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Making Offline MVC 3 Application.

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Hi Guys!! I never thought building offline MVC 3 app could be this much simple.  I had a question in my mind for a long time: Why this offline application? How it works? Etc.. As per my knowledge, in Silverlight there is a smart client concept. So that, even we can see and work when there is no network available (flight mode or in remote area). Whenever device/app detects network, then either the user can invoke saving operation into server or the application can automatically triggers event to save data. Silverlight did a great job in this aspect. But, in the case of an ASP.NET/HTML application, how can it be done?. For the same purpose, HTML 5 introduces a MIME type manifest and local storage.  It mainly adds one manifest file to load all required recourses. This walkthrough is to demonstrate how we can create/develop offline/online application using MVC 3. I will first create an ASP.NET MVC 3 empty app using VS 2010 and I will add offline htm page to the project. The HTML p...

Claims based authentication(Basic details)

In this article, I am trying to explain some basics of new claims based authentication with live scenario. First of all, what are authentication methods are available? ASP.NET  when launched supported 3 types authentications namely: 1.      Windows Authentication (better for Intranet scenarios and credentials are stored inside Active Directory), 2.      Passport Authentication  (Now Live ID Authentication, can be used   via Claims Based Authentication). 3.       Form Based Authentication  (where user data is maintained inside SQL Database).   ASP.NET 2.0 provided some tools and classes and made FBA much simpler. It automatically created required tables, stored procedures, UI to manage Users (Membership Providers), their access rules by their roles (Role Provider) and store some more data about users (Profile Provider). In the Microsoft world, authentication is usua...

CRM online 2011 with Odata and WCF

Hi guys, I have strugled a lot with working on CRM 2011 online. It has killed my two day's. Oh!!  It might be beacause of my low brain or subject :) :) Any how I am able to manage to get data from CRM 2011 online.  In my previous blog, I have explained about basics about CRM 2011. Now, I am going to explain how do we access CRM 2011 online data using services. CRM 2011 Online 1. Register for CRM 2011 Online using Windows Live ID. You can get it here: http://crm.dynamics.com/en-us/home Available services in CRM 2011. CRM can allow multiple Organizations to be created on 1 CRM installation. Each Organization can be for a different company/purpose. So, users may want to access one of the Organizations on CRM installation. If the user/code already knows the Organization URL OR Organization Service URL then fine he can directly use organization service. If not known, then he needs to write code to connect Discovery Service URL, then browse through all Organization...

jQuery Mobile.- Play with jQuery (No coding knowledge required.)

JQuery Mobile (Alpha 2.0). Introduction o jQuery Mobile, a user interface (UI) framework to write a functional mobile web application without writing a single line of JavaScript code.  jQuery Mobile o jQuery Mobile is a touch-friendly web UI development framework that allows to develop mobile web applications that work across smart phones and tablets. The jQuery Mobile framework builds on top of jQuery core and provides a number of facilities, including HTML and XML document object model (DOM) traversing and manipulation, handling events, performing server communication using Ajax, as well as animation and image effects for web pages. The mobile framework itself is a separate, additional download of around 12KB (minified and gzipped) from jQuery core, which is around 25KB when minified/gzipped. As with the rest of the jQuery framework, jQuery Mobile is a free, dual-licensed (MIT and GPL) library. Downloads available @ o http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library...

Wrapping information in a symbol-Microsoft Tag

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Microsoft TAG Created By: Aravind  Mob:9886836592 Date:26/11/2010 Overview of Microsoft Tag Tag is a high-capacity color barcode (HCCB) with encoded information. Organizations and individuals can create specific Tags by using the Microsoft Tag Manager Web service. When the Microsoft Tag Reader application is installed on a mobile device, the Tag Reader can be used to scan a Tag using the built-in the device camera. When a Tag is scanned by the Tag Reader, the information encoded into the Tag becomes available on the mobile device. Although Tags are easy to create, how Tags are placed in the field will influence how effective they are in communicating the encoded information to the audience. This guide provides best practices for producing Tags in different types of media. Additionally, it addresses the best practices for testing Tags in the field. Usage Scenarios The possibilities for usage and placement of Tags are almost limitless. To give you an idea of ...

Radar Chart/Spider Web Chart-Powered by Aravind.

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Radar Chart Version 1.0. A Radar chart is a graphical method of representing multivariate data in the form of a multi-dimensional chart of three or more quantitative variables represented on axes starting from the same point. The relative position and angle of the axes is typically uninformative. Radar chart is a part of next generation charts and also called as web chart, spider chart, and spider web chart. In a radar chart, a point close to the center on any axis indicates a low value. A point near the edge is a high value. In the football example, we would high marks near the outside due to the nature of what was being measured. In other scenarios, you might want points near the center, or low values. When you're interpreting a radar chart, check each axis as well as the overall shape to see how well it fits your goals.   Radar chart developed in silverlight! Yes. I have developed radar chart using silverlight technology. Some of the basic concept behind the radar chart i...