'I’ve been working with MongoDB for a long time now. Back in the early days, there really were no management tools analogous to RDBMS tools (e.g. SQL Server Management Studio ). Since then, things have changed significantly. It’s time to look around and see what management / monitoring tooling is around these days for MongoDB. The news is good. There are many different options to choose depending on your platform and use-cases. Robomongo, price: $0 / open-source, platforms: Windows, OS X, Linux. link]. Admin GUI). Everything you can write in mongo shell — you can write in Robomongo!

'This article demonstrates a technique and supporting library for adding optimistic concurrency control to NoSQL databases and MongoDB in particular. Quickly, what is optimistic concurrency control? Ideally, all databases that allow concurrent access or disconnected access need to implement some form of  concurrency control. This usually comes in two flavors: Pessimistic concurrency control. Optimistic concurrency control. Pessimistic concurrency control is usually used when working heavily within transactions. Moreover, it is entirely inappropriate for NoSQL databases. Edit in memory.

[Note: reblogged from  blog.learninglineapp.com. I'd like to personally invite you to check out our work over at LearningLine - just follow the links below.]. We believe that LearningLine is the most effective online training for developers, period. Today it gets even better. We are announcing the ability to preview any of our online courses, for free without entering any payment information. This is not a trial that becomes a subscription or a silly 5 minute preview like other company’s offer. You can now study approximately the first hour of any one of our courses. You get the idea.

I had a great time discussing these topics with everyone at DevWeek 2013. Thanks to all who attended my sessions. Here are the slides: Getting Serious About The Cloud For Developers. 18 Ways Your Brand-New MVC Web Application Can Be Better. Building Rich Forms in ASP.NET MVC. Applied NoSQL in.NET. Watch this space for the demo code as well. won’t be able to upload them until I get better internet access back in the US (couple of days). Cheers, @mkennedy. Filed under: Speaking Tagged: NET , ASP.NET , Cloud , Conferences , DevelopMentor , jQuery , LearningLine , Speaking , tips , web.

I am very proud to announce an exciting new online learning platform from DevelopMentor : [link]. At DevelopMentor we have been thinking deeply about online training. We wanted to create an environment that combines the best parts of online learning and classroom training, the best parts of self-directed exploration and expert-led mentoring. We believe we have created just such an environment and I am thrilled to publicly announce it today. Here’s a short 3-minute video which will give you a quick overview. You can get more details at  [link]. Online training today. We learn by doing. LearningLine

The goal of this post is to show you validation options beyond those that come in-the-box from Microsoft and the ASP.NET team. Currently, there are nine pre-built validation attributes  that come with MVC: While these are very helpful, knowing where to look to find additional validation options is super helpful. For example, what if the State  property is only supposed to be required if Country property is set to USA? Good luck with that one! So in this post, I will point you at a few open-source DataAnnotation libraries built for MVC. The first to check is FoolProof: [link]. Cheers, @mkennedy.

Here’s a new screencast for you MVC guys and gals out there. Validating ASP.NET MVC Forms with DataAnnotations. In this short screencast, I will show you how to leverage ASP.NET MVC’s excellent model binding as well as the DataAnnotations attributes to easily add both server-side and client-side validation for MVC websites. Filed under: Video Tagged: NET , MVC , Screencasts , Video , Visual Studio. Video.NET MVC Screencasts Visual Studio

So maybe I'm late to the party, but I recently started playing with NuGet. It's a killer new way to find, install, maintain, and manage references to open source libraries in Visual Studio 2010. Plenty of people have written about it ( Phil Haack and Scott Hanselman for example). Let's just say you should learn about NuGet if you don't know it already. What I want to talk about is all the cool open source projects I found just by flipping through the pages of the NuGet directory in the Visual Studio "Add Library Package Reference" dialog. RazorEngine at [link]. YUI Compressor for.Net at [link].

This article is a follow up one I wrote last week entitled “The NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB - Oh My!”. In that article I introduced the NoSQL movement, MongoDB, and showed you how to program against it in.NET using LINQ and NoRM. highlighted two cornerstone reasons why you might ditch your SQL Server for the NoSQL world of MongoDB. Those were. Ease-of-use and deployment. Performance. For ease-of-use, you’ll have to want to read the original article. This article is about the performance argument for MongoDB over SQL Server (or MySql or Oracle). money) to burn. Think about it. Fair enough.

Imagine you’re building an ASP.NET MVC website which has some performance problems. m sure this would never actually happen to you, but imagine you’re facing this problem just for the sake of exploring the possibilities. :-). Now, you web app is mostly fast and responsive, but there are certain types of data that just bring the whole thing to a grind. This article will cover a technique using ASP.NET MVC partial views, along with just a sprinkle of jQuery, JavaScript, and HTML5 to make your site feel nice and responsive even if you cannot increase the speed of certain operations. That’s it!

So you’re ready to start that new and ambitious ASP.NET MVC project. Maybe you’re kicking off a new startup or just finally moving that old-and-crusty webforms project into modern development world. Either way, here a a few very simple things you … Continue reading → Articles.NET ASP.NET MVC tips

Maybe you’ve heard people talking about ditching their SQL Servers and other RDBMS entirely. There is a movement out in the software development world called the "No SQL" movement and it’s taking the web application world by storm. Insanity!” you may cry, “for where will people put their data if not in a database? Flat files? Tell me we aren’t we going back to flat files.”. No, but in the relational model, something does has to give. Just maybe, if we are really cutting-edge, we might consider storing our data in the cloud, but the choices generally stop there. Don’t take my word on it. Ok, ok.