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New Course–Building Strongly-typed AngularJS Apps with ASP.NET MVC 5
My latest Pluralsight course is now live! In Building Strongly-typed AngularJS Apps with ASP.NET MVC 5, I’ll show you how to leverage Angular and ASP.NET MVC together more effectively. [more] The course starts you off with markup that looks like this: But, by the end of the course, you’ll end up with markup that looks…
Gulp with ASP.NET: am I doing it wrong?
I hope the answer to that question is a very loud, emphatic, “YES!” I like gulp! I want to use it! And I’ll confess up front that I’m still very green with gulp. I know there are a lot of things it can probably do that I’m not taking advantage of. But, I feel like…
Simple Server-Client Pub-Sub using SignalR
The Pub-Sub pattern is a great way to keep interested parties up-to-date on changes in state. For web applications, sometimes the thing you want to track state on lives on the server, and the interested parties live on the client. Using SignalR, you can easily propagate events out to interested clients without spamming uninterested clients. …
Using Inversion of Control with the Default ASP.NET MVC App Template
I routinely get questions about using an IoC container, like StructureMap, with ASP.NET Identity, particularly with the way it’s set up in the default ASP.NET MVC project template. In this post, I’ll show you the quickest way to IoC-enable the starter app. [more] First, fair warning: the default MVC app template is rough. I would…
Passing Data to Angular from ASP.NET MVC Views
Angular is a great tool for enriching an ASP.NET MVC application, but you must bridge the gap between your client-side code and your server-side code in order to use it effectively. In this post, I’ll show you a couple of ways that you can pass data from your Razor views to your AngularJS components. [more]…
Introducing SpecsFor Helpers!
SpecsFor<Web> Helpers will help you write cleaner, easier-to-read (and maintain!) specs for your ASP.NET MVC applications. It’s the latest addition to the SpecsFor family, and the first of the Helpers line that I’m working on. Read on to see what it can do for you and your team! [more] I suppose this really doesn’t qualify…
Random Link Roundup–10/17/2014
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a batch of links, mostly due to me catching pneumonia! So, I have a ton of stuff for you today! Oh, and it’s late! [more] I can tell I’m spending the bulk of my time in the Angular world these days… Angular JS "Why does there have to…
Random Link Roundup–9/25/2014
It’s the last Friday of September. Time for another cat pic and some links! [more] I’ve been working on some simplified ASP.NET Identity samples lately, something that shows how cleanly it can be implemented if you remove some of the bad design and noise that the VS project template adds. These two posts were very…
SpecsFor Releases!
I’ve been quietly shipping preview releases of new things for SpecsFor for the last couple of months. It’s time to finally get these things promoted to “final” status and talk about them. From better assertions to a whole new helper library, there’s a lot to talk about, so buckle up! [more] SpecsFor 4.1.0 Released! This…