Comment on Comparing the MVC and MVVM patterns along with their respective ViewModels. by John

2012-05-06T17:18:50

This is another article discussing MVVM and ASP.NET MVC

Comment on Get Started Building Data Driven Apps with Windows Azure and SQL Azure by Rachel

2012-05-02T16:19:09

Chris, You can add this link into any RSS aggregator to get all the content from this blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RachelAppel

Comment on Get Started Building Data Driven Apps with Windows Azure and SQL Azure by Chris

2012-05-01T15:56:05

Please make this blog more RSS/Atom friendly. I want to read in an aggregator, not have to visit in a browser.

Comment on How to Connect to SQL Azure through SQL Server Management Studio 2008 (SSMS 2008) by Rachel Appel

2012-04-27T19:10:15

NOTE: You need SQL Management Studio 2008 R2 R2! R2! It must be R2

Comment on How to Connect to SQL Azure through SQL Server Management Studio 2008 (SSMS 2008) by Rachel

2012-04-27T16:55:57

Well it is obvious that your definition of 'proper' is way off. :-p On a serious note, I don't know why - because the load balanced-ness of Azure is great for thwarting data loss (removing one need for backup), but you still need backup in case of data corruption (this is an unmet need). There are workarounds, but meh, not the best IMO.

Comment on How to Connect to SQL Azure through SQL Server Management Studio 2008 (SSMS 2008) by Bertrand Le Roy

2012-04-27T15:13:39

That is super useful, as the online tool is not very good, but why why why do we still have no proper backup solution out of the box?

Comment on Migrate to ASP.NET MVC 3 by leveraging your ASP.NET Web Forms skills by Rachel

2012-04-24T20:56:10

Thanks! Swatantra. Good site!

Comment on Add HTML5 Geolocation plus Bing Maps into ASP.NET MVC views by Rachel

2012-04-24T20:54:44

John, Sorry - I really don't have anything good on GeoCoding, but hopefully another reader can chip in with some links.

Comment on Migrate to ASP.NET MVC 3 by leveraging your ASP.NET Web Forms skills by Swatantra

2012-04-24T03:26:41

This article provides a good high level summary. I built my own web site (http://www.swatantrayadav.com) using MVC3 & JQuery.

Comment on Add HTML5 Geolocation plus Bing Maps into ASP.NET MVC views by John Marvin

2012-04-23T02:13:49

Do you have a pointer to a good writeup on GeoCoding? Or if you're looking for a new topic to write on... :) I want to go from an address to a lat long to use in a Bing map, but the online docs example Javascript A: Confuse me and B: don't work when I paste them into a sample MVC project.

Comment on Create user friendly date fields with ASP.NET MVC EditorTemplates & jQueryUI by Rachel

2012-04-21T14:24:35

The specific location is at the: Model.Value.ToShortDateString() From the Value property you can call other methods such as ToString("yourformat"), where yourformat is the date pattern you want to use (dd.MM.yyyy).

Comment on Create user friendly date fields with ASP.NET MVC EditorTemplates & jQueryUI by Misi

2012-04-21T11:50:47

Compiler Error Message: CS1061: 'System.DateTime' does not contain a definition for 'HasValue' and no extension method 'HasValue' accepting a first argument of type 'System.DateTime' could be found. Where do you specify the date format(from MM/dd/yyyy to dd.MM.yyyy) ?

Comment on Create user friendly date fields with ASP.NET MVC EditorTemplates & jQueryUI by Rachel

2012-04-18T20:51:26

Thanks, Misi, Yes, Bogdan asked about formatting for his locale, so that post (http://helios.ca/2010/02/17/asp-net-mvc-2-model-validation-with-localization/) does a good job with that. Regular formatting, without dealing with localization will look something like this: @Html.TextBox("", (Model.HasValue ? Model.Value.ToShortDateString() : string.Empty), new { @class = "datePicker" }) This also does null checking. Rach

Comment on Comparing the MVC and MVVM patterns along with their respective ViewModels. by Rachel

2012-04-18T19:32:22

Giovanny, I'm talking about views specifically in ASP.NET MVC here, so that is the reasoning behind that statement. It is true that views in ASPNET MVC are there to only perform those duties. GWT has nothing to do with this example. Also, to be specific, JavaScript is not an ASPNET MVC view, it is the script inside the view.

Comment on Comparing the MVC and MVVM patterns along with their respective ViewModels. by Giovanny

2012-04-18T14:53:04

Hi Rachel, I dissent the next afirmation, "Views in MVC only display data and perform basic client side UI duties usually with JavaScript... On the other hand, View in MVVM have a rich databinding and validation framework,... , lead to a very rich User Experience" I don't know if you has tested with GWT for example, wich offers a very rich user interfaces, databinding, valitations, and so on, so, also there are so much javascript apis to build rich UI in web environment, We live in the world wile web 2.0, so I think the time of the deskop apps has finished.

Comment on A device emulator guide for cross platform development on ASP.NET and jQuery Mobile development by Max

2012-04-17T19:18:10

Thanks! Good article.

Comment on Introducing MVC Development w/the Razor View Engine for Visual Studio Developers by Balaji

2012-04-17T15:46:45

Really cool example. Excellent presentation and easy to understand. Thank you. Balaji

Comment on Create user friendly date fields with ASP.NET MVC EditorTemplates & jQueryUI by Misi Moisei

2012-04-17T12:31:06

Hello Rachel, I have the same question like Bogdan. How to change the date format from MM/dd/yyyy to dd.MM.yyyy ? What is the connection between formating a date and the link you suggested (ASP.NET MVC 2 Model Validation With Localization) ? Formating your date by your culture ? BTW : Great example.

Comment on ASP.NET MVC ActionResults explained by Jiten

2012-04-16T09:11:14

It is a very good stuff.Please give a continution article of using different ActionResult classes and how to use them in Views pages

Comment on A device emulator guide for cross platform development on ASP.NET and jQuery Mobile development by Rachel

2012-04-13T17:30:57

Chris & Daniel thanks for the comments! Great stuff!