Finding jQuery Event Handlers with Visual Event

This looks incredibly useful: Finding jQuery Event Handlers with Visual Event

10 Value Proposition Examples

Next time someone asks you to write value propositions, you can refer to this page for ideas. 10 Value Proposition Examples:

'via Blog this'

Using Backbone.js with CoffeeScript | Atomic Spin

Using Backbone.js with CoffeeScript | Atomic Spin - great advice on writing idiomatic CoffeeScript for use with Backbone.js.

Coding Horror: Code Smells

Coding Horror: Code Smells - Great summary of code smells.

MVC3 app_code directory

I just found out from K. Scott Allen’s MVC3 training video on Pluralsight that the app_code directory in MVC3 is alive and well. Basically the Razor helpers here are pre-compiled and can be accessed globally in the application.

Apparently the usage in a Razor page is as follows:

    @Common.Script(“myscript.js”, Url)

Note to self: compare and contrast with shared “editor” partial views.

Note: I composed this post with Windows Live Writer 2011 but it doesn’t seem to play well with Blogger’s own editor. ¡Qué pena!

MVC3 ModelState and overwriting model properties

I will expand this later, I swear.

Caution: when you are using strongly typed models in MVC3 and you modify a property of the model in an Action, that property will get discarded when you create the view unless you clear the ModelState first. When building the view, the model fields are overwritten with values from ModelState, so clearing the ModelState prevents this.

UPDATE 11/10/2011:
This only applies to values passed in via a POST (or a GET?) that you're attempting to override by changing the corresponding fields in the view model.

How To: Reset Identity column in SQL Server

Who knew? How To: Reset Identity column in SQL Server

In a nutshell:

DBCC CHECKIDENT('Company', RESEED, 1)

RegExes for replacing MVC3 hard-coded hrefs with @Url.Content hrefs

I'm posting this here mainly as a memory aid for myself.

My app is sprinkled with lots of links like this:

    <script src="../../Scripts/jquery-ui-1.8.11.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

I'd like them to look like this, since NuGet seems to be cognizant of such references and apparently changes them on upgrades:

    <script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-ui-1.8.11.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>

So the following search and replace with RegExes will work:

Find what:	"\.\./\.\.{/[^"]*}"
Replace with:	"@Url.Content("~\1")"

Include the quotes, and be sure to select "Use regular expressions."

Note that the consistent relative path "../../" must be changed as per your circumstances.

UPDATE on 11/2/11:

This "Replace With" parameter might be better:

"@Href("~\1")"

UPDATE on 11/22/11:
Now, according to this article, I see that Url.Content is supposed to be better anyway.

How to display anything in Sharepoint 2010 pop up / modal window | Sharepoint Consultant, Automation & Stuff

How to display anything in Sharepoint 2010 pop up / modal window | Sharepoint Consultant, Automation & Stuff

WCF Notes

To discover WCF services, make sure that https is turned off. This is done in two places, apparently:

• In the binding, on the Security tab, Mode property, make sure the property is not set to “Transport”.
• In the service behaviors, serviceMetadata, make sure httpsGetEnabled is set to false and that httpsGetEnabled is set to true.

When you’re done, turn those things back on again.

Common Design Patterns Resources : Steve Smith's Blog

Steve Smith gave a great talk last night at Bennett Adelson's .NET SIG, with many good links. Here's the link to his blog post on it: Common Design Patterns Resources : Steve Smith's Blog

Irony - .NET Language Implementation Kit.

Wow. Very interesting stuff here. There are links here on how to implement a DSL. Irony - .NET Language Implementation Kit.

Here is one of the links: Writing your first Domain-Specific Language

Cleaning up POSTs in ASP.NET MVC | Jimmy Bogard's Blog

Cleaning up POSTs in ASP.NET MVC | Jimmy Bogard's Blog:

"What we see over and over and over again is a similar pattern of:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Edit(SomeEditModel form)
{
    if (IsNotValid)
    {
        return ShowAView(form);
    }

    DoActualWork();

    return RedirectToSuccessPage();
}

Where all the things in red are things that change from POST action to POST action."

How to replace all automatic properties of string type with a string type which is never null

I have to do this in a piece of code, so I'm recording this here for my future reference.

In Visual Studio's Find and Replace dialog, type the following in the "Find what:" field:
public string \{:i\} \{ get; set; \}

Type this into the "Replace with" field:
private string _\1;\npublic string \1 \{\nget \{ return _\1 ?? ""; \}\nset \{ _\1 = value; \}\n\}

This pattern of performing a test in the getter versus the setter guarantees that it will never be null, and is the pattern used in the TextBox web control's Text property.

Afterwards you'll want to reformat the code, and possibly rename the backing fields, e.g. _FirstName, to be more camel-cased instead of being Pascal-cased(-like), e.g. _firstName instead of _FirstName.

3 Free E-Books and a Tutorial on Erlang

From ReadWriteWeb: 3 Free E-Books and a Tutorial on Erlang

Date & Time Formats on the Web

Everything you've always wanted to know about date/time formats but were afraid to ask.

Date & Time Formats on the Web: "There are several different formats used in different places in the technologies of the World Wide Web to represent dates, times and date/time combinations (hereafter collectively referred to as “datetimes” unless a distinction has to be made). This document presents a survey of the most significant, details which formats are mandated by the key technologies of the web, and offers advice for deciding what formats you should use in your own web applications."

Josh Reed Schramm - Software Development Thoughts And Opinions - Blog - Unit Testing Role Based Security w/ ASP.Net MVC

When attributes are an integral part of the work flow, testing is a bitch. Luckily I found this code.

Josh Reed Schramm - Software Development Thoughts And Opinions - Blog - Unit Testing Role Based Security w/ ASP.Net MVC: "I took Paul's code and turned it into a series of three controller extension methods which verify if the entire controller requires authorization, a particular method requires authorization or if a particular method requires a given role (i have not yet written the obvious 4th case - an entire controller requires a given role but it should be trivial.)"

Compiling MVC Views In A Build Environment

Compiling MVC Views In A Build Environment: "It turns out we had a bug in our project templates in earlier versions of ASP.NET MVC that we fixed in ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update.
But if you created your project using an older version of ASP.NET MVC including ASP.NET MVC 3 RTM (the one before the Tools Update), your csproj/vbproj file will still have this bug."

Knock Me Out

Knock Me Out: "Ideas, thoughts, and discussion about Knockout (KnockoutJS.com) and related technologies (jQuery and jQuery Templates)"

NIST - Structured Testing: A Testing Methodology Using the Cyclomatic Complexity Metric - McCabe Software

NIST - Structured Testing: A Testing Methodology Using the Cyclomatic Complexity Metric - McCabe Software