posted on September 28, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, MVC, WebApi
In my .NET 4.5 MVC projects, I already have helper methods/extensions that let me determine if a user has access to a particular controller action. This provides a nice mechanism to hide and show buttons, hyperlinks, or other UI action elements based on the authorization attributes that have been defined on the MVC Controller.
However, this is a bit more complicated with ApiControllers.
posted on September 10, 2015 by long2know in Database, Entity Framework
Entity Framework makes it possible to execute scalar-valued functions when querying models. However, it’s not very intuitive to get this working, and it’s not directly possible to map the returned scalar value to an instance of your model. Odd, right?
posted on September 7, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, Microsoft
As a web developer primarily utilizing .NET for backend server development, and as one who uses Linux for my own hosting environments, Microsoft’s efforts to make .NET 5 cross platform are welcome. Over the Labor Day weekend, I spent a bit of time seeing how I could leverage this to host .NET web applications myself. While I mention Mint Linux, specifically, this guide should apply to any Debian/Ubuntu derivatives.
posted on September 4, 2015 by long2know in css, Web
Last month, I made a blog post detailing how to use CSS arrows as a progress indicator. I really like this and use it whenever I’m asked to create a wizard-like interface.
However, I discovered, after finally updating from IE9 to IE11 that there is a specific IE11 bug that reared its ugly head.
posted on September 3, 2015 by long2know in angularjs, codepen, JavaScript, plunker, Web
Writing web-based line of business applications entails creating a lot of views with tables.
There are many jQuery table plugins and Angular directives for rendering tables, but I created my own for, primarily, read only tables.
posted on September 3, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, Microsoft, OWIN, Security
Previously, I blogged about writing your own handler to hook into the OWIN middleware pipeline. I’ve been using the handler I described in that post for quite some time now.
However, after a bit of QA, I noticed at least one strange behavior.
posted on September 3, 2015 by long2know in Database
Often in dealing with data in a normalized database, aggregate data is stored on within a parent table. This is done to simplify display of data and general querying.
However, it can cause data to become out of sync if the child tables are edited.
