ProgramGood.Net

“Anonymous types provide a convenient way to encapsulate a set of read-only properties into a single object without having to first explicitly define a type”

class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Anonymous types provide a convenient way to encapsulate a set of read-only properties
            // into a single object without having to first explicitly define a type
            var person = new { Name = "Terry", Age = 21 };
            Console.WriteLine("name is " + person.Name);
            Console.WriteLine("age is " + person.Age.ToString());
           
            // Anonymous types just get rid of Person1 really.
            Person1 person1 = new Person1 { Name = "Bill", Age = 55 };
            Console.WriteLine("name is " + person1.Name);
            Console.WriteLine("age is " + person1.Age.ToString());
        }
    }

    class Person1
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public int Age { get; set; }
    }

Many thanks to the question here for clarifying:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3098643/anonymous-type-syntax-in-asp-net-mvc

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Azure – Publish from VS2010 (new in 1.2)

( Azure )

In the 1.2 Release of the SDK we can now publish straight from VS instead of manually uploading files.

The end results is this:

which automatically publishes up to the cloud and runs the app making it live.

The way to do it is to select manage in Credentials, which brings up this box:

1. Create a self signed cert.

2. upload it to the dev portal

3 grab your subscriptionid from Account page

You’ll need a storage account to setup through as well.

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Thursday, May 27, 2010

MVC2 Recap

( ASP.NET MVC | Azure )

DevDays – MVC – Scott Hanselman video:

WFT1_2MB_ch9.wmv 1.4GB

Looking at the callstack in debug to see how things are called.

IHttpHandler – the ‘simple’ building block of ASP.NET.

Example in c:\code\mvc2\hanselman

http://localhost:1476/Home/poop/2

Controller get invoked

Action invoker calls the method

Model Binding – took the other piece of the route data (ie 2) and coerced it into…

didn’t call HttpRequest or anything..

Passing a DateTime

Phil Haack Route Debugger

http://haacked.com/archive/2008/03/13/url-routing-debugger.aspx

prop tab tab to auto gen the properties. then tab tab, then enter enter!

Create A Controller

Ctrl M, Ctrl C

Convention is HomeController

var p = new person

then ctrl period to import the namespace.

Create A View

Convention is in Views directory, create a new Person directory.

Index method links to Index view

Details method links to details view.

Ctrl M Ctrl V to create a view, when you are in the appropriate Controller class (eg Index)

Created a strongly typed view.. this Viewpage is of type Person

Model in the viewpage will always be of type T ie Person.

Could use Repository Pattern for the DB

Going live with ASP.NET4 – many hosting providers need you to upgrade to another machine.

Going Live on Azure

Created a new MVC2 Web Role project

Upload to test that MVC2 is working somewhat

ViewModel - MVCMusicStore

VS2010 Control comma – navigate to

http://mvcmusicstore.codeplex.com/

Uses Entity Framework.

Uses <%: HTml.DisplayForModel

AutoMapper

FirstName, LastName.. map to FirstName and Surname

ViewData

is another way to pass data.

ViewEngines

This is the WebForms view engine.

Routing

NerdDinner – MVC2 in beta (now it is live 27th May)

there are unit test in here.

just asserting not null.

Seperation of Concerns – in controller we can’t have Response.Write.. as it would break in this test. Would work at runtime.

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Azure Storage and Logging

( Azure )

Personal storage

Endpoints:

xxxxx.blob.core.windows.net

xxxx,queue.core.windows.net

xxxx.table.core.windows.net

This part of Windows Azure and not SQLAzure or AppFabric

azurestorageexplorer.codeplex.com

Also looking at Azure Diagnostics Manager from cerebrate.com

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsazure/thread/e972b0c0-3a04-4f0c-a73f-ab93552d8291

Example using ASP.NET and Storage and AppFabric Local Dev

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee336122.aspx

Logging

Each app has to do its own logging and write to storage.. an app like this can nicely show what is happening.

http://microsoftpdc.com/sessions/svc15 – this is pdc09

MIX2010 – Building and Deploying Windows Asure Based Apps

http://live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/SVC09 (Jim Nakashima)

Created a WebRole and a WorkerRole

One of the web roles.. when I clicked on the button, the worker role picked up the message from the queue.

Nerdinner MVC1 Migrating to Azure with SQLAzure

Could use Azure tables (examples on the web)

Need to do 3 things:

- Need to make a webrole

- Migrate dinner to use SQLAzure

- Migrate asp.net membership provider for SQLAzure.

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SQL Server 2008 Management Studio R2 and VMWare Player 3

( SQLServer | VMWare )

using the Web Plaform Installer. installation of the Studio didn’t work

tried ccleaner which didn’t work.

http://goneale.com/2009/05/24/cant-install-microsoft-sql-server-2008-management-studio-express/

Trick is to get the DB Server and tools together: **No this is just SQL Server 2008, not R2**

https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7522A683-4CB2-454E-B908-E805E9BD4E28&displaylang=en

But as I’d compressed my C:\ drive on WMWare Player it came up with an unusual error.

This is good:

Expand Boot Drive on VMWare Player3

Need VMWare Player 3.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004047

Can simply edit the drive information in the player GUI, then goto Windows7 click on C:\ drive in admin tools and management, and then do expand volume.

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Azure Development Fabric and Development Storage

( Azure )

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brandonwerner/archive/2009/11/28/how-to-host-your-site-and-content-on-azure-quickly-and-easily.aspx

Local Development Fabric and Development Storage (uses SQLEXPRESS)