Tagged articles - C#

I was always wondering where are additional properties for the image stored. Simply, when you click right click on the image in Windows and go to properties, in tab Details there are some more info than just file size and image dimensions. ...read more

Although Lazy keyword and functionality was introduced in .net framework 4.0, not many people are using. It is not something that was not possible to be done later, but now it is available only oin one line. Basicaly what Lazy keyword enables is to create an instance only when it is invoked for the first time. ...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

Using reflection you can easily access any property, filed, methods, pretty much anything of any type in .NET. Reflection is never the most elegant way to do something, but sometime you just have to do it. In older versions of C#, to declare a simple property in a class you would have to declare a private field which will be exposed by the property outside the class ...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

How many times you had to display file size on your web page? Pretty much every time you might have the same issue with recalculating size to KB or MB. I caught myself doing this for so many times over and over, so finally I decided to write a piece of code for that. ...read more

It is not so rare that you have to provide some sort of export of your data stored in database. I have a feeling that clients really like to have that functionality, probably because they are more comfortable with Excel than with any other tool. First thing that might pop to your mind is to add a reference to Office library, but that would require that you have Office on the hosting machine which might not be the case as most of hosts do not have it. ...read more

Dealing with models and POCO classes in MVC sometimes require to map properties from one object to another because they have some properties of the same name and type. This also can be a case when you are loading a model class from some other source and you need to transform it to your type with some additional properties, but also a bunch of properties with values from the source object instance. ...read more

I noticed that some of the content managers keep complaining about the quality and size of cropped images. If you lower down quality, file is smaller but in some cases it gets blurry with quirks which comes from compression applied to a file. Let's face it, image cropper is not Photoshop with all options for image optimization...read more