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Making RequireJS play nice with ASP.NET MVC
Being creative when attempting to use RequireJS with minifying in an ASP.NET Multipage MVC application
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Announcement: Employee Info Starter Kit (v6.0–ASP.NET MVC Edition) is Released
After a long wait, the next version of Employee Info Starter Kit is released! This starter kit is basically is a project template that contains code samples targeting a specific technology, such as ASP.NET Web Form, ASP.NET MVC etc.
Since its first release, this open source project gained a huge p...
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Why Collections Should Never Be Null
After a long time of programming, I've realized that nulls are just evil, but what is worse is the idea that a collection can be null. This might be a provocative thing to say, or you might be on my side. I'll try to explain myself and see if you agree with me.
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Using Fluent Validation with ASP.NET MVC – Part 4: Database Validation
I conclude my series on FluentValidation by extending the validator to do database validation by using a repository. I also show how to mock the repository for quick and easy unit testing
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Using Environment.FailFast
When an application becomes critically unstable, it is sometimes better to exit, rather than risk corruption. If even exiting normally could cause damage to data, it is appropriate to ignore any exception handling and stop the process immediately.
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Creating PDF with ASP.Net MVC and RazorPDF
In this post we are going to learn how we can easily create PDF from ASP.Net application with the help of Razor PDF NuGet package.
About Razor PDF:
This NuGet package is created by Al Nyveldt It internally uses ITextSharp an open source PDF convertor library. RazorPDF uses Razor View engine to crea...
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C# LINQ: Combine Multiple Sequences In Parallel
Different ways to combine multiple lists in parallel (by order) in C# LINQ.
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6 Examples of Hard to Test JavaScript
In this post we will be looking at 6 different ways that accidentally make JavaScript code hard to test including…
Tightly Coupled Components
Private Parts
Singletons
Anonymous Functions
Mixed Concerns
New Operators
As we introduce each of these concepts we will describe the issue, take a look at s...
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How do you learn a new framework?
Nick Harrison poses some good questions about how we learn new technologies and libraries, and suggests a few ways to speed up the process.
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Realtime Wall Post and Comment Notifications using SignalR and Knockout
Implementing Realtime Wall Post and Comment Notifications using SignalR and Knockout
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A word or two about NoSQL and it being schemaless
I’ve been discussing the “schemaless” view of NoSQL with some fellow developers and have been tweeting a bit about it and yesterday I started to read a new book: “NoSQL Distilled – A brief guide to the emerging world of polygot persistence, Pramod J.Sadalage & Martin Fowler (2013)” (Sadalage & Fowle...
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Building an IP Camera Viewer in C# 5.0
It tells, how to make use MJPEG streams in C# to build an IP camera viewer!!
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Bing it on Reactive Extensions!
An introduction to Reactive Extensions with WPF and Bing search. Step-by-step explanations and code building. Presentation slides and final code archives included!
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Barbarian Meets Knockout: Knockout.js Observables
In the last installment of these series we gave a short introduction to Knockout.js, what it is, why should you care and how to get started. In this blog post I will focus in one of the pillars of Knockout, the concept of observables, JavaScript objects that have the ability to notify others when th...
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Q&A with Scott Hanselman by Rey Bango
Few developers generate as much interest and following as Scott Hanselman. He's achieved near rockstar-status within the Microsoft developer community and has successfully built credibility and respect outside of the Microsoft world through his oft opinionated and unbiased views on technology and cu...