Validation Issues with jQuery Mobile and ASP.NET MVC
May 19,
2012
I’ve written before about the peculiarities of ASP.NET MVC validation. It’s a great technology 90% of the time, but can cause issues if you do something a little out of the ordinary. I came across another one of these unusual circumstances recently when I was testing my development version of CocktailsRUs. I was running through […]
Improving Performance with Output Caching
Apr 29,
2012
I’ve been spending most of my spare time over the past few weeks refactoring the code for my site, cocktailsrus.com, in the Visual Studio 11 beta–partly to play with the new stuff, but mostly just to replace my original quick-and dirty back end with something more elegant. With the process pretty much complete, the new […]
Improved Device Detection with ASP.NET
Dec 10,
2011
This is a follow up to my last post where I did a quick-and-dirty hack to get around the limitations of ASP.NET’s built-in isMobileDevice property. At the end of that post, I said I was going to wait and see if Microsoft did a better job next time around before I went to the trouble […]
Progressive Enhancement with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery Mobile
Nov 23,
2011
In an earlier post, I blogged about the NuGet that allows ASP.NET MVC3 to take the same approach as MVC4 to delivering different views for mobiles and standard browsers. I’ve now fully implemented this on my cocktails site, and come across some interesting complications when combining it with Ajax and progressive enhancement. This is the […]
More tips for ASP.NET MVC jQuery Mobile sites
Nov 10,
2011
I’ve had a very enjoyable week finalizing the alpha of my new ASP.NET MVC/jQuery Mobile site and putting it online at cocktails-r-us. I’m now testing and refining it (as well as dutifully drinking lots of cocktails so I can take photos and upload them to the site: all for the good of the application, you […]