Archive for June, 2009

A better way to test email sending functionality is to use your own SMTP Server
By Vaibhav Gadodia (3) on June 28th, 2009

A large number of applications today have some kind of a notification mechanism built-in. More often than not, an email is used to send these notifications. Typically, while developing these applications, developers use their own inbox to send notifications to. Or they setup some dummy account to send test emails to; or sometimes they might send test mails to real users (it’s been known to happen). Continued »

Want to Know What our Customers Think?
By Vikas Sehgal (9) on June 26th, 2009

Get a look behind the scenes at Pacific Southwest Container, a midsize manufacturer of sustainable custom packaging. Nagarro’s custom applications enable PSC to optimize use of printing materials and equipment, reducing PSC’s costs and waste. End result? Cost savings are passed along to customers, while PSC improves its environmental footprint. Please view this short video and let us know what you think!

Using ActiveRecord for Database Setup and Migration: A How-to
By Ram Kripal Prasad (3) on June 9th, 2009

One of the first places where the ActiveRecord pattern first appeared, was in the book Patterns of Enterprise Architecture by Martin Fowler. The ActiveRecord pattern embeds the knowledge of how to interact with the database directly into the class performing the interaction. Continued »

The Ado.Net Entity Framework v2, are we there yet?
By Vaibhav Gadodia (3) on June 8th, 2009

At Nagarro, we are always looking to stay tuned into upcoming technology (of all types – gadgets to frameworks); and the current flavor is of course Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4. We have been trying out the beta and the earlier preview versions of VS2010, however, that is not the topic of this post.

Recently, we had the opportunity to give our opinion on the latest avatar of the Ado.Net Entity Framework to Jeffrey Schwartz from Application Development Trends magazine. Jeff was kind enough to publish our opinions in an article on the Visual Studio Magazine (thank you Jeff). The article is titled “Will Entity Framework 2 appease early adopters of LINQ to SQL?“. We, as can be deduced, were early adopters of LINQ (to SQL and others).

If you would like to see that question answered, I urge you to go and read that article. In this article, I wanted to discuss a little bit more about how we look at Entity Framework v2.

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