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Nikolaos Kantzelis ASP.Net Blog

This blog will focus on ASP.NET Framework

  • How to build a simple ASP.Net application with C# and Entity Framework

    In this post I will show you a step by step example on how to build an ASP.NET application with C# and Entity Framework. First let’s try to define what EF is and why it is going to help us to create easily data-centric applications.Entity Framework is an object-relational mapping (ORM) framework for the .NET Framework.EF addresses the problem of Object-relational impedance mismatch. I will not be talking about that mismatch because it is well documented in many sites on the Internet. Through that framework we can program against a conceptual application model instead of programming directly against a relational schema-model. By doing so we can decrease the amount of code we do write to access a data storage and thus decrease maintenance time.

  • About Me

    My name is Nikolaos Kantzelis, I am 34 years old and I come from Greece. I am based in Athens.I work as a freelance web and application's developer focusing on .Net Technologies.I also work as a Microsoft Certified Trainer and I usually train software engineers on ASP.NET,WCF,WPF and SQL Server.I am also an ASP.Net MVP.

  • How to create,use and manipulate a web user control

    User controls are reusable controls that can be defined once and used whenever we need them, in any of the .aspx pages of our application. We do have skins,themes and css to give a standard look to our website. User controls help to achieve that as well because since we define them once and use many times, thus making sure we do not have same controls on pages looking differently. When we make changes to a user control all these changes will be reflected to all instances of the control.