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Monday, January 07, 2013

What to do when you are locked out of SQL Server

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Tweet I was recently helping out a fellow Headspringer when we realized we were locked out of his local SQL Express installation. We just...
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Friday, October 12, 2012

Building a Feature Branch Configuration Template in TeamCity

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Tweet I don’t know about you, but sometimes we have frequent feature branches on our projects. Sometimes we don’t go through the trouble of...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Export to Excel with MVC

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Tweet I’m sure you’ve all had to export to Excel at one point or another. I created a small wrapper around the EPPlus library for MVC. Bas...
Thursday, August 30, 2012

Simple Way to Toggle on Hover with CSS

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Tweet Here’s a really simple way to toggle actions or more information to keep your pages clean. <html> <head> <style ty...
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Saturday, August 25, 2012

A Method for Populating a Dropdown List in ASP.NET MVC

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Tweet I’m asked quite a bit how to bind a dropdown list in ASP.NET MVC. So there are about 10,000 ways to do it, but here’s one. First, w...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Dynamically Generate Form with jQuery and ASP.NET MVC

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Tweet Hopefully it’s obvious that you probably won’t need to do this very often, but when it’s needed, it’s nice to have available. I thoug...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Making Prettier Forms: Converting Checkboxes into Images

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Tweet A couple weekends ago I went to the Big Design Conference in Dallas (recap coming soon), and I always come back inspired to help the...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

File Icons using CSS Selectors

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Tweet This post is for a friend that was asking how to easily show icons with different file extensions. What I’ve setup are some styles th...
Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Testing for StructureMap Default Instances

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Tweet Have you ever received the good ole “No Default Instance defined for PluginFamily”? error while using StructureMap? I thought I’d sha...
Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Generic L2S Repository

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Tweet I’m sure you’re all tired of me blogging about L2S, but I still like it. It’s just so simple and easy to use. Obviously with .net 4.0...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Refactoring with LINQ

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Tweet So my little brother sent over the code below last week and asked me if there was a better way to do it. When I first read through i...
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Sunday, March 04, 2012

Create an ActionLink without Magic Strings

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Updated: 3/7/2011 So it’s been a while. I have a new job working for Headspring in Austin, which is one of the reasons I haven’t blog...
Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Refactoring MVC Routes

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Some of my team members and myself are participating in the Houston AIR competition this weekend and we are building our project this w...