The hosting services or the production database servers do not give create db rights to the app for a lot of reasons. So, when our code first MVC app gets deployed it does not work as it tries to create…
jQuery Ajax is simple to implement
The contact page and create blog are using ajax now. Here's how I did it: -Created Contact Model with Name, Email and Message -Created a controller with two actions Index for the initial view and send(note HttpPost…
Archiving items and a routing lesson
I started rolling up the older blog posts into archive. While doing so, I learned a valuable lesson about routing. We have to put the most specific route first and most general last. It is very easy to make mistake…
This developer's life is inspirational
This developer’s life [http://www.thisdeveloperslife.com/]podcast by Scott Hanselman and Rob Conery has enlightened me in a several different ways. It refreshes me… it makes me feel more positive…more excited…more optimistic..more motivated..makes me…
Now running on MVC4 with some other cool features
I upgraded the site on to MVC4 beta. It was not too bad. MVC3 and MVC4 can live together. I just followed the instructions on: MVC4 White paper on ASP.net [http://www.asp.net/whitepapers/mvc4-release-notes#_Toc303253806] I use…