Matt Hidinger

Matt Hidinger

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Progressive enhancement in MVC 3 with the help of custom ActionResults

5 minutes read

Last week I wrote a tutorial on Progressive enhancement with ASP.NET MVC 3 and jQuery. It might be a good idea to skim it if you aren’t already familiar with some of the concepts.

Progressive enhancement tutorial with ASP.NET MVC 3 and jQuery

7 minutes read

Progressive enhancement is a strategy for web design that emphasizes accessibility, semantic HTML markup, and external stylesheet and scripting technologies. Progressive enhancement uses web technologies in a layered fashion that allows everyone to access the basic content and functionality of a web page, using any browser or Internet connection, while also providing those with better bandwidth or more advanced browser software an enhanced version of the page.

Effectively serializing data to wp7 using JSON and asp.net mvc

4 minutes read

At PDC’10 last year Microsoft showed their upcoming solution for sharing assemblies between different platforms (Windows Phone, Silverlight, and .NET) – dubbed Portable Library Projects. The release date is said to be H1 2011 so hopefully they are still on track, maybe even to be included in VS 2010 SP1. Until then, we are on our own…

Major updates to doddlereport, get it on nuget

1 minute read

DoddleReport automatically generates tabular reports from any IEnumerable datasource. Out of the box it can render reports to Excel, PDF, HTML, and CSV – fully pluggable of course. I designed the project to provide reporting output over the LINQ queries we had already written for the application, but maybe you can find other uses for it.

highlights from PDC day 1

3 minutes read

Portable Library Projects