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jQuery makes things a lot easir when working with DOM. So many thing there out of the b and you do not need to worry about browsr compatibility. Browser compatibility used to be a big deal few years back, but not it all comes to almost one engine which is WebKit. ...read more

Microsoft IIS Server is by default logging every request that reaches it. This can be pretty useful for tracking down the issue which my occur over time, but it is also pilling up log files on server's disk which eventually can cause low disk space. You an always clean up these files manually, but wouldn't it be nice if server does that for you? ...read more

You probably run to this exception when you tried to fetch JSON data over HTTP GET request. Now, first this is easy to bypass by simply adding JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet option to method which is retutning JSON data for GET request in a controller file. ...read more

Dictionaries are very useful as data holders for any type of the code in C#. You can easily manipulate data stored on collections, but there are disadvantages like posting data to REST JSON service. The easiest way to invoke JSON REST API is to simply serialize your object to JSON string...read more

With so many online and cloud based services, adding one more additional account for your application adds additional complexity level for your users since they will have to manage one more account and remember one more password. Microsft ASP.NET comes with pretty nice built in provides for social networks, but for office usage social networks are not so convenient to be used. ...read more

Sending email from SQL is not a difficult to achieve, but generating rich HTML content might be. SQL Server itself is not built as a text processor, first approach would be to build HTML by simple concatenating the string elements. This approach will work, but over time it will become more and more difficult to maintain especially if you need to add layout elements over time. ...read more

MSMQ is a bit old stuff and there are bunch of other products out here which perform better in most of the scenarios, but MSMQ is still used in a lot of solutions and Microsoft still did not announce support ending for MSMQ so it will be for sure some more time around.One of the stuff that is missing as out of the box feature in MSMQ is recovery. In scenarios you get the message from the queue and try to process, and process fails, in some of the cases you might want to try to process the message again...read more

Although JSON is widely used as a format for sharing the data, there are still existing solutions or modules that still rely on ADO and DataTables. Even today it very common to see some piece of code which deals with DataTable or DataReader for the performance reasons. In the end if any of the ADO objects needs to be exposed as a JSON string you have to write your own serialization code. ...read more

I recently needed to copy some value from the web UI to clients clipboard. Since this is not something you often need to use, I googled a little bit and found that this is easy to do with document.execCommand...read more

In case you are working on a small project where you just store some files and access them, you do not really need a database to achieve accessibility and additional info to files or folders. Filesystem itself is providing some stuff which can be useful for this...read more