I run into this all the time and keep needing to Google for it, so I may as well document it here.  If you need to test a site with https during development, you need to use the IIS 6 Resource Kit to generate a self signed certificate.  No sense in repeating the steps here when this excellent post shows all the steps. Notes:  The IIS site id can be found using the following commmand:  execute iisweb.vbs /query "<NAME OF THE WEBSITE>"

I struggle to find examples that work within VB.net (forced into it at my job) since 90% of them are presented in C# (since probably 90% of all mvc development is in c# :) ).  Today I struggled for a few minutes to come up with the correct syntax for restricting the properties to bind when passing a model to an action.  Here’s a code example: 1: <AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)> _ 2: Function Create(<Bind(Include:="Username,Email,City,State,Zipcode&q... [More]

If you've ever attending a presentation on a software development technical topic, the law of Developers in the Audience always states that these 2 events will happen:  1.  When the presenter makes a mistake (even a little one), there will be a jeer, snicker, giggle, or some sort of snarky behavior by someone in the audience.  It someone will be ready to pounce at a glitch or mistake and expose the presenter as a fraud. 2.  Someone will always ask for the font siz... [More]

While listening to the latest Hanselminutes today, I was startled a bit by a relevation by Martin Fowler that Thoughtworks, his company is seeing a steep decline in .NET related projects requested by their clients. The podcast is here, with a discussion on it on Scott Hanselman's blog here. I posed the question to Scott on his blog, wondering his take on it: What's your take on Martin Fowler and .NET declining in thoughtworks projects? Is this an indication .NET is going to ... [More]