Author Archives: Steve

Ninject.MVC3 no longer on Nuget (or is it?)

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Steve | Permalink 1

It seems that within hours of posting my article on Dependency Injection: A Beginner’s Guide, some things had changed with the Ninject packages available on Nuget. The article [..]

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Dependency Injection: A Beginner’s Guide

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Steve | Permalink 18

This article intends to outline the concept of Dependency Injection and its uses within a software engineering project. From Wikipedia.org: “it is a design pattern that separates behaviour [..]

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SyntaxHighlighter Evolved and Chrome

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Steve | Permalink 0

While performing some housekeeping on this blog today I couldn’t help but be slightly frustrated by the unsightly vertical scrollbars which appear on the code snippets that I [..]

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Redirecting to an action with an anchor with Asp.Net MVC

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Steve | Permalink 0

There are those times when you want to redirect to a route from inside your Asp.Net MVC controller and tag an anchor name (#myanchor) on the end, whilst [..]

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Asp.Net MVC 3 Areas and _ViewStart.cshtml Scope

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Steve | Permalink 8

I came across a problem today (or should I say misunderstanding) with MVC 3 (RC) and the _ViewStart.cshtml file. In case you haven’t used these yet, the _ViewStart.cshtml is [..]

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Data Caching with .Net 4.0 and Asp.Net MVC – part 3

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Steve | Permalink 9

Welcome to part 3 of this short data caching series. In the previous parts we had a look at how we can employ smart in-memory data caching to [..]

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ScriptSharp, System.dll and build errors

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Steve | Permalink 0

Having discovered the excellent ScriptSharp project just a few weeks ago, I began to encounter errors with the project in that sometimes it would cease to build successfully. If [..]

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Blog Code Formatter Visual Studio Extension

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Steve | Permalink 1

Just a quick note to say that I just published a new Visual Studio 2010 Extension, which makes it easy to format your source code/css/SQL/Html etc, ready for [..]

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Asp.Net and Colorbox: Creating a ‘delete’ confirmation dialog

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Steve | Permalink 15

This article was inspired by a friend of mine who wanted to implement a delete confirmation dialog in his website, and I thought it might be a useful [..]

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Testing for a jQuery object in Javascript

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Steve | Permalink 2

I’ve just spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out how to test if an object in Javascript has actually been extended using jQuery or not. [..]

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