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Handling DateTime string-serialized values is often annoying when you're working on a multi-language project, especially when you're working with string-based data formats such as XML, CSV, JSON and such. Luckily enough, almost every …
ASP.NET - Custom DateTime Converter for Json.NET to handle non-standard, empty string and null-value date formats Read More
If you've stumbled upon this post you most likely experienced the following error message when you tried to run your web application in debug mode: Unable to start debugging on the web …
Visual Studio 2013 and 2015: Unable to start debugging on the web server. Could not start ASP.NET debugging - How to fix that Read More
One of the things I like most when developing ASP.NET application using the MVC model (if you don't know yet what it is, read here) is the emphasis put to the project's folder …
ASP.NET MVC - Add custom locations to the View Engine default search patterns Read More
We already mentioned the ASP.NET Resource Files a while ago, praising their usefulness to grant the developers an handy, centralized access to literal and media contents troughout our application projects. This …
ASP.NET - Insert HTML code in Resource Files (.resx) Read More Since the first release of the .NET framework developers are given the chance to easily configure any kind of project - be it a Website, a Web Application, a Windows Forms or …
Setup a multi-language website using ASP.NET MVC Read More The problem A rather common issue when installing an ASP.NET MVC powered by .NET Framework 4 on IIS 7.0 or higher is the sudden appearance of a HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden upon launch: HTTP …
HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden after ASP.NET MVC Web Application deploy on IIS 7 Read More
One of the most interesting Entity Framework features is the Lazy Load function, which allows a deferred data load of your related entities, meaning that DB data won't be loaded until you specifically request …
Enable or disable LazyLoading in Entity Framework Read More I've already covered the practical advantages of the code-first approach featured by Entity Framework 6 in a previous post: the key concept there was all about creating the whole data model starting …
Entity Framework Code-First: how to generate an auto-increment ID field Read More
To keep (or to say it better, to recover) the page scrollbar position after a postback is definitely a feature any form-containing page should have. This used to be a trival task for …
ASP.NET - MantainScrollPositionOnPostback for Chrome and most recent browsers Read More A common-case scenario during the development of an ASP.NET MVC web application is the need to restrict the access to some web resources to authenticated users only. If our application …
HTTP Basic Authentication with ASP.NET MVC using a custom ActionFilter Read More