(Richard Carr) The seventeenth part of the Reflection tutorial looks at how information about assemblies can be obtained using reflection. This is an important prerequisite for more advanced reflection techniques, such as dynamically loading assemblies at run time.

(Sumit Maitra) Over the last couple of years, Entity Framework has steadily become the de facto data access story from Microsoft. With EntityFramework Code First, it became even easier to get started with an application. While EF lets you get off the ground and running fast, it’s deployment story (b

(Ricardo Peres) OK, so let’s talk about validation. Most people are probably familiar with the out of the box validation attributes that MVC knows about, from the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations namespace, such as EnumDataTypeAttribute, RequiredAttribute, StringLengthAttribute, RangeAttribute,

(John Socha-Leialoha) We needed a single-select list box for a web application we’re building. We also needed each item in the list to have rich formatting, so we didn’t want to use the built-in list box. I knew that jQuery UI had a Selectable widget that looked very promising.

(Ben Nadel) Last week, I wrote my first ever unit tests [of any kind] with Jasmine and RequireJS. It was pretty exciting! And, now that I’ve played around a bit on the client-side, I thought it was time to do some experimentation on the server-side. This morning, I ran my first server-side unit test

(Bart Jolling) An anonymous poster on my fifth post about Single Page Applications (SPA) asked if it was possible to deploy SPAs on Windows Azure. As it turns out the Windows Azure Web Site offering makes this very easy to do if you build your SPA as outlined in that post.

(Richard Carr) NUnit provides a large number of assertion methods that can test values for correctness during a test run. For complex and repetitive test scenarios, it can be useful to create custom assertions that can be reused in a number of tests.

(Bipin Joshi) Data driven web sites rely heavily on JavaScript and JavaScript based libraries such as jQuery. The client side programming tends to become complex as the user interface becomes more and more rich. In such situations features such as data binding and dependency tracking are highly desi

(KedarRKulkarni) Single page applications (SPA) are not new but recently more and more web sites (and some web applications too) can be seen adopting this model of web development. We now also have SPA feature available in MVC4 which uses Knockout and Upshot libraries combined with support on server

(Orlando) I’d like to start a series of posts talking about the new MVC 4 features. I think the most important improvement as been done implementing the Web API Framework. This framework will allow us to easily write restful HTTP service on the top of our well known MVC framework.