Partial Views - ASP.NET MVC Demystified

Let's see how to split our CSHTML views into reusable partial views for ASP.NET MVC.

Envy, Faith, and This Developer's Life

I listen to podcasts every morning during my drive to work (no more radio for me) and a particular one that's been a favorite of mine is This Developer's Life [http://thisdeveloperslife.com/]. This morning, I got into my car, loaded up the episode, and starting driving. Unlike the many

Using the _ViewImports.cshtml File to Set Up View Namespaces in MVC 6

As of Beta 5 of ASP.NET 5, there is a new file in the Views folder of an MVC project called _ViewImports.cshtml (here's the GitHub item [https://github.com/aspnet/Announcements/issues/27]). In previous Beta versions, this file was called _GlobalImport.cshtml; even though it has been

Why You Should Be Giving Technical Presentations

I've mentioned on a few occasions [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/you-are-not-your-users] that one of the things I do at my day job is present a series of "lunch-and-learn" presentations. I do the research for these sessions, write up a script, and finally conduct the actual demonstration itself, usually in a

Finding and Using ASP.NET Session in Core 1.0

I'm building a tutorial (hopefully soon to be a post) and in that tutorial I needed to use Session for some quick-and-dirty data storage. Unfortunately when I tried to use Session in my default project, it was nowhere to be found, and I was sent down a small rabbit hole