Archive For March 2015
ASP.NET 5 Middleware, Or Where Has My HttpModule Gone?
calendar_today 31 March 2015 13:22
ASP.NET 5 has been largely rewritten from the ground up, and incorporates some radical changes when compared with previous versions of ASP.NET. One of the biggest changes is in the HTTP Pipeline. This article looks at how those changes impact the design and registration of plug and play components that used to be represented by HttpModules.
How To Send Email In ASP.NET MVC
calendar_today 24 March 2015 13:21
This article takes a comprehensive look at the business of generating and sending email from an ASP.NET MVC application. It covers the most common use cases as well as some advanced scenarios. It also explores some of the more common errors that arise from attempting to generate and send email programmatically from an ASP.NET MVC site.
ASP.NET 5 By Numbers
calendar_today 16 March 2015 13:20
There's a lot of confusion surrounding the numbers relating to the impending release of the next version of ASP.NET. This post takes a look at the main ones and seeks to explain their significance.
Error Handling in ASP.NET Razor Web Pages
calendar_today 10 March 2015 13:07
Bang! An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. And that's it - your visitor is met with the yellow screen of death and they are left wondering what they did wrong. You might not even be aware of what's just happened - unless your visitor can find some way of alerting you, oh, and they bother to do so. That's the problem with run time errors; the code worked fine when you ran it on your machine. But then along came a user and they tried to do something you didn't anticipate and broke your site. So what should you do about this?
ASP.NET MVC DropDownLists - Multiple Selection and Enum Support
calendar_today 03 March 2015 13:26
My original article about Drop Down Lists in ASP.NET MVC has proven to be among the most popular on this site, amassing over a third of a million views since it was published 5 years ago. This article builds on the original by looking at using drop down lists for multiple selections, and the helper that was introduced in MVC 5.1 to support enumerations as a source of select options.
