Links to various US recreation sites

1. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllActivities
2. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllElements
3. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllFacilities
4. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllFacilityActivities
5. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllFacilityAddresses
6. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllFacilityElementsForOrgID
7. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllFacilityEvents
8. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllOrganizations
9. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllOrgFacilities
10. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllOrgRecAreas
11. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllRecAreaActivities
12. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllRecAreaAddresses
13. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllRecAreaAdvisories
14. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllRecAreaElementsForOrgID
15. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllRecAreaEvents
16. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllRecAreaFacilities
17. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllRecAreas
18. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllRecAreasForOrgID
19. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getAllRecElementsForOrgID
20. http://recdata.gov/RIDBWebService/RIDBService.jws/getRecGovFacilities

Winphone XNA deployment in Toshiba Satellite L305-S5944

Finally I think that I have the XNA game studio working in my Toshiba laptop. It did not have the 10.1 directx capability. Hence I did the following:

1. Downloaded Intel® Graphics Driver for Windows 7* and Windows Vista* (exe) from Intel site. Ran it with lot of trepidation because I was worried the screen is going to become blank! It failed. Ran it again! It updated the driver.
2. Compiled a Windows Phone application and it failed.
3. Ran dxdiag which showed that I had 10.1 installed.
4. Downloaded and installed DXSDK_June10.exe. This is not required, but I did it to get the DirectX Caps Viewer Tool mentioned in the Release notes.
5. Ran the C:\Program Files\Microsoft DirectX SDK (June 2010)\Utilities\bin\x86\DXCapsViewer.exe and checked the results. It looked OK. I expanded the Direct3D 10.1 folder and saw entries for  D3D10_FEATURE_LEVEL_10_0 or D3D10_FEATURE_LEVEL_10_1. Direct3D_11 folder also had similar entries for D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_10_0.
6. Tried to install the following and it said not applicable to my system!
   1. Update for Windows Vista (KB971512)
   2. Update for Windows Vista (KB971513)
   3. Update for Windows Vista (KB971514)
   4. Update for Windows Vista (KB960362)
7. Tried to deploy the Winphone application. Same error.
8. Became bold and adventurous!  followed this instruction:
   1. It is possible to bypass this capabilities check in XNA Game Studio by setting the following registry setting: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\XDE XNAEnableGPU = 1 (REG_DWORD)Caution: If you override this registry key, the project will attempt to deploy but only a black screen will be displayed in the emulator if the required graphics card capabilities are not available.
9. Voila! I was able to deploy. This is an empty application. Will check with the Hello world and update this post again!
10. Update: Unfortunately this does not work. Posted in the Windows Phone forum.WDDM 1.1 driver, The current display adapter does not meet the emulator requirements to run XNA
11. Will be updating laptop to windows 7. Let us see whether this solves the problem!
12. Windows 7 resolved it!

MVC Widgets, RenderAction, partial views, sub controllers and RenderPartialRequests part 2

This has become a long post, so I am continuing with the links

1. ASP.NET MVC Preview 4: ComponentController Is Now RenderAction by Rob Conery
2. ASP.NET MVC Namespaces in Web.config instead of Views - ASP.NET MVC Best Practices  by David Hayden
3. Quick Tips About ASP.NET MVC – WebPart Framework by Nunos
4. Developing Web 2.0 Portal Using Asp.Net MVC, Microsoft Ajax Client Templates And JQuery With Drag And Drop Widget Personalization – Part 1 by Lakkakula
5. Renderpartial conditionally on masterpage in asp.net mvc in Stack Overflow
6. RenderPartial vs RenderAction by Derik Whittaker
7. Dynamic Views in ASP.NET MVC 2 by Greg Shakles
8. ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Using Multiple Actions by Brian Mains
9. Web 2.0 AJAX Portal using jQuery, ASP.NET 3.5, Silverlight, Linq to SQL, WF and Unity by Omar Al Zabir
10. Dropthings

MVC Widgets, RenderAction, partial views, sub controllers and RenderPartialRequests – Part 1

Have been spending some time on MVC. It is a fascinating technology with very little documentation! Did lot of web search to find the following interesting topics:

1. Partial Requests in ASP.NET MVC by Steve Sanderson
2. Html.RenderAction and Html.Action by Phil Haack
3. ASP.NET MVC Tip #50 – Create View Models by Stephen Walther
4. ASP.NET MVC Partial Views and Strongly Typed Custom ViewModels by Mike Brind
5. ASP.NET MVC and the templated partial view (death to ASCX)  by Jeffery Palermo
6. Web Parts in ASP.NET 2.0 by Damon Armstrong
7. SubControllers in ASP.NET MVC by Matt Hinze
8. Quick Tips About ASP.NET MVC – WebPart Framework by Nunos
9. MVC Contrib Portable areas download
10. MVC Widgets with RenderAction  by Steve Michelotti
11. Creating a Stock Widget in ASP.NET MVC Application by Azam Sharp
12. Creating an MVC based website with reusable widgets by Geert van der Cruijsen

SVS technology web site has a new look

Upgraded SVS Technology site with the following features:

1. ASP.net MVC 2.0
2. Microsoft Server 2008
3. .net 4.0
4. Discountasp is a very good host. The upgrade and web deploy from Visual Studio 2010 went very smoothly.
5. Had to  set System.Web.MVC  reference properties copy local to true to make it work.
6. Added a redirect to Prizewheel demo so that it will work with the new controller/ view architecture of the site so that old links will not break

Json Data Visualizer (for Google, Yahoo, Bing and Twitter) using JQuery, JavaScript, Asp.net MVC 2.0

I have been working for the past few weeks on the code project article

Json Data Visualizer (for Google, Yahoo, Bing and Twitter) using JQuery, JavaScript, Asp.net MVC 2.0

this was fun and I had to use following references

1. “prettyPrint” for JavaScript by James Podesly for table data visualization
2. Javascript unpacker and beautifier by Einar Lielmanis for Beautify format.
3. Show Object Properties by Matt Holthe for understanding recursive scanning of Javascript objects.
4. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search for Twitter search.
5. http://developer.yahoo.com/common/json.html#overview about Yahoo Json
6. http://developer.yahoo.com/search/local/V3/localSearch.html for yahoo search
7. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd251056.aspx about bing
8. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxfeeds/documentation/ for google.

Rest, Web services, Javascript, JQuery

Read interesting articles on REST and web services.

1. A Brief Introduction to REST by Stefan Tilkov Very informative article. I enjoyed not only the technical content but also the prose. He talks in this about Roy Fielding (given in links below) inventor of REST.
2. Roy T. Fielding inventor of REST.
3. Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures Html version of Roy’s Thesis on REST.
4. Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures PDF version of Roy’s Thesis on REST.

Good tutorials and articles on Javascript, REST and JQuery

1. Tutorials:Live Examples of jQuery
2. JQuery Tutorials
3. Tutorials:jQuery For Designers
4. W3 Schools Beginner Tutorials on Javascript, JQuery
5. JSON for the masses
6. Partial Rendering with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery
7. Make Yahoo! Web Service REST Calls With C#