Nowadays there are more mobile devices than desktops and every mobile device can have different resolution and aspect ratio. That means that we need to come up with optimal solution to that situation. There are basically two main approaches: a website that can dynamically adapted to every screen size - full responsive or additional dedicated mobile version of every page – mobil…
By Piotr on (tags: ASP.NET, responsive design, categories: code, web)Recently I’ve been working on a api project where the requirement was that any data on the api service side is plain xml, stored in database as xml type column. No binding and object materialization is done on the server. However the client has to operate on clr objects. I am going to show you the solution I came to.
By Mirek on (tags: Web API, web service, XML, categories: architecture)There is a lot of changes since MVC5 regarding error handling. I will show you how to catch and handle some basic errors. Here is a nice article by Krzysztof about error handling in MVC5. First of all let me explain what “middleware” is…. or even better – here is the definition of middleware provided by OWIN from here: Pass through components that form a pipeline between a serv…
By Piotr on (tags: ASP.NET5, error, mvc6, web, categories: web)If you’ve been following Microsoft announcements about Visual Studio Online over the last 12 months, you already know that you can easili integrate with VSO from any platform, technology, or device. Everything thanks to a new set of of JSON-based REST APIs. Those APIs enable a lightweight way to work with Team Foundation Server from virtually any device, platform, or technology…
By Dawid on (tags: api, hooks, online, REST, service, studio, tfs, visual, categories: tools, infrastructure, code)As we can read on the TypeScript it lets you write JavaScript the way you really want to. And guess what – you can do it in Visual Studio 2015!
By Dawid on (tags: asp.net 5, mvc, TypeScript, visual studio, vs, categories: code, web)APS.NET Core has introduced new environment variable called ASPNET_ENV. It allows us to control our application behaviour between multiple environments because it’s describing environment on which application is currently working on.
By Dawid on (tags: asp.net Core, environment, categories: code)Recently I struggled on my user control trying to make the dependency property be updated when I change the source of the binding. That confirmed my belief that WPF does not forgive any single developer’s mistake.
By Mirek on (tags: dependency property, user control, WPF, categories: code)Just a few years ago there was just few people who known what dependency injection is. Today it is almost everywhere. Recently I’ve discovered that it can be also used in Razor views – thanks to ASP.NET 5. I will try to show you how we can use that feature on few examples bellow. Probably each of you have been populating drop downs in Razor views with data send from controller.…
By Dawid on (tags: ASP.NET, dependency, injection, IoC, next, razor, categories: code)This post talks about how you can convert Razor views into PDF. There is couple of NuGet packages which we can use to achieve that. I will try to describe couple of them. iTextSharp This library allows us to create documents in Portable Document Format (PDF). Some of the features: - generate documents and reports based on either provided HTML or by manually adding PDF elements …
By Dawid on (tags: convert, generate, pdf, razor, categories: tools, code)Change Data Capture is a feature of Sql Server (available since version 2008) which allows to capture all insert, update and delete operations on database tables. Here I am going to show you the simple way of enabling CDC on database, table and specific columns.
By Mirek on (tags: audit log, Change Data Capture, categories: code)