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Integrating WCF Services into Web Client Software Factory
For those of you unfamiliar with the Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) it is a very capable web application framework for building web forms based thin client applications. It was created as part of...
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Getting A Users Username in ASP.NET
When building an ASP.net application it’s important to understand the authentication solution that you are planning to implement and then ensure that all your developers are aware of it. On a few...
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The Enterprise & Open Web Developer Divide
In this interesting Forrester post about embracing the open web Jeffrey Hammond highlights the presence of two different developer communities. In his words: "…there are two different developer...
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Setting a Custom Domain Name on an Azure Web Site
I recently decided to add a custom domain name to a free Azure website that I use for development purposes. As the FREE Azure web site model doesn’t support custom domains (a shame but hard to complain...
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Host Static HTML or WebForms Page within MVC Site
If you need to host a static HTML page within an ASP.net MVC website or you need to mix ASP.net WebForms with an MVC website then you need to configure your routing configuration in MVC to ignore...
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Upgrading MVC 3 to MVC 4 via NuGet
I had to upgrade an old ASP.NET MVC 3 project to MVC 4 yesterday and whilst searching for the official instructions I found that there is a NuGet package that does all the hard work for you. The...
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Preventing Browser Caching using HTTP Headers
Many developers consider the use of HTTPS on a site enough security for a user’s data, however one area often overlooked is the caching of your sites pages by the users browser. By default (for...
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Break on Exceptions in Visual Studio 2015
Looking for the option to break on exceptions during debugging in Microsoft Visual Studio 2015? Well Microsoft dumped the old exceptions dialog and replaced it with the new Exception Settings Window....
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Create New MSTest Projects for Pre .Net 4.5 in Visual Studio 2017
This post outlines the steps to create a new unit test project in Visual Studio 2017 using MS Test V1 and that targets .Net Frameworks prior to .Net 4.5. Visual Studio 2017 onwards only has new unit...
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Recently when adding Razor Pages to an existing ASP.net Core MVC web application I had issues with the Tag Helpers not working. No markup was being produced. Not only were the tag helpers (i.e....
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