ElasticSearch is a great and powerful open source search engine that can be used to solve a great range of problems. Here we'll take a look at how we can use ElasticSearch in an ASP.NET MVC application.
Service contract, the service and a whole bunch of configuration. All code needed for a simple REST (sort of) service with WCF.
Configuration sections for app.config/web.config. Useful to create. Hard to remember how to create. Here's a simple template.
I was asked today to look into creating an ASP.NET HTTP handler that on the fly creates images with text in a specific font. Eager not to reinvent the wheel I set out to find a suitable open source component. To my surprise that turned out to be easier said than done.
Solving the mysterious CS1061: 'object' does not contain a definition for... exception after upgrading to a new Visual Studio version.
I’ve been playing around with the ASP.NET Web Forms MVP project lately. One of the things that has been notoriously hard to test with Web Forms, at least when it comes to unit testing, is redirects.
Lately I’ve had my eyes opened to a few great tools for .NET development that I haven’t used before.
How to create a custom action result to easily generate XML site maps in an ASP.NET MVC controller.
I really like the simplicity of the AJAX paging at Twitter so I decided to use the same type of paging, including a similar more button, on the start page on this site. It actually surprised me how simple it was to build it with ASP.NET MVC and a few lines of javascript with jQuery.