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
Share Tweet A long time ago, I wrote a blog post about how to translate text in C# using Google Translate. Since then, an official AJAX API has been released, which is a much better solution. Reading the comments of …
October 25, 2010 | Posted in C#, Internationalization | Tagged C#, Google, Internationalization
Share Tweet There’s a lot of talk on Twitter and blogs about The Ultimate Developer PC 2.0. The Ultimate Developer PC, was something started three years ago by Scott Hanselman and Jeff Atwood, when Scott wanted a new machine and …
July 31, 2010 | Posted in Hardware | Tagged Hardware
Share Tweet Almost a year ago, I answered a question on StackOverflow, about if there’s a better way to generate HTML e-mails in C# than using a StringBuilder and just appending strings one by one. I think that any modern …
March 13, 2010 | Posted in C# | Tagged C#, Hidden features of .NET
Share Tweet If there’s one change I hate about IIS 7 and beyond, it is the lack of the very useful IISAPP script that was present on IIS 6 installations. Run it from a command prompt, and you will see …
March 8, 2010 | Posted in IIS7 | Tagged IIS7
Share Tweet I love the new model validation features in System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations. One thing I don’t like though, is that the ErrorMessageResourceName is loosely typed. The ErrorMessageResourceType, however, is a System.Type which will be strongly typed by assigning its value using …
March 4, 2010 | Posted in C#, Internationalization, Unit testing | Tagged C#, Internationalization, Unit testing
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