Shiju Varghese's Blog

Tips and Important Steps for Migrating Apps to Windows Azure

Shiju Varghese's Blog — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:45:00 GMT

The following are the few important steps and tips for migrating ASP.NET apps to Windows Azure. Convert the ASP.NET application into a Web Role project. Verify that the application is running correctly in the development environment. Make sure that your...(read more)

Building a Windows Azure App using Azure Queue, Azure Table and ASP.NET MVC Web Role

Shiju Varghese's Blog — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:20:00 GMT

In this post, I will demonstrate a Windows Azure app using Azure Queue, Azure Table and a ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Role application. This post is explaining few initial steps for building a demo Azure app where asynchronous commands (write operations that changes...(read more)

Startup Tasks for Windows Azure Roles

Shiju Varghese's Blog — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:15:00 GMT

Windows Azure supports startup tasks that can be use to perform operations and install components before your Azure Role starts on Virtual Server. You can use to startup tasks to install other software, register COM components, setting registry keys,...(read more)

Visual Studio Enhancements in Windows Azure SDK 1.6 for Publishing Apps

Shiju Varghese's Blog — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:39:37 GMT

The new Windows Azure SDK 1.6 is providing many enhancements including a better experience for publishing Windows Azure applications using Visual Studio. To publish an application onto Azure, do the following steps. First right click on the Azure project...(read more)

CQRS, Commands, Command Handlers and Command Dispatcher

Shiju Varghese's Blog — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:57:00 GMT

In this post, I am trying to add some CQRS principles onto my EFMVC project. Please keep in mind that this is not the implementation CQRS patterns, but trying to add some CQRS flavors on the Solution Architecture with Commands that changes the data (Create...(read more)

EFMVC 1.0 Preview Released

Shiju Varghese's Blog — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:01:00 GMT

A while ago, I have released EFMVC , a demo web app built using ASP.NET MVC 3, EF Code First and Unity. The EFMVC app has demonstrated many architectural patterns and practices such as Generic Repository, Repository pattern, Unit of Work pattern, Dependency...(read more)

Removing EdmMetadata table in EF Code First

Shiju Varghese's Blog — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:54:00 GMT

EF Code First Framework is using a table named EdmMetadata on the database to check the current model is compatible with the database. When your model is changing, you need to drop the database and create a new database. In that scenario, you can add...(read more)

Autofac - My Choice of IoC Container

Shiju Varghese's Blog — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:09:00 GMT

I have been using Unity for dependency injection since the early days of ASP.NET MVC framework. Recently I have evaluated other IoC containers and really impressed with Autofac. The next version of my codeplex project EFMVC will be use Autofac as IoC...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 4 Enhancements to Default Project Templates

Shiju Varghese's Blog — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:37:00 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC 4 provides an additional project teamplate for Mobile Web Application. The new Project dialog is shown below The project templates that are used to create new ASP.NET MVC 4 projects have been updated and provide a nice and modern looking...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview Released

Shiju Varghese's Blog — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:37:00 GMT

Microsoft has announced the availability of ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview. The following are the some of the new features of ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview. Mobile Project Template based on jQuery Mobile Enhancements to Default Project Templates Recipes...(read more)

Auto Registration in Microsoft Unity

Shiju Varghese's Blog — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:26:00 GMT

Unlike many other .NET IoC containers, Microsoft Unity does not support auto registrations. Auto registration is a very useful feature for any IoC container and it would be very helpful in some specific contexts. The Unity Auto Registration project in...(read more)

Building JavaScript MVVM apps in ASP.NET MVC using KnockoutJS

Shiju Varghese's Blog — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:56:37 GMT

JavaScript is getting more attention in modern web application development and increasing the popularity of JavaScript on every day. HTML 5 is making a revolution in web apps world and it is becoming a common platform for variety of scenarios. JavaScript...(read more)

Speaking at Kerala Microsoft User Group on JavaScript MVVM and KnockoutJS

Shiju Varghese's Blog — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:20:55 GMT

I will be speaking about JavaScript MVVM and KnockoutJS at Kerala Microsoft User Group , Kochi on August 20. In this session, I will provide an overview of KnockoutJS, a MVVM framework for creating rich, interactive user interfaces with JavaScript...(read more)

EF Code First Migrations August 2011 CTP Released

Shiju Varghese's Blog — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:25:17 GMT

EF Code First is a great ORM tool which lets you to develop applications in a Domain Driven approach. One of the pain point of EF Code First was the data migrations when your domain model is changing. Finally the ADO.NET team is providing a data migration...(read more)

User Activity logging in ASP.NET MVC app using Action Filter and log4net

Shiju Varghese's Blog — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:31:02 GMT

In this post, I will demonstrate how to use an action filter to log user tracking information in an ASP.NET MVC app. The below action filter will take logged user name, controller name, action name, timestamp information and the value of route data id...(read more)