Reverse-Engineering an Existing Database in your ASP.NET MVC Application Using Entity Framework Model/Database-First
Image by Ian Britton | Some Rights Reserved Entity Framework’s “Code-First” development model has become a highly popular approach to data modeling in ASP.NET MVC development in the last few years. The Code...
Use Cross-Platform/OSS ExcelDataReader to Read Excel Files with No Dependencies on Office or ACE
Image by Elif Ayiter | Some Rights Reserved I recently posted an article about LinqToExcel, a fantastic library I discovered while trying to solve a problem for a work-related project. The premise was that I wanted a library I...
ASP.NET MVC: Configuring ASP.NET MVC 4 Membership with a SQL CE Database
Image by Infocux Technologies | Some Rights Reserved Recently I needed to set up an ASP.NET MVC project to work with a SQL CE database. I also needed to use SQL CE as the backing store for the ASP.NET Membership feature. This was...
C#: Create and Manipulate Word Documents Programmatically Using DocX
Image by Mohylek – Some Rights Reserved In a recent post, I extolled the virtues of a wonderful OSS library I had found for working with Excel data programmatically, LinqToExcel. In that post, I also mentioned a fantastic...
C#: Query Excel and .CSV Files Using LinqToExcel
Image by Elif Ayiter – Some Rights Reserved In my quest to get a rather hack-ey work project DONE and off my machine, I discovered a couple exceptionally useful OSS tools for working with MS Excel data, and at the same...
Git: Setting Sublime Text as the Default Editor for Git (Linux Mint/Ubuntu)
Setting up Sublime Text 2 (or the new Beta Release of version 3) as the default editor used by Git is not overly challenging, but not necessarily obvious either. Really, we’re still simply setting up the .gitconfig file...
Git: Interactively Stage Portions of a Single Changed File for Commit Using git add -p
Image by Kai Yan, Joseph Wong, Some Rights Reserved The thing which makes Git powerful as a version control system is its flexibility, and the many ways exposed by the Git API to get things done. Of course, this is also what can...
Git Quick Reference: Interactive Patch Staging with git add -p
Image by msun523 Some Rights Reserved NOTE: This is a reference, mainly for myself and others, condensed from a much more verbose article which does a lot of hand-holding for Git newcomers, and attempts to explain what is going...
Install Sublime Text 3 (beta) on Linux Mint or Ubuntu
Image by Nick Ares / Some Rights Reserved Surprisingly, one of my more popular articles last year was a short, very basic walk-thru detailing how to install Sublime Text 2 on Ubuntu-based machines (this includes Linux Mint). Now...
Customizing Routes in ASP.NET MVC
Image by ~uminotorino Some rights reserved Routing is one of the primary aspects of the MVC framework which makes MVC what it is. While that is possibly over-simplifying, the routing framework is where the MVC philosophy of...