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RenderPartial to String and Rails-like RJS for ASP.NET MVC Beta

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:30:25 GMT

This is an article about how you can go about Rendering a View (or usercontrol) to a string in your controller methods. Something you cannot do out of the box in MVC Beta. It also provides a framework, similar to Rails RJS, that allows you to build up dynamic javascript from the server-side in a very elegant fashion!

Why change-tracking has to be part of an entity object

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:46:01 GMT

Frans Bouma raises some valid concerns on the Entity Frameworks entity state management.

The launch of BlogEngine.NET

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:01:01 GMT

BlogEngine.NET is a full featured blog engine targeted at .NET developers. It is light weight and very simple to modify and extend.

Intro to JSON with .NET

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:31:01 GMT

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

Adding nodes to ASP.NET sitemap files at runtime

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:46:01 GMT

Adding dynamic nodes to existing ASP.NET sitemap files at runtime by deriving from StaticSiteMapProvider.

Asp.net (is) for Dummies...

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:16:02 GMT

Oh never mind how it works - just drag it on. That'll do it!

ASP.NET precompiled sites & validateRequest

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:01:01 GMT

A gotchya when pre-compiling websites.. certain sections of the web.config get compiled into the assemblies and cannot be changed!

The World of Crazy URLs .. Digg.com = 1086311198

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:01:01 GMT

Digg.com can be accessed by simply typing 1086311198 in the Internet Explorer address bar.. this is a technique used by phishers when sending out fake HSBC emails... Have a look how it's done.

Remove "WWW." from URLs in ASP.NET

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:01:02 GMT

Keyvan Nayyeri writes about his HTTPModule, WWWLess, which removes "www." from URLs in ASP.NET to make them shorter and unique.

Retrieving Embedded Resources in ASP.NET 1.1

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:23:27 GMT

The article describes my method for retrieving Embedded Resources in old school ASP.NET 1.1 projects. It loosely mimics the functionlity of ASP.NET 2.0's WebResource.axd!

ASP.NET 2.0 Mismatched Tag & aspnet_compiler

Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:31:02 GMT

Mismatched ASP.NET server tags can cause Visual Studio to report that your solution has built successfully!