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Revisiting Partial View Rendering in ASP.NET MVC

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Revisiting Partial View Rendering in ASP.NET MVC

For any browser-based application, it makes sense to load into the web page just the content that is immediately required and avoid whole-page refreshes whenever...

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Using Entity Framework with an Existing Database: User Interface

Pre-existing databases can pose some difficulties for software developers using an ORM. To demonstrate ways of circumventing them, Jon Smith builds an ASP.NET MVC application...

24 min read

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 modifying or creating Editor Templates...

12 min read

Responsive Web Design: the Costs

Responsive Web Design is devised to help you render your website or web-based application appropriately on different sizes and aspect ratios of browser windows. Adopting...

13 min read

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 be able to download it...

12 min read

Caching: the Good, the Bad and the Hype

One of the more important aspects of the scalability of an ASP.NET site is caching. To do this effectively, one must understand the relative permanence...

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ASP.NET Scalability: the Good, the Bad and the Hype

Scalability remains an exasperatingly vague term, even though there are well-established ways of ensuring that a web-based application reacts well to wide variations in usage....

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SQL Server Tables – 11 Questions You Were Too Shy to Ask

There are some aspects of tables in SQL Server that a lot of people get wrong, purely because they seem so obvious that one feels...

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Shouldn’t Your ASP.NET MVC Apps Support Localization?

An increasing number of applications are being designed to be configurable by the user to display content in a one of a number of alternative...

11 min read

Handling Errors Effectively in ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC gives you more options in the way that you handle exceptions. Error handling isn't intrinsically exciting, but there are many ways of avoiding...

11 min read

Social Login in ASP.NET MVC

It isn't every web application where one would want visitors to identify themselves via their Twitter, Facebook, Google or LinkedIn account. However, where it is...

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Applying The Scientific Method to SQL Server Performance Tuning

Database administrators tend to rely more on science than intuition, and may therefore seem exasperatingly cautious to other IT people. A relational database is a...

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Mixing Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC

Just because you're using Web Forms, it doesn't mean that you are stuck in a technical time-warp. If you want to liven up a site...

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ASP.NET MVC Paging with OData

It is natural for the user to want to browse through data within an application. Until recently, the interfaces with data sources have been ill-equipped...

11 min read

A Look at the Razor View Engine in ASP.NET MVC

Razor is now the dominant markup language for ASP.NET MVC applications, since it is terse and produces more readable markup than the ASPX syntax. Now...

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Aspect-oriented Programming and Code Contracts in ASP.NET MVC

There are some aspects to application programming, such as logging, tracing, profiling, authentication and authorization that cut across the business objects. These are difficult to...

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Building Performance Metrics into ASP.NET MVC Applications

When you're instrumenting an ASP.NET MVC or Web API application to monitor its performance while it is running, it makes sense to use custom performance...

23 min read

Creating a Business Intelligence Dashboard with R and ASP.NET MVC: Part 3

By introducing R libraries into an ASP.NET MVC application, it is possible to broaden its analytical and visualization power immensely. To illustrate this, Sergei shows...

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Attribute Routing in Web API v2

Attribute routing solves a lot of the problems of classic ASP.NET routing, which can get ungainly when there are many route handlers, or you have...

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Creating a Business Intelligence Dashboard with R and ASP.NET MVC: Part 2

Continuing the project to build a Business Intelligence (BI) application using R, Visual Studio 2012 and Twitter Bootstrap, Sergei introduces drill-down via jQuery and jQuery...

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