Safer Deletes Through POST Links in ASP.NET MVC

Besides providing an elegant .NET-based web application platform, ASP.NET MVC (as packaged in Visual Studio 2010) can help you crank out a decent CRUD interface before your coffee goes cold. Well, almost.

For reasons that aren't quite crystal to your humble narrator, they leave the "D" as a lonely exercise for the MVC novice, and munsoning this implementation could result in a loophole in your architecture that could hang your data out to dry.

What I'm circumlocuting here is the peril of implementing your Delete as an HTTP GET action, rather ...

Boost Your Site's SEO Friendliness using ASP.NET 4.0

The Dark Art of Search Engine Optimization involves a number of mysterious rituals and incantations used to divine the favor of major search engine crawler robots to your particular corner of the Web. If your site happens to make liberal use of query string arguments in its URLs, however, it could introduce some snags and snares for these benevolent bots to stumble upon that will cause them to turn tail on perhaps some of the more important portions of your online presence. Non-ACSII characters, spaces, and other misfits of the ...

Automated Deployment for SharePoint 2007 with Team Server and VSeWSS

So you've built a custom Web Part. VSeWSS has been your tool of choice, especially since you lassoed that pkg folder into source control. It deftly dispatches the drudgery of creating WSP and XML files from your content and code. It even writes you an adorable little batch file to provide a smooth install with just a double-click. But you and I both know that's not enough. It's the twenty-first flippin' century, and we want Continuous Integration.

I'm going to go ahead and assume that you have ...

Persisting Custom SharePoint Feature Settings in a VSeWSS Project

The Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services (VSeWSS) provide a pretty steady leg up to developers tasked with SharePoint 2007 customization. Not having to bake your own XML files from scratch or cram a custom deployment batch script into your post build step really gives one that peppy modern feeling. But for all the solid that the extensions do us, there are still one or two things I would change if it were up to me. One of these is how the pkg folder is handled.

Feature Configuration 101 ...

Aptera held its second annual open house on October 15. Last year’s event was a ribbon-cutting celebration of our newly remodeled downtown office. After an amazing year in our new home, we thought it only fitting to carry on the tradition by throwing another party.

Aptera rolled out the red carpet, Catablu catered delicious hors d'oeuvres, and clients and associates from all over the Fort Wayne area came by to enjoy a drink with us. We were thrilled to have people in attendance from as far as Indianapolis and Chicago. Thanks for making it great, guys!