Machine-specific Asp.Net configuration settings
One of the first things we noticed when we began to use version control to manage our source code is that configuration settings across multiple machines became unmanageable. For starters, different...
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This article was inspired by a friend of mine who wanted to implement a delete confirmation dialog in his website, and I thought it might be a useful little tutorial to write about. These days, I like...
View ArticleAsp.Net MVC 3 Areas and _ViewStart.cshtml Scope
I came across a problem today (or should I say misunderstanding) with MVC 3 (RC) and the _ViewStart.cshtml file. In case you haven’t used these yet, the _ViewStart.cshtml is there to make it easy (and...
View ArticleRedirecting to an action with an anchor with Asp.Net MVC
There are those times when you want to redirect to a route from inside your Asp.Net MVC controller and tag an anchor name (#myanchor) on the end, whilst still utilising the power of the route table. I...
View ArticleDependency Injection: A Beginner’s Guide
This article intends to outline the concept of Dependency Injection and its uses within a software engineering project. From Wikipedia.org: “it is a design pattern that separates behaviour from...
View ArticleAsp.Net Bundling, minification and convention
The new “bundling” support in Asp.Net MVC 4 looks massively appealing to .Net web developers – finally, an integrated way to dynamically package up multiple Javascript/CSS files into one request, and...
View ArticleFun with action filters
I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the brilliant DevWeek developer’s conference in London this year, and even more lucky to attend a lecture by Dino Esposito (please check out his brilliant...
View ArticleBasic Authentication with Asp.Net WebAPI
On a recent project, I undertook the task of implementing a RESTful API using the new Asp.Net WebAPI framework. The aim was to support clients of all types, including a .Net desktop app and iOS and...
View ArticleReal-time system resource monitor with SignalR, WCF and KnockoutJS
Application building time! This article is designed to give you, the reader, some grounding in a few different technologies and help you build a working application which may or may not be actually...
View ArticleReal-time system resource monitor with SignalR, MVC, Knockout and WebApi
Note: This article is a re-write of a previous article, showing how to build a real-time system monitoring application using SignalR and WCF. This update shows how to build the same thing, but with the...
View ArticleAsp.Net MVC 3 Areas and _ViewStart.cshtml Scope
I came across a problem today (or should I say misunderstanding)Â with MVC 3 (RC) and the _ViewStart.cshtml file. In case you haven’t used these yet, the _ViewStart.cshtml is there to make it easy (and...
View ArticleRedirecting to an action with an anchor with Asp.Net MVC
There are those times when you want to redirect to a route from inside your Asp.Net MVC controller and tag an anchor name (#myanchor) on the end, whilst still utilising the power of the route table. I...
View ArticleDependency Injection: A Beginner's Guide
This article intends to outline the concept of Dependency Injection and its uses within a software engineering project. From Wikipedia.org: It is a design pattern that separates behaviour from...
View ArticleAsp.Net Bundling, minification and convention
The new “bundling” support in Asp.Net MVC 4 looks massively appealing to .Net web developers – finally, an integrated way to dynamically package up multiple Javascript/CSS files into one request, and...
View ArticleFun with action filters
I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the brilliant DevWeek developer’s conference in London this year, and even more lucky to attend a lecture by Dino Esposito (please check out his brilliant...
View ArticleBasic Authentication with Asp.Net WebAPI
On a recent project, I undertook the task of implementing a RESTful API using the new Asp.Net WebAPI framework. The aim was to support clients of all types, including a .Net desktop app and iOS and...
View ArticleReal-time system resource monitor with SignalR, WCF and KnockoutJS
If you’re looking for an article showing you how to build a real-time System Resource Monitor with Asp.Net MVC and SignalR, I’ve now updated this and created a new article. The new edition removes the...
View ArticleReal-time system resource monitor with SignalR, MVC, Knockout and WebApi
Note: This article is a re-write of a previous article, showing how to build a real-time system monitoring application using SignalR and WCF. This update shows how to build the same thing, but with the...
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