I’ve seen a few hacks in the past to try and work out which button caused a form POST in ASP.NET MVC, but the truth is it is pretty easy. Step 1 : Inside your form, add two Submit buttons. Add a name attribute to both (note it isn’t added...

This is post looks at working with dates in ASP.NET MVC 3. We will see how to integrate the jQuery UI date picker control automatically for model properties that are dates and then see an example of a custom validator that ensures that the specified date...

Some time ago I blogged on Conditional Validation in MVC , and Adding Client-Side Script to an MVC Conditional Validator . A number of people have asked me to update the sample to MVC 3, so guess what – it’s your birthday! The main differences...

Our very own Zulfiqar Ahmed is a published author in this months issue of MSDN! To read his article please go to this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/gg598919.aspx

I’m with a customer in the labs this week doing some performance work and one of the tasks we wanted to do was to programmatically read the load test database in order to retrieve a table of summary data from a test run. My customer has instrumented...

In this series, I am going to publish a series of guidelines that can be used when selecting a distributed cache technology. The series will be divided in the main caching attributes, each of them containing a list of capabilities. The main categories...

OK, I’ve just discovered this. If, like me, you’re always struggling to remember the name of that LINQ extension method, or precisely how it’s supposed to work, then this is really useful. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/aa336746...

I've just come across a problem with load testing on Visual Studio 2010 (which probably amounts to a RTFM issue, but who does that anyway?) When installing the load test controller I specified the machine name as '.'. Nothing in the setup told me this...

Unlike on Windows 2003 it is not possible to Reinstall /Rebuild COM+ on Windows 2008 without effectively reinstalling the operating system. Before undertaking such an extreme step the question of why COM+ needs to be installed should be addressed. ...

At home I use a number of Logitech Squeezebox Receivers and a Squeezebox Controller to listen to and distribute my digital music around the house. All the actual music is stored on my Windows Home Server , which also runs the Squeezebox Server software...