Room for Malachi and I

1:17 AM

Your code is looking really good.

I see you got the virtual properties working?

Pretty much the only thing I'd change is I'd move the views to their own folder instead of having them at the root, if I could.

And, of course, using Razor syntax.

You can get that last page up in a few minutes, I bet.

Malachi

I wasn't going to do much with the Confirmation. not sure what they were looking for there.

My Wife already found some things I need to change.

going to add the quantity stuff in so it doesn't show a list of fruit that I already have in the cart but instead a quantity

Hosch250

1:53 AM

Nice.

Also, I think you are definitely ready for a senior position. Probably not ready to be the smartest person in the room, though ;)

(FWIW, I'm not ready for that either.)

For confirmation, I'd display a list of things they ordered and a thanks message

Also, can you please re-link your github?

NVM, found it: github.com/malachi26/FruitSchool

Also, I think you need to save the user name on the cart.

Otherwise, you won't know who's order is who's.

Malachi

I haven't saved the order anywhere except in the form of the cart.

I was thinking about doing that, but not sure they were looking for something overly complex..

I was actually going to create an order entity as well

I know I am not the smartest guy in the room...lol

thank you

let me push the quantity changes. I also made the listviews look the same

I also had to add another folder to my ignore list, and change the password to the SQL login

I am a little worried about adding that to the confirmation page because I am getting rid of the session on the page load. but if I store the name then I could find the cart by that too

Hosch250

2:49 AM

@Malachi You don't need to.

Just do public string UserName { get; set; } on the cart.

Malachi

make it nullable or empty string, and take it when they submit the order?

Hosch250

Just empty string will work. No need for nullable.

Also, FWIW, string is a reference type, so it is nullable by default.

Malachi

I know, I was trying to think of the term

I mean that empty string will work

Hosch250

Although, if I were you, when they click "Confirm", I'd take the cart ID from that page and pass it to the controller.

The controller can pull the data from the DB and pass it to the next page, so it doesn't matter if the session remembers it.

Malachi

that's the thing with this app though, I am not using the MVC Model

Hosch250

2:53 AM

Oh, why not?

Malachi

well, I guess I kind of am...

I have a logic folder and a model folder

Hosch250

That is more or less the MVC model.

Now you just need a controller that listens to a request, passes data to the business logic to get processed, and returns a view that uses the model created by the logic.

Malachi

I actually have the Apress Pro ASP.NET MVC 5 book on my desk as well...

one of the books I am going to study

it is sitting underneath the Wrox Professional ASP.NET 3.5 in C# and VB book

Hosch250

How many books do you have?

Malachi

you could knock someone silly with those two...lol

Hosch250

2:56 AM

Only one I read cover-to-cover is C# In Depth.

Malachi

14 that deal with some programming area.

on my desk at the moment

Hosch250

I read DI in .NET almost cover-to-cover, except for several chapters on specific DI frameworks.

I read about half of Clean Code before I got bored--I learned all that on CR.

Malachi

4 of them are holding up one of my monitors, but they are 2 old php/Mysql and Crystal Reports and some 2008 integration services book

Hosch250

I'm finishing up Stroustrup's book for beginner C++'ers very slowly now.

And I've read parts of various Exchange Server/DB/web dev/Java books for college, but not enough to talk about.

So, you are definitely better read than I am on this :P

Don't worry about it. You're doing fine.

Malachi

the 3.5 book is from when I was in school, and we didn't go over all of it.

that Headfirst SQL book is from school too and the 2008 C# book I have and the object Oriented approach to programming logic and design book

Hosch250

3:02 AM

I keep meaning to start a programming school, but I don't have the time.

Malachi

I have two Javascript books that I am hoping will make me a wizard...lol

Hosch250

At first I just need to compile a bunch of resources and quizzes.

Malachi

do pair programming over the net

Hosch250

Later, I'd like to do more interactive stuff.

Malachi

Visual Studio and Code is going that way.

saw it on twitter I think

Hosch250

3:03 AM

But it's hard when I'm gone 11.5 hours 3 days a week and 8.5 the 4th. I work from home the 5th.

But I'm too burned to program much anymore.

I play support and architect on RD, but that's it.

I'm going to do a little more in a few weeks when I'm on vacation, and then I'm stepping back.

I want to be able to do personal projects without feeling guilty about not working on RD.

I may extend the website. That would give me more experience with some of the tech I want to work on.

I'd also like to do a bunch of Roslyn diagnostics.

I'm fine at work, and I like programming still, but I just don't have the mental resources to do personal programming anymore.

It may or may not help that parts of work's codebase feels like you peel back duct tape and find binder twine.

Anyway, TTGTB. See you tomorrow, and good luck.

Malachi

lol. thank you

I know what you mean,

I have a few things that I want to do to this code, but I am spent

thank you again, and goodnight

Hosch250

Oh, one quick thing: did you see that the white bar indentation is a little more than the dark bar?

You need to remove the col class on the span there.

Malachi

where?

what browser are you using?

oh I see what you are saying

which span?

found it, thank you.

Hosch250

1:50 PM

Did you set up your Azure site to automagically publish when you push to the repo?

Malachi

no not yet.

I gotta check it though

Hosch250

I'll show you how to do that later, after this gets finished.

It's all Azure side, so...

Malachi

2:09 PM

when I pushed and pulled it erased the Web.Config and the publish file.

because I have them in the ignore file

I must have put them in there wrong... I need to use

Hosch250

That's weird.

Malachi

git update-index --assume-unchanged <file>

I think

right now it is freaking out about Invalid Token 'Text' at root level

but I can't find anything like that

I am even looking at it in notepad

Hosch250

It was just working. What changed?

Malachi

The Web.config was deleted. and I had to create a new one. I think I might have to save this file somewhere else and then make sure that the debug and release versions are deleted and then try to re add

Hosch250

Hmm.

Malachi

2:15 PM

and I can't get back the one that I had because it wasn't being tracked....

going to open the file in another application and make sure there aren't any weird characters. probably newline character out of place or something

Extra Character that VS couldn't see

Hosch250

You actually don't need that file.

Go to Azure and connect it to the repo there.

It'll automagically build when you push.

Malachi

what do you mean? instead of github?

I put it on Github so that they could see the code

Hosch250

No, connect the Azure website to the GitHub repo.

You don't need that file to push it to Azure, really.

Oh wait, I'm probably wrong.

Because I've not done this stuff with DB's and all before.

Malachi

2:32 PM

I got it fixed

now I have to figure out how to make it so that it doesn't happen again

but I need another cup of coffee first

Hosch250

Planning on submitting it around noon today?

Malachi

already sent it to them.

Hosch250

Oh, you did?

So, they might be watching as you work?

Let's hope they didn't think it was already done.

Malachi

the one guy I emailed, looked at the code, and told me he would let me fix it before he sent the email around

I got it fixed within an hour

Hosch250

Oh, it's done?

What was wrong?

Malachi

2:40 PM

first the Web.config was missing, then the new one I put in had an extra hidden character before the root element, which is not allowed. so I had to delete something that I couldn't see. then it was fixed.

Hosch250

OK. They needed to see that too?

Good luck. It sounds like they like you, so you have a pretty good chance.

Malachi

I don't know that they needed to see the site running...don't think they need to see web.config.

and they didn't ask to see data either

Hosch250

Why did he say you needed to fix it?

If I were you, I'd send them the link to the Azure site.

It would show what it looks like, and that you have proof that it actually works, and that you have experience admining a site too.

Malachi

I sent him both the Github and the Azure site link

that is why I knew it wasn't working

Hosch250

Ah, good.

Oh, the Azure site was down?

It was up when I went to it this morning, so it was already fixed :)

Did you get virtual properties set up so you didn't need that SP?

I'm working on restructuring a code-first DB right now myself. I'm having trouble with one point in the migration.

Malachi

2:47 PM

@Hosch250 adding it to my list

Hosch250

They should already work, looking at the code on the Development branch.

Those are those virtual properties--EF automagically populates them.

Malachi

right now I want make sure I can pull without losing my local config files.

Hosch250

Which branch are they looking at?

Make sure any work you do is in a different one.

Malachi

3:13 PM

lol. I am not sure which branch they are looking at.

Hosch250

You've got to tell them Development.

Unless you merged Dev into Master.

Malachi

I did. they should both be fairly similar at this point

Malachi

3:44 PM

think I will just have to remember to stash the web.config at the moment.

and to put the config files into my gitignore files before I commit the first time.

and learn Git better

Hosch250

@Malachi Ignore it in VS.

@Malachi Or that.

Malachi

if I had done it with a SQL Server other than Azure, or I had Active Directory set up, it wouldn't matter, because I wouldn't have the login and password in there, the application would have perms

but I couldn't remember how to set all that up...not sure which would have taken longer, looking back at it

Malachi

7:29 PM

what am I doing wrong here?

var cartID = Guid.Parse(Session["CartID"].ToString());
var cart = from c in db.Cart
           where c.CartID == cartID
           select c;
Cart cartEntity = cart as Cart;
cartEntity.UserName = NameOnOrder.Value;

says that cartEntity is null

Hosch250

Under the debugger?

What's cartID?

Does that ID exist in the DB?

Oh, I get it.

cart is an IEnumerable<Cart>.

...

Malachi

let me set it up again

IQueryable

Hosch250