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Intro In this post, we’re going to explore building a generic RESTful api on top of a database with custom CRUD and query conventions, using the LLBLGen ORM and code generator, a ServiceStack service layer, and ServiceStack Razor html entity browser layer. This API and html entity browser can be generated on top of any [...]

By Matt C. | Posted in .NET, ASP.NET MVC, REST | Tagged code generation, llblgen, odata, orm, rest, servicestack | Comments (16)

LLBLGen is a full-service ORM that produces a statically typed entity api to work with entities on top of relational databases (SQL, MySql, Oracle, DB2, etc…). ServiceStack is an open-source services framework that makes it easy to pass data between servers, applications, on and off the web. Put together, these 2 tools can be extremely [...]

By Matt C. | Posted in .NET | Tagged C#, llblgen, orm, servicestack, web api | Comments (7)

I’m having lots of fun with ASP.NET MVC these days. One of the cool new features in ASP.NET MVC4 and the Visual Studio MVC application template is the SimpleMembershipProvider which provides a more concise membership provider to the ASP.NET framework, and supports OAuth additionally. If you’re new to the SimpleMembershipProvider, check out Jon Galloway’s post [...]

By Matt C. | Posted in .NET, ASP.NET MVC | Tagged asp.net mvc, C#, llblgen, membership provider, simplemembershipprovider | Comments (12)

This is part 5, the final post in a short series on developing service applications in SharePoint 2010: Part 1: Getting Started with SAF + Starter Solution (with Logging / Configuration / Service Locator) Part 2: Custom Service Application – Logical Components Part 3: Custom Service Application – Base Solution Part 4: Custom Service Application [...]

By Matt C. | Posted in .NET, SharePoint | Tagged .net, C#, MailChimp, mycorp, saf, service application, sharepoint, wcf | Comments (3)

This is part 4 of a short series on developing service applications in SharePoint 2010: Part 1: Getting Started with SAF + Starter Solution (with Logging / Configuration / Service Locator) Part 2: Custom Service Application – Logical Components Part 3: Custom Service Application – Base Solution Part 4 (This Post): Custom Service Application – [...]

By Matt C. | Posted in .NET, SharePoint | Tagged .net, admin, C#, mycorp, powershell, sharepoint | Comments (4)

This is part 3 of a short series on developing service applications in SharePoint 2010: Part 1: Getting Started with SAF + Starter Solution (with Logging / Configuration / Service Locator) Part 2: Custom Service Application – Logical Components Part 3 (This Post): Custom Service Application – Base Solution Part 4: Custom Service Application – [...]

By Matt C. | Posted in .NET, SharePoint | Tagged C#, isv, mycorp, saf, service application, sharepoint | Comments (5)

This is part 2 of a short series on developing service applications in SharePoint 2010: Part 1: Getting Started with SAF + Starter Solution (with Logging / Configuration / Service Locator) Part 2 (This Post): Custom Service Application – Logical Components Part 3: Custom Service Application – Base Solution Part 4: Custom Service Application – [...]

By Matt C. | Posted in .NET, SharePoint | Tagged load balancing, mycorp, saf, service application, sharepoint | Comments (3)

This is part 1 of a short series on developing service applications in SharePoint 2010: Part 1 (This Post): Getting Started with SAF + Starter Solution (with Logging / Configuration / Service Locator) Part 2: Custom Service Application – Logical Components Part 3: Custom Service Application – Base Solution Part 4: Custom Service Application – [...]

By Matt C. | Posted in .NET, SharePoint | Tagged .net, C#, integration, mycorp, saf, service application, sharepoint | Comments (3)

While I work mostly with Microsoft technologies and .NET/C# these days, I love digging into other languages when the opportunity calls. About a week ago, I thought up the idea of using the LLBLGen Pro code-generation tool, which I have primarily used for .NET development, to build a basic database editor tool in Python. So [...]

By Matt C. | Posted in .NET, Python | Tagged llblgen, python, sql, sqlalchemy, tornado web server | Comments (1)

PeopleEditor controls are useful in SharePoint for selecting users in custom forms and web parts. Building custom pickers and picker dialogs is also extremely useful, especially when the number of records to search against for whatever you want to pick gets to be very large. I often build custom picker controls when working on top [...]

By Matt C. | Posted in .NET, SharePoint | Tagged binding, people editor, people picker, picker controls, picker dialog, sharepoint, validation | Comments (1)

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