Tagged articles - ASP.NET

If you were planning to create sitemap.xml in Umbraco, you most probably were doing it with HttpHandler. This was fine until Umbraco version 6.2.2. If your website was running in lower version, most probably after update your HttpHandler were crashing since UmbracoContext.Current returns null. ...read more

Config files are really useful and allow you to store some setting values without having to hard-code them. It provides out of the box configuration utility which is very flexible, but because of its flexibility, it has some drawbacks as well. For you application you can easily create your own, nonstandard elements and easily bind them to your strongly typed model in order to read values...read more

In case you are building a web app that needs to perform some complex or long running task, for sure you would't want that task to slow down your website or web application. For example you have a database of growing number of members on your website and you want to send a notification after you published some page on the website. Imagine you have 10,000+ members and that you are composing different message for each of them based on their account information and then sending an email with notification message. ...read more

There are several things to be taken care of during development and before deployment to keep you online web app tip top regarding performance and security. 1. Logging informations ...read more

Basic functionality of your code does what it should do regardless of whether it is compiled in Debug of Release mode. Only differences might be related to debugging the code and tracing errors during debug. For sure you want more monitoring during the development (debug mode), so you would probably add some sort of logging. ...read more

I did not rely how important to restrict hot-linking until one day my friend came to me and told me that he has to pay additional money for the bandwidth on his website. He was surprised that he reached bandwidth quota limit. It was weird, but after some logging of requests coming to a website we realized that most of the requests were initiated from some other website...read more

I found this header option repeating in many guidelines for securing the web application. By adding these headers to response, it restricts browser to load your page into an iFrame tag. ...read more

Recently I was adding GitHub project section to my blog when I run into the following exception "The server committed a protocol violation. Section=ResponseStatusLine" After some time of Google-ing I found few solutions, but the most simplest one was actually the best one...read more

Recently I started a small project for image optimization which relies on public image optimization services available online. For now it supports Yahoo SmushIt and Compressor.io services, but it will be extended over the time. Project is open-source and hosted at GitHub https://github.com/dejanstojanovic/ImageOptimization. ...read more

Most popular social networks such is Facebook and Google+ are providing authentication for web applications with fancy javascript pop-ups. However this approach might not work in all browsers and most likely not on every device. For example this approach does not work on iPhone or iPad because browser itself does not allow pop-ups...read more

You can find a bunch of articles on internet about HONEYPOT implementation on web pages, but in short it is a replacement for CAPTCHA anti-bot security. In CAPTCHA scenario, user needs to enter hardly recognizable characters in order to prove that he is not a bot trying to submit data. Sometime that is really annoying but it is a way to filter automated posts created from bots. ...read more

Data from form are sent to backend (whether code behing of page in WebForms or Controller Action in MVC) in Request.Form property. It is oragnized as collection of name and value and can be easily access by name. In some extreme cases, you need to make some modifications to posted form data. ...read more

Recently I was trying to use Google+ OAuth api for authenticating with Google+ and fetch some user basic info such as name and email. ...read more

When we build multi-language website, we usually create two root elements which represent different language websites. To switch the language you just need to add a link to other root elements which represent other languages of the website. With this approach, when you switch language you will end up at homepage of the language regardless which page you were viewing. ...read more

It is a common thing that some of your application functionalities depend on an external HTTPS endpoint. However, renewal of SSL certificate for the external party is out of your control and you have to rely on the third party that certificate will be renewed on time...read more