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Handy Development Tools for Assisting Others From Your Browser

While I was performing my usual duties on the forums, I received a response regarding one of the examples that I had used for an answer and I thought I would elaborate a bit more on it and some of the other tools that I find myself commonly using. But

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Implementing Audit Trails using ASP.NET MVC ActionFilters

Accountability is always important, especially when dealing with systems that contain sensitive data. It can often be helpful to have an audit trail that will allow you to go back and retrace the steps that a user took, what they saw, where they went and ultimately what they may have

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Querying Wikipedia in ASP.NET using LINQ-to-Wiki

Have you ever visited Wikipedia and simply just gotten lost in the abyss of knowledge that is available there? If only something existed to allow you to easily create complex queries that would provide you with exactly what you needed using syntax that were familiar with like LINQ? Well then

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Centering a SliderExtender Control in ASP.NET WebForms

I came across this question on the forums from antrea [http://forums.asp.net/t/1883025.aspx?Align+problems], who had a fairly straight-forward request to center a SliderExtender control within a <div> element. I thought that the answer would be one of the usual answers involving margins,

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My name is Rion and I have a Problem

Earlier this month, I began this blog and additionally started a mission to contribute [http://rion.io/2013/02/11/a-resolution-to-give-back/] to all of the great communities that have helped make my professional life a bit easier. Everything has been going better than I could have imagined and I never

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Prevent Repeated Requests using ActionFilters in ASP.NET MVC

Wherever there is a form or page that allows a user to post up information, there is an opportunity for repeat postings and spam. No one really enjoys being spammed or seeing hundreds of the same comments strewn across their forum, blog or other areas of discussion and this article

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Generating an MD5 Hash from a String Using LINQ

While working on another blog post, I encountered the need to generate a MD5 hash by passing in a string value and wasn’t really in the mood for loops. I elected to see if LINQ could make the process a bit easier. The Problem You need to generate an

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Fixing Corrupted or Missing Designer Files in ASP.NET

Have you ever been working on a Web Forms project and you made a change only to build your project and find that the designer.cs file related to one of your forms had suddenly vanished or become corrupted; well here is a fix for that. The Problem One or

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The Web Developer Checklist : A One-Stop-Shop for Improving the Web

I've been searching for some time for a single resource that I could go to check a variety of best practices and methods of improving the performance of my sites and applications and I can now mark that off of my list. Mads Kristensen [http://madskristensen.net/] and

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Canceling File Uploads using the ASP.Net FileUpload Control

The ASP FileUpload control can be handy if you are working with Web Forms as a means to easily integrate file uploading into your application and aren't experienced enough to work directly with HTML file inputs, Flash [http://stackoverflow.com/q/207298/557445] or jQuery based alternatives [http:

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A Resolution to Give Back

I’ve been a software developer for several years and I can honestly say that my professional life (and I am sure my personal life) would be a great deal more difficult had it not been for the incredible development communities that I frequent. The countless hours on Stack Overflow