.NET Tom Fischer in .NET C# Interactive Window and .csx Scripts in Visual Studio: REPL for .NET C# Interactive Window and .csx script files let you explore .NET APIs and prototype code without a full compile-run cycle.... 26 August 2016 16 min read
.NET Dino Esposito in .NET Taking Pictures from HTML Sometimes a request from a user who doesn't appreciate the limitations of the technology can jolt you into discovering that... 25 August 2016 12 min read
.NET Ambily Kavumkal Kamalasanan in .NET The Exploratory Testing Chrome Plugin If all your application testing is done by test experts, who know how to record images, do screen-capture, write issue-reports... 02 August 2016 13 min read
Paul Glavich Performance-Oriented Software Development Applications must perform well. The problem is that performance can't easily be added later as an afterthought but must be... 25 July 2016 19 min read
.NET Michael Sorens in .NET Using C# to Create PowerShell Cmdlets: Beyond the Basics It is just the first stage to make your C# Cmdlet do what it is supposed to do. Even though... 22 July 2016 21 min read
.NET Dino Esposito in .NET Accepting Dates in Web Pages Surely, not much could be simpler than using the HTML INPUT element? Actually, it was always a trouble for dates,... 18 July 2016 12 min read
.NET Dino Esposito in .NET Crossing the Site Domain with JavaScript Browsers try to prevent a range of malicious attacks by preventing content being accessed by a web page from a... 20 June 2016 12 min read
.NET Jon Smith in .NET A Real-World React.js Setup for ASP.NET Core and MVC5 React is a front-end user interface library developed by Facebook, originally to help them improve their own site. Since then... 16 June 2016 22 min read
Dino Esposito The Plain Simple Password Page Not So Simple Anymore The requirements for the management of passwords have become far more complex over the past few years in response to... 24 May 2016 12 min read
Ryszard Seniuta How to Build a Search Page with Elasticsearch and .NET Although SQL Server's Full-Text search is good for searching text that is within a database, there are better ways of... 18 May 2016 12 min read
Dino Esposito ASP.NET Core: A More Realistic Starter Kit ASP.NET Core is a fascinating platform with many good ideas, but in its present form (RC1)there is a culture shock... 13 April 2016 12 min read
Dino Esposito Posting Form Content via JavaScript Web-based applications run smoother if instead of using the traditional form method, they use JavaScript to post data to the... 16 March 2016 12 min read
.NET Michael Sorens in .NET The Zen of Code Reviews: The Reviewer’s Tale When you are reviewing your colleagues’ code, it is a good idea to look closely at the unit tests to... 14 March 2016 18 min read
.NET Michael Sorens in .NET The Zen of Code Reviews: Review As If You Own the Code A code review is a serious business; an essential part of development. Whoever signs off on a code review agrees,... 07 March 2016 23 min read
Jon Smith Introduction to Bower, Grunt, and Gulp in Visual Studio Developers are now spending much more time writing and debugging JavaScript, CSS, HTML templates etc. Microsoft have responded by adding... 23 February 2016 22 min read
Michael Sorens Create PowerShell Cmdlets in C#: Step-by-Step Visual Studio Guide Create PowerShell cmdlets in C# using Visual Studio: 15 steps covering project setup, Cmdlet inheritance, CmdletAttribute, parameter decorators, pipeline input,... 19 February 2016 19 min read
Dino Esposito Keeping POST and GET Separated The occasional problems that you can get with POST and GET are typical of the difficulties of separating any command... 16 February 2016 11 min read
Dino Esposito Common Aspects of ASP.NET Code: in Web Forms and MVC Is it time to abandon the use of Web Forms in favour of controller methods in ASP.NET MVC? As always,... 22 January 2016 12 min read
Casimir Saternos Data Manipulation in R: Beyond SQL Although SQL is an obvious choice for retrieving the data for analysis, it strays outside its comfort zone when dealing... 13 January 2016 19 min read
Jon Smith How to Take an Asp.Net MVC Web Site Down for Maintenance Keeping a customer facing web site up and performing well is a challenge, especially when you are still adding new... 07 January 2016 14 min read
