I’ve been working with OData recently and one thing that briefly stumped me was that the property names begin with @ and in an MVC view the @ symbol is used to indicate C# code so when I tried to reference a property in JavaScript the page then thought I Read more
If for whatever reason you can’t just use a nice jQuery plugin like js-cookie then the below Javascript will serve as a basic method of setting and getting cookies.
Although there’s probably plenty of good plugins to do this my code for getting and setting URL parameters is below. These take the URL to parse as an argument as I wanted to be able to update parameters in linked URLs as well as the current URL which would be Read more
By default new Web Applications created in Visual Studio 2017 use Bower for managing external libraries such as jQuery and Bootstrap, however Bower is no longer best practice (and seemed a bit flaky in Visual Studio anyway) and so for new projects I now use npm for managing packages. Using Read more
As part of an ongoing project I’ve been trying to upload files from from the browser to an ASP.NET Core MVC site, however there appears to be a hard limit preventing uploading files greater than ~28.6 MiB in size which I can’t manage to figure out a way around. As Read more
One of the new input types in HTML5 is week which allows you to specify a week period. Unfortunately although Chrome brings up a nice datepicker to allow you to select the week Firefox and IE12 and earlier don’t implement this and so just display a standard input text box. Read more
I have a package called ChartJSCore which generates the required JavaScript for creating Chart.js charts in a web application. For the most part the JS for this is essentially JSON so this works by serializing chart objects using Newtonsoft which automatically quotes both the object name and value. However, some Read more
The easiest way to post data from a view to a controller action is by adding a form and submit button and letting most of the hard stuff happen automatically. Unfortunately this doesn’t really work in cases where data needs to be submitted by a javascript function, in these situations Read more
How to display a popup form from a button/link click in a webpage I was trying to figure out how to get a popup form to appear from a button click in a table, with the form making use of data from the row in which the button is clicked. Read more