In this we will discuss about the ASP.NET Roles and Membership API from MVC perspective. We will try to see how the default Roles and Membership provides can be used for authentication and authorization in an MVC application. We will also see how we can implement custom forms authentication in an ASP.NET MVC application. Continue reading
BackBone Tutorial – Part 7: Understanding Backbone.js Routes and History
In this article, we will try to look at Routes in Backbone.js. We will try to understand how routes can be useful in a large scale single page applications and how we can use routes to perform action based on requested URL. Continue reading
BackBone Tutorial – Part 6: Understanding Backbone.js Views
In this article, we will try to look at the View classes in Backbone.js and see how view classes help us in updating the relevant parts of the application easily. Continue reading
BackBone Tutorial – Part 5: Understanding Backbone.js Collections
In this article we will discuss about Backbone.js collections. We will see how we can use collections to manipulate a group of models and how we can use restul API to easily fetch and save collections. Continue reading
BackBone Tutorial – Part 4: CRUD Operations on BackboneJs Models using HTTP REST Service
In this article we will discuss how we can perform CRUD operations on a backbone model using a REST based HTTP service. Continue reading
BackBone Tutorial – Part 3: More about Backbone Models
In this article we will look at some more concepts related to backbone models. We will try to see how we can override the default model behavior. We will look at the signification of model IDs, how we can validate a model and finally how a model can be persisted either locally or on a server. Continue reading
Understanding, Using and Customizing ASP.NET Identity System for Authentication and Authorization
In this article we will look into ASP.NET Identity System which comes as the default authentication and authorization mechanism with ASP.NET MVC 5 internet application template. We will try to understand the ASP.NET Identity system and compare it with the ASP.NET simple membership providor and the classic ASP.NET roles and membership provider API. Continue reading
JavaScript Toast notification for the websites and HTML5 apps using toastr.js
In this small article, I will talk about toastr.js. A simple JavaScript library to create toast notifications for websites and single page applications. Continue reading
BackBone Tutorial – Part 2: Understanding the basics of Backbone Models
When we talk about any MV* pattern, model is undoubtedly the most important part of the architecture/application. Its the model that contains all the application data. Along with keeping the data the model class performs various set of actions on the data. Actions like possibility to validate the data, possibility to persist the data, defining access to various parts of data contained in the model (access control). Continue reading
BackBone Tutorial – Part 1: Introduction to Backbone.Js
It was a long time ago (almost a decade back) when most software applications were getting built as standalone applications. These applications were targeted at a single user and ran on their operating systems. Then came the need to share data across multiple users and a need to store data at a central location. Continue reading