Archived articles - June 2014

Database table changes are usually not displayed right away in an application, escecially if it is a web application. With HTML5 and Web API that is about to change. New MVC introduces async controllers which can be used to do live data update to HTTP client...read more

Uploading files with form submit on web page, especially large file requires user to wait for browser until file is uploaded. This does not produce very nice user experience as user needs to wait without any notification for file to be uploaded...read more

Ajax is really cool. You can pull your data without refreshing the whole page, but increasing user experience and downsizing bandwidth for website. If you have some live data which is changing really often, the best way to display it on website is to use pulling mechanism...read more

A lot of browser these days support HTML file but not all of them in the same percentage. There are really cool stuff in there which makes developers and designers life a lot easier...read more

Imagine the following scenario. You are building a social network like website and you need to create your own API to enable other developers to integrate with your web location really easy. One of the things that most popular social networks now provide in the API is providing profile image...read more

Images are part of pretty much any application especially web. Not so rarely they need to be protected or exposed from a different sources which cannot be accessed directly with just typing URL to it's actual location. It all comes down to writing image bytes to an output stream...read more

In my previous article Different data type in Web API response of the same method I described how to get different response with HttpWebRequest in C#. Here I will demonstrate how to achieve the same thing but in JQuery client side code. Since Web API reponds based on accept header value, we can set it in ajax request in JQuery. ...read more

Web API restful services are very flexible and they return different data format (JSON or XML) depending on accept type header value from your browser (or other client). However this is not always so precise so sometime you have to force return type...read more

GoogleMaps are very useful to show location on your page. It is not a big problem if you have only one map, but in some cases you might have to add few maps on the page. As many maps you want to display you only need to reference API once...read more

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It's an easy way for you to keep up with news and information that's important to you, and helps you avoid the conventional methods of browsing or searching for information on websites. Umbraco stores it's published content in XML format, so exposing website data is really easy...read more

From time to time you get to the point where you have to generate some HTML in C# code. Of course, the easier way is to concatenate string and return that as a result of a method. This is not the most elegant solution and it is only fine for some short string. ...read more

Recently I've deploying GoogleMap Editor package to Umbraco community. During development I realized that package will have to include script, some html templates, images... I had no problem with that but when it came to actual package build I realized that I will have to deal with bunch of files and even during development, so se some changes which were not dll related I had to restart app by touching web.config. ...read more