Krunal's Blog

VS 2010 Beta 2 Ultimate, now for all ;)

krunalm — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:29:00 GMT

All,

waiting is over, vs 2010 beta2 ultimate is available now. go grab it.

you can see more info here, for web setup look here, and for direct ISO download visit this link.

enjoy new world of .net fw & vs.

Krunal

Checkout new mvc forum by telerik

krunalm — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:25:00 GMT

Checkout this new ASP.NET MVC Forum sample application by telerik.

Source code is also available.

Demo & Source Code

Cheers,

Krunal

Telerik Community Edition Controls

krunalm — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:43:00 GMT

Telerik is popular for its RAD Controls for Microsoft .NET. Now, this year telerik has announced some – wonderful free controls for the .NET Community. You can find the official site page over here.

Here are those…

1)    Sitefinity Community Edition (CMS)

       Sitefinity Project Manager.



       And the admin, page creation



2)    Telerik RAD Form Decorator Control

       First look at demo,



       Another good example, you must try it.



3)    Telerik OpenAccess ORM

       A good, well documented quick start guide to understand OpenAccess ORM with examples for .Net 2.0 & .Net 3.5



       Also, it’s a visual studio add-in and a wizard to generate the object using reverse mapping.

       Or you can create classes and the do forward mapping to generate the database.

       Snapshot for actual OpenAccess ORM (Everything using wizards)





4)    RAD Editor for MOSS

       A very good handy Editor for the Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server and for WSS 3.0



Finally, try it once. You’ll enjoy it.

Enjoy,

Krunal

Awesome ASP.NET Chart Control

krunalm — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:04:00 GMT

All,

The latest control added by the Microsoft in .net is NEW ASP.NET Chart control.

This control is required in the .Net family and Microsoft has fulfilled that. It can be used with .net 3.5 sp1 and it is free.

The main thing is it generates the “image tag” - simple html tag, which is supported by every browser and displays great charts. Also performance is good.

I have developed one sample application to use it for my curiosity. You can download it from here. I have used northwind database, product table.

The chart looks like this:

I think now, Microsoft has made the charting very simple and easy of cost.

You can download the Chart control, samples, a great documentation and a VS2008 Tool Support.

Happy Coding!

Krunal

New Cool Links

krunalm — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:47:00 GMT

Hello

In busy november, i got some cool links to visit atleast once.

1) .Net cheat sheets and common fundamentals

2) A nice article on converting a web page to mobile web page.

3) A new .net Chart Control :)

Regards,

Krunal

My First MVC Application

krunalm — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:06:00 GMT

Everywhere, in weblogs, i read about the MVC Beta.

After reading decided to build a small application and tried to develop sample tasklist mvc application by following the First Tutorial.

I enjoyed it and getting working on VS 2008 & its development web server.

Then, i had published it to my iis 5.1 (i am using windows xp sp2 and vs2008).

And then the things were goes wrong. Got stuck in "page not found error".

I look around on the net for this, and got one solution for this.

For that i have to change the Global.asax & little configuration in IIS

Global.asax Change:
routes.MapRoute(
                "Default",                                              // Route name
                "{controller}.mvc/{action}/{id}",                           // URL with parameters
                new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" } // Parameter defaults
            );

IIS Config Change:
Map the extension (.mvc) in IIS to the asp.net pipeline

It will looks like this : http://localhost/TaskList/Home.mvc

http://localhost/Site/controller.mvc/action

Finally, my first mvc application worked in windows xp. :)

You can download the code here.

Enjoy,
Krunal

Extract Zip File In ASP.NET

krunalm — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:37:00 GMT

Summary
Extract your zip file in aspspider.net using OpenSource Zip Library in asp.net (SharpZipLib)

.NET Classes used :

using System;

using System.IO;

using ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip;

I have used open source zip library. Which you have to download from http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/Download.aspx

Put ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.DLL into your bin folder of asp.net application.

Use Following function to extract zip file. Assign your zipfilename in ZipFileName variable.

You Need Folder Rights to Create File Programmatically.


string ZipFileName = "FCKeditor_2.4.3.zip";

        try
        {

            if (!File.Exists(Server.MapPath(ZipFileName)))
            {
                lstProcess.Items.Add("File Does Not Exists.");
                return;
            }

            using (ZipInputStream s = new ZipInputStream(File.OpenRead(Server.MapPath(ZipFileName))))
            {

                ZipEntry theEntry;
                while ((theEntry = s.GetNextEntry()) != null)
                {
                   string directoryName = Path.GetDirectoryName(theEntry.Name);
                    string fileName = Path.GetFileName(theEntry.Name);

                    // create directory
                    if (directoryName.Length > 0)
                    {
                        Directory.CreateDirectory(Server.MapPath(directoryName));
                    }

                    if (fileName != String.Empty)
                    {
                        using (FileStream streamWriter = File.Create(Server.MapPath(theEntry.Name)))
                        {

                            int size = 2048;
                            byte[] data = new byte[2048];
                            while (true)
                            {
                                size = s.Read(data, 0, data.Length);
                                if (size > 0)
                                {
                                    streamWriter.Write(data, 0, size);
                                }
                                else
                                {
                                    break;
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            //Display Error
        }
        finally
        {
            //Update Status
        }

Enjoy!!

Download Virtual TechDays (17,18,19 sep '08) recorded sessions and presentations

krunalm — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:17:00 GMT

“Virtual TechDays” held on September 17-19, 2008

Recorded sessions and presentations are now available.

Link

Enjoy !!
Krunal

ASP.NET 3.5 FREE Hosting....!!

krunalm — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:23:00 GMT

Good morning,

Want to test your web applications on live with free hosting.

Try this one : Link

It is supporting ASP.NET 3.5 and SQL Server 2005.

Enjoy,
Krunal

Good asp.net and other developer learning links & resources

krunalm — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:41:00 GMT

if you are a learning geek, then you will find this interesting.

you can find lots of learning resource and links on this site.

Link

Namste !!

Getting random records from database table

krunalm — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:48:00 GMT

Recently, in one project i need to get random records from sql server table and i found a good way to do same.

SELECT TOP <n> <column list> 
FROM <table> 
WHERE <criteria> 
ORDER BY NEWID()

The main function is NEWID() which return GUID.

Ex. Select Top 10 * From Employees Order By NEWID()  

Cheers !!
Krunal

My first post on http://weblogs.asp.net/

krunalm — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:36:00 GMT

Hello all,

This is my first post on http://weblogs.asp.net/

I m so excited about this.

I'll update and share the best things in technology, that i can.

Thanks,

Krunal Mevada