Bipin Joshi

Introduction to the Repository Pattern in C# Data driven web applications need to have a neat strategy for data access. One of the important aspects of this strategy is the separation between the physical database, queries and other data access logic from the rest of the application. The Repository pattern is a popular way to […]

Introduction Asynchronous actions allow you to handle more concurrent requests and can be implemented using async / await keywords. Asynchronous actions are useful in situations where you are performing some network operation such as calling a remote service. This article discusses asynchronous actions and also shows how to create them in an ASP.NET MVC. Overview […]

Introduction ASP.NET MVC maps a URL to an action method through what is known as Routing. By default an ASP.NET MVC URL includes a controller and an action name where the request finally lands. However, you can customize many aspects of a route such as root prefix and route parameters. ASP.NET MVC 5 allows you […]

Introduction Asynchronous programming involves executing operations in the background so that the main thread can continue its own operations. This way the main thread can keep the user interface responsive while the background thread is processing the task at hand. .NET framework introduced the async and await keywords that simplify asynchronous programming. Entity Framework 6.0 […]

Introduction No matter how proficiently you developed your application there are chances that your code may not work as expected and will generate an error at runtime. Users may enter some invalid data, mathematical calculations can go wrong, some network level fault may cause errors and more. That is why it is always a good […]

Introduction Debugging is an important skill that every developer needs to acquire. .NET developers have a powerful debugger of Visual Studio at their disposal. Visual Studio offers many windows that can be used during the debugging session. Knowing these windows is essential for efficient debugging. To that end this article discusses some of the most […]

Introduction .NET assemblies are said to be self-describing. That means the information about an assembly is stored in the assembly itself. This information is called Metadata. Moreover, .NET allows you to put additional information in the metadata through Attributes. Attributes are used in many places within the .NET framework. Some examples of attributes are [WebMethod], […]

Introduction As mobile devices are becoming more and more popular, web developers are also finding it necessary to target mobile devices while building their web sites. While developing a mobile web site is challenging due to the complexity in terms of device detection, screen size and browser support, ASP.NET MVC4 makes a developer’s life easy […]

Introduction ASP.NET MVC applications can use data annotation attributes to enforce validations on model properties. ASP.NET MVC provides a few data annotations that cover frequently needed validations such as [Required], and [StringLength]. However, at times you need to perform custom validations on the model properties. In such cases you can create a custom data annotation […]

Introduction ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms support model binding. A part of the overall model binding features are Value Providers. A value provider grabs values from a request and binds those values with method parameters. ASP.NET provides several inbuilt value providers and also allows you to create your own. This article discusses what value providers are […]

Introduction Ajax driven web applications are quite common these days. While you can use libraries such as jQuery to make Ajax calls to ASP.NET MVC action methods there is an inbuilt way to Ajax enable your forms – Ajax helper. Using Ajax helper you can submit your HTML form using Ajax so that instead of […]

Introduction While developing websites that need to deal with sensitive data, developers use authentication schemes such as ASP.NET forms authentication. Although  these authentication schemes prohibit unauthorized access to web pages, the user credentials as well as data involved in the communication is sent as plain text. Since the data is being sent in unencrypted form […]