ASP.NET
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
Web Development
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.
C#
A Simple Guide to using OAuth with C#
🚀 Update: See a modern version of this article using OAuth 2 here! 🚀 If you are a newbie to OAuth you might understand how confusing it can be at first! I started off looking at building a small application that consumed an OAuth service as a side project. I just dived
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
Web Development
HTTP HEAD Request - Benefits / Usages
Until recently, I had heard of the HTTP HEAD method but never actually used it, or quite understood it's usages. I'm sure most of us have used some of the common HTTP Verbs before such as GET or POST. Let me explain a little bit about
Web Development
jQuery Mobile - Optimizing your Website for Smartphone's and Tablets
As developers today, our websites are constantly being accessed from different forms of devices - PC's, Mac's, iPhones, Blackberry's, iPads - and the list goes on! Developing websites and content that conforms to all these standards can be a nightmare. Luckily, jQuery has just released a
ASP.NET
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
Web Development
MVC and the Google Visualization API (DataTable)
Google have created an awesome visualization API. It enables you to add live charts, graphs and tables to your web pages. It is quite flexible and has some great features that are quite easy to use once you get started. I started playing around with this API and decided to
ASP.NET
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
ASP.NET
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
HTML5
HTML5 Input Types
If you've been browsing around the web lately, you may have noticed that there has been a lot of hype and attention slowly building around Html5. Now, I didn't really understand it all until I started to take a look at some of the awesome new
Web Development
Set up IIS 7 to run a secure site locally - HTTPS
I've recently been working on a project where I needed to get a development site running using SSL on IIS 7. If its the first time you've done this it can be a little tricky, but IIS 7 has made it super easy to create self