July, 2008

With how easy it is to write simple & complicated templates, you would want to debug the template generation or enable certain scenarios wherein you have to do complex manipulation of data using the existing data being bound. Events The Templating engine fires the ItemCreated event which is similar to the OnItemCreated of the ASP.NET DataGrid. You can subscribe to the event by calling the add_itemCreated...

If you are just tuning in , you can read Part 1 here Parent Entity Child Entity List Properties        ListID        ListTitle Associations        ListElements ListElement Properties        ListElementText        ListElementID Associations       ...

By now , you must have heard about the new JavaScript templating engine with the release of ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 CodePlex Preview 1 This post will show you how to use the built-in control DataView to build a master details view. As an addition , I will use an astoria service to serve the data and the Ajax Library to retrieve the data. Consider the following model.. Parent Entity Child Entity List Properties...

Yep , I got Tagged . And by none other than Pablo Castro !!. Now that I’ve finished gloating , let me propagate the Meme. How old were you when you started programming?       I was 15 when I first got my hands on a PC in my school’s computer lab.       and then BASIC happened and I realized that the machine in front of me is filled with immense potential ...

Today's Post is co-Authored by Linq Ninja and my Colleague Marcelo Linq to Astoria does not support Set based queries , which means that this query is invalid List< string > citiesIWillVisit = new List< string >(){ "London" , "Berlin" , "Prague" }; var customersAround = nwContext.Customers.Where<Customers>(cx => citiesIWillVisit.Contains(cx.City)); The above example would...

I’ve seen that users are having some question about how to deal with certain types of relations between entities and how to deal with them in the client library.I will outline the a couple of common scenarios of using the client library among a few relationship types. I'll be using the AdventureWorks Database for examples of relations. 1..1 Associations This is the case of entities associated with...