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
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
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
Nick Harrison 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
Dino Esposito Tips and Tricks about Razor Partial Views Partial views in ASP.NET MVC allow you to reuse and customise components to act like user controls. They consist of... 23 November 2015 12 min read
Dino Esposito So You Need to Expose JSON Endpoints Even the most experienced programmers can be caught unawares by software they've used for years without trouble. Dino Esposito explains... 15 October 2015 11 min read
Jaroslaw Szczegielniak Introducing Single Sign-on to an existing ASP.NET MVC application Implementing a single sign-on for a set of a company's business applications isn't hard if they are all new applications,... 27 April 2015 31 min read
.NET Jon Smith in .NET The Compromise Between Development Time and Performance in Data-Driven ASP.NET MVC As developers we always want to produce efficient code, but efficient in what - development time or overall performance? In... 03 March 2015 22 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
Dino Esposito 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... 15 January 2015 12 min read
Jon Smith 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... 16 December 2014 24 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
Edward Charbeneau On Creating a Live Style Guide for MVC Application Development Before developing any browser-based application, you can both accelerate and coordinate development by creating a live style guide that displays... 28 August 2014 8 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
Edward Charbeneau Creating Custom OAuth Middleware for MVC 5 Website visitors will have come to expect to be able to use OAuth authentication, rather than require yet another ID... 04 August 2014 9 min read
Dino Esposito 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... 19 May 2014 11 min read
Dino Esposito 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... 10 April 2014 11 min read
Dino Esposito 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... 21 March 2014 11 min read
Dino Esposito 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... 25 February 2014 11 min read
