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I know what is magic about now, its just that it somehow works and we don't know how. So was this chat app a magic for me, until yesterday when i got to know how it works. In this post we will try to create a chat application that works with approximately 10-12 lines of real code. ( i am sure we can write that in one line too ;) ) The chat recipe goes like this Ingredient: SingnalR is solution for ASP.NET which lets communicate with client and the server-side with JS and ASP.NET. MVC3 Procedure: Create an empty MVC application ( Which is not really empty) Create a HomeController by right clicking on the controller folder Install latest Jquery and SignalR using Nuget Now create a model Communicator which inherits the Hub from SignalR just like this on the html side do this There's your tasty treat :)  Server-side: uses the dynamic object to call the function defined on the client side. Client-side: client creates an object of the communi...

Google has been busy revamping their style sheets for all their products and focus'n more on revenue now Get Youtube's new interface which turns out to be more social ;) On chrome: Go to  http://www.youtube.com Ctrl + Shift + i Then click on console Now paste  document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=ST1Ti53r4fU"  on the console and hit Enter. Reload (F5)

Browsers are getting Stronger Sharper & Smarter ;) The day is not far away when we have nothing but a  browser installed in the desktop and things will be floating in the cloud ( provided our ISP are reliable which they are not now). Web technology is so open that even the all time money maker  Microsoft  to open up. WebGL is a open source technology that helps build 3D enabled apps with its rich API within the browser. WebGL's early application the  Body Browser  was just a peek to this technology. Google has integrated this tech with the google maps now and they have it pretty well. Google Maps GL once you click on the above link you will see a option on the left bottom something like this then just flow through. Now checkout the satellite view from the right top then just browse places its so smooth, no more frame by frame loading. Now that's sleek ;) even try the new view angles from the round knobs. Well everything was not smooth as i expe...

May be the laziest software engineer had invented this ;) which literally keeps to glued on to your desk. This innovation may be even have taken away onsite opportunities  of many. Now for users who are adhered to web browser & still more lazy than the inventor ;) and keep count of clicks to the least. The chrome remote desktop app is a cross-platform app that lets you access remote boxes. Check out http://goo.gl/EnhRe

Here is a new item we can try out, seems to be very light. In this post i will walk through a simple credential validation. Create a simple ASP.NET project Add a the following mark-up in your Login.aspx page     < div>         < input  type= "text"  id= "username"  />         < input  type= "password"  id= "password"  />         < input  type= "button"  id= "login"  value= "Login"  />     </ div > Add jquery library and reference     < script  src= "Scripts/jquery-1.5.1.js"  type= "text/javascript">< / script > Add WCF Service Set aspNetCompatibilityEnabled attribute to true in your web.config file     < serviceHostingEnvironment  multipleSit...

Code first- I just love this approach, well any developer would. MVC has been haunting since long ago. So thinking to my self better late than never gave it shot and found it to be pretty neat & interesting. And Microsoft as before with MVC, Entity framework, etc etc leaves you wondering how they did that!!! . Lets start coding (if we get a chance to ;) ), Select ASP.NET MVC3 Web Application in the next select Internet application and try razor view engine with html5 Now check your solution explorer you will see quite a lot of things that has come from thin air. Don't b shocked there is still to come Microsoft now needs a developer who knows to create a class For this sample project let me create following two classes Employee and Department and add to Models folder      public   class   Employee     {          public   int  Id...

Threading is a nice thing until we know how it is being executed. Sometime it can be a pain in the arse and sometimes asset you gain from. Today came across a question on how to get to know a async operation is completed thought of spending some time to explain it in my way. How do you get to know a Async operation is completed, well one way is  IAsyncResult ,this is how we go, Lets create a delegate that will be used call our time consuming or background task. delegate   string   CallFunctionDelegate ( string  arg1,  string  arg2); say the time consuming function private   string  DoSomeThingBig( string  arg1,  string  arg2) just to show how to pass argument, i have used some dummy arguments. Once the time consuming function is completed lets call the notification function that will called after the asynchronous operation let that be private   void  AfterDoingSomethingBig( IAsyncResult  result) N...