ASP.NET

In my previous posting about ASP.NET MVC performance I showed you how to combine resources like scripts, style sheets and images. In this posting I will show you how to minimize resources so we don’t waste the bandwidth we got.

I wrote a small postings series about how to optimize ASP.NET MVC applications. This posting is small introduction to series and it also introduces first two optimization steps: resources and images combining.

I found very good jQuery component called FullCalendar. My special favorites are agenda views because they make this calendar really useful in business applications. In this posting I will show you how to use FullCalendar with ASP.NET MVC.

In one of my sample projects I wrote simple calendar solution. Users can select dates from calendar and see what events they have on selected days. I used jQueryUI DatePicker and FullCalendar components. In this posting I will show you how to link them together.

About week ago I introduced IIS Application Warm-up Module. ASP.NET 4.0 provides separate mechanism for same purposes. ASP.NET 4.0 application warm-up is different and if you like you can use both warm-up methods together. In this posting I will show you how to make ASP.NET 4.0 application warm-up work.

Currently it is not possible to make changes to web.config file that is hosted on Windows Azure. If you want to change web.config you have to deploy your application again. If you want to be able to modify configuration you must use web role settings. In this blog post I will show you how to write configuration wrapper class that detects runtime environment and reads settings based on this knowledge.

ASP.NET Chart control is powerful control you can use to add charting support to your web applications. Although chart controls are mainly used with ASP.NET forms it is not very hard to use them also in ASP.NET MVC applications. In this posting I will show you how to use ASP.NET Chart control in ASP.NET MVC application and I will illustrate how to do it easily so you don’t mess up your views.

Until now we can use ASP.NET default output cache. We don’t have any option to write our own output cache mechanisms. ASP.NET 4.0 introduces extensible output cache – programmers can write their own output cache providers. In this posting I will show you how to write your own output cache provider and give you my sample solution to download.

Data validation is important topic in applications. There are many validation frameworks available and there should be one that you are happy with. I am currently playing withEnterprise Library 4.1 Validation Application Block and I am integrating it to my ASP.NET MVCapplication. In this posting I will show you how to use validation block in your ASP.NET MVC application.

Cropping images in ASP.NET is easy task to do if you use right tools. In this posting I will introduce how to crop images using Jcrop and System.Drawing namespace classes. What we are building is simple and user-friendly image cropping interface that also demonstrates some simple features of Jcrop. Believe me, your users will love it!