Attribute Routing vs Convention Routing - ASP.NET MVC Demystified

MVC5 introduced Attribute Routing to go along with Convention Routing. Let's dig into these ideas and see how they work separately and together.

Do Something Else

> A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch

Tag Helpers in ASP.NET 5 Beta 3

NOTE: I have written a more updated tutorial on Tag Helpers [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/tag-helpers-in-asp-net-5-an-overview/]. Check it out! I mentioned in Welcoming the Coming Death of WebForms [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/welcoming-the-coming-death-of-webforms/] that one of the features I was most excited about in ASP.NET 5 was Tag Helpers.

Personal Time != Company Time

A junior programmer (let's call him Luis) and I were working to find a particularly stubborn Heisenbug [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug] (a bug that seems to disappear when you attempt to study it) this last week, and it was kicking our collective butts. This thing was just

Unobtrusive Validation - ASP.NET MVC Demystified

Let's learn what Unobtrusive Javascript is in MVC, and how we can use it to do client-side validation without writing any script. Sample project included!