I have been working on yet another Angular app for a few months. Recently I found myself on a complex screen. I discovered that I have to manipulate arrays in TypeScript quite a bit. I found myself missing some functionality that I am accustomed to in C#, such as Linq. I also found some older …
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Whether you are starting with Angular 2 and TypeScript or pure TypeScript development in with ASP.NET Core project, you will need to setup Visual Studio project to developer the code in. In this post I will describe how easy it is to do so. First of all, you will need to install Visual Studio 2015. …
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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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In this post I want to explore all the functionality available in TypeScript to use generics. Let’s start with the simples example of creating strongly types arrays. module generics { class Person { name: string; parents: Person[]; } } Now, you can only add a person to parents collection. It is very simple, but you cannot for example add a …
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. …
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 had to deal with an interesting problem this weekend. I was working on a screen for a demo project that was using Angular ngRepeat directive to display multiple fields for a sub-entity of a main screen. Something similar to the demo below. The behavior I wanted to see is as follows. When a user …
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I was working on a demo this weekend. One of the things I wanted to demonstrate is how to format user input in Angular applications. I am going to use social security number input field to demonstrate the concept. The idea of Angular filters is a simple one. They are akin to IValueConverter in XAML …
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I blogged a long time ago about a pattern on how to show reports in an ASP.NET MVC application. I have received a lot of request to share code, but I have lost the source code when I reimaged my machine. Rather than recreating this from scratch, I decided to take a more advanced route …
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