If you are terminating inactive sessions in your ASP.NET MVC application and you add an AJAX polling call, the chances are you’ll make your sessions last forever thanks to the AJAX request bringing down an updated session cookie. This is because the AJAX call will pull down an updated auth cookie and extend your timeout. […]
There is a little setting in your ASP.NET Web.config file that sets compilation debug to true. If you debug your application locally, this gets set for you if it hasn’t been set already… <system.web> <compilation debug=”true” targetFramework=”4.5.2″ /> <!– … –> This is necessary for debugging, but also costly. That’s why your default Web.Release.config transform […]
Has you ASP.NET applicaiton reported that minification failed? If you are using bundles in application, you might come across this exception comment at the top of your larger-than-expected bundle file. /* Minification failed. Returning unminified contents. (List of problems here) */ It can happen for JavaScript or CSS, but it means minifier has found something […]
This is a useful pattern that I have successfully employed a couple of times with ASP.NET MVC applications; creating Widgets with RenderAction. The prevalent way to create a page in ASP.NET MVC is to grab a bunch of stuff in the controller and pass it into a view to be rendered. As the application grows, […]
If you are using the IIS URLRewrite module to fix up your request URLs, you may well come across the need to conditionally apply rules. For example, the following rule redirects all “.aspx” pages in the root of the web application to an extensionless URL: In this rule, the name is preserved, but the extension […]
There are a ton of ways to localize your ASP.NET MVC application when it comes to the text your display on the page. When it comes to the URLs, though, it is not uncommon to see a site in one language with routes in another. It seems a real shame to see a website in […]