Sunday, January 18, 2015

ASP.NET MVC Basic Model Binding

ASP.NET MVC Basic Model Binding

View and its underlying model binding is a very important part of MVC. Here, I will show some of the basic steps which helps to understand basic binding concept.

Main terms that is involved in this scenario:
    -DTO/Model
    -View Model
    -Binding


DTO/Model:
Data transfer object (DTO) is one of the main component of OOP programming . Which is used fulfill different application scenario. We often require user input which relates to different DTO's.

MVC has great binding capability which we can use easily.


View Model:
This is a custom model only for view which actually hold the DTO reference and other parts that is required for view.


Controller:




















View code:


Output of the app:




























When user press Save:
It will submit to Person post action.
Here is the debugging output on Post method where action parameter is PersonViewModel with user input data:


Now we can use the binded view model for different business scenario of the app.

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Saturday, January 17, 2015

Functional programming - Haskell

Last two week I have been working with Haskell and it is really a great experience. So far I have experience with the imperative programming. I have a chance to work with functional programming with Haskell in my masters program at M.U.M University Iowa, USA . I wanted to share some of my experience.

I have followed most my learning through the book 'Real World Haskell' here is the link :
http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/


You might follow the above book which is really very helpful to learn Haskell.

I have used Windows environment for this programming.

What you need to do to start?
Download the Haskell platform here: https://www.haskell.org/platform/windows.html

Now we can write some program:

Open  GHCi from program files:
















This will open Prelude and you can use it just like a calculator:












Is there any easy learning editor?
I have used the Heat editor which is very easy to use and learn

Download here: http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/heat/

Lets try a factorial problem:

fact n = if n < 2 then 1 else n * fact(n-1)

Really cool it is single line function





















Haskell is a real functional programming language. It has really amazing capability you can try that. I am ending my post here :)