Fun with Angela Smith library by James Chambers for C#

AngelaSmith is an awesome library created by James Chambers. This library is used to generate realistic test data. You can find more information about it from the following link.

https://github.com/MisterJames/AngelaSmith

As per documentation on the github, it is.

AngelaSmith is a library you can use to generate realistic test data. It is composed of several property fillers that can populate commonly named properties through reflection using an internal database of values or randomly created data. You can override any of the fillers, give AngelaSmith hints on how to fill them, or easily extend the property fillers using extension methods or MEF.

It’s an awesome realistic data generator library. You can generate object data as well list also. She can fill anything that you throw it to her.You can use it’s static methods to create objects for testing, design time data or seeding a database.

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Learning resources for ASP.NET MVC

I am getting lots of question regarding where to learn ASP.NET MVC. So I thought it will beneficial to write a blog post so that everyone get advantages of it. Today there are multiple resources available to learn ASP.NET MVC here I have listed some of the my favorite resources to learn ASP.NET MVC.

Videos:

Videos are great way to learn any technology and there are many video resources are available.

1) Pluralsight free videos on www.asp.net/mvc:

On the official asp.net mvc site Pluralsight has provided 8 free videos It it a great resource for any to get started with ASP.NET MVC. Some videos are there for ASP.NET MVC 3.0 but still it is worth learning it.

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Important Milestone achieved- 650th blog post

I am not super crazy about achieving mile stones but I just notice that I have completed 649 posts on blog. So I thought it will be good idea to write about few mile stones.

1. On April 2014, my blog completed 8 years. The first post I have ever written was at April 26,2006.
2. Today I have completed another important milestone this is 650th post I am writing and still going on. My passion for blogging never dropped I will still continue to write blog on my blog.

On this occasion, I would first like to thank my family who scarifies their time when I am writing blogs without their encouragement It would never possible to write blog and maintained it for almost 8 years.
I would also like to thank my readers. Without their love It would not have been possible to achieve this. Hopefully I will continue to write blog that will help you learn technology in some way.

Thanks again everybody for making this journey possible!!

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