Using jQuery to Read JSON Returned from an MVC Controller Method
It’s easy to return a complex C# object from an MVC controller as JSON for your client-side JavaScript to consume. Just use the Json() method of the Controller class to serialize your C# object to...
View ArticleEnsure Latest Javascript & CSS in Browser Cache in ASP.NET MVC
Each time you update your website’s Javascript and CSS files through a deployment, there’s a good chance returning visitors will use their outdated cached copy of those files. All web browsers cache...
View ArticleASP.NET Data Caching Helper Extension Method
Sometimes ASP.NET output caching doesn’t do the trick and you need to implement data caching to avoid trips to the database or to external API’s. Data caching is pretty simple- check the cache via a...
View ArticleMVC Html Extension Method to Output a JavaScript Date Object
Here’s a quick MVC HTML extension method that outputs a JS date object. It’d be nice if JS had a way to represent a date literal outright, but this works just the same. The tricky part with the...
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