…

If you are a desktop or web developer, you are used to being able to decide when and where your code runs. On the phone you do not have that luxury, so you have to let the operating system dictate exactly when you run your application or some background operations. But how does the operating system handle background operations? Normally when you build a typical phone application, you submit a .xap file with all the code your application requires to launch the application’s user interface. Your application can be launched,…

Oggi è stato pubblicato il libro di Enrico Rossini Creare App per Windows Phone 8 Concetti di base. Nel mercato degli smartphone è arrivato da qualche tempo il nuovo sistema operativo di Microsoft, Windows Phone, che rappresenta un taglio netto con il passato: nuova architettura, nuova user experience, nuova grafica e anche nuovi strumenti di sviluppo. Con questo libro, partendo dalle basi fino ad arrivare agli aspetti più avanzati, scopriamo tutte le caratteristiche della piattaforma e quali sono gli strumenti che abbiamo a disposizione per creare applicazioni originali e innovative.…

Many applications utilize network connection for various purposes like feeds, sending & receiving data to/from server, etc. The following article explains how one can detect if the network connection is available or not. Network API Information NetworkInterface Class helps in providing network information to the developers. It helps detect if the network is on/off, address etc. NetworkInterface::GetIsNetworkAvailable is used to check if the network connection is available.The network connection is considered to be available if interface is not in loopback or is marked as “up”. Namespace: System.Net.NetworkInformation Example Code to…

This article explains how to quickly resume the Windows Phone 8 application which is put in the background.   Introduction Whenever your app loses focus (is put in the background), an instance of the app is saved. This instance is used to resume the app if the user tasks to it from a deep link or returns to it by selecting the back button on the foreground app. However if the user relaunches the app by selecting its icon on the start screen, by default the stored instance is removed…

In this series of tutorials, we build an entire Contact Management application from start to finish. The Contact Manager application enables you to store contact information – names, phone numbers and email addresses – for a list of people. We build the application over multiple iterations. With each iteration, we gradually improve the application. The goal of this multiple iteration approach is to enable you to understand the reason for each change. Iteration #1 – Create the application. In the first iteration, we create the Contact Manager in the simplest…

Building a Contact Management ASP.NET MVC Application (C#) In this series of tutorials, we build an entire Contact Management application from start to finish. The Contact Manager application enables you to store contact information – names, phone numbers and email addresses – for a list of people. We build the application over multiple iterations. With each iteration, we gradually improve the application. The goal of this multiple iteration approach is to enable you to understand the reason for each change. Iteration #1 – Create the application. In the first iteration,…

I have the following collection / table Category Type Detail CostAuto Hybrid AC 80Auto Hybrid Sunroof 100Auto Standard AC 120Motorcycle Standard Radio 60 Is there a way with linq to get this to pivot to look like this? Category Type AC Radio Sunroof Auto Hybrid 80 0 100 Auto Standard 120 0 0Motorcycle Standard 0 60 0 use the let keyword to generate a key for use with the group by clause like so: var query = from item in list let key = new { Category = item.Category, Type…

The ASP.NET MVC 5 Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft’s ASP.NET web platform. It provides a high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility, combined with all the benefits of ASP.NET. ASP.NET MVC 5 contains a number of advances over previous versions, including the ability to define routes using C# attributes and the ability to override filters. The user experience of building MVC applications has also been substantially improved. The new, more tightly integrated, Visual Studio 2013 IDE has been created specifically with MVC…