Getting MIME type for file

All I can say is THANK YOU.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/02/14/getting-a-mime-type-from-a-file-extension-in-asp-net-4-5.aspx

WPF switch panel

The panel which switch its content depending on the value of boolean flag is the topic of this post.

MVC parameter binding

Here’s a piece of information that will hopefully save you the time I spent on trying to figure it out… asp.net mvc parameter binding is localizable ONLY in the case of POST form action.

Error connecting to localdb after .mdf and .ldf files are deleted.

Localdb database is very flexible and comfortable to use. Although its purpose is rather to serve a development database storage, its also possible to use it in a production. Unfortunately using it in, for instance, Click-Once deployed application generates some strange problems. One of those mystery problems I faced recently.

Event aggregation

In this post I will try to present you my implementation of event aggregator, which I used in WPF MvvM application. I will also try to point out the advantages of my implementation over other found in the internet.

QUnit

Another handy javascript lib for your toolbox, but this time, for a slightly different purpose than usual – unit testing

Web sockets

Web socket is a technology developed to establish a bi-directional communication between client and server, over the web. It works on top of TCP and hopefully will render hacks like long polling obsolete. It’s supported by all modern browsers with 2 exceptions – opera mini and the default android browser (chart can be found here).

sammy.js

Another nice javascript lib that’s handy to have in your utility belt. From the library website - sammy is “a small web framework with class”. I’m sure there’s much more to it than what I will describe here, but there’s one aspect I’d like to focus on: view switching.

CoffeeScript

There’s been a lot of fuss about coffee script in the last few months. It’s a language that compiles into pure javascript. Some people like it, some don’t. So what’s it all about?

knockout.js

Knockout is a MVVM framework for javascript. It has been around for a while, but I never spent too much time with it until recently, when pluralsight released a free training that included knockout. My impressions – this is definitely something I could utilize in quite a few places, but it carries a pretty big startup cost, so I’d think hard before using it in a project.