DATE ARCHIVES : July 2013

Allow dashes within urls using asp.net MVC 4

UPDATE: This applies to MVC 5 too

I was kind of surprised recently when I wanted to create an asp.net MVC view with dashes in it and found out that I couldn’t.

To me, reading-a-url-like-this is better than readingaurllikethis so I thought there must be a way to get around this. After all, web apps like WordPress and Umbraco allow this so why can’t I just do it in asp.net MVC?

After doing a bit of research on the subject I found out that I needed to do a couple of things Continue reading →

Overcome Google Map resize issue within an AJAX tab container

I’m currently working on an existing website for a client and one of the requirements I’ve been given is to place an instance of a Google Map within a Microsoft AJAX Toolkit tab container.

This was easy enough but during testing I noticed that in some cases when I moved away from the page and then returned to it, the map was only displaying in the top left of it’s container div.  Upon  closer examination I found out that the only time this was happening was when the active tab index of the AJAX tab container was being set in code behind Continue reading →