Rob Bihun

I recently had a situation when writing a website that required an SSO implementation to more than ten 3rd party applications. Of course, each of the 3rd party websites required different information in a different manner to process the sign in. In designing a mechanism to send the login information to the different providers I imagined a potentially unmanageable If/Else or Switch/Case Statement. The method I used to get around it is not new, though it is very cool and very under-utilized if you ask me… Enter IDictionary<string, Action>

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.NET 4.0, .NET 3.5, MVC

Recently I was given a requirement where clients can enter alternate text for particular content and even alternate text to the alternate text. They wanted it so that the default text would only show if the first and second alternate text was null.

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.NET 3.5, LINQ, General linq, coalesce, c#

It has come up a few times. Say you want to be able to allow someone to edit content using a rich text editor and allow them to upload images. Well, often you will find that they are linking images from other servers and the images are not formatted or sized appropriately for your application.

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ASP.NET, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.5 images, image manipulation

This post (long overdue) is to build off of my last one. I will show you a very simple, high level overview of how to create a comment form in ASP.NET and post comments asynchronously with JQuery.

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AJAX, jQuery, ASP.NET, .NET 3.5 ajax, jquery, services