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ASP.NET Core 3

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 […]

By Scott Addie Posted on March 3, 2018

ASP.NET Core 4

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 […]

By Scott Addie Posted on January 30, 2017

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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 […]

By Scott Addie Posted on September 30, 2016

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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 […]

By Scott Addie Posted on August 2, 2016

Package Management 1

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 […]

By Scott Addie Posted on July 19, 2016

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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 […]

By Scott Addie Posted on May 2, 2016

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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) […]

By Scott Addie Posted on April 10, 2016

Uncategorized 3

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 […]

By Scott Addie Posted on January 9, 2016

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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 […]

By Scott Addie Posted on December 14, 2015

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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 […]

By Scott Addie Posted on October 22, 2015

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Visual Studio Code 14

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, […]

By Scott Addie Posted on October 7, 2015

Uncategorized 1

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 […]

By Scott Addie Posted on September 26, 2015

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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. […]

By Scott Addie Posted on September 9, 2015

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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 […]

By Scott Addie Posted on August 26, 2015

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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 […]

By Scott Addie Posted on August 16, 2015

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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 […]

By Scott Addie Posted on July 15, 2015

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