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The world is full of great, even wonderful things; be it material things, emotions, states of mind... but Everything can be improved. We knew that much, and although we certainly don't know how to improve everything, we know you do. Would Be Better is the place where you suggest how to improve the w ...
How to add OpenID authentication to your ASP.NET MVC 3 site using Janrain Engage
Well, I finally took the time to implement OpenID/Social network log-in functionality to Would Be Better and although I had anticipated a much more troublesome process, it wasn’t entirely clear how I had to proceed on several of the steps either. I’d like to share my experiences with you. W ...
Dealing with javascript or JSON results after an AJAX call with Ajax.ActionLink, unobtrusive AJAX and MVC 3
I’ve recently updated an MVC 3 project to use unobtrusive ajax. If you create a new ASP.NET MVC 3 project unobtrusive ajax will be enabled by default, but this was a project I had once migrated from MVC 2. Instead of physically adding the unobtrusive ajax JavaScript file to my solution I got it from ...
Mocking a ControllerContext with authenticated user with Moq for ASP.NET MVC (3)
Whenever you are writing unit tests or BDD-style specs for your ASP.NET MVC controllers (you are, right?) there will come a moment when you actually need to simulate that a user is authenticated to your site. Even if you’re familiar with mocking, letting the controller think someone has logged in t ...
Using dynamic to unit test an Action Method that returns JsonResult with MVC 3 and C# 4
We’ve all been there, haven’t we? We have an action method that we call through Ajax.ActionLink, Ajax.BeginForm or even with jQuery.ajax, and returning a JsonResult is what makes the most sense. But whatever you pass to a JsonResult only gets exposed through the JsonResult.Data property which, ...
Simple Time Picker model binder for ASP.NET MVC 3, and how to save it to SQL CE 4 using EF 4.1
There’s plenty of DatePickers out there, like, for instance, the ubiquitous jQuery DatePicker, but how about Time pickers? Well if you’re looking for a fancy, flashy, drop-dead-gorgeous Time picker control… this post isn’t for you. What this post will teach you, dear reader, is how to simply and ...