ASP.NET

Couple of years ago I worked out my first solution for checkbox list in ASP.NET MVC. Today I got some markable simplifications done and my solution is close to state where some nice-to-have tweaks can be done to add more automatics to controller side but solution is also good enough how it is like now. Let’s see how to get checkbox list functionality done with couple of simple steps.

In one of current projects we needed to deploy one Windows Azure site that supports SSL and requires client certificates. Until it’s just about deploying SSL site wo Windows Azure there’s nothing complex but when modifying IIS settings is required then some coding is needed. Here is the example.

Bundling and minifying in ASP.NET is powerful feature that helps you to optimize your web sites and save some expenses on traffic. As any other machinery in this world, bundling and minifying is not silver bullet and it has it’s own limitations. In this posting I will show you how bundling and minifying works in ASP.NET MVC.

I have to use webcam images in one of applications I build and when playing with different components I found free and easy to use Flash and jQuery based webcam component called jQuery webcam plugin. In this posting I will show you how to use jQuery webcam plugin with ASP.NET MVC application to save captured image to server hard disc.

Although summer here is awful and nice at same time it’s time to blog. Couple of years ago I wrote about how to use MS Chart control in ASP.NET MVC projects. Now let’s extend my solution and let’s add support for simple chart modifications. I used this solution in one of my projects to let users visualize their data better. (more…)

I introduced ASP.NET Web API in some of my previous posts. Although Web API is easy to use in ASP.NET web applications you can use Web API also from other platforms. This post shows you how to consume ASP.NET Web API from PHP scripts.

Usually we have some required fields on our forms and it would be nice if ASP.NET MVC views can detect those fields automatically and display nice red asterisk after field label. As this functionality is not built in I built my own solution based on data annotations. In this posting I will show you how to show red asterisk afterof required fields.

My previous post about Web API content negotiation showed how to add support for new content formats. As our API may have consumers who prefer query for data using GET requests we have to offer something for these dudes too. In this post I will show you how to make life easier for our Web API consumers by using query string mappings. (more…)

My last post about ASP.NET Web API content negotiation support gave you basic idea about what content negotiation is and how it works out-of-box. In this post I will show you how to extend Web API content negotiation support and make Web API to output contact data in vCard format. (more…)

One cool new feature that ASP.NET Web API introduces is support for content negotiation. Content negotiation is mechanism that allows web server to serve content in different format using same URL. In this posting I will show you how to use ASP.NET Web API to serve content in JSON and XML formats.