CodeProject In the past 10 months, we were discussing about ASP.Net MVC, Entity Framework, jQuery, LINQ and many more stuffs. Today, we are going to start with ASP.Net Web Services. What are web services and why should we use them? Web services are a standardized way for developing interoperable app

C++ is a vast language. Now the language is even more beautiful and exciting and evolving. With Microsoft and Apple backing it up it has a lot of potential. In these series we will talk about C++ in general, different features and some internals of C++. I will be using the llvm/Clang compiler tool c

In this chapter we will deal with class, structures and objects. So class or struct is the keywords we use to create a class in C++. The class can hold static, non static member variables. Class can contain static, non static and virtual member functions. To have a detailed look at all the possible

Last week I posted about how every web programmer should know about the RESTful nature of Web and start using Asp.NET MVC 4 Web Api to accomplish the same. The post was accompanied by a sample HTTP GET resource call to an ASP.NET Web Api controller action. So, I believe you people have already start

In my last post I indicated as to how Microsoft & MS technologies have made programming for the web simple and easy. I also suggested how these same MS technologies have created misinformed web developers (like me) as well. All the abstraction over the RESTful nature of HTML (or HTTP) have solved at

IntroductionWeb services are recommended to be stateless,that is, clients should not rely or depend upon session information in the service side. But the truth is, inalmost every client/server application, session information is necessary andshould be stored somewhere: in a database, in a separate s

Ok, so I’m back with another blog post.  Tonight I sit here, with the wife and the munchkin passed out and am taking this singular opportunity to catch up on the Blacklist and thinking about the latest blog post.  And then it hit me, Web API. This past week I’ve been doing a lot of reading and resea

For last few months, my focus was to explore Microsoft ASP.NET MVC features and learn to build application using ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework. My last ASP.NET MVC Tutorial was about ASP.NET MVC Html Helpers (A Must Know). It completes a figure of 50 articles on Web Development Tutorial blog rel

I have read many software development books, but there are only a handful that had such an impact on my life that they fundamentally made me look at software development differently. Today I have to add Kent Beck’s Extreme Programming Explained 2nd Edition to that elite group.The physical book looks

Recently I took a Codility test to find the first unique number in an array.  I did manage to produce the right answer but it was computationally too expensive.  This post is the result of looking into alternatives Original Solution var y = numberArray.GroupBy(z => z).Where(z => z.Count