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

submitted by galratner(334) 4 days, 15 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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Developer Productivity Tools and Visual Studio Extensions(www.mehdi-khalili.com)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 5 days, 22 hours ago

Mehdi Khalili shares what's in his toolbox for Visual Studio. It's a curated list of some of the best productivity boosters available. read more...

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

submitted by akhilmittal20(66) 6 days, 6 hours ago

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

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C#/.NET Little Wonders: Select() and Where() with Indexes(www.blackrabbitcoder.net)

submitted by BlackRabbitCoder(661) 9 days, 11 hours ago

We’ve talked about the Select() and Where() LINQ extension methods before. The Select() method lets you project from the source type to a new type, and the Where() method lets you filter the list of items to the ones you are interested in. Most people know of these methods in their simplest form, where they simply take a projection and predicate respectively that operates on just an element. However, there are overloads for both of these methods that take a delegate that operates on both the element and the index of the element. read more...

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

submitted by pwalat(44) 9 days, 11 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...

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

submitted by klings(50) 10 days, 1 hour 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, 12 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...

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Ten features I like about Coffeescript(openmymind.net)

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 10 days, 21 hours ago

Karl Seguin shares ten features he likes in Coffeescript. A great list for anyone learning Coffeescript, or anyone who isn't yet familiar with Coffeescript. read more...

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

submitted by dpeterson(4397) 10 days, 21 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...

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

submitted by techiemae(64) 11 days, 7 hours 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...

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

submitted by BlackWasp(4212) 11 days, 12 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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Output caching in ASP.NET Web API(www.strathweb.com)

submitted by fdub(281) 14 days 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, 20 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, 19 hours ago

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

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An Introduction to NuGet(codersbarn.com)

submitted by Bognit(2125) 16 days, 18 hours ago

Getting started with NuGet can be very confusing because there are really four parts to it with separate downloads. This post is an effort to make it easier to grasp and get started. read more...

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Visual Studio 11 User Interface Updates Coming in RC(blogs.msdn.com)

submitted by tom103(161) 18 days, 13 hours ago

The Visual Studio team has taken into account some of the feedback about the beta, and presents the changes in the user interface of VS 11 RC read more...

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