ASP.NET OAuth Guides

Includes all steps and details.
http://beabigrockstar.com/guides/aspnet-oauth

Demo link for bayimage helper

http://bayimghelper.apphb.com/

http://rayaspnet.blogspot.ca/2014/09/bayimg-helper-open-source-tool-to-get.html

What is Type Safe by code example?

Compile will throw error for following code:
String fooString = 1;
int fooInt = "bar";

Bayimg helper, an open source tool to get raw image url right after uploading

https://github.com/raysaspnet/bayimghelper

How to solve problem while upgrade to EF6: System.InvalidOperationException: No Entity Framework provider found for the ADO.NET provider with invariant name 'System.Data.SqlClient'

To solve this problem for me is to add EntityFramework.SqlServer.dll into project reference:

System.InvalidOperationException: No Entity Framework provider found for the ADO.NET provider with invariant name 'System.Data.SqlClient'

How to add Facebook comment in ASP.NET MVC project?

You can download solution on Github by

https://github.com/raysaspnet/facebookcomment

1. Create a partial view, call fbComment

2. Add this partial view into any view for comments

@RenderBody()
        
@Html.Partial("fbComment")
    

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments

The case-insensitive regular expression for Canada postal code

^[abceghjklmnprstvxyABCEGHJKLMNPRSTVXY]\d[a-zA-Z]\d[a-zA-Z]\d$

How to display Textbox input to upper case in ASP.NET MVC razor view?

1. Create css class
.uppercase
{
text-transform: uppercase;
}

2. Add this class into Textbox in razor view
@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.PostCode, new { @class = "uppercase" })

Note: the value still keeps original value.

How to write Singleton pattern in C#?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff650316.aspx

using System;

public sealed class Singleton
{
   private static volatile Singleton instance;
   private static object syncRoot = new Object();

   private Singleton() {}

   public static Singleton Instance
   {
      get 
      {
         if (instance == null) 
         {
            lock (syncRoot) 
            {
               if (instance == null) 
                  instance = new Singleton();
            }
         }

         return instance;
      }
   }
}

No more JS frameworks

http://bitworking.org/news/2014/05/zero_framework_manifesto

Determine browswer tab if active by HTML5 Visibility API

http://code.tutsplus.com/articles/html5-page-visibility-api--cms-22021

demo link
http://demo.xpertdeveloper.com/page-visibility-api/demo1.html

Why You Should NOT Implement Layered Architectures

http://blog.jooq.org/2014/09/12/why-you-should-not-implement-layered-architecture/

Optimizing static websites hosted on IIS

http://madskristensen.net/post/optimizing-static-websites-on-iis

 

• Minify HTML
• Set far-future expiration dates on static resources (JS, CSS, images etc.)
• Use cookieless domains for static files
• Use a CDN

 

What Is Clean Code?

http://java.dzone.com/articles/what-clean-code-%E2%80%93-quotes
I like this one by Dave Thomas, founder of OTI and godfather of the Eclipse strategy:
It has unit and acceptance tests.
It has meaningful names.
It provides one way rather than many ways for doing one thing.
It has minimal dependencies, which are explicitly defined, and provides a clear and minimal API.
Code should be literate since, depending on the language, not all necessary information can be expressed clearly in code alone

If programming languages were weapons

http://bjorn.tipling.com/if-programming-languages-were-weapons

C# is a powerful laser rifle strapped to a donkey, when taken off the donkey the laser doesn’t seem to work as well.