Using POST-REDIRECT-GET in ASP.NET MVC

Let's use the POST-REDIRECT-GET (PRG) pattern to get rid of pesky warning popups in ASP.NET MVC.

Welcoming the Coming Death of WebForms

Just about a month ago, Microsoft announced ASP.NET 5 [http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/aspnet-vnext/aspnet-5-overview], what's being characterized as a ground-up rewrite of this venerable framework. Improvement big and small abound; two of the ones I'm looking forward to the most are TagHelpers [http://www.hanselman.com/

KISS, DRY, YAGNI - Good Code Basic Training

LISTEN UP RECRUITS! This is Good Code Basic Training! I'm Sergeant Soccly, and it's my job to get you newbies up to speed on the problems this profession faces so that you can be prepared to deal with them. Our mission is to fight the evils of bad code design,

Use FluentValidation for a better validation framework in MVC

Let's use FluentValidation to create custom, complex validation rules in ASP.NET MVC!

ModelState values override Model values in HtmlHelpers

We ran into an interesting problem in Chrome using MVC, dates, and EditorFor. When we tried to submit a search, the dates kept getting the wrong format applied to them once the page loaded again, and because of this Chrome wouldn't display a datepicker for them anymore, even though it