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Vote for your favourite .NET DI (IoC) Framework

I've started to take a look at Dependency Injection Containers (IoC), mostly because we have started using them where I work and also just out of general interest and trying to get my mind around how they work. From Wikipedia: Inversion of control, or IoC, is an abstract principle describing

Toastify - Hotkeys for Spotify

Toastify is a great little app that allows you to add hot-keys to Spotify. If you haven't already heard of Spotify, it is a streaming player that allows you to listen to music for free. I've been looking for a way to add hot-keys to Spotify for ages, and came

MVC HtmlHelper for Google Charts

Asp.net Mvc has an awesome little class called the HtmlHelper class. I have only recently started to get into creating custom HtmlHelpers, and I thought that creating a small Google charting helper would be a good place to start. From the Microsoft MSDN site: The HtmlHelper class provides a

Developing Applications for Windows 7

I've just got my hands on a shiny new computer, maxed out with new RAM and Windows 7. So far I am very impressed with Windows 7, although it looks pretty similar to Vista, its a lot slicker and I can't really seem to find any faults just yet. I

Create Barcodes and Pdf's in C# with iTextSharp

An easy way to create PDF files is to use iTextSharp. It is an opensource PDF library that allows to you generate PDF files on the fly. It's great if you need to dynamically create a PDF using dynamic data. Also, I found that this is a great tool to

Minify JavaScript files automatically with a T4 template

After my last post, I decided to dive a little more into T4 templates and learn more about them. After some goofing around, I decided to write a template that would minify js files automatically using the Yahoo YUI compressor for .net - http://www.codeplex.com/YUICompressor. T4 is

Dot Less and Minifying CSS

A colleague introduced me to this wicked library for css files. If you are lazy like me, this tool is a great way to use variables in your css code so that you dont end up repeating yourself. Taken directly from the site: http://www.dotlesscss.org/ "Write regular CSS

Custom error pages in ASP.NET MVC

I was recently looking for an efficient method of redirecting users to an error page when an exception is thrown in an MVC application. A useful way of doing this is with the HandleErrorAttribute. In order to handle exceptions thrown by your action methods, you need to mark your method

Bin deploying ASP.NET MVC

Welcome to my site! It has been developed using ASP.NET MVC 2 beta (Which I intend to update as soon as the full release comes out), Subsonic 3.0 and a SQL 2005 DB. Ive written everything from scratch and Ive still got a lot to learn about the

ASP.NET MVC routing - 404 errors when directing away from home page

So, once I got the site up and running and I thought I was home and away. My home page worked perfectly, but as soon as I clicked away from the home page I got a 404 error page. Now I assumed that the only reason I was getting this