Using .Less to Change the Way You Write Your CSS

Published 15 years ago

I wanted to write a post about .Less for some time, but never found the right time to do so. Now that I am changing my own web site from ASP.NET Web Forms to ASP.NET MVC 2, I thought it was a good idea to incorporate .Less (pronounced as Dot Less) in my own web site and write a little blog post about it

Rebuilding imar.spaanjaars.com in ASP.NET MVC 2 - Part 5 - RTW

Published 15 years ago

You may have noticed that I released the final MVC 2 version of my web site at imar.spaanjaars.com a few days ago.

Rebuilding imar.spaanjaars.com in ASP.NET MVC 2 - Part 4 - Repositories, Testability and Inversion of Control

Published 15 years ago

UPDATE: Links to the MVC site on the URL mvc.spaanjaars.com are no longer active, now that the site is live at imar.spaanjaars.com.

I just uploaded a new version of my web site in MVC to mvc.spaanjaars.com. This new version has the following features:

• All data access is now done with repositories (using Entity Framework at run-time).
• My Controllers and repositories are fully testable.
• I am using Castle Windsor as my Dependency Injection tool to inject concrete repositories into my controllers at run-time or during testing.

Avoiding the "Works on My Machine" Syndrome

Published 15 years ago

A long time ago I worked on a web application for a large Dutch newspaper that provided access to all pictures that had ever been published in the paper, or were taken by photographers employed by the publishing agency. In total, there were around 250,000 pictures in the database used by the web application. One of the areas I worked on was the "picture list" that had features such as displaying, searching, filtering and paging of pictures. Things seemed to work fine on my machine, even with the large amount of pictures in the database. Until one day I worked from home.

Rebuilding imar.spaanjaars.com in ASP.NET MVC 2 - Part 3 - SEO URLS and Rating Charts

Published 15 years ago

UPDATE: Links to the MVC site on the URL mvc.spaanjaars.com are no longer active, now that the site is live at imar.spaanjaars.com.

Yesterday I uploaded a new version of my web site to mvc.spaanjaars.com. Besides a number of small changes in terms of layout and design, I added two main features.

Rebuilding imar.spaanjaars.com in ASP.NET MVC 2 - Part 2

Published 15 years ago

UPDATE: Links to the MVC site on the URL mvc.spaanjaars.com are no longer active, now that the site is live at imar.spaanjaars.com.

Just updated mvc.spaanjaars.com with a new version.

Rebuilding imar.spaanjaars.com in ASP.NET MVC 2 - Part 1

Published 15 years ago

UPDATE: Links to the MVC site on the URL mvc.spaanjaars.com are no longer active, now that the site is live at imar.spaanjaars.com.

I have finally decided to rebuild this web site - imar.spaanjaars.com in ASP.NET MVC 2.

Creating Custom Page Templates with Unique Code Behind Classes in Visual Web Developer Express or Visual Studio

Published 16 years ago

Visual Studio (2005 and later) has a nice feature to create your own templates that appear in the Add New Item dialog of a web site. This feature enables you to create new files, such as a Web Form, to your liking and then export it as a template so you can base new items on it.

Handling Disabled Links in ASP.NET 4

Published 16 years ago

In my (quite possibly very short) series on "things I discovered today in ASP.NET 4", today I am discussing disabling links in ASP.NET 4.

Look Ma: No Code - Using Sorted Styles in ASP.NET 4

Published 16 years ago

The cool thing about working with beta technology such as Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4 is that you discover something new every day. Today I found the Sorted Styles that enable you to define the looks of sorted columns and headers in an ASP.NET GridView control.