C# How To Get Expiration Date of Azure Mobile Services Auth Token This is another post about Custom Authentication in Azure Mobile Services. Recently I also wrote about how the get the user logged in (owner of the auth token) and all the code is
C# How to do Custom login in Azure Mobile Services About a week ago I introduced ZuMo.API which is a Windows Azure Mobile Service (ZuMo) that was configured with a custom login provider that takes a username and password. Today I want
C# Getting logged in API user in Azure Mobile Service Last week I published ZuMo.API to GitHub which is a simple Windows Azure Mobile Service (using the .Net backend) that includes Custom Authentication instead of solely relying on Active Directory or login
C# Updating a Windows Azure Mobile Services project: Method not found I've always tried to stay as much on the bleeding edge as possible. I used to donwload new version of Windows or Visual Studio as soon they released a public alpha or beta
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
API How To Use the Google Search Suggestions API (AutoComplete) from C# Google is currently receiving a lot of negative mentions for their lack of providing keywords to website owners. Keywords used by visitors is such valuable information when running a website, and especially if
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
API Twitter Streaming API + SignalR + Google Maps = Powerful Stuff! I’ve been playing around with a variety of APIs every once in a while. It is great fun to hack around with the enormous amounts of real data that are out there,
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
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
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
C# Entity Framework: Update single column Yesterday I blogged about how to delete a detached entity using Entity Framework 5 by only using its Id. A common practice in many applications today is to not actually delete the entity
C# Entity Framework: Delete Entity by Id - Using Detached Instance Entity Framework 5, with the Code First approach can do some pretty powerful things without much effort. Create your model classes, and it spins up a brand new and shiny database for you.
.NET Use Recurly.js with ASP.NET (MVC), C# with this Nu Get library Recurly is a full suite recurring payment service that lets you easily create subscription plans, billing cycles, handle customers, revenue etc. They made payment integration dead easy with their awesome JavaScript library called
C# Make CSS inline in C# and ASP.NET using PreMailer.Net 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
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
C# Translate text in C#, using Google Translate, revisited 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
C# Generate HTML e-mail body in C# using templates 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
C# Unit test for verifying references from DataAnnotation validation to the ErrorMessageResourceName value 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
C# Multiple SSL certificates on IIS using host headers 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
C# Search Twitter from C# using LINQ to XML 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,
C# Automatically translate Global and Local Resource (resx) files 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
C# Translate text in C#, using Google Translate *** 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
C# C# TwitPic API client I’ve spent some time lately, playing around with the Twitter API. And along with that belongs the TwitPic’s API. I’m using Twitter a lot, to stay in touch with tech
ASP.NET Windows Live Development - Authenticating users via Windows Live ID With so many online services out there, you nearly claim a new online identity somewhere every day. You tend to use the same username and password couple for all of them, but sometimes