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ASP.NET MVC 4: What’s New for Mobile Development in ASP.NET MVC 4
May 1201With the popularity of mobile and tablet devices, it’s no surprise that improving the mobile Web site development experience was such a focus in ASP.NET MVC 4. What’s nice is how well it succeeded, as Keith Burnell explains. The article covers features in the upcoming release of ASP.NET MVC4 targeted specifically at mobile Web site development. These features range from making it easier to create a mobile specific sites to making it less work to get your standard MVC site displaying correctly ...
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GZip/Deflate Compression in ASP.NET MVC
Apr 1228A long while back I wrote about GZip compression in ASP.NET. In that article I describe two generic helper methods that I've used in all sorts of ASP.NET application from WebForms apps to HttpModules and HttpHandlers that require gzip or deflate compression. The same static methods also work in ASP.NET MVC. Here are the two routines: /// <summary> /// Determines if GZip is supported /// </summary> /// <returns></returns> public static bool IsGZipSupported() { string AcceptEncoding = HttpCon...
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April 14th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API and Visual Studio
Apr 1215Here is the latest in my link-listing blog series: ASP.NET Easily overlooked features in VS 11 Express for Web: Good post by Scott Hanselman that highlights a bunch of easily overlooked improvements that are coming to VS 11 (and specifically the free express editions) for web development: unit testing, browser chooser/launcher, IIS Express, CSS Color Picker, Image Preview in Solution Explorer and more. Get Started with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms: Good 5-part tutorial that walks-through build...
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Wishful Thinking: Why can't HTML fix Script Attacks at the Source?
Apr 1215The Web can be an evil place, especially if you're a Web Developer blissfully unaware of Cross Site Script Attacks (XSS). Even if you are aware of XSS in all of its insidious forms, it's extremely complex to deal with all the issues if you're taking user input and you're actually allowing users to post raw HTML into an application. I'm dealing with this again today in a Web application where legacy data contains raw HTML that has to be displayed and users ask for the ability to use raw HTML as...
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Introducing Wijmo, a feature-packed jQueryUI based widget library
Feb 1229Lately I have been evaluating a few JavaScript based UI libraries for both my projects at work and to use for a new version of the bike climbs site called 39x27.com: it was quite nice to see that almost all component vendors are now embracing, some more than others, JavaScript together with the more traditional Web Controls for ASP.NET Web Forms. In this post I’m going to briefly cover the reasons why I ended up choosing Wijmo, and then I’m giving a quick introduction on the set of widgets ...
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What Is The Spirit of Open Source?
Feb 1222In my last post, I attempted to make a distinction between Open Source and Open Source Software. Some folks took issue with the post and that’s great! I love a healthy debate. It’s an opportunity to learn. One minor request though. If you disagree with me, I do humbly ask that you read the whole post first before you go and rip me a new one. It was interesting to me that critics fell into two opposing camps. There were those who felt that it was was disingenuous for me to use the term “open ...
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Best of 2011: top 5 posts of the year
Dec 1123This is the time of year when people look back at the year just passed, review and looks out for the year to come. My retrospection post will come in the new year, but for the moment I want to review my top posts of 2011. The most popular post of 2011 1. The history of ASP.NET MVC, so far – This blog post contains the list of all the version of ASP.NET MVC, and the features that were brought into each version. It was featured in the home page of the asp.net portal for a few days at the b...
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Shortening namespace declarations in XAML files
Dec 1115This afternoon I was working on Innoveo Skye Editor which is a WPF application written in C#. The application is using Telerik RadControls for WPF. I was facing the issue of having more and more namespace declarations like the following for RadInput and Rad: <Window x:Class=skyeEditor.View.Dialogs.ProductSettingsDialog xmlns=http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation xmlns:x=http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml xmlns:RadInput=clr-namespace:Telerik.Windows.Contro...
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Web API preview 6 is out: how to get a RESTful mind
Nov 1130As you may or may not have heard, yesterday WCF Web API preview 6 has been released. If you never heard about it I recommend you read the quick introduction on CodePlex, but basically it is a facility that helps you expose your services over the web, taking advantage of the richness of the HTTP protocol, in a RESTful way (vs using SOAP or other abstraction layers). Getting started resources on Web API To quickly get started with it you can download the code and samples, and download the co...
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NuGet Package of Week #11 - ImageResizer enables clean, clear image resizing in ASP.NET
Oct 1131The Backstory: I was thinking since the NuGet .NET package management site is starting to fill up that I should start looking for gems (no pun intended) in there. You know, really useful stuff that folks might otherwise not find. I'll look for mostly open source projects, ones I think are really useful. I'll look at how they built their NuGet packages, if there's anything interesting about the way the designed the out of the box experience (and anything they could do to make it better) as wel...
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