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We recently released a Project Template for ASP.Net MVC and AngularJS here and here . I did a follow up post detailing how the project template has been setup and how to make AngularJS and MVC play well together on my company blog . If you are interested in understanding how the template works head over to my blog post and read it!

I am very exited to announce that our team at Technovert has release a Visual Studio project template for AngularJS . More details on how to install and use this template are available on the Technovert Blog   Knockout.js has been a standard library that .Net devs have been using for creating rich interactive business apps. But AngularJS from Google provides a more complete framework and is gaining a lot of dev community support. This project template can help you get up and running with AngularJS in no time and evaluate it for your future needs.

Recently i configured Autofac with ASP.Net MVC 4 and WebAPI . Here are the steps required to configure Autofac Install package Autofac.MVC4 Install package Autofac.WebApi Add a class AutofacBootstrap. Use this class to configure the dependencies within your project. Open Global.asax file and add a method like  Call the method from Application_Start And you are done !!

In my last post about creating an Appharbor notification bot, I described about the problem domain, the solution approaches and how the end to end scenario works.This post would dig deeper into the implementation aspects of the solution. To start with we need to understand the two esential ingredients for this recipe Appharbor Service hooks : Appharbor Service hooks are the building block for the solution. Appharbor provides capability, where it can post to any public url with status of a build on completion. Service hooks are available for events Build Success. Build failure. XMPP protocol : XMPP is a protocol used for Instant Messaging (IM) communication. It allows us to relay messages to the users IM client using XMPP servers (in our case Google Talk messaging servers). With the understanding on these two concept we are ready to dive into the nitty gritty  of the solution. Assuming that the user did the initial configurations to setup notifications (see ...