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So there I was, minding my own, returning a Thing from a Controller Action as JSON. Like you do. public ActionResult GetCriticalUpToTheMomentSortOfData(int id){ using (var db = new ThingiesContext()) { var thing = db.Things.Find(id); return Json(thing, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet); }} One of my very favorite slightly off-label uses for ASP.NET MVC has been[1] to use an Action method as a mini-web service, returning data rather than markup. But this day, it wasn't my very favorite slightly off-label use. It wasn't even my second favorite. I was sure that ...
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There comes a time in every pasty young developer's life when they realize that they must build an application that stores images in a database, and then serves them up via an ASP.NET MVC Action. Soon after this realization, they have another realization that, unlike with many other shortcuts to brilliance that MVC readily provides, the purveyors of the Web Stack of Love did not serve this one up on a silver platter carried by a pirate riding a unicorn. What they did do (which is twice as pirate, upon reflection) is make their little framework as extensible as the ...
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That Does It. Today is the day. The day you finally throw down your hat and bid adieu to the angle-percents. The day you snatch hypertext from the jaws of awkwardly-indented awkwardness. Today you upgrade your ASP.NET MVC Views to Razor. The gorgeous, buttery syntactical goodness of Razor. The seamless weaving of server code and HTML in a next-to-godliness codebase you've always known was possible, but was just out of—um. Oh, right. Like you're not a psychopath for clean code. You, Sir! How About A Shave? Here's the thing. All that text editing? Thrilling, at first. You're removing surplus ...
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