In one of my recent projects I was implementing Enterprise level caching using Coherence . As you might be aware its written in Java and expects all the objects (that needs to be cached in it) in a Portable Object Format. This is to allow interoperability...

I have written some Domain specific blogs. You can find them here: http://sanjeetsahay.blogspot.com I will resume my postings on Patterns and Frameworks soon. Till then :)

In continuation to my previous post, I am presenting you a sample code that implements Factory Pattern. The overview: - We are using the Person, Gift and Letter classes as we did in the Abstract Factory Pattern implementation. This is just to show how...

This happens to be the first of my articles on Software Design Patterns. I will present some basics followed by implementation of the pattern. These patterns help make a system independent of how its objects are created, composed and represented. A class...

In continuation to my previous post, I am presenting you a sample code that implements Abstract Factory Pattern. The overview: - This implementation contains a factory called Person. - The Product/Entity class is represented by 2 abstract classes called...

If you don't have Visual C# Codename Orcas Express Edition installed on your development machine, and you are using Visual Studio 2005 with the LINQ 2006 CTP , then SqlMetal.exe is something that you must lookout for. It is the O/R mapper that you must...

While exploring a number of neat features available in the Visual C# Orcas Express Edition, you will see the following: There is no namespace like DLinq, or XLinq anymore, they are replace with more meaningful System.Data.Linq and System.Xml.Linq However...

Year: 2005 A.D. The C# 2.0 specification is released in the month of September. It talks about "new" features. We were introduced with a new "in-line" feature of using delegates. We called it "Anonymous Methods". Needless to say, its named as such because...

Hello folks, This time we will explore LINQ over a series of Posts. As you must be knowing the age old "var" is back. But, is it the same old var that used to be in VB 6.0 days? Precisely its not the same it has got a number of new features: - You have...

Preface: I have seen a large number of cases where the customer complaint of performance and scalability issues when they create/manage a data-aware application. That’s when I decided that I should come up with something that is concise, efficient, and...

Today, I was trying out a couple of things with WPF. Here is the scenario: I created a simple XML file called "People.xml". My objective was to use this file as a database for my first data aware XBAP. I had a lot of problems making it to work. The reason...

Whenever you might have started reading about Delegates, the first line you read is : "Delegates are function pointers in C#" Now what is a function pointer? and how is it going to make my life any easier? Lets understand function pointers now. Function...

1. Ajax basics - "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML," is a web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so...

An overview of Asynchronous-ness: Getting started You must have read in a number of blogs/articles that asynchronous operations are good for your UI responsiveness. It sounds good too. But, for last many months I have been working hard to put them in...

How to call Webserver methods using Javascript If you are planning to call your own ASP.Net webservice from client side using XMLHttp you need to configure its web.config. Add the following inside <system.web>: <webservices> <protocols>...

What is XMLHttpRequest? - It is an API that is used by JavaScript and some other scripting languages to transfer data (XML/plain text) "to-and-from" a web server over HTTP. - You can make a call from an html page also. In the following example we are...