Testing HTML5 Web Apps with Watir
What is Watir? Watir means “Web Application Testing in Ruby.” It’s an easy way to automate the testing of your Web Apps through a Ruby interactive console. Watir will click buttons, fill in forms,...
View ArticleTidy up MVC forms with a simple HtmlFormHelper
Many line-of-business applications contain forms like the following, each field consisting of a few common characteristics: A Label with the name of the field The field editor itself Asterisks and...
View ArticleA Web Recipe
The fun and challenging part of our jobs is to pick the right technologies for the project. We tend to draw on a combination of past experience, colleagues we trust, examples and trends. Recently...
View ArticleA Web Recipe: The model and data access layer
This post is the first in the series of posts described here. I’m starting to build out with my BeerApp by creating the data model. Entity Framework allows you to start with a database, a designer, or...
View ArticleA Web Recipe: MVC scaffolding and data initialization
This post is the second in the series of posts described here. At this point we have a data model and a data access layer built on EF 4.2. So let’s create a database and load up some data. I...
View ArticleA Web Recipe: Building a better grid using the jquery DataTables plugin
This post is the third in the series of posts described here. At this point we have a data model and a data access layer built using EF Code First and we’ve scaffolded out an MVC site and loaded the...
View ArticleA Web Recipe: Modal dialog and grid for child entities
This post is the forth in the series of posts described here. So far we’ve put a data model and data access layer in place use EF Code First, and built out a snappy Index view that uses the jquery...
View ArticleA Web Recipe: Thoughts on making this better
This is the final post in the series described here. I thought I’d wrap up by touching on a few thoughts to improve the solution and take it further, some of which I did implement in the code. Simple...
View ArticleSmarter Settings in June 2012 Azure SDK
Looking over the features in the newest Azure SDK, I was interested in the new CloudConfigurationManager class and its GetSettings method. It looked like it was smarter than the...
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