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Category: Coding

  • How to build a software product in your spare time

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    I have been writing code professionally since the early days of .NET although I remember doing lots of classic ASP as well. As a student, I did some C++, BASIC and even some Pascal but not enough to be good at it. I consider myself a great decent developer and very enthusiastic about coming up with ideas…

  • Bug Tracking Done Right

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    Many companies today track bugs and features in a bug tracking system, this is a good thing. It is necessary to record bugs which I define as things that aren’t working in a software application and that have the potential to affect the performance and output of such applications. When a customer calls and tell…

  • Switching to Windows Azure

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    The annoying sound of the alarm clock crying for attention at 5:00am in the morning woke me up. Everybody in my house was still sleeping, after all it is summer and it was just 5 in the morning! For a moment I thought about going back to sleep and forget about the reason I setup…

  • How To: Secure your ASP.NET MVC application and use Active Directory as the Membership Provider

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    Securing your ASP.NET MVC application should be priority number one every time you start a new web application. Using the attributes Authorize and ValidateAntiForgeryToken in every controller and action is the only way to avoid any security holes. In this post, I’ll show you how to secure your ASP.NET application by implementing the AuthorizeAttribute and ValidateAntiForgeryTokenAttribute classes.…

  • How to: Configure SQL Express to accept remote connections

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    This is a copy of the post that used to exist here for which I got some complaints since some people where still trying to read it when looking at an answer I wrote on StackOverflow a few years ago and the page was not there anymore. The above is an exact replica of the original post,…

  • Retrieving images from a dabatase in ASP.NET MVC

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    If you run into a ASP.NET MVC site that needs to get images stored as binary data in a SQL database you can do the following to help you read these images and display them in your view. The Controller First, create a controller that will serve these images and add a void method that…

  • Infinite scroll with ASP.NET MVC

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    An infinite scroll is a nice solution when you need to display large amounts of content in page, it helps by increasing performance in such a page because only a specific number of items is shown when the page first loads. As the user scrolls down, more content is shown. An infinite scroll is a better…

  • NuGet, The Package Management System for the .Net Platform

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    Update – 2019 NuGet is now part of Visual Studio and some of the information described here does not apply anymore. NuGet is a package management system for the .NET platform, it is supposed to simplify the process of incorporating third-party libraries into a .NET project during development. Basically, it is a great way to…

  • MIX11 – A tribute to Microsoft’s Web Stack of Love!

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    A few weeks ago I attended MIX11 in Las Vegas. MIX is an annual event where Microsoft showcase their new web technologies. This year it was all about new versions of existing products, such as Windows Phone 7, Entity Framework, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, IIS, etc… Below is a summary of what was shared on both…