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A collection of 41 posts

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Setting Up VirtualBox for Running ruby_odata's SampleService

I was asked how to setup the SampleService used for integration testing the ruby_odata library (with Cucumber). If you’re not familiar with ruby_odata, it is a RubyGem used to communicate with OData services through Ruby. I’m happy to say that it’s been used in some

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ASP.NET HTTP DELETE 404 Error Fun

In a previous post, I discussed using the Restful Routing NuGet package with ASP.NET MVC. Well, I use it all the time when working with ASP.NET MVC. I started a new project the other day and found that the Destroy actions (which use the HTTP verb DELETE) were

kendo-ui

PSA: Don't Trust Autocomplete

Here’s a little tip that we developers all should know. This post is a little about the Kendo UI Grid, a bit about ASP.NET MVC, but more about “common sense.” So let’s get started… Kendo UI Grid I’m using Kendo UI’s grid for a few

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Dude, Where's My DLL Config?

I write a lot of reusable components. Most recently, I created an assembly to handle notifications in various projects. For this assembly, I needed various configuration options, such as an SMTP server address. For configuration in .NET projects, we turn to App.config files, and in ASP.NET projects, we

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Kendo UI NumericTextBox With jQuery Validation

Previously we discussed Kendo UI and the problems with jQuery validation relating to the Kendo UI Editor. Well, I discovered another control that exhibits the same problems, the Kendo UI NumericTextBox. I didn’t think that this control would have the same problem as the Kendo UI Editor, after all,

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BlockUI Blocking More Than UI

Today I encountered a problem with jQuery.BlockUI and I’m hoping to alleviate someone else from having to deal with the grief that I experienced. With a demo coming up in a few days, we were attempting to publish an ASP.NET MVC app to our test environment for

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Bring Rails to ASP.NET MVC With Restful Routing

When I’m working with ASP.NET MVC, I find myself wanting to do things “the Rails way.” There are a lot of excellent conceptions/conventions in Rails where I think ASP.NET MVC could really learn something. One thing I really dislike about ASP.NET MVC is the way

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Streaming Large Files Asynchronously using .NET 4.5

Recently I had a project that required me to be able to transfer large files via a service call to a remote server where the file would be ingested by an always-on application for further processing. When thinking about the requirements for such a service, a few things came to

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Kendo UI Upload Control With Existing Files

If you hadn’t guessed by my last two posts, I’ve been using Telerik’s Kendo UI controls for a project I’m working on. Today we’re going to talk about the Kendo UI Upload control, which I have been using in asynchronous mode. As I’ve stated

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Telerik Kendo UI MVC Extensions and Icky HTML

I like clean code. Remember the days of obtrusive JavaScript? <a href="#" onclick="alert('You clicked!')">Click Me!</a> Yuck. Move that click event to a handler attached via JavaScript and that makes for much nicer HTML. There are other

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Making the Kendo UI Editor Work With jQuery Validations

An easy way to make an HTML TextArea more flexible is to use the Kendo UI Editor from Telerik. In addition, you can easily use Kendo UI within your MVC project thanks to their ASP.NET MVC wrappers that they provide for their tools. I’m not a huge fan

cucumber

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with Cucumber and ASP.NET MVC

So as I’m sure you have guessed by my last bunch of posts, I’ve been hooked on Ruby and Rails development.  The more I use it, the more I love it.  I felt I was loving it a bit too much, so decided to divert my attention back

ajax

ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX Issues

I’ve been using ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 quite a bit lately in ASP.NET 3.5 applications.  I encountered two issues tonight, and I hope this post saves someone some grief. The first problem has to do with referencing the ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 library within an

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ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 and the ScriptManager Control

I have been using ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 quite a bit lately, as I’m sure most of you are aware from my recent posts. In those posts, I used standard HTML script references to show that ASP.NET AJAX is not reliant upon ASP.NET. I realize that

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ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX - Preview 4 - Data Binding

Throughout the course of my introductory posts on ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, we looked at the new [DataView control][1] as well as the [Sys.Observer class][2], which brings the Observer pattern to plain JavaScript objects. The new ASP.NET AJAX release is very exciting offering powerful new

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ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX – Preview 4 – JavaScript Observer Pattern

In my last post on ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, we took a look at the new DataView ASP.NET AJAX control. We saw that by using a DataView, we could easily bind data with JavaScript or declaratively with a few attributes. In this post, we’ll look at another

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How To: Adding MVC items to an ASP.NET Web Application

I’ve been experimenting with using ASP.NET MVC inside a standard ASP.NET Web Application (Web Forms).  I really like what’s been released with MVC 1.0 and can see places where existing apps would benefit from the features.  Plus, having just finished Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.

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Book Review - Wrox Professional ASP.NET MVC 1.0

Working primarily on web applications, I’ve focused most of my time on ASP.NET Web Forms since the very early betas. Web Forms were truly a great revolution in the web world. Once I saw the functionality when it first came out (when I was using ::shudder::  “classic” ASP)

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ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX - Preview 4 - Client Templates

A little over a month ago, Microsoft released the fourth preview of ASP.NET 4.0 AJAX. This is the new release of the Microsoft AJAX Framework that will be released with ASP.NET 4.0. We’re getting closer to the RTM release of .NET 4.0 (hopefully later

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My Wrox Blox Books – Now on Amazon!

I just happen to be browsing Amazon today and noticed that my Wrox Blox books are available for purchase on Amazon.com. Pretty cool stuff! They were listed up there before, but weren’t available directly through Amazon until now. For a full description and the table of contents of

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ASP.NET 3.5 Charting Control - Formatting Tooltips as Date

I’m sure you all have heard that there is now a free ASP.NET charting control that is an add-on to ASP.NET 3.5. If you haven’t or need one of the bits, check out ScottGu’s blog. I recently started using the component and it’s

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jQuery and Visual Studio

Cool Stuff! Microsoft has announced that they will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward. For more information on this announcement, you can refer to Scott Guthrie’s or Bertrand Le Roy’s announcement. It will be licensed under the MIT license (as it is now) and will not

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ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods

If you’ve read things of mine, such as my Wrox Blox Hands On ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, or posts on the ASP.NET Forums, you may have noticed I talk about using ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods lots of the time. Lots of developers using ASP.NET AJAX

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ObjectDataSource, SOA Style

It’s been entirely too long since my last post, and with the olympics in full swing, we’ll go with a volleyball theme for this post. BUMP So here’s the scenario. After really digging your teeth into ASP.NET 2.0 and playing around wiih all the cool

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Dynamic AJAX Control Toolkit - ValidatorCallout Extender

I added one of these a while ago and figured I would include another. Dynamic AJAX Toolkit Controls seem to really be an issue for some, so I hope this helps. This time, we will create a dynamic ValidatorCallout for a TextBox with a RequiredFieldValidator (although you can use any