Bipin Joshi

Features such as membership and role management have been a part of ASP.NET core infrastructure since version 2.0. Developers have been using the default membership provider and role provider in their web applications. However, a common observation is that the default membership and role providers are quite rigid in terms of database schema and the […]

Introduction At times you may need to make cross-domain requests in your Windows store app. This can be done using the WinJS.xhr() function. The xhr() function is an easy to use wrapper over the traditional XMLHttpRequest object. This article introduces you with the xhr() function and many of its configuration options. It also illustrates how […]

Introduction Web applications needing real-time communication can use HTML5 features such as Web Sockets and Server Sent Events. While these techniques can be used in modern web applications they can’t be used with browsers not supporting HTML5. Additionally, they can pose some difficulty in complex scenarios. ASP.NET SignalR is a library that allows you to […]

Introduction Uploading files from the client machine to the web server is a very common operation. Typically ASP.NET developers use HTML file input fields and form submission to accomplish this task. By default this file upload process is synchronous. By using Web API in combination with the asynchronous programming features of the .NET framework you […]

Introduction While developing Windows store apps with JavaScript and HTML, often you need to present multiple pages to the user. One way to accomplish this is to shift the control entirely from one page to another. This technique, however, has drawbacks of its own. A better approach for Windows store apps is to keep the […]

Introduction Windows Store app lifecycle differs from that of a tradition desktop application considering the way a Windows Store app is run and managed by the operating system. For any developer new to Windows Store app development, it is necessary to understand how an app is managed by the operating system. An understanding of the […]

Introduction TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that provides typed nature to your code. TypeScript can also be used with existing popular JavaScript libraries such as jQuery. This allows you to make use of the rich functionality offered by these external libraries in your TypeScript code. To that end this article explains how jQuery can […]

Introduction Some web applications need to show data in real-time. As soon as the data is generated or received at the server, it immediately needs to be displayed to the end user. Traditionally developers used to poll the server periodically to check if new data was available. This approach had its own drawbacks and proved […]

Introduction Modern web applications rely heavily on client side scripting for various needs ranging from validations to Ajax calls. Many web developers who are more familiar with the server side programming model of ASP.NET find it difficult to quickly and efficiently use JavaScript. They will find TypeScript a nice addition to their skill-set. TypeScript is […]

OData protocol allows you to create RESTful data services by exposing URI end points. ASP.NET Web API supports OData queries so that your data can be consumed by the client over HTTP with the help of OData query options. To that end this article illustrates how to work with the OData support provided in the […]

Introduction Web applications commonly store data in some RDBMS, such as SQL Server. However, relational data is not the only type of data needed in an application. Your applications may need to handle data that doesn’t fit into traditional row-column format. In such cases Document databases, such as RavenDB, come into the picture. To that […]

Introduction In Visual Studio 2012, the Unit Test projects by default use MS-Test, Microsoft’s unit testing framework. A nice feature of Visual Studio 2012 is that it also allows you to use third-party unit testing frameworks such as NUnit, xUnit.Net and MbUnit. This allows you to write unit tests using the unit testing framework of […]