MVC: ADO.NET Entity Data Model

Please see my other MVC articles. Leveraging Visual Studio’s ORM Tool to Create a Data Layer Any application which interacts with a data source utilizes a data layer to perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations. Usually, this is quite an arduous tasks requiring endless maintenance to reflect changes in the data source as…

MVC: Accessing Form Values

Please see my other MVC articles. Leveraging the FormCollection object to retrieve user input. Collecting user input is one of the most common deliverables in Internet applications for which MVC provides a robust mechanism called the FormCollection. Beginning where my MVC 4 ADO.NET Entity Data Model article ended, I will demonstrate how to leverage FormCollection…

MVC: Displaying Data Source Records

Please see my other MVC articles. Leveraging the Data Model to Retrieve Records for Display. As illustrated in MVC 4 ADO.NET Entity Data Model, Visual Studio now provides an extremely efficient ORM tool to quickly generate the data layer for CRUD operations. In this article, I will illustrate how to query and display data from…

MVC: Bundles

Please see my other MVC articles. Instantiating Script and Style References Efficiently Including references to script and style tags has always been a tedious and time-consuming web development task. Now MVC 4 provides an alternate method by allowing developers to “bundle” files together into a single reference which may then be referenced to “render” them…

SSAS: Refining a Dimension

Adding New Dimension Fields Often in the cycle of cube development it become necessary to add new fields to a dimension for future reporting purposes. In this article, I will demonstrate adding an aggregation of [City, State] to the data source view. First, I’ll open the AW data source view. Now I need to find…