http://aleembawany.com tech, web and the rest Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:57:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was introduced to the various serialization options in .NET while trying to build the JSON and XML filter for ASP.NET MVC. In this post I'll take a look at the different JSON serializers in .NET and the reasons to pick one over the other. JavaScriptSerializer The JavaScriptSerializer lives in the System.Web.Script.Serialization ... http://aleembawany.com/2009/05/22/json-serializers-in-net/ Entity Framework 4.0 is just around the corner and it will bring some long awaited relief. I previously wrote and explained the issues around Persistence Ignorance and POCO as they apply to the Entity Framework. So obviously I'm quite excited about migrating from the interim EFPocoAdapter over to EF 4.0. ... http://aleembawany.com/2009/05/17/new-features-in-entity-framework-40-v2/ There has been a lot of discussion around this topic and I only recently caught up and found some interesting gems from a variety of locations. Jon Skeet's article Why Properties Matter is a good starting point. Robert Paulson also has a comprehensive list of pros. To summarize the pros ... http://aleembawany.com/2009/05/14/properties-vs-fields/ I had my first go with NAnt just a few hours ago and it was so easy, I am already porting my batch scripts over and creating build scripts with a few good examples off the web as my starting point. I came across the JSMin task for NAnt which was ... http://aleembawany.com/2009/04/08/yui-compressor/ Persistence Ignorance Single Responsibility Principle Domain Driven Design An Interim Solution I previously published a JSON / POX Filter for MVC developers working with RESTful services. It works really well in that it allows a Controller Action to speak two additional languages (JSON and XML) other than View rendition without requiring any extra modifications. ... http://aleembawany.com/2009/04/06/persistence-ignorance-in-adonet-entity-framework/ Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) which lost nearly $1 billion for the quarter ended Dec '08 and has seen it's stock plummet over 75% in the past year, recently sent an email telling its customers that if you have been hosting pictures with Kodak Gallery, you are now  going to have ... http://aleembawany.com/2009/03/31/kodak-turns-on-its-online-users/ JSON and XML Action Filter Code Usage Example Sample Output So I just hopped on the ASP.NET MVC bandwagon. As my first task, I undertook custom Action Filters for returning either JSON or XML as determined by the HTTP Request. Fortunately Omar AL Zabir did most of the work for creating a RESTful ... http://aleembawany.com/2009/03/27/aspnet-mvc-create-easy-rest-api-with-json-and-xml/ The web hosting services at MediaCatch have gone AWOL on me which has resulted in some downtime for this site and numerous other sites I own. During my 4 years of hosting with MediaCatch, I have suffered about 5 failures (that I can find records for) during which I have ... http://aleembawany.com/2009/03/15/mediacatch-hosting-review/ tagName and nodeName are both useful Javascript properties for checking the name of an html element. For most purposes, either will do fine but nodeName is preferred if you are supporting only A-grade browsers and tagName is preferred if you intend to support IE5.5 as well. There are two issues with ... http://aleembawany.com/2009/02/11/tagname-vs-nodename/ Well, not quite a shell but close enough (since C# is not a scripted language). Snippy is must-have for any C# developer wanting to quickly test out code. http://aleembawany.com/2009/02/05/c-shell-interpreter-for-testing-code-snippets/