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Using MVCContrib 3 Test Helpers with ASP.Net MVC 4 (beta)
The Test Helpers are a great way to ease your testing needs with MVC. If your using the Test Helpers to test your routing like so: "~/".ShouldMapTo<HomeController>(x =>...
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SelfSSL on IIS 7
This week I have been setting up a new development IIS 7.5 server. I have three websites all bound to a separate port and I needed each to be setup with SSL. This functionality is built into IIS 7+...
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Knockout anonymous templates and css3pie don’t get along.
I’m developing an ASP.Net MVC application with Knockout 2.0/2.1rc. I’m using modernizr (2.5.3) and css3pie (1.0 beta 5) to get CSS3 and HTML5 support on as many browsers as I can. On a particular view...
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Mercurial for a small team series–Mercurial or Git
This is the first in the series Getting started with Mercurial for a small team. Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) DVCS offer many advantages over traditional systems such as Subversion. Most...
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Getting started with Mercurial for a small team series - Installing and basic...
This is the second post in the Getting Started with Mercurial for a small team. This post is going to cover Installing and basic configuration to get started using Mercurial on Windows. Installing...
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Getting started with Mercurial for a small team series–Workflow basics
This is the third installment in Getting started with Mercurial for a small team. In this post we’re going to cover Workflow basics. Mercurial / Team Workflow Practice In a small team often the...
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Getting started with Mercurial for a small team - Setting up your repository
This is the fourth stop in this series. I’m first going to mention using the command line and Nuget Package Restore. To command line or not. That is the question... First time users, especially...
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Getting started with Mercurial for a small team
At my current job and my last I either worked solo often on projects or in very small overlapping efforts of a few team members. In both of these jobs the team used Visual SourceSafe (VSS) and it was...
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Getting started with Mercurial for a small team–Working in default
This is the fifth post in this series. For our purposes, small team development, the majority of the time will be spent developing right in default. This is by far the simplest approach and for a...
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Getting started with Mercurial for a small team–Reverting
This is the sixth post in this series. Need to delete undo a commit? Want to throw away your work and start over. It happens to all of us. With Mercurial this is a breeze. Undo changes before a...
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Getting started with Mercurial for a small team–Branching
This is the seventh post in this series. In the third post we discussed the various branching scenarios and some ideas as to when to branch. We settled on branch as needed approach as our default work...
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Getting started with Mercurial for a small team–Tagging and further reading
This is the eighth and final post in this series. Tagging With tagging you can more easily go back to a point in time or specific version of your code. While tagging is not required for this, it...
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Unrecognized Expression Error in jQuery 1.8 and above when using :radio,...
I upgraded a project recently from 1.7.2 of jQuery to 1.8.2 and began testing my pages. On one of my pages I was getting the following error: Doing a little research I discovered that in the 1.8...
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Upgrading an MVC4 Visual Studio 2010 Solution to Visual Studio 2012 and .Net...
Moving an MVC4 Visual Studio 2010 project to 2012 is so far in my experience with a small application rather quick and easy. However, if that’s all you do then your app will be missing out on the nice...
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Some excellent free developer books–Succinctly series
Have you heard about the Succinctly Series? Syncfusion has produced a number of free e-Books on various subjects ranging from source control to jQuery to HTTP. I highly recommend you pick up these...
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Location, location, location. A tale of DateTime and IsDaylightSavingTime.
TL;DR Location is everything in a lot of things. The same is true of DateTime’s IsDaylightSavingTime method. This method uses the time zone setting of the machine it’s running on to determine this...
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When validations fail. A story of view model data annotation conflicts.
All of the applications I put into production use ELMAH to track unhandled exceptions. In one our new releases of an application I noticed a semi-rare bug occurring through these logs.Validation...
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Clean those folders on deploy.
Today I wasted an hour or two chasing my tail around trying to figure out why a change to one of my ASP.NET MVC Views was not at all showing any changes in my jQuery Mobile version. I cleared my...
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Oracle VirtualBox notes for a developer.
I create a virtual machine every now and then and even less have to resize the hard drive. Below is my mental notes jotted down so I can easily remember how to do what I normally do with virtual...
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Using Bootstrap 3 modal in ASP.NET MVC 5
I’ve created a github project showing various examples of how to use/interact with Bootstrap 3 modal dialogues in ASP.NET MVC 5. I did this project many months ago when I was starting out with...
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