I got many feedbacks in my previous posts "Building a grouping Grid with GridView and ASP.NET AJAX toolkit CollapsiblePanel" & "GridView Grouping Master/Detail Drill Down using AJAX and jQuery"  asking to for toggle all (Expand All or Collapse All) feature in CollapsiblePanelExtender as well as to in jQuery. Actually I didn't have much time to walkthrough this and provide a demo about it.

Today I got a chance to write few code snippet to run this feature. It was very simple for both jQuery also for ASP.NET AJAX.

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Information About the book:

Book Title: Entity Framework Tutorial
Book's Page: http://www.packtpub.com/entity-framework-tutorial/book
Book Cover:

Chapters: 8
Type: Tutorial
Publisher: PACKT Publishing
Author: Joydip Kanjilal

Introduction:

Since the release of .Net 3.5 SP1 & VS.NET 2008 SP1 which include Entity Framework v1 I started to play with EF and discover its usage and differences between it and LINQ to SQL.

Last month I got a change to have a book that walks through Entity Framework by tutorial. This book was Entity Framework Tutorial. The books itself is very small. It has a clear focus and scope; to put you on the road on how to build & use Entity Model of Entity Framework following comprehensive tutorials.

About Entity Framework Tutorial Book:

The book is small one, 228 pages on 8 Chapters. This books is targeting beginners who never used or even heard of Entity Framework. But of course the reader should be experienced developer with Microsoft .Net (general), ADO.NET & C#.

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I received an invitation to create first Egyptian Twitter like community on Yonkly.com. Thanks to Emad Ibrahim Creator and Founder of Yonkly.

Before I go further; you might ask What is Yonkly? My answer is: it is an enhanced twitter like mini blogging service. It is an open source project based on ASP.NET MVC. It is one of the first projects developed with early preview releases of ASP.NET MVC. This project was developed by Emad Ibrahim.

More information about Yonkly can be found at http://www.emadibrahim.com/category/yonkly/. You can download bits of this project from CodePlex.

2 different flavours of Yonkly are available through Yonkly.com, and Yonkly.net. The public Twitter clone is available at Yonkly.net, this is exactly like twitter with additional features like Groups. The other flavour which I am going to call community like edition is available under Yonkly.com. At Yonkly.com you can create your own community like Egyptian Yonklies I just created for Egyptian Tweeters. Both are in Beta as ASP.NET MVC itself is beta. Currently it require an invitation to be able to create your own network under Yonkly.com.

I think what is available on Yonkly.net should be available for each network under Yonkly.com. But this is something Emad should decide.

Today I was exploring Yonkly features while I was setting up egyonklies.yonkly.com. I was amazed by the provided features which I am sure is going to be enhanced and improved upon the release of ASP.NET MVC and in the upcoming releases of Yonkly.

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