ASP.NET MVC Controller Actions

MVC Actions usually returns instance of a class which derives from ActionResult. But you can return any type of object from MVC action even objects. These return types are wrapped in appropriate ActionResult type before they are rendered in response stream. There are few tricky things you need to understand when dealing with HTTP methods and...

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Application Pools in IIS

Application pool is a way to manage multiple web applications under IIS server. App pools allows you to isolate applications with different security controls from one another. It helps you to manage your applications separately.  IIS Worker Process Is a Windows process (w3wp.exe) which runs web applications. It is responsible for handling...

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LINQ in Entity Framework

To retrieve lists from database you can use IEnumerbale<T> or IQueryable<T> interfaces. IQueryable allows you to do LINQ-to-SQL while IEnumerable<T> is LINQ-to-Objects. Both gives you the opportunity to do deferred execution. (Read this article for more). In IEnumerable all objects matching the original query will be loaded to...

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Introduction to ReactJS

React is a JavaScript library developed by Facebook. ReactJS focuses on, UI : Use React as the V in MVC Virtual DOM : DOM diff implementation for high performance Data flow : Offers reactive data flow React is all about building reusable components. (Why Facebook built react). It doesn't manipulate DOM unless it needs to (check react displaying...

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