.NET Development

Reloading a Razor WebGrid after Ajax calls using a partial view

If you are using Razor and MVC you probably make some use of the built in controls in System.Web.Helpers. WebGrid, located in the Helpers assembly, was created for WebMatrix’s Razor Web Pages and landed itself nicely to Razor views in MVC. WebGrid...

Published 2 Dec 2011 1:19 AM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: Razor, MVC, WebGrid

Give your old ASP.NET validators a makeover with jQuery TOOLS

If you have been working with the default validators in ASP.NET for a while you are probably used to the plain old look they create on your page and while you can rework the way they look, ASP.NET validators are essentially a Label. They are unable to...

Published 8 Nov 2011 10:33 PM by Gal Ratner

Deep dive into the LinkedIn API: Use C# to search for your dream Job (writing C# :))

LinkedIn has an extensive API designed to access almost every aspect of the site. Developers can access People and Connections, Groups, Companies, Jobs, Social Stream, Communications and more. There are two types of LinkedIn APIs: JavaScript based and...

Published 15 Oct 2011 3:02 AM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: C#, REST, JSONP

How to record Skype voice conversations

First let’s start at the end. If you are looking for free software to record Skype voice conversations, please skip to the bottom of this page and download the attached file. It contains a Windows Installer msi file and should install a recorder...

Published 27 Aug 2011 5:32 PM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: Native API, Skype API

Secure user authentication with one way password hash

Keeping users passwords in your database is a part of almost every application, yet securing passwords is rarely being done correctly. I recently read an article by Coda Hale about the ineffectiveness of password salts. Coda Suggested using bcrypt to...

Published 5 Jul 2011 9:34 PM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: C#

Display your top selling products in ASP.NET using a Bubble Chart

System.Web.DataVisualization contains 34 types of charts. The most common of them is the Column chart on which I already blogged about in Display a sales chart with ASP.NET Chart control and Linq to SQL . Today I am going to take our sales chart one step...

Published 28 Jun 2011 5:01 AM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: C#, Chart

Sharing memory session between servers

Session variables hold per user information. Unlike cookies, sessions store information on the server rather than on the client. The client holds a session cookie with the client’s session ID and at the time of an HTTP request, the server accesses...

Published 1 Jun 2011 9:25 PM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: C#, Session

Spatial Search made easy with Google Maps API and SQL Server 2008

Spatial search is the process of searching locations nearby to a position in space. A good example of a spatial search would be finding all of the restaurants near your present location. With Google’s Maps API and SQL Server’s Geography data...

Published 14 May 2011 4:20 PM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: Spatial, Geolocation

Consume an OData WCF Data Service as JSON with JQuery

OData(Open Data Protocol) is an HTTP based protocol for querying and updating data using full REST syntax. The full specifications of OData can be found on http://odata.org WCF Data Services (formerly ADO.NET Data Services, formerly Project Astoria) is...

Published 14 Apr 2011 9:34 PM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: OData, WCF Data Services

Four ways to utilize Entity Framework 4

There is some confusion out there about a simple question: How can I use Entity Framework? Some developers have heard about reverse engineering models so I decided to write a quick preview to the main features of EF4. This isn’t an in-depth article...

Published 24 Mar 2011 6:28 AM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: Entity Framework

Reading an Excel spreadsheet into dynamic objects

Excel represents documents using Office Open XML (OOXML), a zipped XML based format developed for spreadsheet and chart representation. In this article I am going to demonstrate parsing an Excel spreadsheet and loading the data into a generic List. OOXML...

Published 18 Mar 2011 3:36 AM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: C#, Dynamic, Office Open XML

Never break the build again with an organized code base

During my time developing for different companies one of the most common daily scenarios I encounter is helping a developer debug code. Going to some method’s definition, only to realize they can only view metadata and not actual code. The library...

Published 5 Mar 2011 2:56 AM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: Release Management, Architecture

Send a web page as an email with embedded images

In email marketing, sending customized emails is a common practice. Emails containing special offers, shopping cart items or any other dynamic content, are usually tailored to the individual and are being sent either by request or as a part of a marketing...

Published 27 Feb 2011 5:45 AM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: C#

Getting around PathTooLongException on file move with Windows Native API

If you ever got the error message “The specified path, file name, or both exceed the system-defined maximum length. For example, on Windows-based platforms, paths must be less than 248 characters, and file names must be less than 260 characters...

Published 13 Feb 2011 7:57 AM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: C#, Native API

A simple fast configuration-less rolling file appender

If you ever needed a simple logger and did not want to deal with the complexity of configurating Log4net or the enterprise library you might find this class useful. This is a single class, single file rolling file appender. Usage: To use this logger all...

Published 13 Feb 2011 3:45 AM by Gal Ratner

Filed under: C#, Parallel, Task

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