(Steven Smith) Web Performance Tests provide a simple means of ensuring correct and performant responses are being returned from your web application. Testing a wide variety of inputs can be tedious without a way to separate test recording and input selection. Data binding provides a convenient and
Tag: Development
CSS Sprites and the ASP.NET Sprite and Image Optimization Library
(Scott Mitchell) Because browsers limit how many concurrent HTTP requests they make to a website, a web page with many small icon images can result in a longer load time. This article shows how to combine many small images into a single larger image – a CSS sprite – using the free ASP.NET Sprite and
Conditional Filters in ASP.NET MVC 3
(Phil Haack) Say you want to apply an action filter to very action except one. How would you go about it? For example, suppose you want to apply an authorization filter to every action except the action that lets the user login. Seems like a pretty good idea, right?
Migrate to ASP.NET MVC 3 by leveraging your ASP.NET Web Forms skills
(Rachel Appel) Whenever a new technology or product comes onto the developer scene, people want to know how to best leverage their existing skills to work with it, and nobody wants to have to abandon existing knowledge. Making the move from Web Forms to MVC is no different. Despite the fact that Web
Performance Tips: Speed up Data Access
(Peter Vogel) I once cut the average response time for an application from more than four seconds to less than two. In another case, I reduced the runtime of a batch application from seven hours to 45 minutes. In a third case, I eliminated a problem that caused an application to run slower and slowe
EF Code First and Data Scaffolding with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update
(Scott Guthrie) Earlier this week I blogged about the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update that we shipped last month.
Using Ajax and jQuery
(Alejandro Gervasio) In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the jQuery API to handle and process a plethora of Ajax requests.
Creating expandable master-details table (JQuery DataTables and ASP.NET MVC integration – Part IV)
(Jovan Popovic) Creating fully functional tables with pagination, sorting, filtering features is an easy task if you use JQuery DataTables plugin. This plugin enables you to add all of these functionalities to the plain HTML table using a single line of code shown in the following example:
Understanding Security Framework Model in ASP.NET 3.5
(Vishal Nayan) Why security is important: Security is an important part of any web application development which is necessary to protect assets from unauthorized actions. This encapsulates verifying users, granting or denying access to sensitive information, or protecting data stored on the server.
Dynamic Properties for PropertyGrid
(Mizan Rahman) In this article, I will discuss and show how to get dynamic behavior out of the PropertyGrid control. I would emphasize the word “dynamic” here, and also “dynamic” here means the ability to do things at run-time. Some of the stuff here can also be done using code if you have enough kn
