Share Tweet ActionFilters in ASP.NET MVC are great. You can now easily share logic between controllers without having to inherit from a base controller, that does the common work. I have a content heavy application that supports a set of layouts. …
May 15, 2012 | Posted in ASP.NET MVC, Unit testing | Tagged ActionFilters, ASP.NET MVC, Unit testing
Share Tweet When creating software, make your features obvious. A long time ago, Facebook introduced friendlists - a feature where you can group friends by any name you want. Along comes Google+, and have a feature called circles that, unlike …
May 11, 2012 | Posted in Software | Tagged design, feature, software
Share Tweet Another buggy experience in ASP.NET MVC. This has to do with validation, more specifically numeric validation. Whenever you have a numeric property on your view models, ASP.NET MVC automatically adds some implicit validation to ensure that whatever entered in fact …
May 5, 2012 | Posted in ASP.NET MVC | Tagged ASP.NET MVC, validation
Share Tweet Structuring JavaScript can be a job in itself if you don't look out. I was attending the virtual jQuery Summit 2011, and one of the talks were called 'Structuring Your DOM-based Application' by Garann Means. Her talk really took me …
April 3, 2012 | Posted in JavaScript | Tagged JavaScript, Maintainability
Share Tweet We all know it's a good idea to bundle JavaScript files into as few script includes as possible to minimize HTTP request. And - we all know you should write your code inside closures, to avoid the biggest …
March 22, 2012 | Posted in JavaScript | Tagged Closures, JavaScript
Share Tweet ASP.NET MVC 3 has its quirkiness here and there. Sometimes it's a lack of support for something, and other times it's downright buggy. An issue I came across recently, is something to do with Windows Authentication. There's a lot of …
November 6, 2011 | Posted in ASP.NET MVC | Tagged ASP.NET MVC, quirks
Share Tweet Being able to make CSS inline is something you need all the time when sending HTML e-mails. HTML E-mails simply don't render perfectly in all e-mail clients if you don't make all your styles inline. Campaign Monitor introduced …
June 10, 2011 | Posted in C# | Tagged C#, CSS, E-mail, HTML
Share Tweet As I argued about a year ago, any modern piece of software needs to send e-mail. It needs to connect, and reach its users. Back then I showed how to send templated HTML e-mail, using the little known …
April 2, 2011 | Posted in ASP.NET MVC | Tagged email
Share Tweet Dynamic / Anonymous types in C# was a great improvement to the framework, made in version 3.0. I use it a lot when doing AJAX callbacks from JavaScript to ASP.NET MVC Controllers, not to forget the extensive use …
February 3, 2011 | Posted in C# | Tagged anonymous type, dynamic, serialize, xml
Share Tweet Any modern web application needs localization! You simply can't ignore the huge amounts of people who doesn't speak your language, or whose native language is different from yours. You're probably using resource files (.resx) in .NET, but how …
November 15, 2010 | Posted in C#, Internationalization, JavaScript | Tagged ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, C#, Internationalization, JavaScript
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