An Interesting List of Development Stuff (September 2014)
Pardon the brevity of this month’s release, it’s been a month of deadlines, crazy news and all sorts of other things. Anyways, I hope that you find some of these links entertaining, useful or some...
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Integrating TinyMCE into an MVC 5 Project
I thought I would take some time to address a question that has frequently appeared in a few forum questions over the past month or so and that is “How do I use the TinyMCE Editor within ASP.NET MVC?”....
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I just thought I would post a quick recommendation to any readers out there with an interest in the upcoming vNext release for ASP.NET. Scott Hanselman recently began a weekly web series with various...
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99 Problems and a Bit Ain’t One
If you have ever worked on a project that involves interactions between 32-bit and 64-bit applications and referencing their DLLs, you may have encountered this guy before : BadImageFormatException: An...
View ArticleAn Interesting List of Development Stuff (October 2014)
In this October edition of the Interesting List of Development Stuff, we delve into a variety of topics as usual. There are several articles as always related to developer productivity and life in...
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.NET Becomes Open Source and Cross-Platform
This morning, the announcements made at Microsoft’s Connect() event in New York have been rippling through the web and the effects of these announcements are likely going to be felt for years to come....
View ArticleAn Interesting List of Development Stuff (November 2014)
This month’s Interesting List of Development Stuff is a bit all over the place, which I am sure you have come to expect as the norm. Several of the posts touch on Git and various flavors of using it,...
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Introducing Glyphfriend
During the Microsoft MVP Summit in November of this year, Mads Kristensen held a session on Visual Studio Extensibility and walked through the process of creating extensions for Visual Studio that can...
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Migrating a WordPress Blog to Azure WebSites
For nearly two years, this site has been running over at WordPress.com and things have been great. WordPress provided everything that I needed to really get the blog off of the ground with no financial...
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Go Back to School with Pluralsight (for 72 Hours)
Pluralsight has long been one of the best resources that you can find if your work deals with anything in the realm of technology. I’ve been an advocate of it for many years now and I can honestly say...
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A Deeper Look Into Open Source .NET Development
In November, Microsoft began an initiative towards bringing a large portion of it’s development technologies into the open source. The largest and most talked about of these was the acclaimed .NET...
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Using a Custom Domain with an Azure WebSite
As a follow up to the previous post on migrating your existing WordPress.com site to Azure Websites, this post will cover how to apply a custom domain for your Azure Website so that you don’t have to...
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Simple Modularity through Areas in ASP.NET MVC
The needs and requirements of many applications can change and evolve over time and managing these changes can often be difficult. This is one of the reasons that it’s important to be able to try and...
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Break Away From XML Configurations with ConfigR
Configuration files within ASP.NET applications can often seem a bit convoluted. Sections strewn all over the place, settings with nothing but strings everywhere and last but certainly not least, it’s...
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Family++; Quiet Around Here.
As you may have noticed, things have been a bit quite over the past few months on here but I can honestly say that life itself has not been. I’ve been performing a very delicate balancing act between...
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A Quick Rundown of Web Services in ASP.NET : Web API and WCF
I recently received a shout-out on Twitter from a fellow developer regarding a post on the ASP.NET Forums I had written last year. He mentioned that it had helped him out quite a bit in the area of Web...
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Detecting AJAX Requests in ASP.NET MVC6
In today's web applications, there is an overwhelming reliance on Javascript and it's used all of the time for handling all sorts of behaviors (i.e. building your entire framework, loading and...
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Persistent Cookies in MVC6
A few weeks ago, I found the need to create a persistent cookie within an ASP.NET MVC6 (colloquially known as "vNext") and nothing seemed to pop out when trying to figure this out, so I thought I would...
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More Watching and Less Reading with Webucator
Some people simply don't like to read. Blog posts, documentation and tutorials might often just be skimmed over by some developers who "just want the content" or what to be physically shown how to do...
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One Bad Apple Can Ruin The Deployment Process
Recently, I was updating an older iOS app that I had built in Xamarin to the latest version of iOS (iOS9) and I was once again reminded of how much I truly dread the App Store development and...
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