by Oliver
8. October 2012 23:56
For a long time, I kept looking at the possible application events here: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/working-with-the-aspnet-globalasax-file/5771721. It’s been a valuable resource many times, but today I wanted to figure out in which order events are fired. The post actually contains an orde...
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by Oliver
5. October 2012 22:21
Everything is a great little tool I use almost every day to quickly find files or folders by (part of) their name. I have it start up automatically after login, so when I need it it instantly returns all results it finds on disk. And with instantly I really mean INSTANTLY. Ever since I’ve started us...
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by Oliver
5. October 2012 22:14
_ViewStart.cshtml: applies hierarchically to all views in the same folder and all subfolders, can be nested; for more info see http://jittuu.com/2011/10/28/ViewStart-in-MVC-3/ RenderBody, RenderPage, RenderSection: http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=636 C# Razor Syntax Quick ...
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by Oliver
31. August 2012 14:09
This is just a small reminder to myself, so I won’t forget about those solutions once I’ll need them. Add stuff/meta tags to HTML head: http://orchard.codeplex.com/discussions/352358#post824379 @using (Script.Head())
{
<meta name="desc...
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by Oliver
31. August 2012 14:09
This is just a small reminder to myself, so I won’t forget about those solutions once I’ll need them. Add stuff/meta tags to HTML head: http://orchard.codeplex.com/discussions/352358#post824379 @using (Script.Head())
{
<meta name="desc...
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by Oliver
28. August 2012 23:41
Working on Marinas.info, we want to create SEO friendly links to specific searches that will hopefully rank high up in the search engines. They should look something like www.marinas.info/germany for marinas situated in Germany or www.marinas.info/wífi for marinas that provide wifi internet access. ...
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by Oliver
24. August 2012 21:29
In older installations of Orchard it’s possible that the URL for the Gallery feed is not up-to-date. The Orchard project site moved to Windows Azure at the end of 2011, and the Gallery URL changed in the process. It is now: http://packages.orchardproject.net/FeedService.svc/ To change it, go to e....
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by Oliver
24. August 2012 16:22
We’re still working on Marinas.info and were wondering if we should change any of the behavior that we use in Camping.info. There we allow for all kinds of unicode characters, from those in Eastern European languages such as Polish to the Cyrillic letters of the Russian alphabet – but we encode them...
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by Oliver
22. August 2012 22:15
In my previous post on Writing Acceptance Tests for ASP.NET MVC, I described the setup that we got to work for us to execute automated acceptance tests for our application Marinas.info. This post provides some more background on the topic which problems we encountered and how we solved them. From M...
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by Oliver
22. August 2012 13:48
When we started development on Marinas.info, we decided to write acceptance tests for all important features of our application. This decision was even more justified by the fact that a bunch of similar platforms are to follow using the same codebase. We wanted an application with less bugs and easi...
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