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 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 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 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
Share Tweet In IIS SSL sites have seemed to be limited to only one site per network interface, since you (from IIS Manager) cannot specify a host header binding on the HTTPS protocol. It turns out, that it is only …
March 4, 2010 | Posted in C#, IIS7 | Tagged C#, IIS7
Share Tweet In some applications, it could be cool to have a feature that enabled the user to quickly get a glimpse of what people are saying on Twitter about the user or their product, service, company etc. For instance, …
March 16, 2009 | Posted in C# | Tagged C#
Share Tweet Yesterday, I blogged about how you can use Google Translate to translate a string in C#. To make it more useful than just a simple translator, and because I need to translate some Global Resource files for an …
March 13, 2009 | Posted in C#, Internationalization | Tagged C#, Internationalization
Share Tweet *** This post is no longer up-to-date. Take a look at my new post, revisiting how to tranlate text in C# using Google Translate *** Sometimes, it would be great to be able to translate a text from …
March 12, 2009 | Posted in C# | Tagged C#
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