OdeToCode Archive

The Good, The Bad, and Everything In Between

Jan 2020

Markdown Front Matter For Metadata

Automatic Image Uploads with Markdig Processing

A Custom Renderer Extension for Markdig

The C# Interactive Window

Avoiding the Debugger with Better Logging

Moving Complexity

Nine Performance Tips for Azure App Services

Solving Access Denied in Crypto Machine Keys

Tracking Down an AspNetCore Build Error

Beautiful Binary Literals

Switch Expressions are the Best Feature of C# 8

Oct 2019

Something to Know about gRPC in ASP.NET Core 3

UseNodeModules Updated for .NET Core 3

Sep 2019

New Pluralsight Course – ASP.NET MVC 5 Fundamentals

.NET Core Opinion 14 - Razor Pages for HTML, Controllers for APIs

Thoughts on 'Are We Done Yet?'

Aug 2019

Question and Answers from Pluralsight LIVE! 2019

Think Twice Before Returning null

July 2019

Remember the Principal of Least Privilege When Upgrading Those Older ASP.NET Applications

Advanced Azure App Service Articles and Videos

June 2019

Talk Ideas for 2020

Questions from the NDC Oslo Panel Discussion on the Future of .NET

MVC 5 In Retrospect

Latest Course on Azure and VS2019

May 2019

Evaluating ASP.NET Core Authorization Policies

C# Fundamentals Updated Again

Travelogue - The Pluralsight IPO

Apr 2019

.NET Core Opinion 13 - Commit Your Scripts

Interview on CloudSkills.fm

Load Testing on the Web with K6

On the Design of App Launchers

New Pluralsight Play by Play Featuring Visual Studio Live Share

Mar 2019

.NET Core Opinion 12 – Use Your ASP.NET Core App as an Executable

.NET Core Opinion 11 – Keep Configure Methods Clean Using Extension Methods

Microsoft Watches GitHub Commits for Azure Secrets

The Lost Art of Right Aligning Code

.NET Core Opinion 10 – Move More Code Out of Startup

Debugging .NET Builds with the MSBuild Structured Log Viewer

await the async Letdown

Feb 2019

.NET Core Opinion 9 - Embrace Dependency Injection

Travelogue SDD London

.NET Core Opinion 7 – Startup Responsibilities

10 Years of Workshop Material Added to the Creative Commons

Using Environment Variables in Azure DevOps Pipelines

.NET Core Opinion #8 – How to Use Azure DevOps Pipelines

The Law of the JSON

Jan 2019

Composition over Inheritance in Go

Experimenting with ASP.NET Core Authentication Schemes

Nov 2018

REST Client is the Best Client

Tracking Down a Mysterious 502.5 Error in ASP.NET Core

Oct 2018

.NET Core Opinion #6 - Be Wary of GUI Build Tools

Major Updates for my Building Secure Services in Azure Course

.NET Core Opinion #5 - Deployment Scripts and Templates

Tackling Costs in Azure

An Updated Cloud Patterns and Architecture Course

Thoughts on Azure DevOps

Sep 2018

.NET Core Opinion #4 - Increase Productivity with Dev Scripts

How the Next Delegate Works In ASP.NET Core Middleware

.NET Core Opinion #3 - Other Folders To Include in the Source Repository

CancellationTokens and Aborted ASP.NET Core Requests

.NET Core Opinion #2 - Managing a Repository Structure

Using npm During ASP.NET Core Git Deployments in Azure App Services

Aug 2018

Counting Array Entries in a Cosmos DB Document

.NET Core Opinion #1 - Structuring a Repository

Azure Certifications and Compliance

Three Tips for Console Applications in .NET Core

Moving APIs to .NET Core

July 2018

Edge versus Chrome - A Quick createElement Benchmark

7 Tips for Troubleshooting ASP.NET Core Startup Errors

Customizing Node.js Deployments for Azure App Services

June 2018

New and Updated Azure Course for Node.js Developers

Key Vault and Managed Service Identities

Travelogue - NDC Minnesota 2018

New and Updated Azure Course for .NET Developers

Apr 2018

Separating Concerns with Key Vault

Mar 2018

Decryption with Azure Key Vault

New Course Covers Building Applications on Salesforce

Feb 2018

Model Binding in GET Requests

Byte Arrays and ASP.NET Core Web APIs

Managing Azure AD Group Claims in ASP.NET Core

Role Based Authorization in ASP.NET Core with Azure AD Groups

PDF Generation in Azure Functions V2

When to Create a New C# Class Definition

Working with Azure Management REST APIs

Setting Up Service Principals to Use the Azure Management APIs

Jan 2018

Choosing an Approach to Work with Azure REST APIs

New Pluralsight Course on Packaging and Deploying ASP.NET Core

Interacting with Azure SQL Using All Command Line Tools

Task.CompletedTask and Task.Result Tips

The Cloud is a Small World

Streaming APIs In ASP.NET Core

My Microsoft Azure Channel on Pluralsight

Streaming Content in ASP.NET Core

Updated Course for ASP.NET Core 2.0

Think About Your API Client

Oct 2017

Cosmos DB Request Units and the .NET SDK

DefaultFiles and FileServer in ASP.NET Core

Aug 2017

The Getting Started Questions

A Little Bit of History is Good

July 2017

New Course on Building Secure Services with Microsoft Azure

Scaling Directions and Partitioning

Patterns for the Cloud and Microsoft Azure Now Available on Pluralsight

Thoughts on Azure Functions and Serverless Computing

June 2017

Developing with Node.js on Microsoft Azure

Apr 2017

ASP.NET Configuration Options Will Understand Arrays

ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection Understands Unbound Generics

ASP.NET Core Middleware Components are Singletons

Developing with .NET on Microsoft Azure

The Joy of Azure CLI 2.0

Feb 2017

Notes for Getting Started with Power BI Embedded

ASP.NET Core and the Enterprise Part 4: Data Access

A Train in the Night

Anti-Forgery Tokens and ASP.NET Core APIs

Dec 2016

Building Vendor and Feature Bundles with webpack

Nov 2016

AddFeatureFolders and UseNodeModules On Nuget For ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core and the Enterprise Part 3: Middleware

Getting Started with Reactive Programming Using RxJS

Oct 2016

ASP.NET Core and the Enterprise Part 2: Hosting

ASP.NET Core and the Enterprise: Part 1 Frameworks

Updated Videos For ASP.NET Core

The Troubles With JavaScript Modules

Sep 2016

Database Migrations and Seeding in ASP.NET Core

The Troubles with JavaScript Classes

Combining HttpPost and ValidateAntiForgeryToken

Don't Throw Away All Those web.config Settings

The Troubles with JavaScript Arrow Functions

Aug 2016

Keeping a Clean Startup.cs in Asp.Net Core

The New LINQ Fundamentals

Stop Running with the Visual Studio Debugger

May 2016

Dynamically Add Routes in Aurelia

Everything You Need To Program Components In Angular 1.5

The Good and the Bad of Programming Forms in Angular 2

Mar 2016

Play by Play with Jon Skeet and Rob Conery

Reusing JavaScript Template Literals

Feb 2016

Binding Aurelia Routing Rules

Avoiding the Service Locator Pattern in ASP.NET Core

Back In Time with Windows IoT

How To Stop Worrying About ASP.NET Startup Conventions

The New Fetch Standard

Some of My Favorite Maps

Extending Razor Views in ASP.NET Core

Spying on Razor View Compilation

Serving Up node_modules In ASP.NET

A Different Perspective on ASP.NET Middleware

Nov 2015

Working With Typed Headers in ASP.NET

What Every JavaScript Developer Should Know About ECMAScript 2015

An ASP.NET 5 Overview Video

The Evolution of JavaScript

Oct 2015

Maps and Sets in JavaScript

DNX Framework Choices and ASP.NET 5

Modules in JavaScript Circa 2015

Authorization Policies and Middleware in ASP.NET 5

JavaScript Promises and Error Handling

Sep 2015

C# Fundamentals with Visual Studio 2015

JavaScript Promise API

Chaining Promises in JavaScript

Promises in ES2015 Part 1

Building Applications with Aurelia

Delegating yield in JavaScript

May 2015

ECMAScript 2015 Iterators Revisited

Start Your Transpilers

Apr 2015

Serialization Options With Azure DocumentDB

DocumentDb Limits and Statistical Outliers

Aurelia Hello World with ASP.NET 5

Working With Aurelia

Mar 2015

Entry Points for ASP.NET 5 Commands

Pluralsight - First Look At The Next ASP.NET

Lazy Evaluation of Generators in ES6

Feb 2015

Roslyn Code Gems - Counting Bits

Using jspm with Visual Studio 2015 and ASP.NET 5

An AngularJS Playbook

Generators in ECMAScript 6

Roslyn Code Gems - Performance Goals

Conditional Access Operator in C# 6.0

Debugging Map Reduce in MongoDB

Thoughts On End to End Testing of Browser Apps

Creating Iterables In ECMAScript 6

Static Members in ES6

Jan 2015

The for of Loop in ES6

Using JSON Web Tokens with Katana and WebAPI

Iterators in ES6

An Escape From Front End Development

PageObjects and Protractor

More With Arrow Functions in ES6

Dec 2014

Arrow Function In ES6

Nov 2014

Class Inheritance in ECMAScript 6

Adventures in Angular Podcast and an AngularJS Oslo Meetup

Thoughts on Angular 2.0

Constructor Functions and Controllers in AngularJS

Features of ES6 Part 10: Behind The Class

Oct 2014

Working with Validators and Messages in AngularJS

Features of ES6 Part 9: Classes

Confirm Password Validation in AngularJS

Sep 2014

Features of ES6 Part 8: Tagged Templates

Features Of ES6 Part 7: Template Literals

Declarative Physics with PhysicsJS and AngularJS

C# 6.0 Features Part 3: Declaration Expressions

Features Of ES6 Part 6: Destructuring

A Journey With Trusted HTML in AngularJS

Features Of ES6 Part 5: The Spread

Aug 2014

Karma Is Not Just For AngularJS

Features of ES6 Part 4: Rest Parameters

C# 6.0 Features Part II : Primary Constructors

Features of ES6 Part 3: Default Parameter Values

Thoughts on Angular's Controller As Syntax

Features Of ES6 Part 2 : const

C# 6.0 Features Part I : Property Initializers

July 2014

The Features of ES6 Part 1: Let

Easily Generate Microsoft Office Files From C#

Debugging AngularJS In The Console

June 2014

Videos from NDC Oslo 2014

Model Options and Pristine Forms In AngularJS

AngularJS: Get Started Video Course

May 2014

Building Multiple Filters with Lo-Dash and AngularJS

Compile, Pre, and Post Linking in AngularJS

Debugging AngularJS Data Binding

Using Resolve In AngularJS Routes

A Few Thoughts on Better Unit Tests For AngularJS Controllers

The Sites That Want You Versus The Sites That Have You

OdeToCode Videos

Tips For Working With Windows Azure Media Services

Using $compile in Angular

Apr 2014

Using an Azure PublishSettings File From C#

Canceling $http Requests in AngularJS

Is It Time To Switch To JavaScript?

Better Error Handling In AngularJS

The Special Properties of ngRepeat In AngularJS

Deconstructing A Function From Microsoft Word 1.1a

Deep Linking a Tabbed UI With AngularJS

Dynamically Injecting Script Tags With AngularJS

Azure WebJobs With Node.js

Adapting The Azure Queue API For Node.js

Scarcity In Software Development

Mar 2014

Http Clients and Azure Blob Storage

Some Useful IIS Rewrite Rules

Tips For JavaScript Promises

Dynamic Routes with AngularJS

Durandal and Object.defineProperty

Rethinking Biggy

Working With FIPS 140 Crypto Standards

Building Better Models For AngularJS

Feb 2014

Some Basic Azure Table Storage Abstractions

Easy Animations For AngularJS With Animate.css

Symmetric Encryption Benchmarks with C#

Thoughts On JavaScript Generators

Building A Simple File Server With OWIN and Katana

Using Node.js To ETL Mongo Documents for Azure Table Storage

Azure Blobs with Node.js and Express

Jan 2014

Of Orcs and Software Craftsmanship

AngularJS Training

Implementing ASP.NET Identity

Meet The AngularJS Injector

Customization Options With ASP.NET Identity

Experimenting with Forms and AngularJS

ASP.NET Identity with the Entity Framework

Ten Years Of OdeToCode.com

Nov 2013

Agile 2014 Call For Papers

ASP.NET Core Identity

Shimming and Wrapping OWIN Middleware (Katana Part 5)

Simple Logging Middleware (Katana Part 4)

Writing OWIN Middleware

Oct 2013

New C# Generics Course

Sep 2013

Custom Serialization with JSON.NET, WebAPI, and BsonDocument

Moving Data In An AngularJS Directive

Hosting A JavaScript Engine In .NET

Metaprogramming Fun In JavaScript

Aug 2013

Dynamic Tabs with AngularJS and UI Bootstrap

Attribute Routes and Hierarchical Routing

Group and Display Data with Underscore and AngularJS

Deliberate Practice In Tests

Being A Better Programmer

July 2013

Self Hosting WebAPI with Katana

Data Visualization With d3.js

Learning To Program Abstractions

AngularJS: Listening for $destroy

Chrome Workspaces: Edit Source From The Chrome Dev Tools

Looking Back: Python

AngularJS Drag and Drop Photo Directive

Getting Started With OWIN, Katana, and VS2013

Looking Back: My First C# Program

A File Input Directive For AngularJS

Building a FileReader Service For AngularJS: The Service

Building a FileReader Service For AngularJS: Promises, Promises

On The Coexistence of ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI

June 2013

AngularJS Videos From NDC 2013

IE11 Preview and the New Developer Tools

Convert A Directory Of PowerPoint Slides To PDF With Python

Radio Buttons with AngularJS

Theming Chrome Developer Tools

Antifragile Software

Using ngOptions In AngularJS

A Simple Case For C# Generic Constraints

Bootstrap Dialogs and Promises In AngularJS Tests

AngularJS Tests With An HTTP Mock

Simple Unit Tests With AngularJS

Highlighting the Active Menu Item In AngularJS

Decorating AngularJS Services

AngularJS Abstractions: Services

May 2013

AngularJS Abstractions: Directives

Using elemMatch in a MongoDB Query

AngularJS Abstractions: Filters

Using system.js in MongoDB (From C#)

AngularJS Abstractions: Scope

Where Is .NET Headed?

AngularJS Abstractions: Controllers

Trying Out Redis via NuGet

AngularJS Abstractions: Organizing Modules

What I've Been Doing

AngularJS Abstractions: Modules

Apr 2013

Angular Abstractions: The Application

The Tablet Show #82

Node.js as a Tool For Learning To Program

Using GridFS in MongoDb from C#

Thoughts On Going Mobile With An Existing Web Site

WebAPI Tip #8: Working with Tasks

WebAPI Tip #7: Beautiful Message Handlers

New Pluralsight Course Preview

Mar 2013

WebAPI Tip #6: Is This Stuff Only Good For CRUD?

WebAPI Tip #5: Generating Links

WebAPI Tip #4: Does This Framework Do SOA?

ASP.NET WebAPI Tip #3: camelCasing JSON

WebAPI Tip #1 and #2: HttpStatusCodes and Overriding Conneg

A Quick Quiz using jQuery .data()

Hacking Up A Glimpse Plugin

AngularJS Interview on SSW TV

AngularJS - Controllers, Dependencies, and Minification

DropDownListFor with ASP.NET MVC

Favorite HTML 5 Links

Feb 2013

Mapping an Angular Resource Service to a Web API

jQuery 1.9.x and ASP.NET MVC 4 Applications

Why Use AngularJS?

Expressions In AngularJS

Forms With AngularJS

AngularJS and DOM Manipulation

Starting with AngularJS

The Composition Kata

Learning From the Ghosts of Software Past

You Want To Build Web Software with C#?

New Pluralsight Course Covering Bootstrap

Working with SqlBulkCopy

Jan 2013

Finding jQuery Event Handlers with Visual Event

Ten Tricks for Razor Views

Why Use The Bootstrap Grid?

Uploading Captured Canvas Images

Capturing HTML 5 Video To An Image

Moving OdeToCode to Azure - The Database

Dec 2012

Mixing ASP.NET MVC Display Mode Providers and Routing Rules

Long May You Run

Nov 2012

Brute Force Might Work

Why All The Lambdas?

Flood Filling In A Canvas

Two ASP.NET MVC 4 Courses

GroupBy With Maximum Size

Abstractions, Patterns, and Interfaces

Two Great New Conferences

Oct 2012

Build Your Own Membership System For ASP.NET MVC - Part II

Build Your Own Membership System For ASP.NET MVC - Part I

Sep 2012

Perils of the MVC4 AccountController

ELMAH and MiniProfiler In ASP.NET MVC 4

Seeding an Entity Framework Database From File Data

Seeding Membership & Roles in ASP.NET MVC 4

Working with Enums and Templates In ASP.NET MVC

Aug 2012

Giving Data to JavaScript

My Favorite Visual Studio 2012 Features

Async in Entity Framework 6.0

ASP.NET MVC - Highlight Current Link

Levels Of Abstraction In An MVC View

A Troubleshooting Guide for Entity Framework Connections And Migrations

Configuration Tips For ASP.NET MVC 4 on a Windows Azure Website

July 2012

MVC 4 Video Outtakes

Swinging on a Canvas

Evolution of the Entity Framework: Lesson 5

Evolution Of The Entity Framework: Lesson 4

Using requestAnimationFrame in JavaScript

June 2012

Evolution of the Entity Framework: Lesson 3

Trouble, Trouble, A Quintuple of Double

Parallel Work in Async MVC Actions

Evolution of the Entity Framework: Lesson 2

Geolocation, Geocoding, and jQuery Promises

Evolution of the Entity Framework: Lesson 1

Many to Many Relationships with EF

Apr 2012

Trying Out JavaScript v.Next

A Refactoring Experiment

The Bar Is Even Higher Now

jQuery UI Autocomplete and Automatic Form Submit

What's Wrong With This Code? (#29)

Mar 2012

A Simpler MapReduce with MongoDB and C#

Whiteboard Architecture

Custom Slider Value Display with jQuery UI

Readable DOM Ready Event Handlers

Cool Down with Canvas and JavaScript

Yet Another Bundling Approach for MVC 4

Avoiding NotSupportedException with IQueryable

A Simple MapReduce with MongoDB and C#

Debugging JavaScript with Chrome

Endless Appalachia

Abstractions For MongoDB

6 Ways To Avoid Mass Assignment in ASP.NET MVC

Working with MongoDB Conventions

Structure and Organization of CSS

Pretty Code (BYOSP Part 10)

Zooming and Panning with CSS and Script (BYOSP Part 9)

Feb 2012

Deferred and Promises (BYOSP Part 8)

Primitive JavaScript (BYOSP Part 7)

Plain Old JavaScript

What Web Developers Should Know About HTTP

History and Hash Changes (BYOSP Part 6)

Media Queries (BYOSP Part 5)

Modernization (BYOSP Part 4)

A Tale Of Two Offshorings

Build Your Own Slide Presenter: Part 3

Build Your Own Slide Presenter: Part 2

Build Your Own Slide Presenter : Part 1

A Software Developer's Guide to HTTP Part V– State & Security

A Software Developer's Guide to HTTP Part IV– Web Architecture

Jan 2012

A Software Developer's Guide to HTTP Part III–Connections

A Software Developer's Guide to HTTP Part II - Messages

A Software Developer's Guide to HTTP Part I - Resources

Nov 2011

Programming Windows 8: The Sublime To The Strange

Getting Intrinsic HTML5 Video Dimensions

Composing Entity Framework Fluent Configurations

Modernizr.js: Polyfills

Oct 2011

Architectural Tragedy of the Commons

Modernizr.js : Feature Detection

ParallelLoopState and Parallel.ForEach

Rise and Fall of Classic OOP

Execute<T> With IronRuby

C# Fundamentals Part II & 10 Rules for Better C# Code

Aug 2011

CSS Tricks and the Alternate Universe of Graphics Primitives

The Three Phases of OOP Matter

A Magnifying Lens using Script and CSS

A Simple 2-Column Layout in Razor

A Tale of Backgrounds, Absolutes, mouseleave, and mouseenter

Clojure and the CLR

What's Wrong With This Code? (#28)

Disabling jQuery UI Widgets

Use a ReSharper Template for Script Files

June 2011

Manual Validation with Data Annotations

A Better Razor IsNullOrEmpty Statement

The Developer's Workplace

Lazy Exceptions for Fake LINQ Queries

Faking DbContext

Feb 2011

DynamicModuleUtility

Custom Data Annotation Validator Part III: QUnit Tests

Custom Data Annotation Validator Part II: Client Code

Custom Data Annotation Validator Part I : Server Code

What's Wrong With This Code (#27)

Notes on Building Razor Views

Revisiting Charts: HTML5 Attributes

Revisiting Charting with ASP.NET and LINQ

Data Validation Annotations You Won't See In .NET 5.0

Stackoverflow Exceptions with Html.Action

Once More In Defense Of The var Keyword

The Value of Symmetry

If Software Was Like The Super Bowl

JavaScript Koans

Jan 2011

Great Engineering Quotes

The Big Rewrite

The Refactoring Curve

What’s Wrong With This Code? (#26)

Injectable, Configurable Action Filters

Configurable Action Filter Provider

Configurable Global Action Filters for ASP.NET MVC

HTTP Modules versus ASP.NET MVC Action Filters

Razor Tip #2 : Inheritance & Configuration

ASP.NET MVC 3 Interview

MonoDroid Preview

IntelliJ IDEA for Android Development

Preprocessed Razor Templates

Preprocessed T4 Templates

Test First Development Course Online

Nov 2010

ExpandoObject Explained In Tests (Except For One Mystery)

July 2010

Notes on Templates and Data Annotations in MVC 2

Prototypes and Inheritance in JavaScript

Delegated Model Binding

Recursive Model Binding

Hard Working Model Binder

Ruby: initialize and super

Multithreaded Robocopy

Unit Tests and LINQ Queries

Named Arguments versus Object Initializers

Are Code Generated POCOs Really POCO?

What a Difference 8 Years Makes (In Code)

ActionFilter Overkill

June 2010

Policing ActionResults

Enforcing a Base Controller

Action Filter versus Controller Base Class

A Pictorial and Prose Filled Guide To Impressing Designers

Optional Parameters Do Not Create Default Constructors

Checking Client Download Success with ASP.NET MVC

Parr's Rules for MVC Views

NDC 2010 Wrap Up

Of .prototype and function()

Make the JavaScript Test Pass

When Your ASP.NET MVC Custom Error Doesn't Render...

Testability & Entity Framework 4.0

Visual Studio 2010 JavaScript Intellisense Behavior

Repositories and the Save Method

May 2010

The Grand Unified Framework Theory

What’s Wrong With This Code (#25)

Feb 2010

Premack’s Principle Applied To Software

What’s Wrong With This Code #24

Upcoming Events

Thoughts on an MVVM Rant

Wrapping about Collections

Jan 2010

KISS Your ASP.NET MVC Routes

Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC Don’t Serve the Same Master

Drop-down Lists and ASP.NET MVC

T4MVC in MSDN Magazine

Of Web Browsers and Humanity

Don’t Let Your Code Marry An Axe Murderer

Dec 2009

More On The Death of If-Else

Your Abomination Is My Clever Hack

Nov 2009

What’s The First Thing To Learn About ASP.NET MVC?

Is Microsoft Taking Dynamic Languages Seriously?

Keeping CSS Files DRY with .less

Improving JavaScript Skills

BitLocker To Go

Oct 2009

MVC or Web Forms? A Dying Question

About Scott Allen

Windows Presentation Mode

Using T4 Templates for Simple DTOs

Visual Studio 2010 Extension Manager

Where is C# in the Programming Language Lifecycle?

MVC 2 Areas and Containers

Some Say The World Will End With Robots

What’s Wrong With This Code (#23)

Road Show – Fall 2009

Experimenting with MongoDB from C#

ASP.NET MVC2 Preview 2: Areas and Routes

Health Monitoring and ASP.NET MVC

Links for What's Wrong With This Code?

What’s Wrong With This Code? (#22)

Programmer Symbology

Inspirational Books In Software Development

Private Extension Methods

Using Seadragon with ASP.NET MVC

Special Folders You Won't See in ASP.NET 4.0

Lower Case URLs and ASP.NET MVC

Sep 2009

Death to .NET Events

SEO with ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010

Victory In Software Development

Review: The 36-Hour Day

July 2009

Resource Files and ASP.NET MVC Projects

Geeky Places to Visit In & Near Maryland

Event Aggregation with jQuery

Pretty Code #1 – Building SelectListItems

Three IIS Concepts ASP.NET Developers Should Know

June 2009

Principles, Code-Behind, & View Engines

Functional Programming Battles GOTOzilla

Progressive .NET Event In Stockholm

When Do I Use Interfaces?

From LINQ to XPath and Back Again

Catching Up On Lean

Don't Ask Me If It's Possible

May 2009

Iterating on an ASP.NET MVC Model Binder

Apr 2009

6 Tips for ASP.NET MVC Model Binding

Life and Times of an ASP.NET MVC Controller

ASP.NET MVC Controls and Good versus Evil

MVC Course is Coming Online!

Putting the M in MVC – Part III

Putting the M in MVC – Part II

Euphemized Exceptions for .NET 4.0

Mar 2009

Putting the M in MVC – Part I

Downloads and Links from DevConnections 2009 Orlando

Databinding in Silverlight

Signs That Your JavaScript Skills Need Updating

Aluminum Wiring in Your Software

What I Do When My jQuery Code Doesn’t Work

Client Rendering Views with Spark and ASP.NET MVC

NerdDinner.com and Two Views of ASP.NET MVC Views

Feb 2009

What Are The “Never Events” for Software Quality?

Thoughts on the Code Contracts Preview for .NET 4.0

Mapping Objects with AutoMapper

Why Would I Create A Custom LINQ Operator?

More LINQ Optimizations

Due Diligence and Code Comments

Thoughts on AJAX Preview 4 and JSINQ

Jan 2009

What’s Wrong With This Code? (#21)

The Software Cure For A Financial Meltdown

Routing and Rewriting

Astonishment Principles and Framework Behavior

App Configuration and Databases

Dates and Times - Software's Bane

A Message For You

Dec 2008

Your Developer Horoscope

XM Radio Player Part III : Choices

XM Radio Player Part II : Scraping

Leeroy Jenkins in Software Development

XM Radio Player Part I : Fiddling

Nov 2008

Spike Code and Source Control

Single Letter Variable Names Still Considered Harmful

Mapping with Expressions

Expression Magic

Fluent Interfaces and Flowcharts

The Estrangement of LINQ to SQL

Modeling Flowcharts

Oct 2008

The Standard LINQ Operators

Lazy LINQ and Enumerable Objects

Sep 2008

What’s Wrong With This Code? (#20)

Stupid LINQ Tricks

Aug 2008

Visual Studio SP1 and The Metification of REST

July 2008

Optimizing LINQ Queries

Using an ORM? Think Objects!

LINQ Deep Dive at D.C. ALT.NET Next Week

Keeping LINQ Code Healthy

Swimming Upstream Is Hazardous

Pluralsight 2.0

May 2008

Rob's Not So Lazy MVC Storefront

Visual Designers Don’t Scale

The Power of Programming With Attributes

Two LINQ to SQL Myths

Mr. President the Programmer

There Is Always Risk In Portability

Contrasting Two MVC / LINQ to SQL Applications for the Web

The XML Namespace Tax

Mocks - It's A Question Of When

Apr 2008

Microsoft versus Open Source Software - ALT.NET notes

A Gentle Introduction to Mocking

Following Principles

Testing Old Code Is Hard

Mar 2008

What's Wrong With This Code (#19)

Custom Aggregations In LINQ

And Equality for All ... Anonymous Types

Inner Join, Outer Left Join, Let's All Join Together With LINQ

C# 3.0 and LINQ

Mashups with SyndicationFeed and LINQ

Talks You Won’t See At the Local Code Camp

Visitors and Multiple Dispatch

Travelogue: India

Extension Methods for Profit

Feb 2008

Huge Performance Fix For the Visual Studio 2008 HTML Editor

Versioning Databases – Branching and Merging

Versioning Databases – Change Scripts

Versioning Databases – Views, Stored Procedures, and the Like

Versioning Databases – The Baseline

Jan 2008

Three Rules for Database Work

Zune Update Depends On Windows Firewall Service

Customer Expectations

Tafiti and the Pain of Silverlight 1.0

ASP.NET MVC and User Group Fun

Pricing the Ultimate Developer Rig 7 Months Later

A Few Interesting Windows Workflow Links

The Trivial Things You Can Learn When Stress Testing an AJAX Application

Quirky News Review of 2007

Dec 2007

Introduction To LINQ

LINQ and the DTO Tax

Creating Silverlight Player Templates

Inheritance and the Entity Framework

ALT.NET in Baltimore and D.C.

The Greatest Challenge in Software Development

Can I Replace JavaScript (and everything else) With Volta?

Nov 2007

Can I Replace My JavaScript Code With a Silverlight App?

The Best Part of Installing Visual Studio 2008

Silverlight 1.1 Alpha – An Appetite for Exceptions

ECMAScript 4 – Kitchen Sink Included

MVC, REST, and the Alternative ASP.NET Framework

Three Cheers for IBM and Lenovo!

Answers to WF Interview Questions

Oct 2007

Windows Workflow Interview Questions

My RDP Problem Appears to be the Windows Vista Firewall

The New ASP.NET Framework

Strange Remote Desktop Problems

Overflow Exceptions

October Is Scary Schema Month

What's Wrong With This Code (#18)

A 30-Second Introduction to IPv6

Joe Albahari's LINQPad and LINQPad Challenge

Killing Software Projects with Modal Verbs

Sep 2007

Silverlight Event Tokens

Mice, Usability, and Silverlight

More on Conditional Compilation in ASP.NET

Nested Selects in LINQ to SQL

10 Tips for Shrink-wrapping ASP.NET Applications

Check Back In A Couple Days

Aug 2007

Trying Out Persistence Ignorance with LINQ (Part II)

What’s Wrong With This Code (#17)

Trying Out Persistence Ignorance with LINQ (Part I)

Handling Faults in Windows Workflow Custom Activities

Images That Strike Fear In A Developer's Heart

What's Wrong With This Well?

July 2007

Configuration Free JSON with WCF and AJAX in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2

Some Cool Software You Might Not Know About

ASP.NET and Separating Concerns

Rockville User Group

Unit Testing with Visual Studio 2008

Automatic Properties

ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX Double Feature

The Better Developer Thing

Closure On JavaScript Closures

Putting Function.apply() to Work

Function.apply and Function.call in JavaScript

JavaScript's Slippery this Reference and Other Monsters in The Closet

What’s Wrong With This Code (#16)

A System.Configuration Object Represents a Merged Configuration View

Malignant Narcissism

June 2007

Good News First

The Way The Wind Blows

The Main Monkey Business

The Larger Bowl (a pantoum)

Workin' Them Angels

Armor and Sword

Now For Something Completely Different

May 2007

How To Stop a Team Foundation Server Build with Samurai Style

Swinging In Silverlight

ReportViewer Components and Visual Studio SP1

No Macro Recording for You

Hardware Virtualization: Off By Default

My JavaScript Article

My New Tablet PC

What ASP.NET Developers Should Know About JavaScript

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Jan 2007

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I Don’t Even Trust My Real Mail Now

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Oct 2005

Medium Trust ASP.NET Applications

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Something Moved

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July 2005

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Mar 2005

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Feb 2005

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Jan 2005

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Reporting Services From The Command Line

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Dec 2004

2005 Article Topics

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The Shared Folders

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Nov 2004

BI and SQL Server 2005

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Speaking & Presentations

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Disposal Anxiety

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Oct 2004

CreateProcessAsUser

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Sep 2004

Dispose Do's and Don'ts

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FormsAuthentication.UserData

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Software Development Considered Harmful

The Football Pool

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Virtual PC Default Folder

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Aug 2004

.NET 1.1 SP1 Available Now

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Connection Pool Timeouts

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Command Bars in VS.NET 2003

Garbage Collection Of A Different Kind

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Web Applications Without Web Projects

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Lost Data With a StreamWriter

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I Can't Take The Heat

Internet Explorer in Windows XP SP2

Programming by superstition

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Authentication, Role-based Security, and SQL Reporting Services Web Services

Case insensitive string comparisons

Introduction To Role-Based Security In SQL Server Reporting Services

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Windows XP SP2 Released

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July 2004

Language Lawyers (and Nasal Demons)

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DataBinder and DataItem

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Small Company Life

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June 2004

Twisty Little Passages

Partial Success

Security Whodunit

Explicit Boundaries

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Reporting Services and the Report Viewer component - Part II

Put De Lime In De Coconut

Tablets, Ink, and Irony

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Compound Keys: The Ally Of Evil

DEVT Sessions From May

SharePoint Resource Kit

HTTP Connection Limits

Duff’s Device

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May 2004

Upcoming Reporting Services SP1

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.Text Threading Bug

VS 2005 CTP March 2004

Microsoft SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer

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SQL Server - Query Analyzer Shortcut Keys

Embedded Code In Reporting Services

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SQL Reporting Services and the ReportViewer Component

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Server Software For The Desktop

New Longhorn Bits

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ASP.NET Validation : False Sense of Security?

VB @ The Movies

Apr 2004

Performance and Scalability Guide Released

Using Reporting Services GetReportParameters web method

Healthcare IT: Self inflicted wounds

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Connections & Assumptions

Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003

101 Visual Basic and C# Code Samples

ASP.NET Resource Kit

IIS 6.0 Resource Kit

Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability

PowerToys for Visual Studio .NET 2003

SQL Server Web Data Administrator

Ode To Longhorn

Using CreateSubscription and the Reporting Service API

Blackouts and race conditions

Bugs, Brakes, and Reporting Services

Mar 2004

Idea: New Look for MSDN Help

Leap Years, Global Warming, and System.DateTime

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Impersonation in ASP.Net

The HttpContext Items Collection

The 52 Hour Query

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Flashbacks to string handling in C++

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Jan 2004

Collaboration in the IDE

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HttpModule Catch-22

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Dec 2003

Error handling in ASP.NET using the Global.asax

Merger Made In Heaven

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