Taswar Bhatti
The synonyms of software simplicity
Category: ASP .NET
Docker for .NET Developers

Docker for .NET Developers Last week I was presenting at the Ottawa IT User Group for .NET Developers on Docker for .NET Developers. We covered what docker is, how it fits into microservices, overview of using docker as a .NET Developer etc Topics that we covered were What is Docker Images and Containers Docker vs […]

Connect

I just got back from MVP summit from Seattle, and there were lots of new and cool stuff about the future of .NET and web development with vNext. I would strongly to suggest that you join the virtual developer Microsoft conference Connect(); http://www.visualstudio.com/en-ca/connect-event-vs On the 12th you will have keynotes from Scott Gu, Scott Hanselman […]

iis8

If you are running Windows Server 2012 with IIS8 and you got this error HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal Server Error. If you web.config file contains “handler” or “modules” tag. In order to fix this, launch cmd or powershell and execute these 2 commands inside of C:\Windows\System32\InetSrv

This will unlock the handlers and modules […]

ASP.NET-MVC

Here is a simple trick on how to disable browser cache in asp mvc application with an attribute. If you have a base controller just add this to your base and all your request would have Pragma No-Cache

Simply add this to your base controller, and you are done 🙂

ASP.NET-MVC

To enable https on asp.net mvc, one can use the [RequireHttps] attribute on the base controller if you are using a base controller

But what if you want to give an option to the installer or the client to enable it in web.config, the easy way to do it for asp mvc2 is to […]

browser testing

Thanks to everyone who came out for the Ottawa .Net Community talk yesterday on WatiN , SpecFlow, BDD, WebDriver, I had a blast. I would like to thank everyone who came out for the talk. Here is my presentation WatiN – Web Application Testing on Prezi You can find the code on github https://github.com/taswar/ODNC-WatiN-And-SpecFlow-Demo-Code Additional […]

Javascript

So was going through some legacy code to fix some security issues. One of them was there were links that were passing the data on url request. e.g NewFile.aspx?uid=1234 Rather than storing data in a session sometimes developers use shortcuts to do this, could be due to the pressure or time limit we have in […]

asp.net

There are tones of blog post out there on how to redirect http to https. As in when a user request for http://myserver.com/Login.aspx they will be redirected to https://myserver.com/Login.aspx One can do it with IIS but I find that way a bit ugly since you have to create another site and set the 403 to […]

base64

How to do safe base64 url encoding in ASP .NET, I came into a problem of url encoding in IIS 7 where it does not like “+”, “/” in the Url. Basically a Url that looks like of like this http://fake.abc/TIRlcEq0umjO6uJqtqvnkUGntUzv19rK+8mcvPK5qL1bwEZtEUqTlc3iF/TomuXU746Il5IF2iN9SeYuYDqt6SQzfdrv+Ltug2KZteKlYawc= I know you may say what is this??? Its actually some kind of encrypted […]

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