Mimic Web Forms LinkButton Behavior in ASP.NET Core
Last Updated: 3/3/2018 Background I dipped my toes into the ASP.NET ecosystem in 2004—a time during which the Web Forms application model’s popularity was fueled by a cult-like following. In […]
Building Complex UI Components with ASP.NET Core MVC Tag Helpers
Last Updated: 1/30/2017 Table of Contents Background Pattern Matching Subtleties with HtmlTargetElement “OR” Operations “AND” Operations Sending Parent Attribute Values Down to Child Elements Reading Child Elements from a Parent […]
Tidying Up: Roslyn-Powered C# Reformation with CodeFormatter
Last Updated: 9/30/2016 Background Time and time again, developers inherit legacy applications and criticize a former team member’s coding style. “On which planet does this coding cowboy live where this incoherent sequence of […]
Community-Driven JSON Schemas in Visual Studio 2015
Last Updated: 8/4/2016 Setting the Stage When taking inventory of JSON editors, Visual Studio proper likely isn’t at the forefront of many developers’ minds. Some deem it a brawny dynamo of a .NET […]
An npm-Compatible Life Raft for SignalR JavaScript Client Installation
7/27/2016 Update: As of this merged pull request, it’s now possible to install the SignalR JavaScript client via npm with the following command: npm i -S https://github.com/signalr/bower-signalr Alternatively, you can target […]
Escaping the cmd.exe Shackles in Visual Studio Code
Last Updated: 10/8/2016 Setting the Stage: The Need for an Extensibility Point As of the 1.1.0-insider release of Visual Studio Code, there is support for configuring which command shell launches […]
File-to-Language Associations in Visual Studio Code
Last Updated: 4/10/2016 No file extension?!? What now? With the topic of JavaScript fatigue dwelling in the limelight as of late, one might wonder how editors such as Visual Studio (VS) […]
Enforcing Consistent Code Styles Across Disparate Editors
Last Updated: 1/18/2016 The Problem Imagine being assigned to a project team on which discord is abound in regards to the editor or IDE to be used for the development […]
A Practical Approach to Cache Busting with Webpack and ASP.NET Core 1.0
Last Updated: 12/30/2015 I recently embarked on a Single Page Application (SPA) project in which React was to be used with ASP.NET Core 1.0 (RC1) and Webpack. Due to some […]
Debugging Mocha Unit Tests in Visual Studio Code
Last Updated: 10/22/2015 As your JavaScript code base grows and evolves, the need for a solid unit testing story becomes paramount. It isn’t always the case in the real world, but […]
Harnessing Webpack with Visual Studio Code
Last Updated: 7/24/2016 Within an older blog post, entitled “Webpackin’ your ES 2015 / Angular 1.x SPA“, I explained how to use npm scripts to execute Webpack commands. To quickly recap, […]
Automate Global NPM Module Installations with Task Runner Explorer
Last Updated: 9/26/2015 Occasionally, a modern web developer will encounter the need or the desire to install an NPM module globally on his or her machine. This may become a more […]
Improve ASP.NET MVC Core 1.0 View Quality with Bootlint
Last Updated: 9/9/2015 It was at Microsoft’s TechEd North America 2013 conference in New Orleans where I first heard the announcement that Visual Studio’s “One ASP.NET” templates would begin including Bootstrap. […]
Debugging ECMAScript 6+ Gulp Tasks in Visual Studio Code
Last Updated: 8/26/2015 One of the lesser known features of Gulp is the Babel support introduced in version 3.9 of the CLI. By the way, Babel is the de facto […]
NPM vs. Windows’ MAX_PATH Limitation
Last Updated: 8/16/2015 This past week, I had the pleasure of attending the fourth annual That Conference in Wisconsin Dells. Something I’ve always admired about this particular developers’ conference is its Open […]
Client-Side Dependency Management without NuGet
Last Updated: 7/14/2015 Since 2010, the Microsoft development community has been using NuGet for package management in Visual Studio. Prior to this, developers would’ve entered into a laborious voyage with their favorite search […]
