Articles tagged MVC

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 better tools for front-end development...

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 and query operations. This separation...

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, the answer is 'it depends',...

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 features. While providing an "always...

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 routine code that is common...

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 both code and markup. They...

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 why and how the JSON...

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, especially if you use WS-Federation...

27 April 2015 31 min read

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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 this article Jon Smith describes...

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 this important task. Nick Harrison...

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 and avoid whole-page refreshes whenever...

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 builds an ASP.NET MVC application...

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 modifying or creating Editor Templates...

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 the standards for layout, colour,...

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 be able to download it...

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 and password. Although MVC5 provides...

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 of a number of alternative...

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 are many ways of avoiding...

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 account. However, where it is...

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 to liven up a site...

25 February 2014 11 min read