Sergey Barskiy's Blog

Dealing with Direct Object References in ASP MVC

Sergey Barskiy — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:06:08 +0000

If you are not familiar with OWASP site, I highly encourage you take a look at it. I think everyone can learn something by reading this site. More specifically, I wanted to concentrate on one of the top 10 mistakes, Insecure Direct Object References. If you take a look at most of ASP.NET MVC sample [...]

Validation Inside jQuery Accordion

Sergey Barskiy — Sun, 06 May 2012 23:45:51 +0000

I recently uncovered a little issue with using entry controls that use unobtrusive JavaScript validation inside jQuery accordion control. When an error is shown, the accordion does not resize as it should, thus some controls fall off the accordion surface. I got some feedback on ASP.NET forum from Bruce, and wrote a little function that [...]

Windows 8 Metro Applications and the Azure (Cont.)

Sergey Barskiy — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:09:19 +0000

As I mentioned before, I am going to write the last post about integrating Windows 8 Metro applications with Azure. First of, let’s take a look at securing our service with Forms Authentication. I blogged about that as well, and the only change is that I am going to use REST for authentication service. Here [...]

Validating Dependent Fields in ASP.NET MVC

Sergey Barskiy — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:32:44 +0000

In this post I wanted to describe a solution to a specific problem I recently encountered. The problem is as following. I have a class with a set of dependent properties, such as start and end date or minimum / maximum numbers. I want to implement both client and server side validation in an MVC [...]

Windows 8 Metro Applications and the Azure

Sergey Barskiy — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:11:39 +0000

I wanted to start a short series of posts, describing my experience in building simple Windows 8 Metro application using XAML, C#, and a service in Azure. You can find my second post at http://dotnetspeak.com/index.php/2012/05/windows-8-metro-applications-and-the-azure-cont/ The application is very simple, it is a going to be a famous quote app, where the user can get [...]