Mocking Session in ASP.NET with Moq and VB.NET

It has been a few years since I have had the chance to explore the latest enhancements to ASP.NET. The development in my day job was locked into traditional ASP.NET forms just before MVC 1.0 was released and there has not been any opportunity to change. TDD, dependency injection and inversion of control containers all … 

 

IIS7 WordPress and Friendly URLs

As a developer who uses Vista as their main OS, I have always found developing php sites a little bit awkward. Php never liked to play nicely with IIS and unless you installed and used Apache, friendly URLs were even more difficult to get working. I use IIS extensively for ASP.NET development and I never … 

 

Thanks for Breaking Things ASP.NET 3.5 Team

I have just spent an intense few hours crawling all the JavaScript files in our application (and there are a quite a few) fixing an issue introduced with our upgrade to the .NET framework 3.5. The entire afternoon in fact was spent fixing a single issue: our AJAX calls had stopped working. The first hurdle … 

 

Captcha Audio with ASP.NET

The subject of captcha images has been well covered. There are plenty of available resources for creating those warped letters. I created such a control that is a combination of quite a few different ideas and was quite proud of it until not thirty seconds after demonstrating it, someone asked whether it had a ‘play … 

 

jQuery Inline Confirm

I have been using Delicious social bookmarking service ever since Blinklist degraded and finally lost the plot with their new design. When I first started using Delicious, a feature of their interface really leapt out at me and I could not wait to include it into a project. The feature I am talking about is …