This will generally be a rare thing to do but if you have your reasons to do it, then this is how…In Umbraco there is a valid reason to do this which has to do with how HTTP POSTs are handled for…
The documented usage of RequestLocalizationOptions in ASP.NET 5/Core is to assign a static list of SupportedCultures since ASP.NET is assuming you’ll know up-front what cultures your app is…
ASP.Net 5 (aka vNext) is now in Beta and the Visual Studio 2015 preview is now out! So, what is this new ASP.Net? The 2 biggest features is that it’s totally open source and it will support a cross pl…
Building a plugin system in Asp.Net Core is a dream compared to previous Asp.Net versions. In previous versions it was not really feasible to have DLLs located outside of the /bin folder for a web…
I’ve been working on a project called “Smidge” which is a runtime Js/Css pre-processor for ASP.Net Core and have been meaning to blog about how I integrated this with AppVeyor – to run my tests, build…
Here’s a pretty nifty feature I found in ASP.Net 5 – you can construct your model during model binding with IoC without any additional work. This is available on the dev branch on GitHub and is based…
This is part 2 of a series of posts about some fundamental changes in ASP.Net 5 that we’ll all need to re-learn (or un-learn!) Part 1: http://shazwazza.com/post/aspnet-5-re-learning-a-few-things-part-…
If you’ve used AspNet5 then you’ve probably been using some MVC in which case you’ve probably seen something like this in your Startup class:// Add MVC services to the services containerservices.AddMv…
During the past month I decided to dive deep into learning ASP.NET 5, and what better way to learn than to start a new OSS project :) I chose to make a new new simple and extensible Javascript/CSS runtime pre-processor for ASP.NET 5. It does file minification, combination and compression, has a nice file caching layer and it’s all done in async operations. I ported over a few ideas and code snippets from CDF (client dependency framework) but with a more modern approach. I’ve called it ‘Smidge’ = something really small.…
I’ve been working on a side project called Smidge which is a runtime JS & CSS preprocessor for ASP.Net 5. I started this late last year after the 2014 MS MVP Summit as a good starting point to deep…