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New Comment on "v5.0 - ASP.NET Web Form Edition: Installation Walk Through"

huambo — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:06:30 GMT

I tried to install the extension but it crashes saying that the path is too long! Moved it to the root but the same thing happens. Can you please help? Thanks, Everardo

Updated Wiki: Documentation

joycsc — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:13:50 GMT

Employee Info Starter Kit is an open source project that is highly influenced by the concept ‘Pareto Principle’ or 80-20 rule, where it is targeted to enable a web developer to gain 80% productivity with 20% of effort with respect to learning curve and production.

It is intended to address different types of real world challenges faced by web application developers when performing common CRUD operations. Using a single database table ‘Employee’, it illustrates how to utilize latest Microsoft ASP.NET, Entity Framework and Visual Studio effectively.

5 Minutes Quick start

Check an online demo to see EISK at action or get started with Employee Info Starter Kit in 5 minutes here.

EISK Editions

Employee Info Starter Kit is planned to have a wide range of individual editions, each of which will be focused on a selected application architecture, framework or platform, such as ASP.NET Webform, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery Ajax (RIA), Azure Service Platform (Cloud), Visual Studio Automated Test etc. See all current and planned editions here.

EISK Community

Excited after using EISK? Learn here how you can be a proud participant of EISK Community.

Updated Wiki: Home

joycsc — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:10:26 GMT

Employee Info Starter Kit is an open source project, that provides project templates intended to address different types of real world challenges faced by web application developers.

Using a single entity ‘Employee’, it illustrates how to utilize latest and successful software development frameworks (such as ASP.NET) and tools (such as Visual Studio), to build manageable and high performance web applications effectively and quickly.

Live Demo | EISK All-in-One | Join the Community!

Key Technology Areas

ASP.NET 4.5 (and earlier)
jQuery 1.7 (and earlier)
Entity Framework 5.0 (and earlier)
T-4 Template
Visual Studio 2011 (and earlier)

Supported Browsers

Tested on Mozilla, chrome, safari, opera, ie 9/8/7

New Comment on "v6.0 - ASP.NET MVC Edition: Architectural Reference"

whiteswan — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 05:04:20 GMT

I can't wait to see this document and final release ...

Updated Wiki: Home

joycsc — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:12:06 GMT

Employee Info Starter Kit is an open source project, that provides project templates intended to address different types of real world challenges faced by web application developers.

Live Demo | EISK All-in-One | Join the Community!

Key Technology Areas

ASP.NET 4.5 (and earlier)
jQuery 1.7 (and earlier)
Entity Framework 5.0 (and earlier)
T-4 Template
Visual Studio 2011 (and earlier)

Supported Browsers

Tested on Mozilla, chrome, safari, opera, ie 9/8/7

New Comment on "v5.0 - ASP.NET Web Form Edition: Hand on Coding Walkthrough"

jhlg — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:41:51 GMT

How I can create a web page for details? please explain

New Comment on "v5.0 - ASP.NET Web Form Edition: Hand on Coding Walkthrough"

enviso — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:51:03 GMT

At Step 2. when adding the table Companies i get the following error: ...\Employee Info Starter Kit\C#\App_Logic\Entity Model\DatabaseContext.edmx' is not found or not supported. Type or select a different path. So my Companies table is not created. Maybe i could create a new solution and add the project files to the new solution?

New Comment on "v5.0 - ASP.NET Web Form Edition: Hand on Coding Walkthrough"

enviso — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:42:46 GMT

At Sept 2. when adding the table Companies i get the following error: ...\Employee Info Starter Kit\C#\App_Logic\Entity Model\DatabaseContext.edmx' is not found or not supported. Type or select a different path. Companies table is not created.

New Comment on "v5.0 - ASP.NET Web Form Edition: Installation Walk Through"

enviso — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:25:48 GMT

Why can't i find the database under Databases in my SSMS? I click 'Refresh' but it is not showing up? Or it is not supposed to show up because it was 'attached'? Excellent starter kit for beginners like myself. Thanks!

New Comment on "v5.0 - ASP.NET Web Form Edition: Hand on Coding Walkthrough"

Ilya_Sergeev — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:06:41 GMT

Sirs, maybe I miss something. But there are other hot keys in Visual Studio 2010. For instance, I can't open Solution Explorer hitting Ctrl+W,S. The correct combination is Ctr+Alt+L. It relates to the most of hot keys combinations in the article.

Updated Wiki: Home

joycsc — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:48:53 GMT

Employee Info Starter Kit is an open source project, that provides project templates intended to address different types of real world challenges faced by web application developers.

Live Demo | EISK All-in-One | Join the Community!

Key Technology Areas

ASP.NET 4.5 (and earlier)
jQuery 1.7 (and earlier)
Entity Framework 5.0 (and earlier)
T-4 Template
Visual Studio 2011 (and earlier)

Supported Browsers

Tested on Mozilla, chrome, safari, opera, ie 9/8/7

Updated Wiki: Home

joycsc — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:46:59 GMT

Employee Info Starter Kit is an open source project, that provides project templates intended to address different types of real world challenges faced by web application developers.

Live Demo | EISK All-in-One | Join the Community!

Key Technology Areas

ASP.NET 4.5 (and earlier)
jQuery 1.7 (and earlier)
Entity Framework 5.0 (and earlier)
T-4 Template
Visual Studio 2011 (and earlier)

Supported Browsers

Tested on Mozilla, chrome, safari, opera, ie 9/8/7

Updated Wiki: Home

joycsc — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:43:58 GMT

Employee Info Starter Kit is an open source ASP.NET project template that is intended to address different types of real world challenges faced by web application developers when performing common data operations (a.k.a CRUD). Using a single database table ‘Employee’, it illustrates how to utilize Microsoft ASP.NET 4+, Entity Framework 4+ and Visual Studio 2010+ effectively.

Live Demo | EISK All-in-One | Join the Community!

Key Technology Areas

ASP.NET 4.5 (and earlier)
jQuery 1.7 (and earlier)
Entity Framework 5.0 (and earlier)
T-4 Template
Visual Studio 2011 (and earlier)

Supported Browsers

Tested on Mozilla, chrome, safari, opera, ie 9/8/7

Updated Wiki: v6.0 - ASP.NET MVC Edition: Technologies

joycsc — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:55:23 GMT

EISK v6.0 - ASP.NET MVC Edition

Technology Stack

Release Home - Getting Started - Hands on Coding Walkthrough – Technology Stack - Design & Architecture

EISK v6.0 – ASP.NET MVC edition bundles most of the greatest and successful platforms, frameworks and technologies together, to enable web developers to learn and build manageable and high performance web applications with rich user experience effectively and quickly. This page provides a recap of the technologies that are utilized by this edition.

Prerequisites

Development: Installation Prerequisites

Visual Studio 2010 (Web Developer Express Edition) or higher
- Service Pack 1
- Tools for ASP.NET MVC 4 - Web Platform Installer
- Tools for Sql Server Compact Edition 4.0 (optional)
- Package Management Extension: Nuget (optional)

Server Side: Installation Prerequisites

Internet Information Services EXPRESS/6.0/7.0? (ASP.NET MVC 4 configured)

Client Side: Supported Browsers

Desktop Browsers

Browsers (Mobile Device)

Technologies Utilized

Below are the informational resources of relevant technologies that have been utilized in EISK 6.0 MVC Edition.

Programming Language and Scripts

Programming Language: C# 4.0
Language Integrated Query: LINQ
- LINQ to Entities
- LINQ to Objects
Markup Language: HTML 5
- Progress Tag
- XMLHttpRequest Level2
Style Sheet Language: CSS 3
Client Script Language: JavaScript 1.8.5

Additional Reference and Acknowledgement

While building, apart from the resources mentioned above, the following resources were also placed a very important role to provide in-depth understanding about ASP.NET MVC and relevant best practices:

Updated Wiki: v6.0 - ASP.NET MVC Edition: Technologies

joycsc — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:53:09 GMT

EISK v6.0 - ASP.NET MVC Edition

Technology Stack

Release Home - Getting Started - Hands on Coding Walkthrough – Technology Stack - Design & Architecture

Prerequisites

Development: Installation Prerequisites

Visual Studio 2010 (Web Developer Express Edition) or higher
- Service Pack 1
- Tools for ASP.NET MVC 4 - Web Platform Installer
- Tools for Sql Server Compact Edition 4.0 (optional)
- Package Management Extension: Nuget (optional)

Server Side: Installation Prerequisites

Internet Information Services EXPRESS/6.0/7.0? (ASP.NET MVC 4 configured)

Client Side: Supported Browsers

Desktop Browsers

Browsers (Mobile Device)

Technologies Utilized

Below are the informational resources of relevant technologies that have been utilized in EISK 6.0 MVC Edition.

Programming Language and Scripts

Programming Language: C# 4.0
Language Integrated Query: LINQ
- LINQ to Entities
- LINQ to Objects
Markup Language: HTML 5
- Progress Tag
- XMLHttpRequest Level2
Style Sheet Language: CSS 3
Client Script Language: JavaScript 1.8.5

Frameworks (Server Side)

Core Server Side Framework: .NET Framework 4.0
Web Application Framework: ASP.NET MVC 4.0
Web Service Framework: ASP.NET Web API 4.0
Object Relational Mapping: Entity Framework 4.3.1
Mocking Framework: Moq 4.0
IoC Container: Unity 2.1
Service Locator: Common Service Locator 2.0
Logging: ELMAH?

Frameworks (Client Side)

JavaScript Framework: jQuery 1.6
- Plug-in: jQuery Validation 1.8
- Plug-in: jQuery Validation.Unobtrusive 1.0
- Plug-in: jQuery-UI Date Picker
- Plug-in: jQuery Mobile 1.0b3
CSS Framework
- 960 grid system

Tools

Integrated Development Environment: Visual Studio 2010
Web Server: Internet Information Services
Database Server: Sql Server Compact Edition 4.0 or higher

Additional Reference and Acknowledgement

Updated Wiki: Documentation

joycsc — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:38:32 GMT

5 Minutes Quick start

Check an online demo to see EISK at action or get started with Employee Info Starter Kit in 5 minutes here.

EISK Editions

EISK Community

Excited after using EISK? Learn here how you can be a proud participant of EISK Community.

Updated Wiki: EISK Community

joycsc — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:07:32 GMT

EISK Community

Employee Info Starter Kit is an open source project that provides ASP.NET project templates that are intended to address different types of real world challenges faced by web application developers when performing common data operations (a.k.a CRUD).

Using a single entity ‘Employee’, it illustrates how to utilize most of the greatest and successful platforms, frameworks and technologies, to enable web developers to learn and build manageable and high performance web applications with rich user experience effectively and quickly.

Since its first release, this open source project gained a huge popularity in the developer community and had 200K+ combined downloads. This starter kit is honored to be placed at the official ASP.NET site, along with other asp.net starter kits, which all are being considered as the “best” ASP.NET coding standards, recommended by Microsoft. EISK is showcased in Microsoft’s Channel 9’s Weekly Show, as well.

Check out an online demo or the EISK All-In-One page to see all EISK releases together.

As a fan of Employee Info Starter Kit, you can be a proud participant of EISK Community, as one of the following ways.

EISK Geek

Be recognized as an EISK Geek in the EISK “Hall of Fame” section, by contributing a code improvement patch on a particular EISK version or edition, or by writing relevant blog posts, articles, answering stackoverflow questions (with EISK reference) and just let us know about your contributions!

EISK Powered Training

EISK is designed to learn latest and best technologies in quickest way, with proper documentation materials (of course for free). Academic institutes are most welcomed for being benefitted from EISK to provide best technical training and letting us know your stories will also place your organization on our community site, enabling more individuals and corporates to be interested on your training!

EISK Powered App

If you build your web application using EISK, just let us know, your web site will be proudly showcased in EISK community site. You are not required to place “Powered by EISK” link on your site, neither make your source open. However if you do so, you would be greatly appreciated!

EISK Developer

Be a proud developer of EISK by contributing in one of the following categories. Your approved contributions will be available for download from EISK site. Besides showing your great work to the world, your profile will also be showcased in the “Hall of Fame” section of EISK Community site. All you need is to be comfortable with core concept of EISK, work on your respective idea and upload it to EISK codeplex site!

EISK Add-on Developer

You can write simple add-on to make EISK better. For instance, you can create a new UI theme that is compatible with one or more EISK versions, or can create just a “View” add-on for a specific mobile device (for EISK MVC editions etc) . Having some instruction documents (may be provided by you, too), users will be able to integrate and enjoy your add-on!

EISK Domain App Developer

OK, you need to build an application on a particular business domain (for instance educational institute, manufacturing company etc) and want to build it on top of one of EISK versions, this is a great way to share your technical and domain expertise to the world! Build it and upload it, that’s all!

EISK Technical Edition Developer

EISK have different versions and editions based on different architecture and technology stack. You may want to write a new version or edition on a technology or architecture, where you are most comfortable (for instance Android or Windows smart phone client, IRonRuby, IronPython, or WPF) and that is not developed yet. Sounds challenging? Go ahead and build a new version of EISK to share and show your strength!

Cheers to the spirit - of the community, by the community, for the community!

Updated Wiki: EISK Community

joycsc — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:57:59 GMT

EISK Community

Check out an online demo or the EISK All-In-One page to see all EISK releases together.

As a fan of Employee Info Starter Kit, you can be a proud participant of EISK Community, as one of the following ways.

EISK Geek

EISK Powered Training

EISK Powered App

EISK Developer

EISK Add-on Developer

EISK Domain App Developer

EISK Technical Edition Developer

Cheers to the spirit - of the community, by the community, for the community!

Updated Wiki: Employee Info Starter Kit Editions

joycsc — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:24:21 GMT

EISK Editions: All-in-One

Employee Info Starter Kit is an open source project, that provides project templates intended to address different types of real world challenges faced by web application developers.

All of the editions consider common use cases as provided below:

Creating a new employee record
Read existing employee records
Update an existing employee record
Delete existing employee records
Role based security model

Here is the list of major releases of Employee Info Starter Kit on different technology and architecture track.

v6.0 – ASP.NET MVC Edition

Release: TBD

Development Status: Alpha

Key Technology Areas

.NET 4.0/C# 4.0
ASP.NET MVC 4.0
ASP.NET Web API 4.0
jQuery/Html5/CSS3
Entity Framework 4.3 (Code First Approach)
Visual Studio 2010 Web Developer Express Edition or higher (Service Pack 1)
Sql Server Compact Edition 4.0 or higher

Architectural Overview

Overall architecture is based on Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern
Support for desktop & mobile browsers.
Usage of Data Annotations in Model (Entity) classes to centralize basic validation mechanism that facilitates DRY principle
Usage of IValidatableObject interface in Model (Entity) classes that isolates custom Business Logic from application layer
Usage of OOP inheritance and Value Object design pattern in Model (Entity) classes that provides reusability in application architecture
Usage of View Model, Editor Model design pattern that provides mechanism for testable view rendering logic
Usage of Domain Model, Repository and Unit of Work design pattern from Domain-driven Design (DDD) approach
Usage of Data Mapper design pattern for Data Access Layer using Entity Framework – Code First Approach
Several reusable helper classes and extension methods for Cross Cutting Concerns (i.e. logging etc) and other repetitive functionalities.

Download

EISK.MVC

Documentation

Release Home - Getting Started - Hands on Coding Walkthrough – Technology Stack - Design & Architecture

v5.0 – ASP.NET Web Form Edition

Release: March 12, 2011

Development Status: Stable

Live Demo

Checkout the live demo of this edition here.

Key Technology Areas

ASP.NET 4.0/C# 4.0
jQuery 1.5.1
Entity Framework 4.0 (Database First Approach)
T-4 Template
Visual Studio 2010 Web Developer Express Edition or higher
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition or higher

Architectural Overview

Simple 3 logical layers architecture (Presentation, Business Logic and Data Access Layer)
ASP.NET web form based Presentation Layer
Inherited Business Entities (aka: data containers) from Entity Framework EntityObject
Table Module design pattern based Business Logic Layer, implemented in C#
Data Mapper design pattern based Data Access Layer, implemented in C# and Entity Framework – Database First Approach
Built-in code generators for Business Entities, Business Logic and Data Access Layer, implemented in Visual Studio default template engine (T4)
Object Model for Cross Cutting Concerns (such as validation, logging, exception management)

Downloads

v5.0 - ASP.NET Web Form Edition | VS 2010 Template Installer (VSIX)

Documentation

Release Home - Installation Walkthrough - Hand on Coding Walkthrough - Technical Reference

v2.2 – ASP.NET Web Form Edition

Release: March 18, 2010

Development Status: Stable

Key Technology Areas

ASP.NET 2.0/C# 2.0
Visual Studio 2005 Web Developer Express Edition or higher
Visual Studio Team System 2008
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition or higher

Architectural Overview

Simple 2 logical layers architecture (Presentation and Data Access Layer)
ASP.NET Web Form Based Presentation Layer
Business Entities (a.k.a. data container) implemented in C#
Usage of Active Record design pattern for Data Access Layer.
Optional Cache Layer
Sql Server Stored Procedure to perform actual CRUD operation
Automated testing infrastructure (Unit Testing, Integration Testing etc).

Downloads

Visual Studio 2005-2008 Edition | VSTS 2008 Edition

Documentation

Release Home - Visual Studio 2005-2008 Edition Doc - VSTS 2008 Edition Doc

Updated Wiki: Employee Info Starter Kit Editions

joycsc — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:22:40 GMT

EISK Editions: All-in-One

Employee Info Starter Kit is an open source project, that provides project templates intended to address different types of real world challenges faced by web application developers. Using a single entity ‘Employee’, it illustrates how to utilize latest and successful software development frameworks (such as ASP.NET) and tools (such as Visual Studio), to build manageable and high performance web applications with effectively and quickly.

All of the editions consider common use cases as provided below:

Creating a new employee record
Read existing employee records
Update an existing employee record
Delete existing employee records
Role based security model

Here is the list of major releases of Employee Info Starter Kit on different technology and architecture track.

v6.0 – ASP.NET MVC Edition

Release: TBD

Development Status: Alpha

Key Technology Areas

.NET 4.0/C# 4.0
ASP.NET MVC 4.0
ASP.NET Web API 4.0
jQuery/Html5/CSS3
Entity Framework 4.3 (Code First Approach)
Visual Studio 2010 Web Developer Express Edition or higher (Service Pack 1)
Sql Server Compact Edition 4.0 or higher

Architectural Overview

Overall architecture is based on Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern
Support for desktop & mobile browsers.
Usage of Data Annotations in Model (Entity) classes to centralize basic validation mechanism that facilitates DRY principle
Usage of IValidatableObject interface in Model (Entity) classes that isolates custom Business Logic from application layer
Usage of OOP inheritance and Value Object design pattern in Model (Entity) classes that provides reusability in application architecture
Usage of View Model, Editor Model design pattern that provides mechanism for testable view rendering logic
Usage of Domain Model, Repository and Unit of Work design pattern from Domain-driven Design (DDD) approach
Usage of Data Mapper design pattern for Data Access Layer using Entity Framework – Code First Approach
Several reusable helper classes and extension methods for Cross Cutting Concerns (i.e. logging etc) and other repetitive functionalities.

Download

EISK.MVC

Documentation

Release Home - Getting Started - Hands on Coding Walkthrough – Technology Stack - Design & Architecture

v5.0 – ASP.NET Web Form Edition

Release: March 12, 2011

Development Status: Stable

Live Demo

Checkout the live demo of this edition here.

Key Technology Areas

ASP.NET 4.0/C# 4.0
jQuery 1.5.1
Entity Framework 4.0 (Database First Approach)
T-4 Template
Visual Studio 2010 Web Developer Express Edition or higher
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition or higher

Architectural Overview

Simple 3 logical layers architecture (Presentation, Business Logic and Data Access Layer)
ASP.NET web form based Presentation Layer
Inherited Business Entities (aka: data containers) from Entity Framework EntityObject
Table Module design pattern based Business Logic Layer, implemented in C#
Data Mapper design pattern based Data Access Layer, implemented in C# and Entity Framework – Database First Approach
Built-in code generators for Business Entities, Business Logic and Data Access Layer, implemented in Visual Studio default template engine (T4)
Object Model for Cross Cutting Concerns (such as validation, logging, exception management)

Downloads

v5.0 - ASP.NET Web Form Edition | VS 2010 Template Installer (VSIX)

Documentation

Release Home - Installation Walkthrough - Hand on Coding Walkthrough - Technical Reference

v2.2 – ASP.NET Web Form Edition

Release: March 18, 2010

Development Status: Stable

Key Technology Areas

ASP.NET 2.0/C# 2.0
Visual Studio 2005 Web Developer Express Edition or higher
Visual Studio Team System 2008
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition or higher

Architectural Overview

Simple 2 logical layers architecture (Presentation and Data Access Layer)
ASP.NET Web Form Based Presentation Layer
Business Entities (a.k.a. data container) implemented in C#
Usage of Active Record design pattern for Data Access Layer.
Optional Cache Layer
Sql Server Stored Procedure to perform actual CRUD operation
Automated testing infrastructure (Unit Testing, Integration Testing etc).

Downloads

Visual Studio 2005-2008 Edition | VSTS 2008 Edition

Documentation

Release Home - Visual Studio 2005-2008 Edition Doc - VSTS 2008 Edition Doc