Archived articles - March 2014
Archive for March 2014 (8)
31
Mar
2014
Google had changed their policy for fetching profile image
JavaScript31 titlesNew way to fetch google+ profile image
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Google have recently decided to change the way you can fetch profile image. Good old building of image URL is not supported anymore after Google has applied security policy.
In good old, but unfortunately deprecated approach you only needed profile id to build a URL for fetching Google+ profile image like the following:
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10
Mar
2014
Umbraco backend customization - handling events
Umbraco CMS25 titlesHook on umbraco events and control them from your code
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In Umbraco 6 new interface IApplicationHandler is introduced. By inheriting this interface in your class you can hook your custom methods to handle events which occur in Umbraco.
The following two I use really often for controlling Umbraco behavior:
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05
Mar
2014
Umbraco backend customization - custom buttons
Umbraco CMS25 titlesAdd you custom buttons to umbraco toolbar and extend CMS
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This article is about extending Umbraco back-end with custom button to which you can attach your custom click handlers and force Umbraco back-end to work according to your needs. ...read more
05
Mar
2014
Easy data visualization with Google Graphs API
.NET229 titlesFree and easy way to display data on website
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Google graph are really easy to use on website for the main reason that you do not need to maintain code and because it is free for use. Samples and documentation can be found at https://developers.google.com/chart/...read more
05
Mar
2014
Dynamic JQuery plugin files load
JavaScript31 titlesImprove page load when using multiple JQuery plugins
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You all probably had to deal with certain js files for JQuery plug-in. Usually developers add reference to a js file in Master page (if using WebForms) on layout view (is using MVC).
This practice is not so bad, because you have references maintained in one file, but bad thing is that all js file are being load even if none of then are used on the particular pages.
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05
Mar
2014
Handling ajax request in WebForms
.NET229 titlesElegant way to do AJAX in WebForms
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In case you want to add JQuery Ajax calls to your page, you would basically need to add one more page which will be invoked with Ajax call. In order to reduce number of physical pages you can reuse the same page, but make it act differently for normal GET/POST HTTP request and totally different for Ajax GET/POST HTTP request...read more
05
Mar
2014
Detect ajax request in C#
.NET229 titlesEasier way to detect whether request is an ajax request
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Sometime you need to determine whether your request is standard GET/POST request or Ajax POST/GET http request.
This info is stored in request value isAjax or X-Requested-With. By checking these values of request you can easily determine whether http request is ajax or not.
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05
Mar
2014
Extending Umbraco API with extension methods
Umbraco CMS25 titlesNullreference exception safe property accessing
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Often during writing partial view for page you need to read value from property which is content or media picker. In order to get integer value you need to cast value acquired with GetPropertyValue method which is object type...read more
.NET
5
Jun
2022
Using dotnet nuget package vulnerability scan in Azure DevOps build
Listing nuget vulnerabilities and controlling build in Azure DevOps
5
May
2022
Protecting static files in ASP.NET Core using custom middleware
Restricting access to specific static content with middleware in ASP.NET Core
20
Dec
2021
Supporting multiple authentication schemes in asp.net core webapi
Using more than one authentication schemes in webapi projects
12
Dec
2021
Controlling the flow of migrations in EF Core
Altering EF Core migrations execution order
28
Nov
2021
Unit of work pattern with Dapper
Implementing unit of work pattern with Dapper in .NET 5
21
Sep
2021
Adding display name to Enum values
Implementing additional values for Enum items in C#
JavaScript
28
Oct
2018
HTML5 localStorage with expiry with vanilla JavaScript
Using HTML5 localStorage with expiry
8
May
2018
Monitoring DOM changes with JavaScript
Handling DOM changes with plain JavaScript
9
May
2017
Non blocking CSS load on the page
Load external CSS files in an async manner
16
Mar
2017
Serialize html form to JSON without using JQuery
Transform user input from HTML form fields to JSON
17
Jan
2016
Copy text value to clipboard using jQuery
Simple sample of using jQuery to copy value to clipboard
11
Jan
2016
Resize image on the client side with JQuery
Reducing the upload sie by resizing image on the client side
SQL/T-SQL
22
Feb
2022
Select column names with values from SQL Server database
Fetching column names with its value in T-SQL using built in JSON methods
23
May
2020
Identifying opened connections for the specific application in SQL Server
Connection listing queries in SQL Server
3
May
2018
Reading JSON data in T-SQL on SQL Server
Extracting values from JSON string on SQL Server using T-SQL
28
Apr
2016
Create XML/HTML with T-SQL
Generating XML/HTML output in SQL Server
24
Nov
2015
IP address to octets split in TSQL
Split IP addresse into octets in SQL Server
20
Jul
2015
Getting first and last second of the current year, month and day
Using minimum and maximum date time in SQL query
Umbraco CMS
2
Mar
2018
Minify HTML output of your pages
Minification of HTML output using ASP.NET IHttpModule
18
Apr
2015
Generate sitemap.xml on the fly in Umbraco CMS
Simple sitemap.xml Umbraco handler
2
Mar
2015
Accessing UmbracoHelper in HttpHandler request
Working with UmbracoHelper and IPublishedContent in HttpHandler
14
Sep
2014
Same page language switching in Umbraco
Land on the same page in different language in Umbraco using Relations
4
Sep
2014
Getting cropped image the smart way
The way to get cropped image URL with option to load original image too
27
Aug
2014
Fastest way to return JSON result from a controller
Resturn JSON in MVC controller action