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In this video you will see how to change the form to submit using AJAX. I recorded this video live for my livecoding channel. The code I wrote for this tutorial is further down this post.
tools What is the Microsoft Botframework and, more importantly, what is LUIS?This posts tells you about the Microsoft Botframework, and focuses mainly on the star of the show LUIS.
dotnet How to create and use custom configuration sections in ASP.NETThis post will show you how to create a custom config section in your .NET application and use it in your code.
tools 7 useful tips for creating a successful blogIn this post I'm going to share with you what I have learned from my first year of blogging, and how I managed to get over 116,000 visits to my site in the first year.
dotnet How to scrape meta data from a url using HtmlAgilityPack in C#This post gives you the code create a meta data scraper so you can get information from a url, using HtmlAgilityPack in C#.
tools Free tool to record your screen and save it as an amimated gifScreenToGif allows you to record a portion of your screen and save it as an animated gif. It also works with your webcam if you want.
dotnet Simple .NET keep alive handler to prevent timeoutThis post shows you how to create a simple keep alive for a .NET website so people can stay logged in whilst the page is open, instead of it timing out after 20 minutes.
dotnet Simple Reusable .NET Caching Example Code in C#Caching is important because it can speed up your website or application. Here is a simple example for you to take away and re-use:
dotnet How to fix Font Awesome WebFont woff2 not foundIf you are getting the error fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.6.3 not found but you definitely know you have the file, here is how to fix it in IIS.
dotnet Switch between ajax and post back in the same formI realised that I needed to change the mode of the form depending on which button was pressed. So I came up with this bit of javascript/jquery.
dotnet How to create a random password generator in C#In this post I will show you how to create your own password generator in C#. It can be used to generate random strong passwords and it complies with recommendations from OWASP
dotnet LINQ method to see if two lists contain a matchThis post gives you the code to check if two lists contain a match. It is written in C# and uses LINQ.