I had a problem recently in an application I was writing where I popped up a dialog box (jQuery Dialog) with a registration partial view. Once the user successfully registered, I checked to see if the request was an ajax request (Request.IsAjaxRequest()) and returned RedirectToAction to go to the home page. However, what ended up [...]
I use a lot of tools in my .NET development projects that I like to keep in my source control repository so all developers have the same version and mostly the same configuration. I do set up my projects so these can generally be overridden, but the build system uses the ones I keep in [...]
I had a hard time getting IIS 6 on my newly reformatted Windows XP Professional 64-bit to serve up ASP.NET applications. IIS was not installed by default, so I installed it through the normal control panel operations. Then I ran aspnet_regiis -ir, and figured that was that. When I added a virtual directory on the [...]
I am currently working on a Test Driven Development (TDD) Flickr API library in .NET. There already exists a FlickrNet library that is written in .NET, but it was written without using TDD and is very tightly coupled to the methods that send requests to flickr. I’ve tried refactoring the library but it just isn’t [...]
Robert Stackhouse wrote an excellent article on his blog titled Frameworks as a Means of Creating Transferrable Expertise. I started writing a response in the comments and ended up going off on quite a tangent. Thus, I’ve reposted parts of his article and my responses here, as well as some followup dialog. It almost seems [...]
