I'm predominantly a .Net developer but am wanting to look into ruby on rails.
Has anyone else been in this situation? And can they recommend any good books/tutorials/general resources for someone wanting to cross over?
If you were starting a new web development project would you use ASP.Net MVC 2 or Ruby on Rails?
I have recently invested some time in to learning Ruby on Rails because I wanted to learn a solid web development framework. Then I took a new job where I will be using ASP.Net MVC 2.
I know this question is very subjective, but I am planning to write some websites on my own, outside of work, and I would like to get some opinions from others.
I am investing some time in learning ASP.NET and more specifically ASP.NET MVC and I am curious how it stacks up to the competition. I really like what I am seeing so far with the framework, and I think the icing on the cake would be if it shows rock solid speed like I have seen with some ASP.NET form sites.
Has anyone done or seen fair comparisons or benchmarks? I would be interested to see how ASP.NET MVC stacks up against other solutions such as PHP MVC too.
In Ruby on Rails you can write a simple controller action such as:
def index
@movies = Movies.find(:all)
respond_to do |format|
format.html #index.html.erb
format.xml { render :xml => @movies }
format.json { render :json => @movies }
end
end
For those unfamiliar with RoR, def index in this case would be the equivalent of public ActionResult Index() within an ASP.Net MVC Controller and would allow the following calls:
[URL] returns as an html page from the view index.html.erb (think index.aspx)[URL] returns the same data in xml format (@movies is the object containing the data all of the views use)[URL] returns a JSON string, useful when making javascript calls needing the same data/logic
An equivalent flow in ASP.Net MVC would (if possible) likely look something like this (if it could be less verbose, even better):
[code]....
My friend and I want to write a Facebook application. We've narrowed down the list of possible technologies to Ruby on Rails and C# with ASP. Here are the pros and cons we've thought of.
Cons:
ASP - proprietary tools like Visual Studio etc. cost (lots of) money. We both don't know ASP (although we're not bad at C#).
RoR - It's scripting so might be harder to maintain. My friend doesn't know RoR at all (but he's a fairly proficient programmer so will probably be able to pick it up quickly).
Pros:
ASP - Facebook has an official SDK for .NET.
RoR - I know RoR. It's open source, free and has fast development time.
What says the community? Is there something we haven't thought of?
I am a PHP developer migrating to C# ASP.Net Framework. As of right now, I am experienced in using Php for developing sites and I use CakePhp and Zend framework as my RAD tools to produce better applications.
As I move over to ASP.NET, I have this view that C# ASP.Net framework itself is already a RAD tool and is equivalent to using Cakephp, Zend, or even Ruby on Rails. So I really shouldn't have no concerns trying to find a separate library for ASP.NET that will better applications. To me, in a sense the ASP.NET is already like a MVC cause it seperates the model from the view and the methods are almost like controllers.
I need to create a simple webservice in C# but I'm not sure where to start (I've coded UI apps in C# before but all my web experience is in Ruby on Rails). Where do I start?
The only client for the webservice will be a Ruby on Rails app so there's no need for any HTML rendering. I was thinking of just returning a XML or YAML formatted string unless there's an easier way. I'm not too keen on SOAP but if it's easy/natural in C# & Ruby then I'd consider it (or anything else).
I want to build a scalable dynamic Web Application. I have never programmed an Object Oriented language before. Or, let's just say I am completely new to programming, because the previous experiences aren't worth talking about.
I know I have a really big task ahead of me ^^ but I wanted to get into coding for the last 10 years and now that I'm finally doing it, I would like to know how to get there in the most efficient way.
Any good books/tutorials you could recommend?
I'm new to ASP.NET MVC and come from a Ruby on Rails background. In Ruby on Rails you can use the "runner" script (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html#runner) to load up the app along with the rails framework and then run a script that accesses the model, etc. I use this to run scripts that fetch data from other databases and then insert it into my app's db using the methods on the model classes.s there a similar option in ASP.NET MVC?
View 3 RepliesI'm a Coldfusion Web Developer and I'm finding that in my local area,work for CF Devs has become extremely scarce.There were a handful of companies that were Coldfusion houses a few years ago and it appears most of them have moved away from CF development.I'm looking to expand my skillset to improve my employment outlook, and it appears that many of the web development positions that are available to me now are focused around .NET web development.The last time i took a look at .NET as a web development platform was way back during 2.0; where I found it to be poorly organized and extremely unfocused.
Apparently somewhere along the line I missed the boat because that's where about 90% of the web development jobs in my area are now.I've done some searching on google to see if I can find a tutorial, something that's akin to hand-holding, and have come back dissapointed.
So I'm turning to the SO community to ask for links and resources that might help better explain how .NET development works in a web development capacity,and for links to these resources so I can begin boning up my knowledge and start writing practice applications.
, I want to use fluent hibernate with asp.net but couldn't find any website or tutorial for that , they're all to configure it with asp.net mvc , anyone knows any?
View 3 Repliescan some one guide me to a good tutorial for jquery ckeditor integration?
View 1 RepliesI am using asp.net sitemap with the in-built asp.net menu but this is very 'dull'. I want to apply CSS and jQuery to give it a better visual look and feel. I have read various articles based on[URL] However, i really liked
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Is there any examples or tutorials similar to this which are FREE?
Various tutorials and articles describing the N-tier architecture use the "Open Late Close Early" methodology for Connection objects. The connection is just opened before a "ExecuteNonQuery or ExecuteReader" command, and closed immediately
This means that inside a transaction where a number of business objects have to be updated (using different DAL classes), the connection can be opened and closed many times.
In that case the transaction will be escalated to a distributed transaction. Now we can’t assume that MSDTC will be availableunning every where. Now if I am building a website to be uploaded using those shared web hosting services, which does not allow MSDTC , what are my options ?
I'm making my debut in designing a web app specifically targeted at mobile browsers. While I've written web pages before in C#/ASP.NET, I've never done anything specifically for the limited screen real estate and other idiosyncrasies of mobile browsers. So I'm looking for some pointers here:
What design considerations should I be taking account of (aside from the obviously smaller screen)?
What useful features are there in C# that can be put to good effect for the mobile client?
How do you make sure to give a relatively uniform user experience for all different mobile browsers?
I need to write an asmx service that takes the xml file as input and also gives an xml as output which are validated using an xsd..
I was trying to read about the services that accept xml inputs and return xml outputs.. but all in vain, I couldn't find a proper tutorial and sample codes to work on..
Can anyone give some links to some nice tutorials and samples with asmx services accepting xml data and returning xml data..
I am trying to figure out how to use/create a custom control in ASP.NET MVC 2.
I created a custom control earlier and compiled it (ccontrol.dll), the control renders a div, textbox and a button + some javascript in order to post a comment on the website. It could be a static aspx page that i wanted to allow my visitors to add a comment to. I would then drag my control from the toolbar to the aspx page and run it, it would then render all the code needed on the webpage including fetching the data from a datasource and displaying that inside the div. The user could also just type in a comment and press the button to save it to the datasource.
Is this possible to convert to MVC 2? Any good tutorial that covers custom controls and MVC 2? (Ideally would be if the control could be made into a .dll file that i then could reuse on future webpages)
How do i write a custom control the mvc way? Any good tutorials on the topic?
I am using the above combo in a new web app Im doing just to try to learn to build new stuff to expand my knowledge. Im hoping to go live if I do a good job.. Im kind of new at MVC and the other products so I was trying to find a link to a good tutorial that set all of these up together.
View 1 RepliesI have this web application built. I am using windows authentication for this application. I have to log all the user activity as wells as site activity in this application. I have the below mentioned class established to log some activity regarding the user to an SQL server database table..
[code]....
I would still need to log many other items regarding the user and also the site, like the time spent by the user on the site, no: of currently logged in users on the site. Can anyone here suggest me as to how do I capture those items?? let me know if I am going in the right direction too.....?? If you can provide me with some links on this "user activity logging for windows authenticated applications".
I program in vb
I was wondering if someone can direct me to a good quality tutorial on the process of registering and sending an activation link to the user's email address. I can't seem to find any useful tutorials online!
when ASP.NET throws an application error, IIS shows the 500 HTML error, but when a WCF service throws a FaultException (IIS 500), the client gets a proper SOAP fault with error message in it.
Is there any good documentation on this request processing?
I been googling a bit and not having a clear picture on this. I have a few database now sitting duck in Express and we planning to migrate to 2005 or 2008 enterprise version. Currently, all the sensitive and important data are stored in the Express. We wanna do the migration but we do not want to impact a single column in a table. E.g. some numbers becomes different format like 234E whatever watever. Is there any good tools out there to do the job with the least efforts ?
View 2 RepliesDoes anyone have a good tutorial or now how to send html emails. I have searched and searched and not been able to get anything to work. I have tried CDOSYS and havent been able to get it to work. Currently I am using System.Net.Mail and System.Text so that I can use StringBuilder and put it in the body.
I would like to be able to build an aspx page and send it as the body in an auto generated email.
Can someone provide a good example of multiple UpdatePanels being updated by a singe Dynamic Populate extender? Is there some way to have one UpdatePanel trigger another to make a call and subsequently update another UpdatePanel?
View 1 Repliesdo u also any good code projects for developing inbox functionality.
just that users could communicate with each other It does not need to as high level using System.net.mail
Just when the user clicks on Inbox shuld fetch data from db. and send and save to draft, navigation, querystrings, grid view did my own but just want to see other examples.