We are creating a desktop app in WFP and using Caliburn.Micro. One thing we needed was to support keyboard shortcuts for almost all the interactions that user can do. Some of them are used global...

Sometimes it’s needed to set different request/response encoding for some of the requests. For example when some third party sends requests (or responses) in some predefined encoding and doesn’t s...

WPF toolkit (from Codeplex) includes a nice control for auto-complete textboxes. It supports also objects as items, not just strings. So we have a concept of selected item. Items can be filtered ...

In my project I have many small JavaScript files containing mostly jQuery plugins. Also there are many CSS files, because I prefer to split my CSS declarations to multiple files based on some conte...

When I am developing MVC applications I see that there are some common behavior for certain types of actions (eg. list view, edit view) which means similar code. A common solution to that problem i...

Now and then there comes a need to save some documents to the database also, along with the other information stored there already. It’s not a big deal to save some additional files to the database...

In ASP.NET MVC, every controller method which is public and not marked with NonAction attribute is considered as an action. And action name is the same as method name. But you can also provide Acti...

Lately I’ve been doing development on ASP.NET MVC and using MvcContrib grid to render simple grids. I have to say, it is very easy to use and extendible in every way. If I feel that something is mi...

Joomla has a debug plugin that is able to display different kind of information about page execution – load times in page lifecycle, strings localizations and executed SQL statements. But when usin...

Part 1 – Defining component structure Part 2 – Creating views for the front-end Part 3 – Creating views for the back-end Now it’s time to add some back-end administration functionality to our...