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Khalid
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Posts by Khalid
Asp.Net MVC ViewModel with AutoMapper
July 30, 2010 - 9:10 am
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Hello readers. It’s been a while because Aqua Bird Consulting has been doing some awesome work recently and I am finding it hard to sit down and write. But today I found some time, so you will get an experimental post about Asp.Net MVC and Automapper. This post is targeted toward those developers who use [...]
JavaScript Views for Easier Ajax (with JQuery)
May 15, 2010 - 11:07 am
Tags: Asp.Net, ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript, JQuery, Routing
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I tweeted Phil Haack a while ago asking for a new feature in Asp.Net MVC 3. That feature was JavaScript views. What the heck is a JavaScript View? Well first, let’s define what the problem is and then you will see how JavaScript views can be very helpful. Let’s look at how we make an [...]
Using the 960 Grid System for Layout
May 5, 2010 - 12:25 pm
Tags: 960.gs, Aqua Bird Consulting, CSS, Design, Development, HTML, Layout
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So I’ve been using the 960 grid system for over 6 months now and I have learned a thing or two that could be helpful to those looking at using it as well. If you don’t already know, 960.gs is a css framework to help you quickly enable layouts and help ease the pain of [...]
Get a VS2010 Ultimate Experience for Less
April 12, 2010 - 9:32 am
Tags: .Net, Aqua Bird Consulting, Business, Development, Visual Studio
Posted in Business Ideas, Just Talking | No Comments
As of writing this blog post, there are thousands of developers converging in Las Vegas for the official release of Visual Studio 2010. I’ve been using Visual Studio 2010 for the a while now and it has been a generally positive experience. While as was exploring the VS2010 site I saw this question posed. “What [...]
Aqua Bird Consulting’s Competitive Edge Review
April 7, 2010 - 10:51 am
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I am happy to announce, after popular demand, that we have started offering a new service: Competitive Edge Review. This service is for any business looking to have a review of their business processes, staff, or other aspects of their business. So how does it work and what do our clients get? Our experts visit [...]
FluentSitemap: Build Sitemaps for Asp.Net MVC
March 24, 2010 - 10:45 am
Tags: Aqua Bird Consulting, ASP.NET MVC, Business, C#, Development, FluentSitemap, GitHub
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Building your site is only half the battle. Getting people to know it exists is the other half. If you are creating a public facing site, or even an intranet that utilizes an in-house search server then I have created a library just for you. The library is FluentSitemap. This library is designed to help [...]
MVC Turbine – A Great Platform
March 22, 2010 - 11:35 am
Tags: Aqua Bird Consulting, ASP.NET MVC, Development, IoC
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I love Asp.Net MVC, that isn’t a secret. Although the framework isn’t perfect, it is a great leap in the right direction. When I start an Asp.Net MVC project there are things I always have to do just to jump into the meat of the new site. These things include replacing the ControllerFactory with a [...]
ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM, Content Management System, & ValidateInput
March 15, 2010 - 1:14 pm
Tags: Aqua Bird Consulting, ASP.NET MVC, CMS
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I have a lot of clients asking whether I can enable them to edit their own content. Most of the time I ask questions that make them realize that they don’t really need it, but sometimes they really do want it. I’ve been developing ASP.NET MVC web applications in VS2008, but as VS2010 comes closer [...]
C4MVC Presentation on Database Migrations
March 15, 2010 - 9:07 am
Tags: .Net, ASP.NET MVC, Business, C#, Development
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Hello everybody. It has been about a week since I gave my C4MVC presentation on database migrations. The video is below, and the code is also downloadable below. Migrations Example (VS2010)
Asp.Net MVC 2 Quick and Simple Site – v1
March 9, 2010 - 11:41 am
Tags: .Net, Aqua Bird Consulting, ASP.NET MVC, Business, C#, Development, HTML
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*Note: Asp.Net MVC 2 project in Visual Studio 2010 I sat down last night and was thinking about how I could get a simple starter site up and running for a client, until I could design something more tailored to their needs. There is nothing worse than having a “under construction” page or a “coming [...]