ASP.NET N-Layered Applications - Implementing an ASP.NET MVC 4 Frontend (Part 6)

Published 11 years ago

Note: this is part six in a series of ten. If you rather read this entire series off-line, you can buy the full series as a convenient PDF document that comes with the full source. Besides the convenience, buying the PDF will also make you feel good as it shows your appreciation for the articles and helps me pay the bills for my server and hosting so I can keep running imar.spaanjaars.com and continue to provide you with great content. For more details, check out this post that shows you how you can buy the entire series right now.

This is Part 6 in a series of 10 that show you how to build N-Layered applications using ASP.NET 4.5 and Entity Framework 5 Code First. In this part you’ll see how to build a Web UI using ASP.NET MVC 4 and make use of the model and repository projects I have shown in the past five articles.

ASP.NET N-Layered Applications - Implementing a Repository using EF Code First (Part 5)

Published 11 years ago

Note: this is part five in a series of ten. If you rather read this entire series off-line, you can buy the full series as a convenient PDF document that comes with the full source. Besides the convenience, buying the PDF will also make you feel good as it shows your appreciation for the articles and helps me pay the bills for my server and hosting so I can keep running imar.spaanjaars.com and continue to provide you with great content. For more details, check out this post that shows you how you can buy the entire series right now.

This is Part 5 in a series of 10 that show you how to build N-Layered applications using ASP.NET 4.5 and Entity Framework 5 Code First. In this part you’ll see how to build a concrete implementation of the repository that was introduced in the preceding article. I’ll show you how to create a data access layer that targets the Entity Framework (EF) and implements the repository interface in a clean and maintainable way.

ASP.NET N-Layered Applications - Implementing a Model (Part 4)

Published 11 years ago

Note: this is part four in a series of ten. If you rather read this entire series off-line, you can buy the full series as a convenient PDF document that comes with the full source. Besides the convenience, buying the PDF will also make you feel good as it shows your appreciation for the articles and helps me pay the bills for my server and hosting so I can keep running imar.spaanjaars.com and continue to provide you with great content. For more details, check out this post that shows you how you can buy the entire series right now.

This is Part 4 in a series of 10 that show you how to build N-Layered applications using ASP.NET 4.5 and Entity Framework 5 Code First. In this part you’ll see how to build a model using POCO classes – Plain Old CLR Objects – that have no dependencies to external frameworks (such as a requirement to inherit from an Entity Framework base class). In addition, you will see how to create unit tests for your POCO classes as well as lay a foundation for validation of these classes.

ASP.NET N-Layered Applications - Making your Projects Unit Testable (Part 3)

Published 11 years ago

Note: this is part three in a series of ten. If you rather read this entire series off-line, you can buy the full series as a convenient PDF document that comes with the full source. Besides the convenience, buying the PDF will also make you feel good as it shows your appreciation for the articles and helps me pay the bills for my server and hosting so I can keep running imar.spaanjaars.com and continue to provide you with great content. For more details, check out this post that shows you how you can buy the entire series right now.

This is Part 3 in a series of 10 that show you how to build N-Layered applications using ASP.NET 4.5 and Entity Framework 5 Code First. In this part you’ll see how to make your solution unit testable. In addition, you’ll see how to setup a project for Integration tests which work similar to unit tests but that target the database directly.

ASP.NET N-Layered Applications - Setting up the Solution in Visual Studio (Part 2)

Published 11 years ago

Note: this is part two in a series of ten. If you rather read this entire series off-line, you can buy the full series as a convenient PDF document that comes with the full source. Besides the convenience, buying the PDF will also make you feel good as it shows your appreciation for the articles and helps me pay the bills for my server and hosting so I can keep running imar.spaanjaars.com and continue to provide you with great content. For more details, check out this post that shows you how you can buy the entire series right now.

This is Part 2 in a series of 10 that show you how to build N-Layered applications using ASP.NET 4.5 and Entity Framework 5 Code First. The previous article provided some history of the architecture of the Contact Manager application and gave a broad overview of the new architecture. In this installment, things get a bit more concrete when you see how to setup a solution in Visual Studio 2012. The VS solution is going to contain three class libraries: one for the Infrastructure, one for the application’s Model and one to hold the Entity Framework (EF) Repository implementation. I’ll also add four frontend projects (an ASP.NET MVC 4, a Web Forms project, a WCF service project, and a windows command line application) which are discussed in detail in Part 6, 7, 8 and 9 of this series respectively. In the next article in this series I’ll extend the solution with four more projects for unit, integration, UI and service tests.

New Article Series on ASP.NET 4.5 N-Layered Design Now Available for Purchase

Published 11 years ago

I am glad to announce the immediate availability of my new article series on N-Layered Design in ASP.NET 4.5!

ASP.NET N-Layered Applications - Introduction (Part 1)

Published 11 years ago

Note: this is part one in a series of ten. If you rather read this entire series off-line, you can buy the full series as a convenient PDF document that comes with the full source. Besides the convenience, buying the PDF will also make you feel good as it shows your appreciation for the articles and helps me pay the bills for my server and hosting so I can keep running imar.spaanjaars.com and continue to provide you with great content. For more details, check out this post that shows you how you can buy the entire series right now.

Now that the RTM versions of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 have been out for a while, it seems like a good time to finally write the follow up to my popular series on N-Layered design using ASP.NET 3.5 that I wrote in 2008 and early 2009. I have been wanting to do this for a long time, but there were always other things on my Todo list with a higher priority. The wait has been worth it though; since the last series targeting .NET 3.5 that I published in late 2008 and early 2009, new and compelling technologies have been released that make writing an N-Layered application such as the Contact Manager a lot easier to write.

Book Review: Instant jQuery 2.0 Table Manipulation How-to by Charlie Griefer

Published 11 years ago

Talks about the book Instant jQuery 2.0 Table Manipulation How-to by Charlie Griefer

I recently got the opportunity to review the book Instant jQuery 2.0 Table Manipulation How-to by Charlie Griefer. Being a fan and heavy user of jQuery, I happily accepted the offer.

Looking for Reviewers for my new Series on N-Layer Design with ASP.NET 4.5 and Entity Framework 5 Code First

Published 11 years ago

During the past couple of months, I've been hard at work writing a follow up of my article series on N-Layer design for ASP.NET. This was long overdue, as I completed the previous series in early 2009, more than four years ago!

Approving Users and Assigning them to Roles After They Sign Up for an Account

Published 12 years ago

Back in July I wrote an article that showed how you can require your users to confirm their e-mail addresses before they can access your site after signing up for a new account. In this article I describe a similar but slightly different technique where an administrator of the site can approve the account before the user gains access to the site.