Using Scaffolding to Create MVC Applications with Visual Studio

Scaffolding is a great way of kick-starting model-view-controller (MVC) framework development. Visual Studio's MVC Scaffolding uses templates to generate the...

14 December 2015 14 min read

Nick Harrison

ASP.NET MVC Security through Validation

ASP.NET MVC provides a way of providing declarative validation of user inputs. It removes a lot of the tedium of...

20 January 2015 13 min read

Nick Harrison

Extending Editor Templates for ASP.NET MVC

If you find yourself doing routine work repeatedly in ASP.NET MVC, it is worth exploring the possibilities that come from...

02 December 2014 12 min read

Nick Harrison

Building an Excel View Engine for ASP.NET MVC

When we see a grid with some interesting data in it in an MVC application we, as users, expect to...

22 August 2014 12 min read

Nick Harrison

T4 – The Insource Code Monkey

T4 usually stays behind the scenes in Visual Studio, but if you find that you have a good reason to...

03 June 2013 16 min read

Nick Harrison

Dynamic LINQ Queries with Expression Trees

It's possible to build up dynamic LINQ queries or queries with several conditional criteria. In fact there are several options...

25 February 2013 15 min read

Nick Harrison

Client-Side Markup with JQuery Cloning and Templates

Almost certainly, any HTML-based application is going to need to create markup on the client-side, using JavaScript. The language isn't...

27 November 2012 12 min read

Nick Harrison

jQuery Fast Food Cook Book

Anyone in IT should be aware of jQuery. This free, open-source JavaScript library has become amost essential to anyone creating...

11 July 2012 17 min read

Nick Harrison

A Developers’ Guide to Refactoring Databases

When Agile meets 'Big Design', the result can be frustration on both sides. Is it possible for database development to...

04 April 2011 15 min read

Nick Harrison

Database Refactoring

Although the methodology of refactoring code has been adopted enthusiastically, the same has not really been the case with databases....

01 February 2011 17 min read

Nick Harrison

Some NHibernate Best-Practices

NHibernate can help to build a project more quickly if the database it connects to is sound. Otherwise, there are...

25 November 2010 13 min read

Nick Harrison

Under the ORM Hood: Revealing the SQL

Your application code may look neat and clean, and you are using a sound Object-relational Mapper, but when you put...

05 October 2010 13 min read

Nick Harrison

jQuery Goodness in a DotNet World

jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks. It shields the programmer from the idiosyncrasies in the way that...

12 August 2010 12 min read

Nick Harrison

Back to Basics: Wiring up a Web Application

In the third of a series on Web Application design, Nick turns his attention to the Model part of the...

18 June 2010 12 min read

Nick Harrison

Back to Basics: Converting a Web Page to a Web Form View

ASP.NET developers can learn a lot from MVC practices. This article shows you how to structure a WebPage in an...

20 April 2010 15 min read

Nick Harrison

Reflector Pro Cometh

Reflector 6 is here. Nick Harrison is a long-time Reflector enthusiast, and has been responsible for writing an add-in. As...

25 February 2010 9 min read

Nick Harrison

Back to Basics: Structuring a Web Page with CSS and ASP.NET

Nick explains why such habits as using nested HTML Tables to position content in the right place on the browser...

28 January 2010 15 min read

Nick Harrison

.NET Reflector meets the CodeDom

.NET Reflector was the first .NET tool to allow assemblies to be disassembled back into the high level language that...

02 October 2009 13 min read

Nick Harrison

A Defense of Reflection in .NET

The trouble with making general rules about programming practices is that one can miss out on many benefits of of...

13 August 2009 14 min read

Nick Harrison

Code Deodorants for Code Smells

Code Smells have become an established way of talking about indications that things may be wrong with your code. Nick...

09 July 2009 11 min read

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Using Scaffolding to Create MVC Applications with Visual Studio

ASP.NET MVC Security through Validation

Extending Editor Templates for ASP.NET MVC

Building an Excel View Engine for ASP.NET MVC

T4 – The Insource Code Monkey

Dynamic LINQ Queries with Expression Trees

Client-Side Markup with JQuery Cloning and Templates

jQuery Fast Food Cook Book

A Developers’ Guide to Refactoring Databases

Database Refactoring

Some NHibernate Best-Practices

Under the ORM Hood: Revealing the SQL

jQuery Goodness in a DotNet World

Back to Basics: Wiring up a Web Application

Back to Basics: Converting a Web Page to a Web Form View

Reflector Pro Cometh

Back to Basics: Structuring a Web Page with CSS and ASP.NET

.NET Reflector meets the CodeDom

A Defense of Reflection in .NET

Code Deodorants for Code Smells