Object Pipelines(www.blackwasp.co.uk)

submitted by BlackWasp(4212) 2 days, 4 hours ago

A pipeline is a chain of connected steps that process information. In object pipelines, each step receives an object and performs an action using it before passing an object to the next step. This repeats until every step is complete. read more...

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Using ASP.NET MVC 4, ApiControllers and SQL Server 2012(galratner.com)

submitted by galratner(334) 4 days, 7 hours ago

ASP.NET MVC continues to innovate and in its current version (4) it offers support for Web APIs. Today we are going to examine a real life scenario of using Web APIs along with MVC 4 as we are utilizing the Google Earth plug-in to mark a defined area and SQL Server 2012 geography type to help us persist and calculate GIS data. In our example we are going to mark an area on the globe using a polygon, calculate the center of the area, find all of the coffee shops closest to the center of the area and arrange them by distance. We are going to mark them on the map as well as show a full list including ranking. read more...

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Code First Approach using Entity Framework 4.1, Inversion of Control, (dotnetslackers.com)

submitted by akhilmittal20(66) 5 days, 22 hours ago

Code First Approach using Entity Framework 4.1, Inversion of Control read more...

2 comments |category: MVC |Views: 204

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Basic HTTP authentication in ASP.NET Web API using membership provider(www.piotrwalat.net)

submitted by pwalat(44) 9 days, 4 hours ago

Blog pos showingt how to provide Basic HTTP authentication in ASP.NET Web API with support for membership and role providers by extending framework’s AuthotrizeAttribute. read more...

1 comment |category: MVC |Views: 258

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Disabling the Screensaver Programmatically(www.blackwasp.co.uk)

submitted by BlackWasp(4212) 9 days, 5 hours ago

Screensavers can be a useful tool for protecting some types of display from damage or a visually pleasing alternative to the open windows when a computer is not in use. For some types of software it is necessary to temporarily disable the screensaver. read more...

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Towards more secure password hashing in ASP.NET(www.dotnetnoob.com)

submitted by klings(50) 9 days, 17 hours ago

A lot can be done to increase security of how password hashes are created and stored in ASP.NET applications. This article explains more about the PBKDF2 algorithm found in the framework, and how to configure it for more secure password hashing. read more...

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Implementing message handlers to track your ASP.NET Web API usage(www.strathweb.com)

submitted by fdub(281) 10 days, 4 hours ago

Using DelegatingHandlers, building a functionality that checks for an API key on an incoming API request and then logs all requests and responses, thus allowing you to track the usage of your API. read more...

1 comment |category: ASP.NET |Views: 156

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EF5 Release Candidate Now Available(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 10 days, 14 hours ago

The release candidate for Entity Framework 5.0 is now available on Codeplex. There have been several new improvements since beta 2. read more...

4 comments |category: Database |Views: 276

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Consuming RSS feeds in ASP.NET(www.keivansadra.com)

submitted by techiemae(64) 11 days ago

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an incredibly easy way to display content from other websites in all types of industries. You can also publish your own RSS feeds so that people can display your content on their website with incredible ease. I plan on showing both methods in this article. read more...

1 comment |category: ASP.NET |Views: 111

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Creating Type Aliases in C#(www.blackwasp.co.uk)

submitted by BlackWasp(4212) 11 days, 5 hours ago

The using directive of the C# programming language is often used to create namespace aliases, allowing types with matching names that appear in separate namespaces to be easily accessed. A lesser known use of the directive is to create aliases for types. read more...

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Creating Type Aliases in C#(www.blackwasp.co.uk)

submitted by BlackWasp(4212) 11 days, 5 hours ago

The using directive of the C# programming language is often used to create namespace aliases, allowing types with matching names that appear in separate namespaces to be easily accessed. A lesser known use of the directive is to create aliases for types. read more...

2 comments |category: C# |Views: 265

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Output caching in ASP.NET Web API(www.strathweb.com)

submitted by fdub(281) 13 days, 17 hours ago

Caching output of the ASP.NET Web API Controllers' actions using a custom ActionFilterAttribute read more...

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Creating a Centralized NuGet Packages Folder(www.chrispoulter.com)

submitted by chrispoulter(105) 14 days, 13 hours ago

I would imagine most people by now will have discovered and use the NuGet Visual Studio extension (http://www.nuget.org/). It is a great way of adding and maintaining 3rd party code libraries in your projects. One problem I find though is that every time I create a new project or solution I end up installing the same old NuGet packages. By default NuGet downloads the source code for these packages into a new "packages" folder in your project/solution root directory. This means I have the same source code downloaded multiple times, in multiple locations. This can easily be fixed as you can... read more...

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Performance Tuning Visual Studio Builds(jameslewiscv.com)

submitted by JamesLewisAwesome(75) 15 days, 11 hours ago

My findings after spending a day trying to bring our teams local build time down from over a minute. read more...

1 comment |category: C# |Views: 301

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Configuring WebClient Timeout and ConnectionLimit(www.tomdupont.net)

submitted by tdupont(1259) 16 days, 22 hours ago

It is great how simple the WebClient class is to use, but unfortunately it does not natively support configuring it's timeout or connection limit. Good news, both of these issues are very easy to fix by simply extending the WebClient class. read more...

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A XAML Guy digs into ASP.NET MVC4 (Part 2 of ?)(michaelcrump.net)

submitted by mbcrump(1034) 18 days, 14 hours ago

Hey, you came back! Well thank you very much. I’m kind of surprised to see the amount of attention the first part received. From being featured on The Morning Brew to being featured in the ASP.NET community Spotlight, it seems that I have hit on a topic that a lot of people are interested in. Let’s not waste anymore time and jump back into the series. read more...

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