One issue that I have had for a while that I think I finally solved was what to do with unauthorized jQuery Ajax requests in my ASP.NET MVC application. I finally wrote a custom authorization attribute to take care of the situation. I ran into two issues while constructing the attribute; the first ... [More]

Just a quick tip that I picked up somewhere a while back. Just add the code below to your web config and you don’t have to worry about sending out test emails. It will just drop a .eml file to the folder you designate. You can then open the file and inspect the email with just about any email client... [More]

On March 29, 2010 Amazon announced public availability of CloudFront’s private content streaming feature. When I first looked at Amazon’s CloudFront offering a few weeks ago, this feature was one I knew I needed and it wasn’t available so I didn’t look much further. With this announcement, I decided... [More]

I really like ELMAH for logging unhandled exceptions on my websites. Some of the things that it logs are the user’s IP address as well as the page they were attempting to reach and the referring page that they came from. Sometimes though, this isn’t quite enough and I like to look at the IIS log fil... [More]

I have been using the new web IDE from JetBrains (the makers of Resharper) called WebStorm through several of their preview releases now. I have to say I am really impressed. The Javascript and CSS editors seem to be miles ahead of Visual Studio (2008 at least).  They are projecting a beta rele... [More]

Gracefully handling errors that occur during Ajax calls in a simple yet standard way that didn’t clutter up my methods with a lot of extra code took a while to figure out. I ended up creating an OnException action filter that I place on my controller or methods as appropriate. When an error is thro... [More]

I was interested in removing the X-AspNetMvc-Version response header this morning. It turned out to be easy enough in code. Just add MvcHandler.DisableMvcResponseHeader = true to the Application Start event in your Global.asax.cs file. Here is a really good write up on Howard van Rooijen’s blog on t... [More]

Last week I saw an article on Ajaxian about Zen Coding which is a way to generate html markup and css from css selectors. Something like div#Dialog>fieldset>ol>li*3>label + a hotkey will create: Code Snippet <div id="Dialog">     <fieldset> ... [More]