Russell Solberg

Getting dropdown menus to appear in ASP.NET MVC 3 razor views where FK relationships exist… EF Classes / Model VIEW

I worked on an ASP.NET app with localization and globalization. I was having some difficulty understanding how to get the Date() function in javascript to work properly given the user’s environment. My user base was split between Mexico (spanish) and the US (english). Since the Mexico date format is dd/mm/yyyy and the english format is [...]

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HatM /Free Photos It wasn’t that many years ago that it seemed like I’d create a new ASP.NET website a few times a week.  Some for rapid prototyping and others for release.  At the time, the applications felt really easy to manage.  That is until they grew and became a beast with all kinds of [...]

One of the biggest challenges I face daily is how to build and architect cost effective technical solutions to improve our business processes. While we have no shortage of ideas for processes we can enhance, we are very constrained on capital to invest. With all that said, we still have to operate and improve our [...]

Well if you’re reading this, my guess is that you were potentially impacted by the fire sale of the HP TouchPads after the insane new price of $99 for the 16GB version was established. While most “Geeks” out there probably already had their tablet of choice in hand already or their eyes on one, the [...]

Web applications today, especially in medium to larger sized enterprises will be deployed in multiple environments. This allows the development teams to deploy the web application to an environment to verify changes made and that the application functions as expected before shipping it to production. So when you go to use plugins out there such [...]

This post will cover how to add a context menu to a GridView in ASP.Net utilizing jQuery. Once your site is setup to utilize jQuery, you can simply include a new style sheet and script file and get awesome functionality fairly easy! Take a look at this site here to download the required files and [...]

MarkItUp identifies itself as being the Universal Markup Editor and from as far as I can tell, this is probably true! It was very easy to integrate the jQuery editor into my new Blog Admin views. I will try to illustrate how I was able to do this below. In addition to the jQuery MarkItUp [...]

Often times you may allow the users to query your system and you give them the choice of which fields to use in their query. This entry covers how to use optional where criteria within your query and avoid having to write 12 versions of the same query with different where clauses! Let’s take a [...]