Flex-layout library written by Angular team can be used to layout our web applications written in @Angular. One of the issues that we had to persistently deal with is to control scrolling in various parts of the screen independently. We can always let browser control the vertical scrolling. However, this becomes a problem with more …
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It has been a while since I posted. I have been busy working on a video for a publishing company on Angular 2 and, more importantly, very busy at work. I decided to take on the video project as part of my own learning. I do not want to spend too much time on setting …
I have been following the developments occurring in Angular 2.0 world for a number of months. Although the project is not even in alpha phase quite yet, I have been meaning to try to write a tiny sample project. I wanted to see how version 2 is different from version 1, even in the simplest …
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I have been working on a number of Angular apps in the past 2 years, since I first heard about Angular and started studying the technology. I wrote my first TypeScript app using TypeScript 0.4, which also used Angular about 1.5 years ago. I blogged about my experiences previously quite a few times. Here is …
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I spoke at CodeStock yesterday. I believe this was my 5th year at the conference. I always enjoy it. I attended a number of talks myself and hang out with some folks. I saw a bunch of attendees I met before, and it is nice to see them and be recognized. I did two talks. …
I wanted to add some pizzazz to an Angular application I am working on. So, I wanted to add an animation to page load event. I am using Angular 1.2 +, and the way animations work changed in that version. So, if you are on pre 1.2 version, this post really does not apply. It …
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I blogged many times before on use of CSHTML MVC views in Angular application. They make it easier to implement things like validation and localization, as well as generate uniform look and feel for views. However, I am still against using those views to serve the data. The data should always come from data services, …
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Yesterday I spoke at Visual Studio Live event in Chicago. I presented two talks, really on the same topic – building web applications with TypeScript and Angular. My demos and presentations actually touched on a number of other technologies – Entity Framework, Web Api, ASP.NET MVC. I wanted to post the slides and demos. Build …
I blogged a while ago about how to build ad-hoc test page for Angular / ASP.NET MVC Application. In this post I will try to establish a pattern for testing Angular controllers using TypeScript and Jasmine. Before you start, you have to use Nuget and bring in jasmine framework. I used version 1.3, as I …
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I had an interesting problem to study today. The business problem is quite simple. I want to allow users to enter a number of items on a screen that are recursively related. To illustrate here is what I have in mind Item 1 Item 1.1 Item 1.2 Item 1.2.1 Etc.. I do not want to …
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