ASP.net

LinkedIn OAuth Library Update

2011-08-07T12:31:57Z

Version 0.3 of Linked OAuth Library is available via Nuget . This release has a dependency in Hammock Nuget package. I have also uploaded the source code at Bitbucket and it’s available to fork it! [ more… ]...(read more)

RazorJS - Source code available!

2011-06-13T21:58:42Z

As of today you can find RazorJS’s source code available on BitBucket . Feel free to download the code and change it to fit your needs. [ read more …]...(read more)

Native Greek Keyboard for Windows Phone 7

2011-06-05T08:55:24Z

Windows Phone 7 don’t have support for Greek. There is a way to add support for not only Greek but for many more languages using a standalone wp7 app that does some tweaking. [ read more… ]...(read more)

PetaPoco and Spatial Data Types

2011-05-14T11:18:23Z

PetaPoco is a micro-ORM for .NET and Mono. If you haven’t see it yet I suggest you to check it out. Alternatives to PetaPoco are Massive and Dapper . (If you know more projects let me know). After this brief introduction let me begin by explaining the problem. I need it to build a simple web app with a fairly simple data model that was using Spatial Data. The app would use SQL Server 2008. Let’s consider a table with a bunch of columns and one of them is a geometry column. [ read more… ]...(read more)

RazorJS - Write Razor inside your Javascript files

2011-04-19T18:28:26Z

Many times I have a Javascript file that contains a link and in order to be more generic I would prefer writing something like ~/image.png rather than /image.png or /myapp/image.png. Also when one of my Views in an MVC project interacts with 3rd party components and services (like Google Maps, UserVoice etc.) contains a lot of Javascript code along with html/server-side code. [ read more… ]...(read more)

Why I Still L.O.V.E. ASP.NET WebForms

2011-03-30T10:17:33Z

Objectives Build Contact Page (a page that interacts with a data-storage) Build a Contact List Page (a page with a gird) Do it using ASP.NET WebForms Create Unit Tests We will use the MVP pattern and the open-source project WebFormsMVP to accomplish that! [ read more …]...(read more)

Where is the bug? C#

2011-03-22T12:47:00Z

Below are a few lines of code written in C#. Is the code bug-free? What will this print in the console? Can you do it without VS? [ read more... ]...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC - Passing a Flag Enum to an Action as Parameter

2011-03-15T18:53:17Z

A flag Enum is an Enumeration that can hold multiple values per instance An example of such Enum is: [ read more …]...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 3 - A RadioButtonList for Enum Properties

2011-03-10T23:51:41Z

ASP.NET MVC3 doesn’t have a built-in RadioButtonList helper and there are times that I want to display an Enum property. I can always do that using a [ read more …]...(read more)

Detect if Firebug is enabled and deny access

2011-03-09T22:49:54Z

Firebug is an essential tool for every web developer. It allows to do many things such as script debugging, DOM manipulation etc. What happens though when it get’s to the hand of an experienced attacker? Then it could [ read more …]...(read more)

Hope Driven Development - Are you doing it?

2011-03-08T09:59:50Z

HDD (and it don’t mean Hard Disk Drive ☺) is intuitively a bad approach on Software Development. If someone tells you that many times is doing Hope Driven Development, only by name you might say “Oh that’s [ read more …]...(read more)

Linked-In OAuth Library

2011-03-07T22:26:00Z

I uploaded a package in Nuget Gallery that simplifies the interaction with linked-in. Uses a modified version of Hammock read more…...(read more)

JavaScript is disabled - Should I Care?

2011-03-05T09:36:00Z

Many times a Web Developer faces the question “This won’t work if JavaScript is disabled. Should I change it?” If it’s something simple like a read more…...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC SubmitLink with jQuery - Using an a tag as a submit button

2011-03-03T16:06:18Z

The easiest way to submit a form is to use the input tag with the submit type [ read more… ]...(read more)

Visual Studio - A Common Replace Scenario

2011-03-02T12:39:09Z

Visual Studio has a build in Replace function that uses Regular Expressions. Let’s consider the following scenario: Although it’s not “good” code many times a developer has to write the following code [ read more… ]...(read more)