Facing new challenges everyday

ASP.NET MVC is a great framework, very flexible, but sometimes we need to organize a little better our business logic, there’s nothing better than have a business logic completely decoupled from controller, which can be easily reused on several controllers over the project.

To help ASP.NET MVC make use of reusable business logic and other logic components aswell, we can add a DI/IoC container to our project, after few days researching about IoC container alternatives, I choose Autofac to create my first web application that takes advantage of Dependency Injection.
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After spent several hours trying to figure out how the SelectedValue works on DropDownListFor, I finally figure out how to do it, you can also check my answer on stackoverflow here.

It’s very simple to get SelectList and SelectedValue working together, even if your property isn’t a simple object like a Int, String or a Double value.

Example:

Assuming our Region object is something like this:

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ViewDeck (https://github.com/Inferis/ViewDeck) is an amazing library that helps you to easily add a Facebook like menu into your application, unfortunelly it has a small issue with storyboards causing to not load the IIViewDeckController code properly.

In order to make use of ViewDeck in a specific scene of my storyboard, I created a blank scene with a empty view, in viewDidLoad method I added the following lines of code:
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After have some trouble trying while create my FSIS CTS flow, I could finally read the data need from SQL Server instance and push to ESP for indexing, once I got everything working as expected I started to think in what else I could easily to in a CTS flow.

My next challenge was create a ESP dictionary for use on query completion server of ESP, the majority of built in operators doesn’t provide a easy way to do it, hopefully I found the RunCode operator that I can use to perform anything that I need with a custom C# or VB code.
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FSIS is a powerfull solution, with CTS you can easily consume and process data to be used on ESP for search or not, recently I wrote a very small powershell script that just run a CTS flow to index database records on ESP.

Here’s how this script looks like:

And then I just run the script with:

powershell.exe -Command “& c:\scripts\process_database.ps1″

The above command line example can is ready to be used on Task Scheduler, enjoy!