This is a first part of a multi-part series article where I will show you how to create a relatively simple CRUD Application with Backbone.js. The Application is a personal finance application where the user will be able to create multi-currency accounts and should be able to track expenses and incomes. The application is created with the Backbone.js Starter Kit of my previous post and the full source code is hosted on GitHub.

Recently I completed few Backbone.js Single Page Applications, one of the thing that really bored me was setting up the project. It seemed that I was doing the same stuff over and over again like setting up the folder structures, installing the required nuget packages, writing the same user registration and login codes etc. So I decided to create a project template which I can use as a starting point for my application and thus born the Backbone.js StarterKit and thankfully and it is now showcased in asp.net single page application section. It was initially created as a VSIX extension, I know unlike myself, people often do not like to install something new unless it is absolutely necessary, so I have also created separate nuget packages that includes all the features of the VSIX template, just create an empty ASP.NET MVC project and install your preferred package.  Although my preferred client side language is CoffeeScript but I encounter clients who prefers pure JavaScript as well as clients who become fan of typescript due to its auto complete and compilation support in VS.  So there are three separate nuget packages which are same but implemented in different languages. To Install the package, open the package console in VS and type your preferred version:

One of the lesser known and misunderstood feature of Html5 is offline cache, with carefully crafted it can make your application blazingly fast. In this post, I will show you how can you implement offline cache with the new asp.net asset bundle, the same technique can be also applied to other asset managers like combres or cassette. Currently the browser support of offline cache is aligned towards mobile platform comparing to desktop(except IE all other has this support) but the nice thing of offline cache is the browser that does not support it will simply ignore it, on the other hand the mobile platform which is dominated by the mobile web-kit has first class support of it, so I will use the default jQuery Mobile project the comes with the ASP.NET MVC 4.

I managed some time to stab the new ASP.NET WebAPI, I have developed few Http API in the past solely on ASP.NET MVC instead of going through the WCF route. My goal was to check how much work I can delegate it to the new WebAPI instead of doing it myself. No, I am not going to show you some CRUD controller that does the basic stuffs, I take it for granted. Instead, I would show you something that is more realistic. The example that I am going to present a Contact resource that has id, first name, last name and a collection of associated addressed, still pretty basic stuff.

This post is primarily for my fellow friends of local .net user group who asked for a rough guideline on how to get started with the latest Entity Framework Code First, I will try to keep it short and concise. I assume that it is going to be used in an ASP.NET MVC Application and behind the scene an IoC container would be used to glue everything. Before going into the implementation details there are certain design choice of mine, first persistence ignorance which means the domain model have no clue whether Entity Framework is used or any other ORM (nothing fancy here, out of the box the EF Code First has this support), next, I prefer to use class mapping which I think gives a bit more control comparing to decorating the domain classes with the data annotation attributes. Lets starts with a typical Category, Product, Customer and Order domain.