Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

Tag: ASP.NET

  • Walkthrough: ASP.NET MVC Identity with Microsoft Account Authentication

    Walkthrough: ASP.NET MVC Identity with Microsoft Account Authentication

    UPDATED (May 16, 2016) — If you’re looking for how to do this with ASP.NET Core, here’s the ASP.NET Core 1.0 version. UPDATED (June 13, 2014) — With the latest version of the ASP.NET Identity / OWIN libraries and code, the Redirect URL value that you’ll use in Step #8 should now be “http://www.mysampleapp.com/signin-microsoft”.  If…

  • Fix: ASP.NET Web Deploy ‘ERROR COULD NOT CONNECT TO REMOTESVC’ error

    I was playing around with deploying an ASP.NET application to a server using Web Deploy in Visual Studio 2012 and I go this annoying little error.  I’d fill out the dialog for publishing via Web Deploy and when I’d click “Validate Connection” it would run and eventually fail.  The problem turned out to be “user…

  • Windows Azure Sample Code – A Real Application

    We here at Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc have been working on creating a training course for Windows Azure.  Rather than just showing the students how to do basic skills and coding with Windows Azure and Azure Storage, I wanted to be able to make some architectural recommendations and be able to describe the best practices…

  • Hook Visual Studio Web Tests in to TFS Team Build

    SearchWinDevelopment.com has posted another of my Team System “tips” on their site.  This one walks you through running Visual Studio Web Tests from a Team Build. Run Visual Studio Web Tests from a Team Foundation Server Build By Ben Day 13 Nov 2009 | SearchWinDevelopment.com  One of the great features of Visual Studio 2008 is…

  • Article: “Eliminate Database Dependencies in Test-Driven Development”

    My first magazine article is up!  (Yay!)  Eliminate Database Dependencies in Test-Driven Development How to avoid the end-to-end integration test problem with the Repository pattern. By Benjamin Day 09/01/2009 Many developers are tasked with writing unit tests as test-first design and development becomes commonplace, even on teams that aren’t strictly practicing Agile methodologies. Test-driven development…

  • You’ve got to do basic maintenance.

    As we’re coming up on the release of Visual Studio 2010, I’ve been getting questions from clients about their upgrade strategy – should I upgrade to Visual Studio Team System 2008 now or wait and jump from VS2005 to VS2010?  The answer — like lots of things in software — is “it depends.”  The important…

  • ASP.NET MVC Framework Project Type is Missing.

    I went looking to create an ASP.NET MVC Framework project and found that the project type template was missing.  I googled/binged around for a while and couldn’t come up with an answer. Looking at this site I thought that it was saying that all you had to do to get the project types was to…

  • New Features in Visual Studio Team System 2010 (VSTS2010) Web Tests

    I’ve been starting to research Visual Studio Team System 2010 (VSTS2010) and Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS2010) so that I can update the training materials for my class.  Part of this process is going through the features that are in VSTS2008 and finding the places that they are different.  Last week, I was helping a…