ASP.NET MVC Development

The software development is becoming more and more complex with the passage of time. With increasing number of developers working on a single large project, it is required that the solution is split into various modules so that it easier to manage the project as a whole. The MVC architecture is one of the most effective techniques to do so. A web development company could create highly scalable and reliable business solutions for its clients by using this model for developing web solutions. MVC stands for Model View Controller and the meaning & significance of each of its word is explained below.

Model: Objects that are present in the RAM memory collectively form the Model. This data has been retrieved from the database and brought into the RAM memory for further processing.

View: The way data is presented on the screen is known as view. For static web pages the view comprises of objects stored on the server whereas for RIA (Rich Internet Application) it can reside on the machine at client’s end through various native data structures or JavaScript objects.

Controller: The controller refers to the requests and manages the responses for the application.

The MVC pattern allows developers to separately conduct the development of business logic and the GUI of the software. Thus, both designers and developers can work simultaneously on the project without disturbing the part concerned with the other one. An experienced .Net MVC development company can effectively use it for developing robust solutions that provide flawless performance. Further, it also facilitates quick development of solutions which provides better opportunities for both client and the service provider.

All of us who use Facebook (and I don’t think there would be many who could say they don’t have an account) would be familiar with concept of adding friends on it. However, there is a new app now that allows users to identify and show people, food, things, food or anything else as “enemies”. The “EnemyGraph” is a newly launched Facebook app that is not developed by any organization or web development company but by a professor and two students from the University of Texas at Dallas.

The app was released on 15^th march and allows users to share anything having a Facebook presence as an enemy. People, organizations and institutions with liberal views and thinking have shown special interest in this app and the list includes some famous names such as Rick Santorum, Fox News and Westboro Baptist Church. Dean Terry, who is a professor and the person who conceptualized the application, says that the story coverage of their app by media has played a major role in popularizing the app and initiating the much awaited and usually not discussed things about the nature of social networks and Facebook in particular.

Terry says “One thing that has always struck me is the enforced niceness culture. We wanted to give people a chance to express dissonance as well. We’re using the word enemy about as accurately as Facebook uses the word friend.”

Further he adds that the application has much wider and effective implementation. He explains that organization and business are always looking to collect information about social media users and base their finding on the things that they like or support. However, The EnemyGraph would now help them in collecting data regarding the things, situations or anything else that users don’t like and could base their future products and services on the findings.

Currently, organizations hire an offshore software development company and acquire solutions that would help them in gaining as much information about user’s behavior and likes. Now this app will help them in understanding exactly what things users don’t like and formulate their products accordingly to get maximum benefits for their business.

Their main attempt is to provide users with a chance to express dissonance rather than the long held presence of enforced niceness over social media. This is not the first attempt by Terry to do something really innovative for the social media users and give more choices to them. Previously he had teamed up with Griffith last year and created a Twitter service called Undetweetable which allowed twitter users to uncover their deleted tweets posthumously. The project was shut down by twitter as it started gaining popularity. Terry expresses his concern that the EnemyGraph application may also have similar fate.

Facebook is, without any doubt, one of the most heavily visited social platform over the internet. The huge traffic brings loads of new and exciting opportunities for all businesses. Businesses and organizations can easily acquire attractive and effective Facebook applications that can enhance and boost their business.

Let us see how Facebook application development can impact a business:

Branding Benefits: Give your business exposure to a platform where soon 1 billion users will be navigating. Yes, Facebook has estimated 1 billion users by august this year.

Client Engagement and Awareness: Facebook application development provides a highly effective tool through which businesses can keep their clients informed of all the latest and relevant information about their services. New products and services can be easily conveyed to them over a place where they are most likely to hangout on a regular basis. This helps in creating loyalty in your costumers towards your brand.

Lead Generation: If you can effectively convey your message to such a wide audience then chances of generating business leads are greatly increased. Including some entertainment and attractive features on the app would further help in lead generation.

Customer Feedback: Clients and customers can leave their comments and suggestions about your services and products via your Facebook app. These suggestions will be very helpful in formulating your future business strategies. Make sure that feedbacks could be easily given by clients over your application.

Organizations and businesses can always hire an experienced software development company having expertise in Facebook application development and procure business centric Facebook applications for their businesses.

iPhone applications are the most in-demand mobile application development solutions today. The attractive features, sleek design and high prices have made iPhone a status symbol that everyone wants to flash around. Xicom offers highly attractive and impeccable iPhone applications designed around the specific requirements of the client. These applications further enhance the capabilities of iPhone mobiles.

Xicom aims at providing futuristic iPhone & iPad application development services to its clients that are really effective in their business activities. Xicom utilizes latest cutting edge technologies to create highly innovative and robust applications for iPhones and iPads and thus actualizes client’s ideas into real world entities.

Various tools and technologies used expertly at Xicom technologies are:

• Xcode
• iPhone SDK (software development kit)
• Cocoa Touch
• Objective C
• Other normally used tools for designing and development

Xicom boosts of an impressive and awe inspiring presence of more than 10 years in the web development and mobile application development industry. Moreover, Xicom Elance profile clearly shows that it is the only web development company over Elance with 100% recommendation from clients and a 5 start rating. This makes Xicom the number one web development service provider with only a very few others that stand anywhere close to it.

Xicom Technologies, a world renowned web development and mobile application development company, has been serving highly interactive and business centric mobile applications to its esteemed clients. Xicom boasts of an impressive client list of more than 500 clients, including fortune 1000 companies. Our solutions bear the quality standards of CMMI level 3 and ISO 9001:2008 certification.

In the past ten years, Xicom has established itself among the top players of mobile application development industry. We believe in delivering total client satisfaction and leave no stone unturned in the process. Our project managers make sure that the client’s requirements and expectations are effectively communicated to the development team. The Development team makes sure that the client’s vision is transformed into a live application that is both user friendly and highly functional. The development team consists of 300+ highly skilled developers having extensive experience in different verticals of web and mobile application development.

Xicom provides Mobile Application development solutions in following categories:

• iPhone Application Development Services
• iPad Application Development Services
• Android Application Development Services
• Blackberry Application development services
• Windows Mobile Application Development services
• J2ME Application Development Services

At Xicom Technologies, we understand the importance of a mobile application for your business. It is a means of promoting your business to maximum users. Mobile application development allows you to reach your customers at anytime and anywhere. Your customers can access your services whenever they want. A simple application allows them to stay connected with your services as long as they are in the mobile service provider’s network. Apart from providing ease of access to the clients, a mobile application also provides you huge promotion.

Further, some individuals and organizations create applications that provide a certain service to the user. For example, a GPS route guidance application, an application for weather forecast etc. These applications are very handy for a mobile user. They will download and install them if they feel that they require it. The individuals or organizations that develop these applications earn money they get from each download of the application. Every time the application is downloaded a small fee is paid by the user. A part of this money is kept by the service provider whereas the rest goes to the developers. The individual or company developing the application can earn from their application without doing anything else. However, you require a completely new idea that can attract users.

We, at Xicom Technologies invite such visionaries, who have great ideas, to discuss their requirements with us. We have already developed various mobile applications that are doing very well. We wish to develop much more exciting mobile applications for our clients in the future.

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Magento is the best open source Web Development platform available for E-commerce development. The platform is supported by a very wide range of extensions that further enhance the capabilities of this platform. Mentioned below are top ten Magento extensions available for free on the internet. All of these extensions have been there for a while now therefore they have been adequately tested. Having them will be most beneficial while working on Magento.

Top 10 Free Magento Extensions:

1. Fontis WYSIWYG Editor: Magento does not have an inbuilt WYSIWYG editor therefore this extension is a must have for everyone. This extension allows developers to use either TinyMCE or FCKeditor but developers can upload images through FCK only.
2. Direct Resize: E-commerce websites usually have a lot of images to showcase their products and collections. A lot of working on images is required for this purpose. Fortunately, the direct resize extension allows the developers to handle this very easily. They can specify the height, width as well as the ratio value and mange their images very easily.
3. Delete Orders: Those who work on the Magento platform know very well that you cannot delete orders. It gets really frustrating sometimes. With this magical extension, Direct Orders you can now easily delete cancelled orders.
4. Invoicera Magento Extension: This Magento Extension has been developed to provide manual invoice sending functionality to online store owners who don’t have any other alternative. Invoices can be generated and sent in the real time when customers purchase anything on the Magento store. This extension is a big relief for online store owners as it makes the whole invoicing process much faster and easier.
5. Exploded Menu: Ecommerce websites generally have multiple categories. It becomes unmanageable in cases where the no of categories is very large. If you are a store owner then you will surely like to showcase all your categories and products in the best possible manner. This can be achieved by Exploded Menu extension. It allows the user to replace their website’s single column dropdown menu into multi column menu. This also includes functionality for 2^nd level and 3^rd level menu categories. This extension is very useful if you have a wide range of products and want to present them in the most simple and easy method.
6. Featured products: You can now manage your featured products with complete ease. The frontend has a separate interface where you can list all your products. The featured products are your most important products therefore it is very important that you properly place them on your website and present them to your visitors.
7. Magento Easylightbox: It is the best way to improve the appearance and functionality of your Magento site. Moreover, it is free therefore it is the best option. It takes only five minutes to install and configure Magento EasyLightbox and no coding is required to operate it.
8. Checkout Newsletter: This extension allows the website owners to add a “sign up for newsletter” option on the checkout page. With this option your customers can sign up for your company’s newsletter and be informed of any new products that you bring.
9. IW PayPal Standard Currencies: PayPal is the most commonly used online payment method. The IW PayPal standard currencies extension allows the store owners to choose the PayPal supported currency for transactions on their website. They can also add new currencies in their shop’s admin panel.
10. Ticketing System: This is a great application that can save your time by taking care of your workflow. It allows the store owners to keep track of their buyer service investigation.

Xicom Technologies is one of the most prominent IT solution provider with clients spread all over the globe. Customer satisfaction has always been our primary aim followed by honesty, integrity and hard work. Today we would like to tell you all about a project which went live.

Recently, we made live one of our largest projects that we started around 5 months ago. The project was a full fledged social networking platform where all the discussions and activities revolve around shoes. The website was hosted a few weeks ago with the URL www.shoemocracy.com. It is a social networking platform specifically designed for shoe lovers. The client, Patrick Seiler, picked us after researching for a long time over the internet. We started with the project by clearly understanding the unique idea that Patrick had conceived. After a result oriented discussions, worthy researches, debates and meetings we started with the project.

Soon Patrick himself came to India from Switzerland so that he can clearly explain us his idea. He stayed for around 20 days and visited our head office everyday to make sure that we were conceiving exactly what he desired for. For 20 days he visited our office, not as a client but more like an expert employee (he came and left according to the office timings), and worked with us on his project. He left after 20 days completely satisfied by our working methodology and our employees. We recently completed the project and launched the website around a month ago. Patrick asked us to develop an iPhone application for the same website just a few days after that. We had done development and testing for the website in the most professional manner therefore he considered us the most suitable candidate for the iPhone application development.

Recently, three weeks ago, Patrick again visited us for making some changes in the website and to see the progress of the iPhone application development project for his website. Currently we are working on the project Using Xcode and objective C to create the application. Patrick stayed here for another 15 days this time and before leaving for Switzerland he offered us the Android application development project for the same website. This time we did not ask him why, obviously he had clearly understood that we adhered very strictly to our principles.

A lot many clients have visited us from various different countries in the past but Patrick has an extreme passion for his vision. Our clients are most welcome, in-fact we insist them, to visit our head office in New Delhi and discuss their projects at lengths with our project managers, developers and programmers. The reason for our constantly increasing client base and repeat business is simply customer satisfaction. Everybody knows this but only a very few can achieve it. We are proud of our employees who constantly deliver the best to our clients.

Does Google’s new phone store for the Nexus One threaten the current wireless industry business model? Well, it’s certainly got potential to be a game changer — but whether it is or not is going to solely depend on the success of Android, and how successful they are at wooing manufacturers and carriers into buying into their plan.

What is happening here is that Google has basically opened up their own wireless store — just like thousands of other brick and mortar businesses that sell phones and plans for carriers on commission. Google is so big though that they have leverage over carriers that none of their competition could possibly have.

If executed well, they will basically become a “mega dealer” that will sell phones and plans from any carrier. Now, back to reality. Executing on a plan like this is going to be virtually impossible. A purely online store for mobile phones simply will not work because consumers (for the most part) want to touch and play with devices before they choose to make a big investment like this. At best, Google’s store will be only an option for consumers.

Web development and web design companies have come up with customized online solutions for different companies for profit enhancements. Web technologies are now backbone of commerce as use of internet and World Wide Webs indispensible. E-commerce is no more a new concept in nations like India where common people have been highly benefited after its implementation, but now it is the time of initiating better web presence. Selection of the proper website design company and the right web developer indeed matters. Websites are designed and tailored for a specific target audience and it is indeed a good idea to seek advice of the experienced website designers before launching or revamping a site.

Online commerce is the way of attracting consumers across the borders and with clicks of computer mouse now people from all parts of the globe can buy products. While planning for a website it is best to make a comparative analysis with the competitor sites, this actually provides an enhanced idea and planning while seeking service from the website design companies. Though there are expert web design companies and web designers remaining in all parts of India, it is wise to mention that the best of the breed work from Delhi. And Delhi is considered to the ideal destination of web design. The website design companies can even suggest regarding the best suitable solution while anyone wants to launch a site. Selection of the tools, use of the server during hosting and navigability of the site must be analysed and compared with different existing sites.

An attractive interface indeed helps. Usability analysis is a step that most of the web designers follow. The project coordinators keep an eye on the aesthetics and look and feel of each and every site that are under development. There are several aspects that are thoroughly scrutinized by the expert web development professionals. Web development companies played an important role behind popularity of electronic commerce and they involve web designers in a consistent research process.

Actually research helps to be aware of the changing scene and changing use of technologies. There are different web development companies that have come up with alluring templates and in case you are not having ample of Dollars to go for a complete web page developmental process, it is best to select a suitable template.

Xicom provides a broad range of web development services and application development services to help you harness the power of technology, consulting and maximize your online business investment.

Visit us at www.xicom.biz to learn more about our company, services and capabilities.

Making a decision that could affect your marketing plan and your revenues can be a tough call and hence requires due attention be paid while selecting a web development company. Every website is built with a purpose and has its own target audience; therefore it is of utmost importance that your website is designed to serve its main purpose. You can hire a proficient web design company for fulfilling all your requirements including web design, web development, flash design work, php web development India, graphic design etc.

Based on your predilections, they will devise web development concepts that fit into your marketing strategy to showcase your products/services to your targeted audience; after all target audience matters the most. A professional in web design India can help you design a website that focuses on your comparative strengths and advantages.

A web development expert will offer you maximum value-growth through an aggressive growth strategy based on through assessment and understanding the market behavior and corresponding requirements. They perform thorough research, work in partnership with clients to assess the objectives to draft your business strategy, and finally develop feasible and perfect web development solutions for your online business. They will explore your business econometrics to present you a custom-made and beneficial viable result.

You can select any server side scripting languages like ASP.net, PHP etc to design your website. An experienced PHP web development company can help you create fascinating website that will attract your potential clients. With changing technology, PHP web development professionals develop website as per the search engine algorithms, thus the search engines are successful in indexing PHP based or dynamic websites.

Not only that, if you specifically want your website to be designed with flash technology, than there are various flash development professionals who will experiment with and achieve various possibilities of effective animations through inbuilt functions. Experts in flash development can create attractive and compelling flash sites that are informative and captivating for the users. Your website should have a perfect balance between its various components and the information it intends to deliver. The site should have enough design elements components like Flash, images, icons to provide a good visual feel to the user but should not get in his way of seeking the information he wants.

Xicom provides a broad range of web development services and application development services to help you harness the power of technology, consulting and maximize your online business investment.

Visit us at www.xicom.biz to learn more about our company, services and capabilities.