C# – Wildcard Search Using LINQ
Image by salendron | Some rights reserved Need to create a wild-card style search method using LINQ? It is ridiculously easy. Below is a simple example, using the .StartsWith method from the string class. In an application for...
Routing Basics in ASP.NET Web API
Image by Ron Reiring As noted in Routing Basics in ASP.NET MVC, routing in ASP.NET Web API is functionally very similar to the standard MVC routing. Understanding the MVC routing model will provide most of what you need to know...
Routing Basics in ASP.NET MVC
Image by Andrew Morton When getting started with ASP.NET MVC and/or the ASP.NET Web API, it can be overwhelming trying to figure out how it all works. These frameworks offer powerful features, and abstract away a good deal of...
Building Out a Clean, REST-ful Web Api Service with a Minimal Web Api Project
Image by Matt MacGillivray | Some Rights Reserved In a previous post, we saw how to create a minimal ASP.NET WebApi project template, so that we can avoid some of the bloat and complexity inherent in the standard VS WebApi...
Creating a Clean, Minimal-Footprint ASP.NET WebAPI Project with VS 2012 and ASP.NET MVC 4
Image by frankieleon | Some Rights Reserved The default WebApi project template that ships with Visual Studio 2012 has a lot to offer in some respects, but is less than ideal for either learning your way through the impressive...
In Response to Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Michigan)
Representative Mike Rogers (R-Michigan), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said of Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald, who published secret material leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that: “[Greenwald]...
Let the Spin, Begin: Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Read from the Same . . . um . . . Script?
In the wake of news reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been secretly mining data from large internet service providers Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Larry Page both released statements about their...
Modeling a Directory Structure on Azure Blob Storage
Windows Azure has matured nicely over the past few years into a very developer-friendly “Infrastructure-As-A-Service” platform. While many of the recent public announcements have been focused Azure Websites,...
Understanding Windows Azure Blob Storage (A Quick Overview)
Image by Bob Mical | Some Rights Reserved In the course of the past two years Microsoft has made significant strides in creating a developer-friendly experience for using Windows Azure. From a rather disjointed (and to me, poorly...
The Best Things in Life Are Free . . . If We Take the Time to Notice . . .
John, Step Away from the Code Editor! I am a died-in-the-wool nerd. I love my computers, and I love learning to code. Left to my own devices, I will spend the better part of the day and night chopping away at the keyboard, trying...