Xu Qiang's Blog

Integrate Composite Application Library with Silverlight.FX

chanva — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:40:00 GMT

I have modified the StockTrader Reference Implementation project in Composite Application Library, make it to use the lightweight IoC container built in Silverlight.FX, instead of Unity. You could read more if you are insteresting in two Silverlight frameworks.

An application architecture for ASP.NET MVC

chanva — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:15:00 GMT

Nova Commons is an application architecture developed by Nova Software. The architecture adopts a lot of best practices and well-known open source projects. You could feel free to use the architecture to build your ASP.NET MVC appliation. We are looking forward to your response.

Comparison of different Silverlight frameworks

chanva — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:17:00 GMT

Nova has published an article about "Comparison of different Silverlight frameworks". The article describes four Silverlight frameworks below:

Hope it helps.

Find out code errors in the ASP.NET views by Precompilation

chanva — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:04:00 GMT

When developing ASP.NET website based on ASP.NET MVC, we would write plenty of codes in the ASP.NET views. We always encounter a kind of problems that the code errors in the views cannot be found out when building the website, the error will be thrown until we open the view. I think it is too late. The solution is that we can utilize precompiling an ASP.NET Web site to find out errors in the ASP.NET views immediately.

You could put the following command into the Post-build event textbox of the Project Properties window.

D:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_compiler -p "$(ProjectDir)." -v /$(ProjectName)

If you feel it is a little slow, you could put the command like below into a batch file, then you execute it just as you need.

D:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_compiler -p "e:\MvcApplication1" -v /$MvcApplication1

Hope this helps,

A simple Silverlight game - Gobang

chanva — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:06:00 GMT

Nova Software has released a simple Silverlight game - Gobang. The Siliverlight game has the following features.

Based on Silverlight 2

Using template and Style to encapsulate the look and feel and separate them from the functional code

Using PureMVC which is a lightweight framework for creating applications based upon the MVC pattern. And the application will become more reusable, flexible and extendable.

Designing in Microsoft Expression Design, making animations in Microsoft Expression Blend

An excellent jQuery plugin

chanva — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:05:00 GMT

Lizheng has done a great job, he has been perfecting a jQuery plugin which could create a fixed header and first column on a HTML table, just like Excel worksheet.

Programming Language Equivalents

chanva — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:03:00 GMT

Learned from MSDN, Nova has published another comparing article. The article summarize popular programming concepts with side-by-side code examples or tables. This information is designed for those who want to learn a new language or refresh their memory of how to work with a particular language. The following programming languages are covered: C#, PHP, JavaScript, ActionScript, Ruby.

No. 003 of Nova Magazine

chanva — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:33:00 GMT

Nova Software has just released the third issue of Nova Magazine. Through the magazine, cusutomers could learn more about Nova Software, e.g. Culture, People, Activities, Events.

A great DotNetNuke Module

chanva — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:10:00 GMT

Nova Software developed a new DotNetNuke Module, which could display a Microsoft Reporting Service Report in a DNN website. So the module could extend your website for showing more information.

Nova Website Redesign

chanva — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:18:00 GMT

With several weeks’ preparation, Nova finally launches its new updated website. The new website is aimed to enhance user experience and demonstrate a clearer picture of Nova’s expertise, service category etc. We have improved the site from two directions:

New site layout

With the help of our professional designer, the website has been furnished with a new color scheme and modern-style pictures accompanying the new content. The eye-catching design delivers a professional and trustful image which Nova always tends to build.

New site content

This part is the most important component of the updating task. In order to help prospective clients better understand our service and expertise, in the “What You Need” part, we adopted the Q &A style to elaborate what we deliver and where are our competencies. Also you can find the basic facts of Nova on the upper part of the home page. For those clients who are trying outsourcing for the first time, they will find the comparison chart between ODC and Fixed Price very helpful when formulating their outsourcing strategy.

Should you have any suggestions to this updated website, please feel free to contact us. Thanks in advance.

DNN Toolkit has been released!

chanva — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:24:00 GMT

Nova Software has formally released a open source project based on DNN, named by DNN Toolkit.

For now, the project is consisted of three DNN modules:

FAQ Module

Supports searching by keywords in questions or answers with category.

Supports browsing glossaries by first letter.

Glossary Module

Supports searching by keyword.
Supports browsing by category.

City Tax Locater Module

Supports importing data by text file or xml file.
Supports Exporting data to xml file.
Supports DNN Print with modalbox.

Updated version of Strongly Typed Url Generator

chanva — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:08:00 GMT

Nova Software has released an updated version of Strongly Typed Url Generator. The new version has added two addins for Visual Stuido 2005 and 2008, so you could generate the URL file more conveniently.

Strongly Typed Url Generator for ASP.NET

chanva — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:14:00 GMT

Nova Software has release a new Open Source project, UrlGenerator. The UrlGenerator tool is used to generate strongly typed Urls according to the website directory. So you could navigate to a URL or receive the request parameters safely. The project is developed based on C# and ASP.NET 2.0.

The bigest feature of the tool is that you can use any Entity Class as the type of request parameter.

Free DNN Modules Downloads from Nova Software

chanva — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:24:00 GMT

My company, Nova, have published some free DNN modules for downloading, please tell me your comments if you are interesting in trying them.

Free DNN Modules Downloads

chanva — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:24:00 GMT

My company, Nova, have published some free DNN modules for downloading, please tell me your comments if you are interesting in trying them.