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The Story
• Employee Info Starter Kit is an open source project that is highly
influenced by the concept ‘Pareto Principle’ or 80-20 rule, where
it is targeted to enable a web developer to gain 80% productivity
with 20% of effort with respect to learning curve and
production.
• It is intended to address different types of real world challenges
faced by web application developers when performing common
CRUD operations. Using a single database table ‘Employee’, it
illustrates how to utilize Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0, Entity
Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 effectively in that
context.

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Project Goal
• Creating a new employee record
• Read existing employee record
• Update an existing employee record
• Delete existing employee records
User Stories

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Project Goal
• ASP.NET 4.0
• Entity Framework 4.0
• T-4 Template
• Visual Studio 2010
Key Technology Areas

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Project Goal
• There is no universal architecture which can be considered as the best for all sorts of
applications around the world. Based on requirements, constraints, environment,
application architecture can differ from one to another. Trade-off factors are one of
the important considerations while deciding a particular architectural solution.
• Employee Info Starter Kit is highly influenced by the concept ‘Pareto Principle’ or 80-
20 rule, where it is targeted to enable a web developer to gain 80% productivity with
20% of effort with respect to learning curve and production.
• “Productivity” as the architectural objective typically also includes other trade-off
factors as well as, such as testability, flexibility, performance etc. Fortunately
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 includes lots of great features
that have been implemented cleverly in this project to reduce these trade-off factors
in the minimum level.
Architectural Objective

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Project Goal
• Application frameworks are really great for productivity, some of which are
really unavoidable in this modern age. However relying too many frameworks
may overkill a project, as frameworks are typically designed to serve wide
range of different usage and are less customizable or editable. On the other
hand having implementation patterns can be useful for developers, as it
enables them to adjust application on demand. Employee Info Starter Kit
provides hundreds of “connected” snippets and implementation patterns to
demonstrate problem solutions in actual production environment. It also
includes Visual Studio T-4 templates that generate thousands lines of data
access and business logic layer repetitive codes in literally few seconds on the
fly, which are fully mock testable due to language support for partial methods
and latest support for mock testing in Entity Framework.
Why Employee Info Starter Kit is Not a Framework?

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Project Goal
• Software development is one of the rapid growing industries around the globe, where
the technology is being updated very frequently to adapt greater challenges over
time. There are literally thousands of community web sites, blogs and forums that are
dedicated to provide support to adapt new technologies. While some are really great
to enable learning new technologies quickly, in most cases they are either too “simple
and brief” to be used in real world scenarios or too “complex and detailed” which are
typically focused to achieve a product goal (such as CMS, e-Commerce etc) from "end
user" perspective and have a long duration learning curve with respect to the
corresponding technology. Employee Info Starter Kit, as a web project, is basically
"developer" oriented which actually considers a hybrid approach as “simple and
detailed”, where a simple domain has been considered to intentionally illustrate most
of the architectural and implementation challenges faced by web application
developers so that anyone can dive into deep into the corresponding new technology
or concept quickly.
Why Employee Info Starter Kit is Different than Other Open-source
Web Applications?

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Project Goal
• Since its first release by 2008 in MSDN Code Gallery, Employee Info Starter Kit
gained a huge popularity in ASP.NET community and had 1, 50,000+
downloads afterwards. Being encouraged with this great response, we have a
strong commitment for the community to provide support for it with respect
to latest technologies continuously.
• Currently hosted in Codeplex, this community driven project is planned to
have a wide range of individual editions, each of which will be focused on a
selected application architecture, framework or platform, such as ASP.NET
Webform, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery Ajax (RIA), Silverlight
(RIA), Azure Service Platform (Cloud), Visual Studio Automated Test etc. See
here for full list of current and future editions.
Roadmap

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Recognitions
• Channel 9 Weekly Show
• The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site
• Recommended by Bloggers, Forum Members
• Scott Guthrie, Scott Haselman, Joe Stagner and few
others Twits

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Download Matrix
Release Version Release Date Host Total Downloads
V5.0 12 March 2011 Codeplex 2,472
V5.0 12 March 2011 MSDN Code Gallery 1,741
V4.0 19 March 2010 MSDN Code Gallery 8,237
V2.2 17 April 2009 MSDN Code Gallery 63,893
V1.2 9 April 2008 MSDN Code Gallery 99,390
Total 1,75,733

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QuickStart Walkthrough (UI)
Start Now

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Source Code Review

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Future Editions
• ASP.NET Webform
• ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data
• ASP.NET Ajax
• jQuery Ajax
• HTML 5 Basic
• HTML 5 Local Storage
• Windows Azure
• SQL Azure
• Silverlight
• WCF RIA Service
• Entity Framework LINQ
• Entity Framework PLINQ
• Entity Framework Compiled Query
• Entity Framework Entity SQL (eSQL)
• Entity Framework with Stored
Procedure
• WCF Data Service
• WCF Operation Contract
• Reactive Extension
• Cache Service (Single Machine)
• Windows AppFabric (Distributed
Caching)
• Visual Studio Automated Test

14. THE USER EXPERIENCE
Let’s talk about

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EISK UX: Why is it so cool?
• RAD
– Faster Development
– Faster Integration
• Liquidness
– Easier Development
– Easier Alteration
• Compatible
– Compatible to all major browsers
EISK’s User Experience was designed to focus on –

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EISK UX: Why is it so cool?
• RAD
– Faster Development
– Faster Integration
• Liquidness
– Easier Development
– Easier Alteration
• Compatible
– Compatible to all major browsers
EISK’s User Experience was designed to focus on –

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EISK UX: The Framework
• 960 Grid System
• Blueprint CSS
• CSS3
EISK’s UX is combination of most powerful CSS Frameworks

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EISK UX: RAD. Yes, it is!
• Basic Layout
• Forms
• Buttons
• ASP.NET Grids
• Breadcrumbs/Sitemaps
Rapid UX development

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EISK UX: Layout
Your site’s HTML structure was never been so easier!

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EISK UX: Forms
A TextBox requires a CssClass=“Text”, and you have the Style!

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EISK UX: Buttons
Skins for Buttons have made it easier to integrate. Need more Buttons? Get your
buttons by colors Blue/Orange/Green/Gray or size, Small/Medium/Large

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EISK UX: Grids
Yes. ASP.NET Grids are cool when you have a Skins with definitive CSS classes like
HeaderStyle/FooterStle/PagerStyle...

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EISK UX: Grids - Pager
It was really difficult to make the pager look “like a pager” 

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EISK UX: Grids - Pager
So we needed to inject a CSS Class called “PagerStyle”. And you see? 

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EISK UX: Bread Crumbs
This is how a SiteMap Control used to get rendered before 

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EISK UX: Bread Crumbs
Now we’ve got CSS, and you’ve got it the right look!

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EISK: Anyone Can do it
We’ve played it hard to make it softer and easier for you!

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The Team
Ashraful Alam
Microsoft MVP, ASP.NET [2007-2011]
Chief Architect, desme Inc.
Wahid bin Ahsan
User Experience Architect, desme Inc.

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Get Engaged!
EISK | Employee Info Starter Kit
Get 80 for 20.
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