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Memcached for C# - A Walkthrough

A while ago I wrote about Object caching in .NET 4. I think that the Object Caching in .NET 4 is a great tool to use for caching and literally takes minutes to get up and running. However, one of the downsides of using the System.Runtime.Caching in .NET

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MVC Data URI HTML Helper

I have recently been looking into web page performance and one of the things I came across is the Data URI scheme. When you reference an image in your HTML, the client needs to go and retrieve the image. This creates an HTTP request and adds to the time it

HTML5

MVC and the HTML5 Application Cache

HTML5 has loads of awesome features and recently I have been playing around with a feature called the Application Cache. The Application Cache is designed to allow you to run your web application offline - that is, without a network connection. A web browser that implements HTML5 offline applications will

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C# Parallel Invoke

While working through some code, I noticed a method that I have never seen before. I knew that the .Net 4 Framework had introduced a Parallel Class that helped make parallel ForEach Loops easier, but after some searching I came across the ParallelInvoke() method. So, I jumped on the MSDN

Web Development

Automatic Resource File Translation with the Microsoft Translator Service

On a recent project that I have been working on, we needed the application to be multi-lingual and localized for different countries. The best option for us on this project was to use resource files (.resx) and let .Net handle the rest for us. Now creating these resource files wasn't

Web Development

Microsoft Translator API

As the web grows, more and more international businesses are turning to the web. The demand for a multi-lingual website has never been so great. There are currently a few pay services out there that offer a translation API and also a few free ones (Google and Microsoft). One of

C#

Explicit Interface Usage in C#

Where possible, I try and program against interfaces as much as possible. I do this because I like Interface-based programming and because I like the characteristics that it brings to the table: reusability, maintainability, and extensibility. It also allows you to effectively test your code using Mocks. Whether or not

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MVC 3 and Remote Validation

I must admit, I've been a bit of a slow starter when it comes to Asp.net MVC 3. I am an avid fan of MVC 2 and haven't really taken the time to look at MVC 3 until now. Wow - I am impressed though! There are a load

Web Development

ASP.NET MVC HTML5 Toolkit is now available as a Nuget Package

Great news for those of you out there that use the MVC HTML5 Toolkit - it is now available to download as a Nuget package. If you haven't already had a look at the MVC HTML5 Toolkit, please read this article for more info or visit the Codeplex site. For

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Custom OData API using WCF Data Services

I have recently been glued to my screen watching some of the awesome presentations that were shown at the recent PDC 2010. There were some really amazing presentations and one of them really caught my eye. It was a talk about the power of ODATA and the support that Microsoft

Web Development

Proxy Authentication - Helper Class

If you have ever created an application that requires you to access the internet or call a 3rd party service over the web, you may have come across the issue of the user being behind a proxy server and having to authenticate. The common issue that I have come across

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Object Caching - .NET 4

As a developer, we need to use all the tools at our disposal to develop faster and more robust applications. One of the ways we can achieve this is by using caching. Caching is the process of storing frequently used data on the server to fulfil subsequent requests. Now there

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MVC Experiment : An Alternative to Captcha

I'm sure most of you have at some point been exposed to a CAPTCHA control on the net. They come in loads of forms and are used to tell the difference between humans and computers (bots). If you have a website on the net, you are prone to lots of

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ASP.NET MVC HTML5 Toolkit

If you haven't started playing around with HTML5 yet, you should definitely check it out. I've blogged about some of the features of HTML5 before, so if you take a look at this post, it should give you a fairly idea of what HTML5 is about. I try and play

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Test your MVC routes with Moq

Routing is a great feature that ships with MVC. The ASP.NET Routing module is responsible for mapping incoming browser requests to particular MVC controller actions. One of the great things about routing in MVC is the ability to rewrite a URL and make it a lot more readable. This

Book

Professional Asp.net Mvc 2 Book Giveaway

If you haven't already read Professional Asp.net Mvc 2, you should really check it out. Luckily though, I also have a free copy of this freshly released book to give away. If you are new to Asp.net MVC, this book is a great way to get you up

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MVC Google Maps HtmlHelper - Dynamic Maps

I've recently been looking for a MVC helper class for Google maps. I came across this well written MVC HtmlHelper for static Google maps. Unfortunately I was looking for a helper that was for the dynamic version of Google charts. I needed to be able to add markers on the

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Measuring the Performance of Built-in .Net Classes

I've always wondered which built-in .Net classes are faster compared to others. There is a lot of conventional wisdom surrounding certain code classes in .Net and which ones are better to use than others. One thing that I always try and keep in mind when writing code is that different

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Improving the performance of your MVC application

In the constant quest to deliver faster, slicker websites it is important to try and improve the users experience. This could include improving the page load speed, smooth navigation or page accessibility. While working on this site, I have tried to improve page loading speeds as much as possible. There

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Rendering a Usercontrol as a String for Webservices

I am currently working a project at work that requires us to use progressive enhancement so that our site is accessible to all users regardless of whether they have javascript enabled. One of the issues that we came across was keeping only one version of the html that we needed

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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

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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

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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

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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