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Adventures in String Concatenation: Introducing String Interpolation

C# 6 has been out for quite some time now and I thought I would write up a quick post on one of its newer features that I use quite often: string interpolation. What is String Interpolation? String Interpolation isn't really anything new per-say, it just provides a

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Making the Leap to ASP.NET MVC 6 Beta 8

I've been extremely happy with the new MVC6 environment (colloquially known as vNext) thus far. It's met all of my expectations and exceeded quite a few of them as well. Although one of the biggest challenges when developing in a Beta environment is that things break

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One Bad Apple Can Ruin The Deployment Process

Recently, I was updating an older iOS app that I had built in Xamarin to the latest version of iOS (iOS9) and I was once again reminded of how much I truly dread the App Store development and deployment process. This post will cover a few of the issues that

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Persistent Cookies in MVC6

A few weeks ago, I found the need to create a persistent cookie within an ASP.NET MVC6 (colloquially known as "vNext") and nothing seemed to pop out when trying to figure this out, so I thought I would share this with everyone. > Note : As MVC6 has

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Detecting AJAX Requests in ASP.NET MVC6

In todays web applications, there is an overwhelming reliance on Javascript and it's used all of the time for handling all sorts of behaviors (i.e. building your entire framework, loading and manipulating DOM elements, etc.). Often times, it can be useful to determine how specific requests come

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A Quick Rundown of Web Services in ASP.NET : Web API and WCF

I recently received a shout-out on Twitter from a fellow developer regarding a post on the ASP.NET Forums [http://forums.asp.net] I had written last year. He mentioned that it had helped him out quite a bit in the area of Web Services, so I thought I would

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Family++; Quiet Around Here.

As you may have noticed, things have been a bit quite over the past few months on here but I can honestly say that life itself has not been. I’ve been performing a very delicate balancing act between work, community things and most important of all, my personal life.

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Break Away From XML Configurations with ConfigR

Configuration files within ASP.NET applications can often seem a bit convoluted. Sections strewn all over the place, settings with nothing but strings everywhere and last but certainly not least, it’s all in XML. While this can be just fine for most scenarios, some developers may want or need

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Simple Modularity through Areas in ASP.NET MVC

The needs and requirements of many applications can change and evolve over time and managing these changes can often be difficult. This is one of the reasons that it’s important to be able to try and build modular applications that can easily separate all of the areas of your

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Using a Custom Domain with an Azure WebSite

As a follow up to the previous post on migrating your existing WordPress.com site to Azure Websites [http://rion.io/2015/01/26/migrating-wordpress-blog-azure-websites/], this post will cover how to apply a custom domain for your Azure Website so that you don’t have to deal with that pesky

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A Deeper Look Into Open Source .NET Development

In November, Microsoft began an initiative [http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/11/12/opening-up-visual-studio-and-net-to-every-developer-any-application-net-server-core-open-source-and-cross-platform-visual-studio-community-2013-and-preview-of-visual-studio-2015-and-net-2015.aspx] towards bringing a large portion of its development technologies into the open source. The largest and most talked about of these was the acclaimed .NET Framework and Core. Since these announcements at

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Go Back to School with Pluralsight (for 72 Hours)

Pluralsight [http://www.pluralsight.com/] has long been one of the best resources that you can find if your work deals with anything in the realm of technology. I’ve been an advocate of it for many years now and I can honestly say that its courses are as close

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Migrating a WordPress Blog to Azure WebSites

For nearly two years, this site has been running over at WordPress.com [http://www.wordpress.com] and things have been great. WordPress provided everything that I needed to really get the blog off of the ground with no financial commitments of any kind, which was a big deal in

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Introducing Glyphfriend

During the Microsoft MVP Summit in November of this year, Mads Kristensen [https://twitter.com/mkristensen] held a session on Visual Studio Extensibility and walked through the process of creating extensions for Visual Studio that can do all sorts of things and make the lives of developers easier. Extensions can

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An Interesting List of Development Stuff (November 2014)

This month’s Interesting List of Development Stuff is a bit all over the place, which I am sure you have come to expect as the norm. Several of the posts touch on Git and various flavors of using it, there are a few .NET specific articles sprinkled in as

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.NET Becomes Open Source and Cross-Platform

This morning, the announcements made at Microsoft’s Connect() event in New York [http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Connect-event-2014] have been rippling through the web and the effects of these announcements are likely going to be felt for years to come. This post will cover some of the highlights

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An Interesting List of Development Stuff (October 2014)

In this October edition of the Interesting List of Development Stuff, we delve into a variety of topics as usual. There are several articles as always related to developer productivity and life in general as a developer, a few discussions of upcoming changes to popular Javascript-based frameworks like jQuery and

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99 Problems and a Bit Ain’t One

If you have ever worked on a project that involves interactions between 32-bit and 64-bit applications and referencing their DLLs, you may have encountered this guy before : > BadImageFormatException: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000B) This nasty BadImageFormatException [http://msdn.

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ASP.NET vNext Community Stand-up Series

I just thought I would post a quick recommendation to any readers out there with an interest in the upcoming vNext release for ASP.NET. Scott Hanselman [https://twitter.com/shanselman] recently began a weekly web series with various members of the ASP.NET Development team detailing the progression of

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Integrating TinyMCE into an MVC 5 Project

I thought I would take some time to address a question that has frequently appeared in a few forum questions over the past month or so and that is “How do I use the TinyMCE Editor within ASP.NET MVC?”. Since I’ve answered this quite a few times, I

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An Interesting List of Development Stuff (September 2014)

Pardon the brevity of this month’s release, it’s been a month of deadlines, crazy news and all sorts of other things. Anyways, I hope that you find some of these links entertaining, useful or some balance of both and I’ll try to make October’s list a

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An Interesting List of Development Stuff (August 2014)

In my continual effort to catch up on this seemingly endless back-log of blog posts, this monthly installment of the Interesting List of Development Stuff is quite a bit late. This month covers a few different topics primarily focusing with a few database-oriented topics as well as the usual sprinkling

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A Quick Fix for Responsive Bootstrap Menus on Windows Phone

During a bit of site testing, I encountered a rather strange bug when viewing a site that was developed using the incredible Twitter Bootstrap [http://getbootstrap.com]. The Responsive collapsing navigation menu didn’t appear to work at all and all of the menu items that were present were all

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An Interesting List of Development Stuff (July 2014)

It’s been a rather busy month, so without further ado, here is this the July edition of the Interesting List of Development Stuff. Bootstrap on a 386 [https://kristopolous.github.io/BOOTSTRA.386/] If you ever encounter a client that simply hasn’t migrated to anything newer than a