Interesting question asked of me today by another developer who was fairly new to C# and that was
What’s the difference between ref and out?
Well it’s a good question and it took me a minute or two to remember but once I had remembered (and supplemented my knowledge thanks to a bit of Googling) I thought I’d add the answer here. Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
Having successfully implemented OAuth in a recent project I thought I would blog about my experience in getting everything configured.
Thanks first of all to this most excellent of videos from Scott Hanselman which provides a fantastic step by step guide on configuring OAuth in ASP.Net Continue reading →
A question I’m asked from time to time is why and when should I use a using statement within my code.
For me, using statements are all about convenience. They provide a nice simple way of ensuring that I am using IDisposable objects correctly, plus I also like tidy code. What’s an IDisposable object? It’s an object which implementes the IDisposable interface, which from a coding perspective means that you have access to a .Dispose() method Continue reading →
DNS lookups. Generally a pain and difficult to do in .Net. The built in Dns class from the System.Net namespace provides a nice way of resolving an IP address or host name via its GetHostEntry() method but if you want to delve a little further into the DNS record then you’re screwed.
As a fan of nuget I thought I would take a browse through its repository and see if anyone had written a nice wrapper class that could help me out. Continue reading →