Author Archives: Ivan Zlatev

Guide for migrating an ASP.NET MVC Solution to .NET 4.5 and ASP.NET MVC 4

Posted by on 20 August, 2012 No comments | Views: 5,248

You can find a very handy step by step guide for migrating to ASP.NET MVC 4 here . It might seem a bit long, but actually with a few multi-file search and replace and some regex you can do it pretty …

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Windows 8 Code Weekend: 8-9th September in London – dev4good

Posted by on 17 August, 2012 No comments | Views: 106

TheGivingLab.Org We’re running a second dev4good event in collaboration with TheGivingLab.org and Givey this year to bring together talented thinkers, designers and coders from around the UK to work on some real-world issues faced by UK charities. The technology theme …

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Heads up on a hidden breaking change in ASP.NET MVC 4

Posted by on 17 August, 2012 1 comment | Views: 1,732

If you, like me, are using an Editor Template for DateTime and use the DataTypeAttribute with either or DataType.Date and DataType.DateTime in ASP.NET MVC 2 or 3 and happen to upgrade to ASP.NET MVC 4 be aware! ASP.NET MVC 4 …

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Disable archive instead of delete mail in Gmail on iPhone/iPad

Posted by on 22 April, 2012 3 comments | Views: 2,619

For a long time the default and very painful behaviour between the integration of iOS devices (iPhone/iPad) and Gmail’s Exchange support (required for push email) has been that whenever you delete an email it will actually archive it instead (put …

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dev4good – Developing for a Better World

Posted by on 4 July, 2011 1 comment | Views: 382

Last weekend (2-3 July) I attended the first ever dev4good – a charity hackathon where developers try to solve charity problems in a weekend. It took place in Hammersmith, London in a amazing venue on the riverside: Three charities came …

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Featured on the home page of ASP.NET

Posted by on 3 July, 2011 1 comment | Views: 381

Really exciting for me is that a few days ago my series on Editing Variable Length Reorderable Collections in ASP.NET MVC got featured on the home page of the ASP.NET web site. I just wanted to say thank you to …

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Editing Variable Length Reorderable Collections in ASP.NET MVC – Part 3: Knockout JS

Posted by on 29 June, 2011 15 comments | Views: 5,997

In Part 1 of this series I discussed the problems that we face when implementing an editor for a variable length, reorderable collection and reuse our server-side ASP.NET MVC views, model binding and validation. In Part 2 of this series …

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Custom Knockout JS binding for jQuery UI Sortable

Posted by on 27 June, 2011 2 comments | Views: 2,007

For the work in progress Part 3 of my Editing Variable Length Reorderable Collections in ASP.NET MVC blog series I have created a custom Knockout JS binding that keeps a Knockout JS observable array in sync with a jQuery UI …

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Editing Variable Length Reorderable Collections in ASP.NET MVC – Part 2: jQuery Templates

Posted by on 20 June, 2011 6 comments | Views: 5,068

In Part 1 of this series I discussed the problems that we face when implementing an editor for a variable length, reorderable collection and reuse our server-side ASP.NET MVC views, model binding and validation. And while the solution provided in Part …

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Editing Variable Length Reorderable Collections in ASP.NET MVC – Part 1: ASP.NET MVC Views

Posted by on 16 June, 2011 39 comments | Views: 18,574

Introduction I have decided to write a short series of blog posts on editing collections and more specifically variable length collections in ASP.NET MVC. I will take two different implementation approaches: In Part 1 I look at implementing collection editing …

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