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I am doing a FREE full-day seminar on programming for Windows Azure in 4 cities in mid-May 2011. The New York event will be broadcast live over the internet. To register for an in-person event, please see https://training.atmosera.com/Training/Courses/Topic/Cloud. To register for the live streaming event, please see https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032484438&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US.

Wintellect is conducting a contest where you could win an XBOX 360 Kinect Bundle. THis contest requires minimal effort from you. To register, all you have to do is signup up for a free Windows Azure pass and deploy a service that is provided for you. You do not need to install anything on your…

My previous post described the back-end configuration for my “People” domain model (people, addresses, etc.) Let’s look at how this data is used within the web application using an MVC web API controller along with an AngularJS web service call and simple data binding. The Web API I created a very simple ApiController class, called…

Let’s look at some fundamentals of a typical web application that performs CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) operations. For this, the CRUD Operations project was added to the AngularJS/MVC Cookbook. I needed some test data, so I borrowed a few records from SQL Server’s AdventureWorks example database. This query gave me an XML document…

Running Javascript unit tests is a little bit different than testing other code. In an NUnit test, for example, the system under test and the engine running the test share the same .NET runtime which allows for easy instantiation of the tests as well as collecting test results. In a Javascript test, however, the test…

I’ve updated the Simple Routing example in the AngularJS/MVC Cookbook with unit tests. Unit tests are meant to test a piece of an application independently from any dependencies it might have. AngularJS provides a dependency injection framework that allows (and encourages) unit testing pieces of a web application. For this application, I am using Jasmine…

Turns out there’s a TrackPad Settings application! Huge thanks to Sumit Maitra for mentioning its existence on my last blog post. There was nothing in the documentation or on Microsoft’s web site that this application existed, which is a huge mistake. Instead of spending several frustrating hours and writing a blog post about that frustration,…