Articles by Gil Fink (Articles: 50, Technical Blogs: 43, Tip/Tricks: 5)

Articles: 50, Technical Blogs: 43, Tip/Tricks: 5

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	EF Feature CTP5 – Code First Fluent API 8 Dec 2010 Updated: 8 Dec 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,242 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. EF Feature CTP5 – Code First Fluent API
	Loading WCF Data Services Ajax Script Library 18 Jul 2010 Updated: 19 Jul 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,501 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, I’ll explain how to load the WCF Data Services scripts automatically or manually.
	Too Many Abstractions? Follow Up 18 Jul 2010 Updated: 18 Jul 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,520 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Too many abstractions? Follow up
Fluent
	Update Configurations Without Replace With Enterprise Library 5 Fluent Configuration API 28 Oct 2010 Updated: 28 Oct 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,020 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Update Configurations without Replace with Enterprise Library 5 Fluent Configuration API
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	Visual Studio 2010 Image Optimizer Extension 16 May 2011 Updated: 16 May 2011 Rating: 4.20/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,301 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The Image Optimizer extension is a promising extension if you are looking to optimize your application.
Mobile Apps
	Using reverse geocoding to find an address 20 Jul 2011 Updated: 20 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 59,154 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The post shows how to use the Geocode API in order to make an address lookup for a given location.
Windows Phone 7	MIX11 Second Day Sessions Summary 14 Apr 2011 Updated: 14 Apr 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,170 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. MIX11 Second Day Sessions Summary
MVC
MVC3	Using the ControllerActivator in MVC 3 18 Oct 2010 Updated: 18 Oct 2010 Rating: 3.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.10 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,135 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How you can use the ControllerActivator in order to activate controllers using your own behavior
	Dependency Injection in MVC 3 Was Made Easier 18 Oct 2010 Updated: 18 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.03 Licence: CPOL Views: 35,244 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Dependency Injection in MVC 3 was made easier
Programming Languages
C#	Spreading Inheritance Tree Mapping Across Assemblies in Code First 17 Apr 2011 Updated: 17 Apr 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,993 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Spreading Inheritance Tree Mapping Across Assemblies in Code First
	How to Create a Simple Enterprise Library Cache Manager Provider for Velocity 20 Jul 2010 Updated: 31 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.81 Licence: CPOL Views: 35,250 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article shows how to create a simple Velocity cache manager provider using the Application Block Software Factory.
	Defining Custom Functions in Entity Framework 26 Jul 2010 Updated: 26 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.47/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.78 Licence: CPOL Views: 44,792 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article explains how to define custom functions in Entity Framework
	DefiningQuery Element in Entity Framework 26 Jul 2010 Updated: 26 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.36 Licence: CPOL Views: 34,976 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. DefiningQueries are a very useful elements that you can use in Entity Framework in order to create views from the model against your database. The article will explain the DefiningQuery element.
	Repository and Unit of Work T4 Template for Entity Framework 18 Jul 2010 Updated: 18 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.91 Licence: CPOL Views: 34,637 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Repository and Unit of Work T4 Template for Entity Framework
	Enterprise Library 5 Fluent Configuration API 20 Jul 2010 Updated: 21 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.67 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,920 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use the Fluent configuration API with the Data Access Application Block.
	Using Paging in WCF Data Services 18 Jul 2010 Updated: 18 Jul 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,731 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In the new release of WCF Data Services, we get server side paging and this will be addressed in this post.
	Configuring WCF Data Services Using Lambda Expressions 25 Apr 2011 Updated: 25 Apr 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,863 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple solution for using lambda extensions instead of strings while configuring a WCF Data Service
	How to Configure a Self Referencing Entity in Code First 4 Jun 2011 Updated: 4 Jun 2011 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.34 Licence: CPOL Views: 82,392 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A running example of how to configure a self reference entity with Code First
	Creating a Many To Many Mapping Using Code First 1 Aug 2011 Updated: 1 Aug 2011 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.57 Licence: CPOL Views: 159,601 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to create a many to many mapping using Entity Framework Code First for an existing database.
C# 4.0	Table Per Hierarchy Inheritance in Entity Framework 23 Jul 2010 Updated: 23 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.73/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 4.73 Licence: CPOL Views: 67,414 Bookmarked: 20 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article explains what Table Per Hierarchy Inheritance is and how to apply it in Entity Framework.
C++	Feature Detection for Better Compatibility in Web Development 5 Nov 2010 Updated: 5 Nov 2010 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,330 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Feature detection for better compatibility in Web Development
Javascript	Web Workers in HTML5 8 Apr 2011 Updated: 8 Apr 2011 Rating: 4.27/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.04 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,390 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, I’m going to explain the Web Workers API and show you how you can use it today with most of the major browsers (not including IE9).
	Updating an Existing IndexedDB objectStore 24 Feb 2012 Updated: 24 Feb 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,364 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to update an existing IndexedDB objectStore
	Getting Started with the RequireJS Library 23 Jul 2013 Updated: 6 Aug 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 57,971 Bookmarked: 31 Downloaded: 375 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This article describes RequireJS and some of its basic scenarios.
	Quick Tip – JavaScript Namespaces 27 Jan 2012 Updated: 27 Jan 2012 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.07 Licence: CPOL Views: 26,061 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Quick tip about JavaScript namespaces
	Using JavaScript to Measure Web Page Performance with Internet Explorer 9 6 Oct 2010 Updated: 6 Oct 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,540 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post I’ll explain what is msPerformance and how you can use it to measure web page performance.
Razor	Razor Helpers Syntax 22 Jul 2011 Updated: 22 Jul 2011 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.38 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,741 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Razor Helpers Syntax
SQL	EF Feature CTP5: Raw SQL Query/Command Support 8 Dec 2010 Updated: 8 Dec 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,490 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. EF Feature CTP5: Raw SQL Query/Command Support
	Exposing a Stored Procedure in WCF Data Service 25 Oct 2010 Updated: 25 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.57/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.20 Licence: CPOL Views: 49,922 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to expose a stored procedure in WCF data service
Web Development
	Web Platform Installer – Web Installation on Steroids 7 Aug 2010 Updated: 12 Aug 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,910 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The post describes what the Web Platform Installer is and shows a scenario of installation.
	Picking a Web Client Side Persistence Mechanism 15 Aug 2011 Updated: 15 Aug 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,550 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to pick a web client side persistence mechanism
ASP.NET	Building a Simple Logging HTTP Module with Logging Application Block 20 Jul 2010 Updated: 21 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.69/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.83 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,671 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article deals with an HTTP module for logging using the Logging Application Block and Enterprise Library 5 fluent configuration API.
	How To Use Unity Container In ASP.NET MVC Framework 4 Aug 2010 Updated: 4 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.74/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.12 Licence: CPOL Views: 79,675 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article explains how to use Unity IoC container in ASP.NET MVC Framework.
	Back to Basics – Get Client Computer Name in ASP.NET 1 Sep 2010 Updated: 1 Sep 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 83,151 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to get the client's computer name using ASP.NET
	Back to Basic – ASP.NET Runtime Impersonation 7 Sep 2010 Updated: 7 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.58 Licence: CPOL Views: 52,592 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, I’ll explain how you can make ASP.NET impersonation and in more details how to make runtime impersonation.
	How to Enable Client Side Validation in ASP.NET MVC 2 14 Sep 2010 Updated: 14 Sep 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 33,151 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A post that explains how to enable client side validation in ASP.NET MVC 2.
	Building a Custom Site Map Provider 24 Jul 2010 Updated: 7 Aug 2013 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 80,155 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article explains how to build a simple custom site map provider.
	Building an ASP.NET Validator Using Data Annotations 20 Jul 2010 Updated: 27 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 48,425 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article describes an implementation of an ASP.NET validator that uses the new System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations assembly that came in .NET 3.5 SP1.
CSS	CSS3 Animations 16 Dec 2011 Updated: 16 Dec 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,912 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. CSS3 animations
HTML	ASP.NET Output Cache Provider 18 Jul 2010 Updated: 18 Jul 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,780 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One of the new features that was shipped with ASP.NET 4 was new providers for caching purpose. In this post, I’ll explain one of them – the OutputCacheProvider.
	Working with Inline Web Workers 30 Jan 2012 Updated: 27 Apr 2012 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.43 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,363 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post is going to explain what are inline Web Workers and how to create them.
	Geolocation API and Client-Side Maps Frameworks 2 May 2011 Updated: 2 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,560 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Geolocation API and Client-Side Maps Frameworks
	Building a Signature Control Using Canvas 1 Aug 2012 Updated: 2 Aug 2012 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.97 Licence: CPOL Views: 107,684 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 5,629 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article explains how to write a signature control using the canvas element and mouse events.
	Getting Started with IndexedDB 5 Feb 2012 Updated: 2 Aug 2012 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 183,203 Bookmarked: 41 Downloaded: 2,203 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article describes the HTML5 IndexedDB API and how to use it.
	Using the Viewport Meta Tag 24 Jul 2011 Updated: 24 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 40,983 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The viewport meta tag enables web developers to indicate that the web page they built is optimized for mobile devices.
	How to Write a WinJS Custom Control 2 Oct 2012 Updated: 3 Oct 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,440 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 204 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The article will teach you how to write a simple WinJS custom control.
HTML5	MIX11 Third Day Sessions Summary 14 Apr 2011 Updated: 14 Apr 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,731 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Summary of the sessions I attended on the third day of MIX11
	Detecting HTML5 Features Using Modernizr 10 Jan 2011 Updated: 10 Jan 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,760 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to detect HTML5 Features using Modernizr
	HTML5 – Selectors API Level 1 22 Jul 2011 Updated: 22 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,251 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. HTML5 – Selectors API Level 1
	HTML5 Web Notifications 29 Jul 2011 Updated: 29 Jul 2011 Rating: 4.20/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 40,806 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Implement notifications like "Mail message arrived", "Printer out of paper" in web applications using the Web Notifications API

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	Quick Tip – Disable/Enable Button by Textbox using jQuery [Technical Blog] 16 Sep 2010 Updated: 16 Sep 2010 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 54,272 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Quick Tip – Disable/Enable Button by Textbox using jQuery I find myself often with a need to disable/enable a button according to client events that occur on web pages. Today I helped to implement this behavior again so I thought it will be nice to share the code I used.
	Installing a Production Server for ASP.NET MVC 2 [Technical Blog] 18 Dec 2010 Updated: 18 Dec 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,270 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Installing a Production Server for ASP.NET MVC 2
	Calling a WCF Data Service From jQuery [Technical Blog] 18 Jul 2010 Updated: 18 Jul 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,880 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I want to show is how easy and simple it is to consume a WCF Data Service (OData feed) with the jQuery library.
	EF Feature CTP5 – Walkthrough For The New DbContext T4 Template [Technical Blog] 8 Dec 2010 Updated: 8 Dec 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,430 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. EF Feature CTP5 – Walkthrough For The New DbContext T4 Template One of the new features in the EF Feature CTP5 that was released yesterday was a new T4 template for generating DbContext instead of ObjectContext.
	What to Look for in an ORM Solution? [Technical Blog] 14 Mar 2011 Updated: 14 Mar 2011 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.27 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,491 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What to Look for in an ORM Solution?
	Avoiding Circular Reference for Entity in JSON Serialization [Technical Blog] 1 Dec 2011 Updated: 1 Dec 2011 Rating: 4.78/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.28 Licence: CPOL Views: 56,027 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Avoiding Circular Reference for Entity in JSON Serialization
	The async and defer Script Attributes in HTML5 [Technical Blog] 29 Dec 2011 Updated: 29 Dec 2011 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.92 Licence: CPOL Views: 28,990 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The async and defer Script Attributes in HTML5 One of the rules of thumb that you always hear regarding script elements is to put them very close to the closing tag of the Web page.
Database Development
SQL Server	Revisiting XML Configurations In Unity [Technical Blog] 6 Jan 2011 Updated: 6 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 32,850 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Revisiting XML Configurations In Unity In the past I wrote a few tutorials about Unity application block. One of the things I wrote about was how to configure a Unity container using design time configuration.
Entity Framework
	EFProf – Profiler Tool for Entity Framework [Technical Blog] 11 Aug 2010 Updated: 11 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.57/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.75 Licence: CPOL Views: 54,360 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One of the important tools in your tool arsenal when you develop with an ORM tool is a profiler. This is a review of EFProf.
	Eager Loading with Repository Pattern and Entity Framework [Technical Blog] 18 Jul 2010 Updated: 18 Jul 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,554 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. One question that I received yesterday after I published the Revisiting the Repository and Unit of Work Patterns with Entity Framework post was how to include the eager loading ability of Entity Framework. This post is offering a solution.R
	Revisiting the Repository and Unit of Work Patterns with Entity Framework [Technical Blog] 18 Jul 2010 Updated: 18 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.41 Licence: CPOL Views: 39,902 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In the past I wrote two posts about the Repository and the Unit of Work patterns (here and here). Today I want to show a better and less naive solution for imposing the Unit of Work and the Repository patterns with Entity Frame
	My SDP Lecture Interview [Technical Blog] 27 Feb 2011 Updated: 27 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,762 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. My SDP Lecture Interview
	How to Separate Self-Tracking Entities to Their Own Class Library [Technical Blog] 5 Dec 2010 Updated: 5 Dec 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 27,292 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to Separate Self-Tracking Entities to Their Own Class Library
Programming Languages
ASP	Book Review – Entity Framework 4 In Action [Technical Blog] 26 Jan 2011 Updated: 26 Jan 2011 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,460 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The book is all about Entity Framework 4.
	Book Review – HTML5: Up and Running [Technical Blog] 14 Jan 2011 Updated: 14 Jan 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,920 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Book Review – HTML5: Up and Running
C#	Using EF DbContext with WCF Data Services [Technical Blog] 11 Dec 2010 Updated: 11 Dec 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,010 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using EF DbContext with WCF Data Services
	Adding Metadata to Entities in The Data Model [Technical Blog] 20 Jan 2011 Updated: 20 Jan 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 43,871 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Adding Metadata to Entities in The Data Model
	Using Overlay Icon API to Make Client Notifications in IE9 [Technical Blog] 10 Oct 2010 Updated: 10 Oct 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,812 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using Overlay Icon API to Make Client Notifications in IE9 Ever wanted to notify your site clients/users while they are surfing in your site. In one of the applications that I helped to build this was a customer requirement.
	Mixing Table Per Hierarchy and Entity Splitting [Technical Blog] 7 Aug 2010 Updated: 8 Aug 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,620 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The post shows how to combine Table Per Hierarchy and Entity Splitting methods
	EF Feature CTP5: Inheritance Scenarios with Code First Fluent API [Technical Blog] 12 Dec 2010 Updated: 12 Dec 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,230 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. EF Feature CTP5: Inheritance Scenarios with Code First Fluent API
	WCF Data Services Processing Pipeline [Technical Blog] 2 May 2011 Updated: 2 May 2011 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,051 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A new feature inside WCF Data Services that enables to wire up events into the service’s processing pipeline.
	Using the Code First Model Configuration Classes [Technical Blog] 7 Mar 2011 Updated: 7 Mar 2011 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.38 Licence: CPOL Views: 82,370 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Aother model configuration option which is built inside Code First.
C# 4.0	Select N+1 Problem – How to Decrease Your ORM Performance [Technical Blog] 18 Aug 2010 Updated: 18 Aug 2010 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.34 Licence: CPOL Views: 72,770 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post will introduce the select N+1 pitfall and explain how to avoid it in Entity Framework.
C++	Using Web Storage in Web Applications [Technical Blog] 11 Jan 2011 Updated: 24 Feb 2012 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.84 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,681 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using Web Storage in Web Applications
Javascript	jQuery Alert Dialogs Plug-in [Technical Blog] 2 Oct 2010 Updated: 2 Oct 2010 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 65,761 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. jQuery Alert Dialogs Plug-in
	Profiling JavaScript 101 Using IE9 Developer Tools [Technical Blog] 15 Aug 2011 Updated: 15 Aug 2011 Rating: 4.58/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.20 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,330 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Profiling JavaScript 101: Using IE9 Developer Tools.
	Back to Basics – JavaScript onerror Event [Technical Blog] 30 Nov 2011 Updated: 30 Nov 2011 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.31 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,610 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The window.onerror is an event handler for error events that are sent to the window.
	Adding Video Element on the Fly and Drawing it to a Canvas Element [Technical Blog] 30 Nov 2011 Updated: 30 Nov 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,250 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Adding Video Element on the Fly and Drawing it to a Canvas Element
	Adding a Javascript Block Into a Form Hosted by WebBrowser Control [Technical Blog] 18 Jul 2010 Updated: 18 Jul 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,291 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to add a JavaScript block into a WebBrowser control
	Combining WCF Data Services, JSONP, and jQuery [Technical Blog] 25 Apr 2011 Updated: 25 Apr 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,952 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A simple example of making a JSONP call to a WCF Data Service using jQuery.
	Making a JSONP Call to a WCF Data Service using datajs [Technical Blog] 25 Apr 2011 Updated: 25 Apr 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,580 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use the datajs library in order to make a JSONP call to a JSONP enabled WCF Data Service.
	Quick Tip – Converting JSON Serialized .NET DateTime to JavaScript Date [Technical Blog] 1 Dec 2011 Updated: 1 Dec 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 42,551 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Converting JSON serialized .NET DateTime to JavaScript Date.
	Adding Tasks and Jumplists to Pinned Sites in IE9 [Technical Blog] 22 Sep 2010 Updated: 22 Sep 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,110 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Adding Tasks and Jumplists to Pinned Sites in IE9
SQL	Using Conditional Mapping in Entity Framework [Technical Blog] 18 Jul 2010 Updated: 18 Jul 2010 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 36,422 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Using Conditional Mapping in Entity Framework when we want to retrieve only a portion of data from a table in the database permanently by some filter.
XML	A Tough Nugget – NuGet Package Manager [Technical Blog] 9 May 2011 Updated: 9 May 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,500 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The NuGet Package Manager helps to manage the Open Source component packages and their dependencies and by that decrease the amount of cumbersome work that the developer will need to do.
Web Development
ASP.NET	ASP.NET MVC Model Binders [Technical Blog] 20 Jul 2011 Updated: 20 Jul 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,580 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What Model Binders are in ASP.NET MVC and how you can use them in your MVC applications.
	Changing the OutputCache Provider during Runtime [Technical Blog] 7 Aug 2010 Updated: 8 Aug 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,520 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to Change the OutputCache Provider during Runtime
	Creating a Code First Database Initializer Strategy [Technical Blog] 30 May 2011 Updated: 30 May 2011 Rating: 4.89/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.13 Licence: CPOL Views: 61,551 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, I’ll show an example of how to create your own database initializer.
	Installing a Production Server for ASP.NET MVC 2 – Part 2 [Technical Blog] 28 Feb 2011 Updated: 28 Feb 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,761 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to install a production server for ASP.NET MVC 2
HTML	Video Manipulation with the Canvas Element [Technical Blog] 17 Aug 2011 Updated: 17 Aug 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 19,901 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post will explain how to combine the video and canvas elements in order to create transparency inside a video during runtime using JavaScript.
	CSS3 2D and 3D Transform [Technical Blog] 23 Dec 2011 Updated: 23 Dec 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,830 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. CSS3 2D and 3D Transform
HTML5	Working with Client-Side Storage Using datajs Store API [Technical Blog] 1 May 2011 Updated: 1 May 2011 Rating: 3.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,180 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The store API can be used to have a storage layer in your client-side and therefore reduce calls to the server.
	HTML5 Adoption Strategies [Technical Blog] 4 Sep 2011 Updated: 4 Sep 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,240 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. HTML5 Adoption Strategies

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	How to Enable Local Cache When Using Velocity (Microsoft Distributed Cache) [Tip/Trick] 26 Jul 2010 Updated: 26 Jul 2010 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,241 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The tip explains how to enable the local cache feature of Velocity (Microsoft Distributed Cache).
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C#	Performing Queries Against Active Directory Domain Services [Tip/Trick] 26 Jul 2010 Updated: 26 Jul 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,831 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This tip explains how to perform queries against Active Directory Domain Services
	Back to Basics – Reading a File into Memory Stream [Tip/Trick] 3 Mar 2011 Updated: 3 Mar 2011 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.75 Licence: CPOL Views: 131,871 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to read a file into Memory Stream
	Back to Basics – Null-Coalescing Operator [Tip/Trick] 18 Nov 2010 Updated: 18 Nov 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 8,160 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Back to Basics – Null-Coalescing Operator
Javascript	Back to Basics – OnBeforeUnload Event [Tip/Trick] 12 Oct 2010 Updated: 12 Oct 2010 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,940 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Back to Basics – OnBeforeUnload Event

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Gil Fink

Technical Lead sparXys

Israel

Gil Fink is a web development expert and ASP.Net/IIS Microsoft MVP. He is the founder and owner of sparXys. He is currently consulting for various enterprises and companies, where he helps to develop Web and RIA-based solutions. He conducts lectures and workshops for individuals and enterprises who want to specialize in infrastructure and web development. He is also co-author of several Microsoft Official Courses (MOCs) and training kits, co-author of "Pro Single Page Application Development" book (Apress) and the founder of Front-End.IL Meetup. You can read his publications at his website: http://www.gilfink.net

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