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ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.0 has an friendly method for loading related objects in a explicit way by using "Include"

Below is an example from MVC Music Store.

In this method, Generes and Albums are related so EF provides an easy way to get both in a single call.

But the main topic of this post is how to achieve this behavior if you are using Telerik OpenAccess ORM.

See the code below -

You will need a "FetchStargegy" and Load Genre with Albums while getting the results.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Venkata

If you are working with ASP.NET MVC2 or above you might want to have same controller name across multiple areas. For example you might have an Home Controller on your root of your website and also a Home Controller on the Admin Area of your website. Looks like a a reasonable thing to have

But if you run your application you will have an error saying "Multiple Types were found that match the controller..." or like the screenshot below

To overcome this error you need register a route specific to the area with the namespace. Use the code snippet below-

And now you can have multiple controllers with the same name.

 Hope this helps,

Cheers

Venkata

IE9 was released recently. It is brand new browser from Microsoft, which uses their new "Chakra" Javascript engine which makes it the fastest browser till date (even beating Chrome 10).

IE9 has an interesting feature called "Site Pinning". This blog post talks about how to change your website to make use of that and give the users of your website a "app" feel on Windows 7.

To begin with let us first add a shortcurt icon

Add this line in the HEAD section of your page.

and when you drag the tab in IE on to your Windows 7 taskbar, your shortcut icon shows up in task bar and the the you get a nice color scheme which is similar to your website when you open your website.

IE9 also lets you add "Jump list tasks", which can be done by the following snippet -

The basic idea behind the above above snippet is you can add "tasks" with your own text and urls and have a nice little icon to go along with it.

Once this is done this is how it would look like -

Hope this helps

Cheers

Venkata

Mercurial is a distributed version controls system (DVCS) and TortoiseHG is a GUI based Mercurial Client for Windows.

To install TortoiseHG on windows, download the TortoiseHG client from here.

Run through the installer.

Once the installation is finished -

Open the folder that you want to create a repository for

Right click on the folder go to TortoiseHG Menu and click on Global Settings

On the Global Settings window go to Commit and enter your Name you might want to follow a format like <Name> <Email>.

Click OK.

Now to create a repository, right click on the source code folder go to TortoiseHG menu and click on Create Repository here.

Hit Create on the init screen.

With this you have created a new repository using Mercurial and TortoiseHG. You can now commit code to the repository.

Now if you want to synchronize your local repository to cloud code hosting service like BitBucket you will have to setup sync settings. 

To get to the sync settings page right click on the folder you want to sync click TortoiseHG -> Repository Settings.

On the repository settings page, click Synchronize and click add button for remote repository settings grid.

Type in the URL, of the repository and username and password if any to connect to that repository and click ok. You will now see the remote repository in the list.

Click OK and save the settings.

Now to commit to your cloud code hosting service, click TortoiseHG->Synchronize

In the synchronize window choose your remote path we added earlier and click Push.

And your code will be pushed to your clould code hosting service.

Hope this helped

Cheers

Venkata

This is fourth in the series posts I am doing to cover Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC3(Updating the MVC3 from today's post).

1. Getting Started with Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC 
   
2. Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC - The Grid
3. Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC - The Editor 

In today's post I will talk about using Telerik Controls via Nuget.

Let us create a new MVC3 application and as with any MVC3 project you get the new ASP.NET View Engine called Razor.

So let us create a new MVC3 project with Razor view engine.

We are going to add Telerik Extensions to our MVC3 project via Nuget.

Open up the Package Manager Console(View->Other Windows->Package Manager Console) and type this line in your PowerShell window

TelerikMVCExtension.MVC3 is the name of the package you want to install.

Alternatively you can also right click on the webapplication and say Add Library Package Reference.

By default you will see a list of packages that are installed in your project. To get Telerik Extensions for MVC3 Click Online and type Telerik in the search box

You can simply hit install button right next to the Package TelerikMVCExtension.MVC3.

Once you hit install you will see Telerik Scripts (Javascript files) and content(CSS and Image files) automatically added to your application.

Now all we need to do is add Styles and Register the Telrik Script Registrar in your _Layout.cshtml(Equivalent to masterpage).

For style links add the following line in the head section of your master page.

For registering Telerik Scripts add the following line towards the end of your _Layout.cshtml page.

That's it. Man doesn't NuGet make adding third party libraries to your application with such ease and awesomeness.?

You can now use telerik controls in your MVC3 application with the new Razor syntax.

Hope this helped.

Cheers,

Venkata