To start using Couchbase solution as data store for your mobile application you need to setup up couple of things. This stack is named Couchbase Mobile and consist of three components: Couchbase Lite (Embedded NoSQL database) Couchbase Sync Gateway (Server component to synchronize data between the device and server) Couchbase Server (NoSQL database server) Download the above components from here. Going forward we are going to setup the two server components from the above list on Ubuntu machine (Ubuntu 14.04 at the time of writing). For the sake of writing, I have used droplet from Digital Ocean. But it is not restricted to any hosting provider. You can spin up a Ubuntu machine on Amazon Web Service, Microsoft Azure or any other hosting provider of your choice. AWS also provides a ready made package for the same in AWS marketplace you can use. Once you have a Ubuntu machine » Read more
Note: [Deprecated Content] This was written while ASP.NET and .NET Core was in beta (around beta5 or beta6). Since then a lot of stuffs have changed and moved around. Stuffs described below may or may not be true for current stable releases of ASP.NET Core - Configuration feature. I recommend not to follow along and get confused. Use official configuration documentation that explains it correctly - docs.asp.net With the upcoming release of .NET 4.6 and ASP.NET 5 (currently in BETA phase) one namespace that is getting new look (re-written) is System.Configuration. If you have not already read then I recommend you to take a look at getting started post by Louis DeJardin - ASP.NET vNext Moving Parts: IConfiguration He has also explained other moving parts which are some interesting reads. Why you ask? Louis explains few reason why System.Configuration needs to » Read more
There are so many productive tools and packages out there that can be used for profiling an ASP.NET MVC application. While back I wrote a quick intro about how Glimpse can come handy profiling your web application. There is one more simplistic and quick way to start profiling load / execution time for your application routines using MiniProfiler. This little package is prepared by folks at Stackexchange and used for Stackoverflow.com and other sites. MiniProfile's homepage shows quick way to get started with using MiniProfiler in your application. Following code snippet is required to profile a piece of code (not to forget MiniProfiler.Start() and MiniProfiler.Stop()): var profiler = MiniProfiler.Current; using (profiler.Step("Set page title")) { // Your code to profile } and you will see something similar to following when you load your application and run through profiled piece of code: {<1>} So if I » Read more
The brand new version ASP.NET 5 (a.k.a ASP.NET vNext) can be developed and hosted on all three major platform - Windows, Linux and MacOS. Getting started with ASP.NET 5 (TODO: Link to be updated with new Post for .NET tools) is not so hard after all and is definitely fun to play early. The biggest break through that comes to .NET and ASP.NET world is the capability to write and host anywhere. Yes you can now develop and host a ASP.NET Web application - MVC or WebAPI even SignalR on any platform - Windows, Linux and MacOS. This has always been the de-facto standard for windows since long using Visual Studio (prior VS2015) but it can be fun on Linux and MacOS also using your favourite editors or Visual Studio Code. Following step needs to be performed on a brand new spinning Linux » Read more
