Blog

August 6, 2018

A guide to upgrading Angular and Ionic in Ionic v4 apps using the Angular CLI ng update command.

April 20, 2016

An exploration of different approaches to handle conditional rendering in React JSX, including logical AND, ternary expressions, IIFEs, and wrapper components.

December 17, 2014

How to read the HTTP request body from an HttpActionExecutedContext in Web API by resetting the stream position before reading.

November 22, 2014

A walkthrough of authenticating with SharePoint Online from a hybrid mobile app built with Ionic, Angular, and PhoneGap using SAML tokens and Microsoft's login service.

August 21, 2013

A quick fix for Visual Studio 2013 Preview's behavior of terminating IISExpress when stopping a debug session, by disabling Edit and Continue.

December 29, 2012

How to fix the IISNode error when running Node.js in IISExpress on a 64-bit system by installing the 32-bit version of Node.

March 18, 2012

A guide to implementing model updates in ASP.Net Web API using the HTTP PUT verb along with proper response codes and jQuery AJAX calls.

March 5, 2012

How to remove the default XML formatter from ASP.Net Web API so that your API only returns JSON responses.

February 20, 2012

A tip on organizing ASP.NET MVC 4 API controllers in a separate folder to prevent naming collisions with standard MVC controllers.

February 20, 2012

A tip showing how to simplify MVC dependency resolver setup by using delegate methods instead of creating a full IDependencyResolver implementation class.

September 14, 2011

Raw notes from the Build conference day 2 keynote covering Windows Server 8, Azure, Visual Studio 2011, MVC4, and .NET 4.5 announcements.

September 13, 2011

Raw notes from the Build conference day 1 keynote covering Windows 8 features, Metro-style apps, developer tools, and the Windows App Store.

August 18, 2011

A solution for resolving dependencies in ASP.NET MVC3 global filters by using Ninject to instantiate filter attributes during application startup.

May 24, 2011

An introduction to password salting and how the System.Web.Helpers.Crypto library makes it easy to hash and verify passwords with a single line of code.

March 25, 2011

A quick guide to using jQuery's keyup event to enable or disable a submit button based on whether a textbox has a value.

March 7, 2011

A walkthrough of using the WebGrid WebHelper in ASP.NET MVC3 to create a grid with built-in sorting, paging, and filtering capabilities using unobtrusive AJAX.

January 8, 2011

A look at the helpful string extension methods available in the Razor view engine for type detection and conversion of query string values.

August 10, 2010

How to create a custom DynamicObject subclass in C# 4.0 that supports safe property existence checking for more flexible and resilient dynamic parameter passing.

December 8, 2009

A quick fix for the Visual Studio 2010 startup error 'The Application Cannot Start' caused by a corrupted user profile.

October 1, 2009

Announcement of a hands-on lab session covering how to build interactive applications using jQuery for ASP.NET Web Forms developers.

January 3, 2007

How to fix the IIS6 Response Buffer Limit Exceeded error by increasing the ASP buffering limit using the adsutil utility.