October 2009 Blog Posts

Book review: Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0

A dear friend of mine, Simone Chiaretta, ASP.NET MVP wrote an interesting book about ASP.NET MVC in collaboration with Keyvan Nayyeri. The book is Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0, edited by Wrox, available on Amazon.com at this address for the price of 31.49 USD. I am going to write a review of this book because, first of all, I know Simone and his professionalism. Second, because I am working now on an ASP.NET MVC project in my company, and this book was really helpful for me, so I am pretty sure that it will be the...

Build enterprise application with WPF, WCF, Entity Framework and Prism. Tutorial 02.

Update: source code and documentation are now available on CodePlex at this address: http://prismtutorial.codeplex.com/ Build a generic repository with the Entity Framework. In the previous series of articles about M-V-VM we used the AdventureWorks database, available on CodePlex. After this article (configure a data layer with LinQ-to-SQL) I have got some reader’s emails asking me this and that. So, I am going to give you all those answers right now. Download and configure the Adventure Works database. On my dev PC I have SQL Server 2008 Standard version, but...