Why we should write blogs and do community work

I am doing blogging since last 5 years and I have seen lots of people asking the same things. Why do you write blog? do you have any side income for this blog? Why you are so active in community ? I am answering this questions almost every day. So I decided to write a blog post about it. Following are the reason why I am writing blogs and doing community work?

Help:

I like to help people and that is one of the main reason behind the all blogs and community work. Also helping other is a great way to learn new things. Because other person may be facing a problem which you never encountered during your professional life or project you are doing!!. At the end of you can feel proud that you help somebody.

Learning:

I have to learn lots of things everyday to write my blogs. Some one said Teaching some one is best way to learn new things. It apply here also when you write blog or answer question on forum.

Earn Award and Get famous:

This is one of the advantages of writing blogs and doing community things. People will know that you are having such knowledge in respected fields. I have got Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award 3 times due to my blogging and community work. But remember one thing your first intension of doing communication work is to help people. All other things will come as other benefits.

Communication skills:

Once you communicate with lots of people and write blog it will definitely increase your communication skills. If you are writing some blogs then its going to increase your writing skills also.

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Model binding with ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012

Note:I have written a whole series of Visual Studio 2012 features and this post will also be part of same series. You can get the whole list of blogs/articles from the Visual studio 2012 feature series posts there. Following is a link for that.Visual Studio 2012 feature series

In earlier version of the asp.net we have to bind controls with data source control like SQL Data source, Entity Data Source, Linq Data Source if we want to bind our server controls declaratively. Some developers prefer to write whole data access logic and then bind the data source with databind method. Model binding is something similar to asp.net mvc binding.

Model Binding in ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012:

With ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual studio 2012 we have a new method of binding data called ‘ Model binding’. It’s a code focus approach of data binding. Now all the controls will have ItemType property which will implement strongly type binding. The server controls will then call appropriate methods at the proper time in page life cycle and bind the data.

So what we are waiting for ? let’s take one example. First we need to create a model. For the this I have created a model class called ‘Customer’. Following is code for that.

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Free Visual Studio 2012 eBook from Telerik

Note:I have been writing lots of things about Visual Studio 2012 and this post is same in the series. You can find complete list of post from the following link.Visual Studio 2012 feature series- What’s new in Visual Studio 2012.

Visual studio 2012 is there in RC stage and I am exploring that into the great extent. Visual Studio 2012 is great editor there is no doubt. It is much more mature and comes with lots of features. Telerik – A well know in third party controls released a free eBook on Visual Studio 2012 and ASP.NET 4.5. You can find lots of time saving feature documented in this eBook.



Following is a quick list of features they have explored in Visual Studio 2012.

1. JavaScript Intellisense
2. CSS Intellisense
3. ASP.NET and ASP.NET Web API
4. Strongly typed data binding
5. Page Inspector(new Debugging Tool)
6. HTML5 and CSS3 is available out of box
7. Request validation prevents yellow screen of death
8. WAI Aria makes the web usable by all

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