Articles by RICK STRAHL

DropDownList and SelectListItem Array Item Updates in MVC

So I ran into an interesting behavior today as I deployed my first MVC 4 app tonight. I have a list form that has a filter drop down that allows selection of categories. This list is static and rarely changes so rather than loading these items from the database...

Passing multiple POST parameters to Web API Controller Methods

By Rick Strahl

ASP.NET Web API introduces a new API for creating REST APIs and making AJAX callbacks to the server. This new API provides a host of new great functionality that unifies many of the features of many of the various AJAX/REST APIs that Microsoft created before...

Amazon Product Advertising API SOAP Namespace Changes

By Rick Strahl

About two months ago (twowards the end of February 2012 I think) Amazon decided to change the namespace of the Product Advertising API. The error that would come up was:<ItemSearchResponse xmlns='http://webservices.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/2011-08-01'>...

GZip/Deflate Compression in ASP.NET MVC

By Rick Strahl

A long while back I wrote aboutGZip compression in ASP.NET. In that article I describe two generic helper methods that I've used in all sorts of ASP.NET application from WebForms apps to HttpModules and HttpHandlers that require gzip or deflate compression....

Internet Explorer and Cookie Domains

By Rick Strahl

I've been bitten by some nasty issues today in regards to using a domain cookie as part of my FormsAuthentication operations. In the app I'm currently working on we need to have single sign-on that spans multiple sub-domains (www.domain.com, store.domain.com,...

Getting a 'base' Domain from a Domain

By Rick Strahl

Here's a simple one: How do you reliably get the base domain from full domain name or URI? Specifically I've run into this scenario in a few recent applications when creating the Forms Auth Cookie in my ASP.NET applications where I explicitly need to force...

ASP.NET MVC Postbacks and HtmlHelper Controls ignoring Model Changes

By Rick Strahl

So here's a binding behavior in ASP.NET MVC that I didn't really get until today: HtmlHelpers controls (like .TextBoxFor() etc.) don't bind to model values on Postback, but rather get their value directly out of the POST buffer from ModelState. Effectively...

Wishful Thinking: Why can't HTML fix Script Attacks at the Source?

By Rick Strahl

The Web can be an evil place, especially if you're a Web Developer blissfully unaware of Cross Site Script Attacks (XSS). Even if you are aware of XSS in all of its insidious forms, it's extremely complex to deal with all the issues if you're taking user input...

Odd MVC 4 Beta Razor Designer Issue

By Rick Strahl

This post is a small cry for help along with an explanation of a problem that is hard to describe on twitter or even a connect bug and written in hopes somebody has seen this before and any ideas on what might cause this. Lots of helpful people had comments...

Physical Directories vs. MVC View Paths

By Rick Strahl

This post falls into the bucket of operator error on my part, but I want to share this anyway because it describes an issue that has bitten me a few times now and writing it down might keep it a little stronger in my mind.I've been working on an MVC project...