I’ve previously used Handlebars templates in projects, but only in the simple ways– i defined a <script> block as inline html templates, and used in my js code. However, i have a project where i need all the code, including html templates, as js files. Luckily Handlebars can do this, but we’ll need to set […]
This is a follow up to my post: Learning Gulp with Visual Studio – the JavaScript Task Runner In my last post, i did the following: Created a web project Installed Node.js Installed Gulp for running JS build tasks Installed more JS libraries using NPM (node package manager) Created simple HTML+JS app w/jquery Created gulp tasks […]
As I start looking into building more high-performance web apps, we are lead into the area of Javascript and CSS bundling and minification. I know my “old-school” Javascript coding, but in recent years, there’s been a huge movement in the JS community regarding the whole toolchain, so i’m jumping in here. There is a Microsoft […]
One of ServiceStack’s benefits is having one service method endpoint output to all supported serializers. The exact same code will output formats for JSON, XML, CSV, and even HTML. If you are motivated, you are also free to add your own. Now in the case of CSV output, the web browser handling the download will […]
Introduction Recently, i started developing my first ServiceStack.net web service. As part of it, i found a need to add authentication to the service. Since my web service is connecting to a legacy application with its own custom user accounts, authentication, and authorization (roles), i decided to use the ServiceStack Auth model, and implement a […]
Continuous Deployment goes a step further than Continuous Integration, but based on the same principle: the more painless the deployment process is, the more often you will do it, leading to faster development in smaller, manageable chunks. As a C#/ASP.NET developer deploying to an IIS server, the go-to tool from Microsoft is MSDeploy (aka WebDeploy). […]
Model Binders are one of the ASP.NET MVC framework’s celebrated features.
The good part: you just saved a lot of code, which is good for efficiency and for supporting/debugging.
The bad part: what happens when we edit/update an object and the form does not include all the fields? We just overwrote the value to the default .NET value and saved to the db.