I'm about a week out from attending That Conference 2016 in the Wisconsin Dells. This has been my 2nd year attending, and I can't say enough good things about it. Clark and an army of volunteers do a tremendous job of running this year after year, and it's greatly appreciated by all. This year was better than [...]
This post is about a very helpful, yet largely unknown feature of ASP.NET applications hosted in IIS. A built in maintenance mode so to speak. The app_offline page. If you want to put one of your ASP.NET web apps into maintenance mode, simply create a maintenance .htm page with the markup you want, and name it [...]
The Kendo UI grid has some great functionality out of the box, especially it's ability to handle hierarchcal data with detail item templates. I wanted to include a expand/collapse all button right within my grid. Here was the code I used to do it. Credit to Daniël from http://www.telerik.com/forums/collapse-all-grid-rows on giving me the code I needed [...]
Admittedly this is a pretty custom/specific use of the Kendo UI Grid, but just in case someone else needs to do this type of thing, you never know... Scenario: I have an application that makes use of the Kendo UI grid. Specifically the hierarchacal version of the grid with expanding detail rows. The grid uses inline [...]
Really short post here. If you are trying to use jQuery unobtrusive validation with Kendo UI's DropDownList , you might notice that it doesn't work right out of the box. The form will simply validate, and will not actually check your selected value. This is a pain if you're trying to validate that a field is required. [...]
I'm writing this post from the Austin airport as I'm getting ready to head home after a very educational 4 days in Austin for VSLive 2015. I wanted to quickly write down a lot of key points from all of the sessions I attended. I figure writing about something is a good way to retain a [...]
We use windows authentication for a lot of our web apps, but also want to serve up a custom 401 error page when users are not authorized to log in. This is tricky because this specific 401 error is handled directly by IIS, rather than the application itself, because it's a windows directory permission. I spent [...]
Recently my web hosting provider decided to upgrade to .NET 4.5 , and as you may or may not know, .NET 4.0 and .NET 4.5 do not run side by side. This may cause some breaking changes in your 4.0 applications without you even knowing it, which is what happened to me. I was suddenly getting a "Operation [...]
Here are a few basic best practice guidelines to keep in mind when writing your controllers using the MVC pattern with ASP.NET MVC. Keep controllers "skinny, keep action methods small Your controller actions should be kept as small as possible, with business logic living in your models. "Fat Model, Skinny Controller" is the motto. Here is [...]
This will be a very quick/simple post. Maybe this is very clear to most people when they start out developing with ASP.NET MVC but it was not right away with me... When you are using 2-way model binding in MVC to bind your model to your view and back again, you MUST use properties with getters/setters, [...]
