Edward Charbeneau Rapid Prototyping, the MVC Working Model If you've ever had to build a working model from scratch, or produce a quick prototype for something, you know... 16 August 2012 10 min read
Dino Esposito Simulating Web API – JSON Formatters in ASP.NET MVC The Web API framework is a useful tool for building RESTful ASP.NET MVC4 applications, but it's not essential. Dino Esposito... 23 July 2012 10 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
Edward Charbeneau Responsive design using Foundation with ASP.Net MVC There are several frameworks that take away the hard work of implementing a responsive design for a website, that will... 26 June 2012 22 min read
Dino Esposito The Three Models of ASP.NET MVC Apps We've inherited from the original MVC pattern a rather simplistic idea of what should be in the Model. In fact,... 12 June 2012 12 min read
Edward Charbeneau A Foundation for the Web Because we can now run browsers on devices of a wide range of screen-sizes, content publishers have had to find... 28 May 2012 8 min read
Dino Esposito A Generic ASP.NET MVC Template When you start an ASP.NET MVC project, you choose one of a number of project templates or starter kits. The... 19 March 2012 11 min read
Dino Esposito A Testing Perspective of Controllers and Orchestrators The neat separation between processing and rendering in ASP.NET MVC guarantees you an application design that is inherently teastable. It... 14 February 2012 9 min read
Dino Esposito Never Mind the Controller, Here is the Orchestrator The Model-View-Controller pattern of the ASP.NET MVC allows the separation of the business logic from the input and presentation logic.... 11 October 2011 11 min read
Simone Chiaretta An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC Extensibility Because ASP.NET MVC has been designed with extensibility as its design principle; almost every logical step of the processing pipeline... 21 September 2011 12 min read
Dino Esposito ASP.NET MVC Action Results and PDF Content The Action Result in ASP.NET MVC provides a simple and versatile means of returning different types of response to the... 06 July 2011 13 min read
Matteo Slaviero Authentication and Authorization with Windows Accounts in ASP.NET If you are providing web-based information for a closed group of users, such as a company or similar organisation with... 30 March 2011 19 min read
Edward Elliott How The Garbage Collector Can Cause Random Slowness If your website is suffering from slow performance, it's easy to blame the code, but not always correct. Even in... 25 November 2010 15 min read
Shailesh Patel Understanding Browser-Based Silverlight Project Architecture A large part of Silverlight's allure is in its cross-browser capabilities, and that power is derived from its rendering architecture.... 04 November 2010 11 min read
Jinath Premaratne WebMatrix: Website Development made easier? Microsoft's WebMatrix Beta 2 comes with some interesting technologies, such as Razor and IIS Developer Express. It promises a much... 05 October 2010 11 min read
Jeremy Jarrell Two Steps Forward to More Secure Applications Are you certain that you know enough about cross-site scripting attacks, and SQL Injection to avoid either of them happening... 09 September 2010 10 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
William Brewer Advice on CSS you’ll wish your mother told you William Brewer turns a jaundiced eye to the task of laying out web pages using CSS, and gives some nuggets... 21 May 2010 16 min read
Matteo Slaviero AJAX basics with jQuery in ASP.NET ASP.NET now has support for the jQuery JavaScript library. Although ASP.NET integrated AJAX technology by introducing the is the UpdatePanel... 19 May 2010 20 min read
Ludmal De Silva ASP.NET 4.0 Features ASP.NET v4 is released with Visual studio 2010. Web developers are presented with a bewildering range of new features and... 22 April 2010 11 min read