At some point during your development adventures you'll need to put a rather generic link somewhere with the expectation that no matter where it is displayed you can get relevant information about the current site, list, etc. For me this ended up being a Custom Action. I needed to place a link on the List Settings page and append the list ID as a querystring parameter. Luckily SharePoint has a set of URL tokens that help out in these scenarios.

ASP.NET Web API is a framework that makes it easy to build HTTP services for various types of clients from Microsoft to Non-Microsoft technologies. The new programming model of developing over HTTP is made simple and flexible by using WebAPI. We can design services which can be accessible from a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices.

An introduction to Web API’s Custom Assembly Resolver feature that enables you to add Controller libraries dynamically at run time. To add some pizazz, we generate the entire Controller on the fly and see how we can access it from a Web API Client.

As I was asked to write a post with simple Insert/Update/Delete screens using the same technology from my previous post here is what I came with. The idea was to make this CRUD screens as a single page interface so the only interactions with the server would be to save stuff to the database...

Developers can create multiple categories under a catalogue. Each category can have multiple items associated to it.

How to prepare for 3 exams required to become a MCSD in Web Applications area.

In early January of this year I was implementing some JavaScript code that does a lot of processing on the client side with the help of jQuery. It’s part of a project where my customer asked for the possibility of answering a questionnaire in two ways: using a Wizard (one question at a time) and Listing (all questions at once) in a single form. The client side code for the Listing was the culprit and is the subject of this post.

How to hook up domain events to concrete implementations using Ninject as an IoC container and the ASP.Net Web API.

So far in this series we've learned about the jitter and how it compiles each method in your program "on the fly"; we'll come back to jitter issues in the next episode; in this episode I want to look at some actual (terrible) code for measuring performance.

This article gives us an overview of how to host Web API services without IIS using it’s built in Self Hosting capabilities. Along the way we build a plain vanilla html client to consume our service as well.

In Indian classical music, we have Jugalbandi, where two lead musicians or vocalist engage in a playful competition. Lets say there is jugalbandi between Flutist and a Percussionist (say using Tabla as the instrument). Compositions rendered by flutist will be heard by the percussionist and will replay the same notes, but now on Tabla and vice-versa is also possible. On a similar metaphor, I am proposing the idea of Code Jugalbandi, but now across multiple languages (not just two) and see how the same code is rendered using different languages.

Some Web APIs use the client IP address to enforce Service Level Agreements such as limit the number of calls in a period of time. The client IP address can be used as a replacement for an authentication key sometimes when a previous registration of client applications is not required.

The Outercurve Foundation has provided a summary (with links to presentations) of its recent open source software conference keynotes. Some of the speakers included Jono Bacon, Scott Guthrie, Ross Gardler, Donnie Berkholz and Kohsuke Kawaguchi. They spoke on topics ranging from Windows installation packages to community management, identifying destructive developers who ruin communities, project governance, patterns and practices that successful growing open source projects demonstrate, and how to wrestle with project growth and success.

In this article, I will show you how to configure WebAPI to work with one of Telerik’s most popular controls, the Grid for ASP.NET AJAX. Without changing the appearance of the grid, I will convert the grid from server-side databinding to client-side databinding and show you how it supports sorting, filtering and paging with WebAPI.

A walkthrough of how to sign up with MongoHQ to setup a MongoDB database and then connect to it from an ASP.NET Web API application.

Sending email using Gmail SMTP server in WordPress, PHP and ASP.NET - Step by step tutorial with codes.

There is a big problem in the RavenDB build process. To be rather more exact, there is a… long problem in the RavenDB build process.

This article introduces code obfuscation and how it can be dealt with when reverse engineering.

A few years back I was messing around with some graphics for a website and found myself repeatedly trying to 'fuzz-out' or pixelate images for a certain effect. It was taking a whole mess of my time up as I was playing with various arrangements, and I decided to stream line the process with a small ninja app. Thus was born the 'image pixelator'! The theory is quite simple and ingenious. If you have a given image and you shrink it down sufficiently the granularity (or resolution) of the pixels that make up a clear image are removed as they are repackaged in a smaller space. In that small space you can fiddle with quality, smoothing, etc. With the right combination this blocks up the pixels so when you re-size the image to regular size you can change the bits per pixel to something like 8bit and get a really fun effect. The smaller you crank the image the more degraded and blocky it looks.

SignalR is the latest in a long string of new technologies pouring out from the ASP.NET team recently, when Microsoft rolled out version 1.0 of SignalR when Visual Studio Update 2 was announced.  In a nutshell, SignalR is technology for .NET that allows you to build real time, connected Web applications. Connected in the sense that you can build Web applications that can send and receive and broadcast data in real time. The canonical example of a 'connected' application is a chat application where a client can broadcast messages to all other connected clients. While that's pretty cool in and of itself, that only begins to scratch the surface of what's possible with SignalR as you can communicate in a wide variety of ways between client and server and between all clients to push data around.

This isn't exactly a "tutorial" but is a part of this 'WPF for the WinForms coder' transitional series. We all know that Visual Studio is extensible, meaning people write extensions for it to give it new or better features. There are a few of these I'd like to point out because I would't want to do without them if I didn't have to. They can be obtained through the Microsoft Extension Library on line. If you've never done this, its quite easy. From your Tools menu select Updates and Extensions. Then Online. Then Visual Studio Gallary The first extension gives us our familiar #region directive from C#, within XAML. XAML gets long and can become confusing because of how so many controls get nested inside other controls. Use regions to lable and compact your XAML lets you find what you want and focus on just what you are working on.

Properties with non public setters sometimes make sense – until a unit test requires an object to be set up in a specific state. I don’t want to make the setter public just because of the tests, so I wrote a small helper function that can call non public setters.

I’m currently working on a more exhaustive Pluralsight course on Glimpse, but I thought I’d write up a quick getting started tutorial here.