API How To Receive E-mails in ASP.NET MVC using MailGun Mailgun has a fantastic API for doing a lot of stuff with e-mail. Not only is it a breeze to use their dedicated SMTP service to send a lot of e-mails with great deliver-ability – it is also very powerful for routing e-mails back to
ASP.NET MVC Entity Framework Migrations "Cheat Sheet" I’m a big fan of Entity Framework (Code First, aka. Magic Unicorn Edition), and in particular I am really beginning to like code first migrations, which makes it easy for you to not only migrate your database step by step, but as an
ASP.NET MVC Backbone and ASP.NET MVC: Use Nullable types as Id As a side note to my blog post about renaming the idAttribute in Backbone when using it with ASP.NET (MVC), this post continues with the Id attribute. The Id attribute in Backbone is very important. Backbone uses it to determine if an object
ASP.NET MVC 3 Reasons Why Dedicated ViewModels in ASP.NET MVC is a *MUST* I’d argue that using dedicated view-models in ASP.NET MVC (or any other MVC framework) is one of the things that has changed the way I work for the better. And for the better I mean more maintainable code, better designed code, more
ASP.NET MVC Backbone and ASP.NET MVC: Rename the ID attribute In Backbone, a model’s ID attribute is vital in the way Backbone handles models and collections. In a collection, you can call get with an ID and you’ll get back the model. The thing is, naming conventions across languages does not always
ASP.NET MVC Backbone.js Compatible Routes for, non-Web API, ASP.NET MVC projects Backbone.js has become my JavaScript MV* framework of choice (you do use a JavaScript MV* framework, to structure JavaScript, right?). I find myself using ASP.NET MVC for less and less that has something to do with views, and other stuff that belongs
ActionFilters Unit Testing ASP.NET MVC Controller Action contains specific ActionFilter Attributes 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. Each layout is rendered
ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC Localize Numeric (data-val-number) Validation 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 is a
ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC 3 Windows Authentication problem - redirects to Account/Login 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
ASP.NET Making your ASP.NET Global Resource files work in JavaScript. IntelliSense included! 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 do you go
ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC View Page Editor in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 won’t recognize HTML tags I love the new IntelliSense dialog in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, that ScottGu has blogged about. But when editing an ASP.NET MVC View Page in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, you end up fighting the IntelliSense. That is because IntelliSense and the