Dynamic fuzzy search with LINQ and entity framework and jQuery autocomplete part 2

Search has always been my most desired feature in applications and if I were to guess, I’m not the only one with this craving. The comfort and flexibility it gives you is enormous under one condition – it’s smart enough.

It’s time for part 2

Dynamic fuzzy search with LINQ and entity framework and jQuery autocomplete part 1

Search has always been my most desired feature in applications and if I were to guess, I’m not the only one with this craving. The comfort and flexibility it gives you is enormous under one condition – it’s smart enough.

Let’s dig a little bit into the subject.

Making NotifyPropertyChanged refactorable.

Common problem when using INotifyPropertyChanged interface is that the PropertyChangedEventHandler event accept a string property name as a parameter. That cause a possible problem when we want to refactor the property and forget to update the provided property’s name.

Bringing “Create Unit Tests…” option back

Since I stared using Visual Studio 2012 I noticed a lack of quite helpful and commonly used (I guess) feature which is Create Unit Test context menu option. It turned out that this is still there…

Task-based Asynchronous Pattern

Task-based Asynchronous Pattern with async and await keywords introduced in .net framework 4.5 starting point.

MV* javascript libraries

You probably heard about knockout.js. Well, there are others like it.

jQuery alternative – zepto.js

If for some reason you think that jQuery is ‘too much’ to use in your web app, then here’s an interesting alternative – zepto.js

Sortable and expandable enums

Have you ever faced the problem that extending enum type by new values may cause unpredicted behavior of the application? I recently have. As the solution for this problem I figure out how to design enum values so they can be easily sortable and easily expandable in future, causing no side effect.

jQuery deferred

The Deferred object has been in jQuery since version 1.5 but I haven’t had the chance to get to know it until recently – turns out that it’s rather handy to have in your toolset.

Getting MIME type for file

All I can say is THANK YOU.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/02/14/getting-a-mime-type-from-a-file-extension-in-asp-net-4-5.aspx