There is something great included in ASP.NET MVC 5 that seems underutilized except by the ASP.NET MVC team. The rest of us seem to be ignoring it, which is apparent when looking at the solutions on StackOverflow (and blogs) for questions like “how do I use roles with ASP.NET MVC 5?”
Other News
ASP.NET vNext: The Next Generation
(Rick Strahl) By now, you’ve probably heard that Microsoft is hard at work building a new version of ASP.NET, currently dubbed ASP.NET vNext. It’s the first version of ASP.NET that marks a radical departure from the original platform that was conceived in the early days of the creation of the .NET p
kmon! ASP.NET 5 Where are my changes?
(Shayne Boyer) One of the new features in Visual Studio 2015 for ASP.NET 5 is an agile development environment. What that means is now when you makes changes to your code, there is no need to re-compile to see the changes in the browser.
Software Gardening: Harvesting (Continuous Delivery Techniques)
(Craig Berntson) Anyone that has a vegetable garden knows the importance of harvesting the veggies at exactly the right time. If you pick a vegetable too soon, it won’t have good flavor. Pick it too late and it will be soft, mushy, and rotten.
Deprecated Data Types
There are four data types that will be deprecated in a future release of SQL Server as announced by Microsoft. They are the Timestamp, Text, NText and Image. The great news is that they have all been replaced with equivalent or more powerful data types so that the needed functionality has not been eliminated completely. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143729.aspx The downside is that […]
Microsoft SQL Server security best practices checklist – Part -2
Microsoft SQL Server security best practices checklist – Part – 2 Author: Basit A. Farooq Editor’s Note: This is the second part of my two part article series on SQL Server security best practices. SQL Server Administration Avoid managing SQL Server instances using sa or any other SQL login account that has been granted CONTROL SERVER permission, or is a...
DB2 Basics: What is BLU?
(Ember Crooks) BLU has been all the hype for DB2 for the past year or more. What exactly is DB2 BLU? How does it work? What do you need to consider before jumping on the bandwagon?
Video – Identifying large queries using Extended Events
(dbafromthecold) A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by Webucator (an online training company) asking if they could use my blog post “Identifying Large Queries using Extended Events” for a video training session in their free series called SQL Server Solutions from the Web.
Power Query And Function Parameters Of Type List
(Chris Webb) Here’s something interesting that I just discovered about how Power Query deals with function parameters of type list…
How to Create a Custom jQuery Plugin
(Voja Janjic) jQuery is a powerful library which makes writing JavaScript code much easier. One of its main features is the possibility of extending default functionality with custom plugins. In this article, you will learn how to create your own jQuery plugin.
