ActionResult in ASP.NET MVC

See the different ActionResults and learn about when to use each of them, including ViewResult and JsonResult. Sample project included!

Are users trying to make developers angry?

Have you ever felt like users are intentionally trying to piss you off? This feeling has happened to me more than once. It isn't a rare occurance for my team to get angry emails from our users saying something doesn't work, only for us to point out something simple that

Bundling and Minification - ASP.NET MVC Demystified

Let's learn how to enable or disable two optimizations provided by ASP.NET MVC: bundling and minification.

Code must have a reason to exist (even if we don't like the reason)

I generally operate from the position that code must have a reason to exist. If it doesn't have a reason to be there, or be at this particular place, then it should be deleted, and I don't think twice about deleting code. So I tell my team that every piece

X509CertificateValidationMode in .NET 4.5

I'm setting up a service using .NET 4.5 to run with a new app we're writing which uses X509CertificateValidationMode: client.ClientCredentials.ServiceCertificate.Authentication.CertificateValidationMode = X509CertificateValidationMode.None; This service was build in .NET 4.0, where that enumeration exists in System.ServiceModel.Security. However, I was getting compilation errors when