How to use Visual Studio 2015 with ASP.NET MVC5 and TypeScript 2.1+

TypeScript is a wonderful language for front-end developing. It helps by make front-end code feels like C#. At the end you compile the TypeScript code in JavaScript like if you had do without TypeScript. The first step is to setup Visual Studio to use TypeScript. On the official website, there is instruction for Asp.Net MVC4 […]

How to use multiple TypeScript files

TypeScript allows you to use EcmaScript import syntax to bring code from another file, or multiple files. This is very useful if you do not want to have all your code into a single file, or if you want to reuse code in different files. For example, let’s have 2 files. app.ts and fileToInclude.ts which […]

Service Worker, Push Notification and Asp.Net MVC – Part 3 of 3 Server Side

I previously discussed about how to configure a web push notification from the client side perspective as well as how to send the notification from an ASP.Net code which could be sent from Azure Webjobs. The remaining part is how do you send to multiple devices of one user. If you have a single browser […]

C# Localize Properties by String Pattern with Resource File

Imagine the scenario where you have several classes that inherit a base class and all theses children classes have an unique title, description and other string properties defined in a resource file. If you need the current language, the standard way to access the resource is fine. However, in the scenario where you need to […]

Service Worker, Push Notification and Asp.Net MVC – Part 2 of 3 Server Side

In the part one, we saw how to register a service worker and how to handle incoming messages if the user is actively on the website. However, we didn’t touch how to send a message through Google Firebase to receive the message. In this article, I’ll show how to send a message from an Azure […]

Service Worker, Push Notification and Asp.Net MVC – Part 1 of 3 Client Side

Browsers involve very rapidly and since few years it’s possible to write JavaScript that runs in the background of the browser. That means that it’s possible to run code even if the user is not on the website. This is useful for many scenarios and today we will see one feature which is the push […]

Application Insights Build Version on all telemetry

Something very interesting is to know which version was affected by a telemetry. This is good for custom events, traces and very interesting for exceptions. However, adding this information on every calls are redundant and not clean. That is why, Application Insights allows you to add a telemetry initializer. A telemetry initializer is a a […]

Post-Mortem of my Asp.Net MVC Project, SQL Server, Redis and managed with VSTS

During winter 2014, I decided to re-write my old 2004 PHP stock simulator. My initial plan about what needed to be done changed just a few, since the beginning even if I joined Microsoft few months after. Most of the work planned got executed. With the move and the arrival of my first daughter, I […]

Asp.Net MVC Bootstrap Update Broke Bundle

Upgrading Nuget package is always not an easy process. While the packages are downloaded for you, the migration side effects are often obscure. Some packages are not upgraded often and have some recurring issues. Bootstrap is one that doesn’t work well with Asp.Net MVC that it’s easy to forget. Using BootStrap is not a problem […]

Boosting Asp.Net MVC performance improvement by not using Razor templates

Here is a real case scenario. A website running on Azure that got deployed in release mode with everything pre-compiled. Still hitting 400ms to render the whole view. With Glimpse on, we can see that many views are used. Partial views, editor templates and display templates and taking some extra milliseconds here and there. Here […]