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  • Using the West Wind Web Toolkit to set up AJAX and REST Services

    Using the West Wind Web Toolkit to set up AJAX and REST Services

    Nov 11
    03

    I frequently get questions about which option to use for creating AJAX and REST backends for ASP.NET applications. There are many solutions out there to do this actually, but when I have a choice - not surprisingly - I fall back to my own tools in the West Wind West Wind Web Toolkit. I've talked a bunch about the 'in-the-box' solutions in the past so for a change in this post I'll talk about the tools that I use in my own and customer applications to handle AJAX and REST based access to servic...

  • NuGet Package of the Week #9 - ASP.NET MiniProfiler from StackExchange rocks your world

    NuGet Package of the Week #9 - ASP.NET MiniProfiler from StackExchange rocks your world

    Jul 11
    22

    I LOVE great debugging tools. Anything that makes it easier for me to make a site correct and fast is glorious. I've talked about Glimpse, an excellent firebug-like debugger for ASP.NET MVC, and I've talked about ELMAH, and amazing logger and error handler. Now the triad is complete with MiniProfiler, my Package of the Week #9. Yes, #9. I'm counting System.Web.Providers as #8, so phooey. ;) Hey, have you implemented the NuGet Action Plan? Get on it, it'll take only 5 minutes: NuGet Action...

  • Getting The Route Name For A Route

    Getting The Route Name For A Route

    Nov 10
    29

    A question I often receive via my blog and email goes like this: Hi, I just got an email from a Nigerian prince asking me to hold some money in a bank account for him after which I’ll get a cut. Is this a scam? The answer is yes. But that’s not the question I wanted to write about. Rather, a question that I often see on StackOverflow and our ASP.NET MVC forums is more interesting to me and it goes something like this: How do I get the route name for the current route? My answer is ...

  • Named Routes To The Rescue

    Named Routes To The Rescue

    Nov 10
    22

    The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names – Chinese Proverb Routing in ASP.NET doesn’t require that you name your routes, and in many cases it works out great. When you want to generate an URL, you grab this bag of values you have lying around, hand it to the routing engine, and let it sort it all out. For example, suppose an application has the following two routes define routes.MapRoute( name: "Test", url: "code/p/{action}/{id}", defaults: new { controller = "Se...

  • Using RavenDB with ASP.NET MVC

    Using RavenDB with ASP.NET MVC

    Nov 10
    08

    Traditionally when you think about a database you think of tables, views, indexes and stored procedures. If you have made a career out of developing database centric applications like I have, then chances are that you have spent a great deal of time dealing with issues around referential integrity, normalization and performance. Unless you have been living underneath a rock, then you have probably heard of the newest database trend named NoSQL. NoSQL refers to non relational document databas...

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