(K. Scott Allen) If you are new to ASP.NET MVC you might not know about ELMAH and MiniProfiler. These are two distinct OSS projects that you can easily install with NuGet, and both provide valuable debugging and diagnostic services. Scott Hanselman has blogged about both projects in the past (see Nu

(Alvaro “Blag” Tejada Galindo) This last weeks I have been blogging a lot about integration of 3rd party tools with SAP HANA. Like Python, R, PowerBuilder and Euphoria. So, the next natural step for me was make the same using .NET

(Brij Mohan Dammani) This post explains how you can display your featured posts using content slider to save page space and to attract visitors using jQuery and ASP.NET Web API. I am following this tutorial which explains how to implement with jQuery UI but it is static. We’ll dynamically generate c

(Tony Patton) I just got comfortable with Visual Studio 2010, and now Microsoft unveils Visual Studio 2012. New versions of Visual Studio usually coincide with updates to the .NET Framework, and this continues with the release of .NET 4.5 (.NET Framework 4.5). Here’s a quick review of what Visual St

(Scott Hanselman) DisplayTemplates and EditorTemplates are a great way in ASP.NET MVC to keep things DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself.) That means I can just write EditorFor() calls like this:

(Peter Vogel) I’ve looked at the new ASP.NET Web API before, but only at retrieving data and only in the ASP.NET MVC template generated by Visual Studio 2010. In this column, I want to do two other things: use the ASP.NET Web API in a conventional ASP.NET Web application, and using it to post back w

(K. Scott Allen) The migrations feature of the Entity Framework includes a Seed method where you can populate the database with the initial static data an application needs. For example, a list of countries.

(Ben Nadel) When I think about implementing a RESTful API, my philosophical understanding is very simple: RESTful URLs need to be mapped onto a collection of URL parameters and an event type that is processed by my ColdFusion application.

(Richard Carr) The null object pattern is a design pattern that simplifies the use of dependencies that can be undefined. This is achieved by using instances of a concrete class that implements a known interface, instead of null references.

(Scott Hanselman) I’ve said before how surprised I am that more ASP.NET Web Forms developers don’t use Routing to make their URLs prettier. If you don’t want “foo.aspx” in your URL, then change it with Routes.MapPageRoute(). However, managing Routing Tables is a little tedious and most WebForms folk