Since the 2019 COVID-19 virus pandemic started, one of the issues that I have seen is how hard it is for governments, non-profit’s, etc. to quickly stand up (get it into production) a website. I’m not talking about blogs, but data-driven sites like the ones that show us the latest infection rate information. The worldwide … Continue reading The World Pandemic is Showing Us Websites Are Still Too Hard to Write
Category: ASP.NET
dotNetDave Rocks The San Diego .NET User Group: Learn How To Build a Cloud App!
The first, live and in person, stop on the dotNetDave No Apologies World Tour will be at the San Diego .NET User Group on July 7th at 5:30 pm. I hope you will join me at this meeting. I will have lots of swag (including some of my books) to give-a-way during my session. I'm … Continue reading dotNetDave Rocks The San Diego .NET User Group: Learn How To Build a Cloud App!
Real World Cloud App – From Start to Finish: The User Experience Layer
In the fifth article in this series, I talked about and showed how to code the communications layer for this cloud solution using ASP.NET Core Web API. In this article I’m going to add the user experience (UX) layer to maintain the ad data using ASP.NET Core 3.0 using the new Blazor framework (in preview). … Continue reading Real World Cloud App – From Start to Finish: The User Experience Layer
Real World Cloud App – From Start to Finish: The Communications Layer
In the fourth article in this series, I talked about and showed how to code the business layer for this cloud solution that included a Azure ServiceBus Queue and a Azure Function. In this article I’m going to add on top of that the communications layer, so apps and other services can get to the … Continue reading Real World Cloud App – From Start to Finish: The Communications Layer
Real World Cloud App – From Start To Finish: The Articles
In August 2018, I enhanced my dotNetTips Dev Utility app by integrating Microsoft Azure for backend services. I documented this process through a series of articles, outlining each development phase from architecture to user experience. Readers are encouraged to follow my journey and provide feedback on this venture.
dotNetDave Rocks Silicon Valley Code Camp 2016
The Silicon Valley Code Camp in San Jose, CA is on October 1st - 2nd, 2016. It's the largest Code Camp in the United States (maybe the world) and I hope to see you there. I will be doing the sessions below. Röck Yoür Apps With >= 10 Things You Probably Aren’t Doing This session … Continue reading dotNetDave Rocks Silicon Valley Code Camp 2016
What’s happening to the AJAX Control Toolkit?
I have been using the AJAX Control Toolkit ever since it was released and have really liked it. Microsoft released it to Open Source and now they have turned it over management to DevExpress. Look for a new release in 2015. Here is the blog post on the news: https://community.devexpress.com/blogs/aspnet/archive/2014/09/22/ajax-control-toolkit-devexpress-offer.aspx
Don’t Show Exception Message To Users
Today, I went to a web site to enter time for a contract I'm working on and I got this: Never, ever, ever display messages like this to your users. Number one it makes no sense to them. Number two it could reveal some information that could be used to hack … Continue reading Don’t Show Exception Message To Users
Updating Bound Controls in an UpdatePanel
Do you need to update a bound control like a GridView or Repeater that is contained in an AJAX UpdatePanel after data is updated? Well there is a trick to it that you need to remember. You would think this should work: Code: //Update some data missingVideosUpdatePanel.Update(); Shouldn't calling the UpdatePanel.Update() cause the control to … Continue reading Updating Bound Controls in an UpdatePanel
Combining URL Paths
If you are like me, then you need to combine a base url path with another path to a web page or a service. Since base paths change often due to the application running from different environments, this is a common task. The .NET Framework provided use with a simple way of combining file paths, … Continue reading Combining URL Paths

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