A collection of 116 posts
Have you ever wanted to enrich HTML server-side before reaching the client? Of course, you have! The idea of declaring behavior and then having the tedious parts handled by a framework is what most developers want.
I recently worked on a proof of concept library that involves access to the web request at the HttpContext level. The library I’m building needs to register endpoints, and these endpoints need to process basic query string parameters. Fundamental stuff,...
On the spectrum of “chill” languages, JavaScript is on the higher end of permissible syntax. The ability to patch together a disparate group of values and treat them as one collection can help developers “get stuff done”. C# and .NET...
In the last post, we explored a jumpstart guide to working with a user’s request culture. While localization works out of the box, there seems to be a caveat when it comes to remembering the culture a user prefers.
Language is a core component of the human condition. According to the Washington Post, at least 50% of the world’s population is bilingual. That’s a fantastic statistic, that means every second user to our application could be bilingual. Sadly, most...
The tried and true spreadsheet is the king of all business application user experiences. On the web, we’ve been able to recreate and dress-up the spreadsheet experience using HTML table tags. It’s a common design choice in many create, update,...
In a previous post, I wrote about solving the form resubmission confirm issue that many developers run into when building web applications. In ASP.NET MVC, we have many tools at our disposal to pass information from one method to another,...
ASP.NET’s Razor engine comes with an assortment of HTML tag helpers. Some of the helpers are straightforward, while others may be challenging for folks to grasp. One of the more powerful HTML elements is select, allowing us to select a...
Hypertext Markup Language is the first programming language many of us learn. Like chess, it’s easy to learn but can take a lifetime to master. Its declarative syntax is ideal and ubiquitous across many different ecosystems, and C# embraces it...
HTTP semantics might not be vital to us humans, but they are the essential glue that holds the internet together. HTTP status codes allow clients to interpret the response they are about to receive and make processing accommodations. We may...
