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Systenics Website Relaunch
Our older website was starting to show age and unable to keep pace with styles. We had several internal discussions regarding a re-design but usually ended up shelving the plan since we were unable to identify and justify the reason for re-design if the outcome would just be a better design. At times we thought of just purchasing a template and updating the content and finish the process.
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Salesforce CRUD operations using C# in AuctionWorx (ASP.NET MVC application)
In this blog post, we have explained how we can perform CRUD operations with Salesforce custom objects. We have integrated Salesforce with RainWorx AuctionWorx software (ASP.NET MVC application). Refer our previous blog "Integrate Salesforce with C# or ASP.NET MVC Application", where we have shown how you can set up a project for Salesforce integration. Salesforce integration will allow better interaction between customer support team and bidders/buyers post bid/purchase process.
Continue readingIntegrate Salesforce with C# or ASP.NET MVC Application
This tutorial explains the manual steps to authenticate Salesforce account using C# or ASP.NET MVC application. Even though the sample provided is C# Console application, we have implemented the same with RainWorx's AuctionWorx software (ASP.NET MVC application).
Continue readingBuilding an ASP.NET Core 1.1 Application with PostgreSQL on Ubuntu Linux
In this blog post, we will update the default scaffold ASP.NET Core 1.1 application using Entity Framework Core to connect to PostgreSQL database using Code first approach on Ubuntu Linux. We will explore some of the new features of ASP.NET Core 1.1 and how easy it is to use entity framework to connect to open source databases like PostgreSQL. We will be using the free, open source Visual Studio Code Editor and .NET CLI to build the application to understand how to build ASP.NET Core applications on Linux or other supported platforms.
Continue readingUse Lucene.Net in for faster data search
This tutorial explains how to use Lucene.Net to acheive faster search responses in ASP.NET or MVC or C# applications. You can use Lucene.Net library to create indexes and search to retrieve the data which can be stored by relevance or by a sort field.
Continue readingReal Time Chat Room with Text, Image and File support built on NodeJS, ExpressJS and Socket.IO
We would like to announce the release of our open source small project, a real time chat room with Text, Image and File transfer support. Built on NodeJS, ExpressJS and Socket.IO.
Continue readingSetting up a VMware Esxi 6.0 Virtual Server on OVH Hosting
In this blog post we try to highlight some of the challenges and advantages that we faced while working with OVH. It took us several hours trying to figure out different parts of the service and get it functional. There have been several forum posts by others who have given important information to help us configure our servers correctly. In this blog post we are trying to string together our journey to make it easier for others. We specialize in bespoke software development and are not trained IT admins, but we definitely like to dabble into IT as far as we can. We are sure someone with a strong IT experience in virtualization might know these issues up front. But this is our layman’s view of this process.
Continue readingUnderstanding Visual Studio 2015 ASP.NET Web Project Changes
Microsoft has recently released Visual Studio 2015 Preview for evaluation. Along with Visual Studio Microsoft has announced that it will open source complete ASP.NET stack and make it hostable on Linux as well as Mac. Microsoft has changed their web project significantly to make it work across open source platforms. Visual Studio 2015 preview brings a lot of enhancements in the editor as well as one of the significant components that ship with it is ASP.NET v5 and total change in project structure of web applications. In an effort to embrace open source they have made a lot of changes to to the project templates to utilize a whole bag of popular open source technologies like NPM, Grunt and Bower. Enabling the use of popular open source package managers saves Microsoft from duplicating and maintaining the rapid speed of changes and new developments that are happening on the web. For example instead of building their open Less to CSS compiler and keeping it updated, now they enable developers to use popular open source versions of the same.
Continue readingUse jQuery Lazy Load with Knockout binding
This tutorial explains how to use jQuery lazy loading technique with Knockout binding.
Continue readingSetup Facebook Login and Camera for Android App using PhoneGap 3.4
This tutorial explains the manual steps to integrate Facebook Login and add Camera plugin for Android application which is created using PhoneGap 3.4. For Facebook plugin configuration and samples, refer phonegap-facebook-plugin available on GitHub.
Continue readingAdd Images along with Text using Document Types and Parital View in Umbraco 7
While creating an Umbraco site, I came across the need for displaying images along with additional text information which can be setup and managed using Umbraco CMS administration tool. In this blog post, I will explain how to create Document Types and Partial View for a Umbraco 7 website using MVC to display the details.
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