.Net and Beyond

AngularJS Protractor Error In Tutorial

2015-06-18T13:07:00.001-04:00

AngularJS Protractor Error In Tutorial In the tutorials if you attempt to execute npm run protractor to do end to end testing you may get an error on windows that states that that it cannot find the chromedriver.exe file. Two issues are likely to present itself 1. Chromedriver.exe cannot

Auto Generate Meta Data Classes for Data Annotations via MVCScaffolding.MetaDataPlugin

2014-04-10T16:58:00.001-04:00

If you are like me, you like to separate the data annotations into separate meta data classes not only for Entity Framework but for my view models and other model classes. The only pain of this is amount of tedious and repetitive code that has to be done to get it all wired up. A fellow developer and myself were discussing this pain point and decided to utilized the power of MVC

RazorJS: The solution to using Razor in external JavaScript Files

2014-01-14T21:27:00.002-05:00

If you are like me, I prefer to separate all JavaScript from the Views or Webpages. The difficulty in doing this is the lack of a method to use Razor Syntax to inject more fault tolerant urls, data and other Razor goodies. Yes, it can be achieved with out Razor by declaring the variables in a small JavaScript but I want complete separation not partial. I did a little digging and found that

Using jQuery to Post Data to an ASP.Net Web Forms Web Method via Model Binding

2013-09-24T20:47:00.000-04:00

Scenario I recently ran into a situation where I needed to use AJAX to call back to a traditional ASP.Net Webform's web method in the code behind for a quick lookup. There was a large number of values that were directly related to a model I was using. So, I decided to do this via model binding similarly to how ASP.Net MVC utilizes this same binding techniques for the post data, to keep from

How to properly submit an html form to MVC Action with model binding

2013-06-05T23:02:00.002-04:00

Just like a view can submit data to an MVC action so can any external HTML forms and model binding can even be used allow for greater code re-usability of existing actions. This is helpful, for example, when you have a couple other sites that you would like to link back to your MVC site to take advantage existing functionality. If you are familiar with MVC, you are probably

Why to switch from Android to Windows Phone

2013-05-14T21:05:00.000-04:00

Switch to Windows Phone, Why? I have been debating this myself for many weeks, as I have patiently waiting for my carrier, Verizon Wireless to offer the new phone models. My main debate has been between the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the Nokia Lumia 928. I am not going to go into the specifics about the hardware or vendor specific software, there are plenty of source for this type of

jQuery.noConflict() you smell like a stinky cheese!

2013-05-14T18:33:00.002-04:00

So a little background I was working on a project implementing a design into a project which included the html, graphics and a few javascript libraries and files. Upon initial investigation everything seem on par with what you would expect from a UI using jQuery and jQuery UI. I ran the provided files in the browser and everything seemed okay, no console errors in the browser debugger. It was

CoAuthoring a new NuGet Package csharp.Extensions

2013-05-06T19:23:00.002-04:00

A fellow developer and I have decided to coauthor a NuGet package to help us from having to constantly added the same extension methods to our projects. This project is called csharp.Extensions. Available at https://nuget.org/packages/csharp.Extensions/ These extension methods allow for quick expansion of the base csharp types including common functions&

Glimpse from NuGet

2011-07-20T20:30:00.001-04:00

Some of you by already know the wonders of Glimpse for ASP.net and the newer released Glimpse for MVC. If you are not familar with this product I recommend that you check out the products website for more details. (http://getglimpse.com/) I have recently been exposed to the wonders of Glimpse for MVC which the route detections, strongly typed entity inspections client side, and

Using Extension Methods in MVC

2011-07-20T20:18:00.000-04:00

As many .Net developers have learned extension methods provide a mechanism to quickly add on capabilities to existing data types and methods. If you are unfamilar with Extension Methods, Microsoft provides a great tutorial and documentation via MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb383977.aspx). This particular post is related to utilizing these methods within MVC and the

The Conversion of a datetime2 Data Type to a datetime Data Type Resulted In an Out of Range Value

2011-07-20T08:38:00.000-04:00

This particular error was produced when using Entity Framework where the edmx is generated from a SQL Server 2008 database. This particular issue was rather nerve racking giving that I was providing the property of the Entity that a DateTime.Now value. Which works perfectly in other areas of the application, as expected. Background: There was two tables in question, TableOne

Mini Profiler for MVC

2011-07-11T17:15:00.001-04:00

So a collegue of mine, sent me this little gem my way so I want to share it with everyone. Given that slow downs in MVC can be hard to diagnose if its an issue with a route, database connection, or even a little JQuery script the team at Stack Overflow create this highly useful utility for all to use called MVC-Mini_Profiler. The Pros: Collects stats for MVC Routes, Database

An Item with the same key already exists

2011-07-07T20:56:00.003-04:00

So you are probably thinking what I was thinking. Thanks, that error is amazingly descriptive. We all know that this is typically what you would expect to see this if you were using a dictionary and tried to add an already existing item with the same key. But wait this is MVC3 and all I am trying to do is add a controller. I have no control over the dictionary that

Welcome

2009-09-01T22:27:00.001-04:00

Since this is the first post, I feel that it is important to explain the purpose of this blog and several of the topics that I plan to have in the upcoming weeks. Firstly, I plan to discuss the various .Net development situations that I have caused me either some time to research or write custom controls to meet the needs of the applications that I have developed. Topics will