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Web Development

A collection of 51 posts

Test your MVC routes with Moq

Routing is a great feature that ships with MVC. The ASP.NET Routing module is responsible for mapping incoming browser requests to particular MVC controller actions. One of the great things about routing in MVC is the ability to rewrite a URL and make it a lot more readable. This

HTML5 Input Types

If you've been browsing around the web lately, you may have noticed that there has been a lot of hype and attention slowly building around Html5. Now, I didn't really understand it all until I started to take a look at some of the awesome new features that Html5 has.

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Set up IIS 7 to run a secure site locally - HTTPS

I've recently been working on a project where I needed to get a development site running using SSL on IIS 7. If its the first time you've done this it can be a little tricky, but IIS 7 has made it super easy to create self signed certificates. You may

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MVC Google Maps HtmlHelper - Dynamic Maps

I've recently been looking for a MVC helper class for Google maps. I came across this well written MVC HtmlHelper for static Google maps. Unfortunately I was looking for a helper that was for the dynamic version of Google charts. I needed to be able to add markers on the

Rich Snippets and Structured Data - RDFa

I've always been interested in optimizing this site for search engines and trying my best to make this site as efficient as possible. I recently stumbled across a blog post by the Google webmaster team that explained a little about rich snippets and how search results are returned when they