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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 »

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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Log your exceptions to the cloud
By Vaibhav Gadodia (3) on March 19th, 2009

Exception Logging is always an interesting problem to solve. Depending on your needs you may have a simple log statement which writes to a text file, or you may need to have a full-fledged exception management module which Continued »