Automated coded UI testing become very popular in the past few years. Its allow developers to create tests which are executed directly on UI level and simulate user actions. At the same time HTML5 become a standard for creating universal modern applications which can be hosts in a native browser controls. New model of creating applications brings a new challenges in the testing fields that's why in this post I want to present my solution (it takes me almost two days to get this working!) which is fir...

Rest API is cool but what will you going to say about making is also fully asynchronous with async and await keywords? I invite you to read.

Introduction to MVC In the last few years a software architecture changed very heavily. From desktop (forms) application which were very popular in Windows XP users move to SOA and now completely start using web based solution hosting in a cloud. Of course such evolution is not something bad, just the opposite in my opinion because web based application are highly scalable, better secured and available from each place in the Earth where user has an Internet connection. Such a big changes in software ...

Last week I get interesting task to develop. The task was to search input text in PDF file stored in database as FileStream. The task implementation took me some time so I decided to share it with other developers. Here we are going to use SQL Server 2008 R2 (x64 Developers Edition), external driver from Adobe, Full-Text Search technology and FileStream technology.Because this sems a little bit comlicated let`s make this topic clear and do it step by step. 1) Enable FileStream - this part is prett...

In SQL SERVER 2005 the most common data type for storing BLOBs was an IMAGE  datatype. When SQL Server 2008 and later SQL SERVER  2008 R2 occured the image datatypes coexists with several new and recomended by Mictosoft BLOB datatypes such varbinary(MAX). Let`s have a look: varbinary(max) /binary(n) variables store variable-length binary data of approximately n bytes, may store a maximum of 2 gigabytes.image variables store up to 2 gigabytes of data and are commonly used to store any type of data fi...

Almost in each modern website project one of the feature is suggesting user possible items to select when he start typing one of them. Such functionality is done by using control named autocomplete. Under the hood  it consists of at least three elements:UI control which allow user to type some text - mainly this in HTML input of text typeServer-side function which serves data to be auto-completedClient-side logic (written in JavaScript) which , by using AJAX, send request to the server asynchronously and...

An asynchronous operations become very popular in modern programming because by using its developers can take full advantage of multicore processors and perform several operation at the same time. Multithreding exists in ASP.NET since 2.0 version but it was very sophisticated to use it. However starting from .NET 4.5, ASP.NET is fully compatible with all these great features. To demonstrate how to start with the asynchronous operation in ASP.NET 4.5 I`ve created very simple solution which consist of ...