Author Archives: Steve

Fun with action filters

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Steve | Permalink 0

I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the brilliant DevWeek developer’s conference in London this year, and even more lucky to attend a lecture by Dino [..]

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Asp.Net Bundling, minification and convention

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Steve | Permalink 9

The new “bundling” support in Asp.Net MVC 4 looks massively appealing to .Net web developers – finally, an integrated way to dynamically package up multiple Javascript/CSS files into [..]

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ScriptSharp: Taking care of ‘this’

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Steve | Permalink 0

Making sure ‘this’ points to exactly what you think it does in Javascript is one of the challenges that a new programmer to the language has to overcome. [..]

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.Net Image Processor v1.2 released!

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Steve | Permalink 1

I’ve just put another release out for .Net Image Processor, my image processing and resizing code library for .Net and GDI, which includes a number of new filters, [..]

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.Net Image Processing library now available

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Steve | Permalink 3

This is a pet project which I’ve had around for a while now, which started off as a simple wrapper for GDI+ which allows you to create thumbnails [..]

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Problems with ResourceManager and neutral culture in Asp.Net MVC

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Steve | Permalink 2

I’ve been struggling with this for a couple of hours now and found a solution that I would like to share. The problem is this: I added a [..]

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Adding a new Jquery UI theme to the default Asp.Net MVC 3 Project

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Steve | Permalink 9

The default project template for Asp.Net is pretty functional out of the box, but an interesting feature is that new templates install jQuery and jQuery UI out of [..]

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UK Techdays 2011 in London

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Steve | Permalink 0

I was able to get along to the UK Techdays event this year in Fulham (it’s a free event – if you can make the time, it’s worth [..]

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AjaxOnly actions and controllers in Asp.Net MVC

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Steve | Permalink 6

Currently as part of my work I find myself doing a lot of client-side work (using the excellent ScriptSharp I might add) and this does involve a lot [..]

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Top 3 jQuery Tools

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Steve | Permalink 0

While I wait for my shiny new download of Visual Studio 2010 SP1 to install, I just thought I’d share a couple of awesome frameworks and plugins I’ve [..]

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