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29 articles this week Tuesday, February 18, 2014 View online Welcome to this week's Web Development newsletter from CodeProject. Advertisements Enjoy CSS Like CSS, but don't like typing all those '.'s and '#'s? How about a visual CSS editor? Would that make you happy? (more: Enjoy CSS) 4 questions to ask before ending your web apps' older browser support Sure, it's fun to just put a "Works best in Lynx" bumper sticker on your site, but where's the challenge? Your users might actually still be using an older browser. (more: Software Quality Matters Blog) What every JavaScript developer should know about floating points Before you complain tl;dr, give it a chance. Sure, it's more detail than most JavaScript developers need, but there are some nasty bugs awaitin' in JS land, and floats are responsible for many of them. (more: Flippin' Awesome) Learn the Basics of XML Marie Taylor takes you through the basics of XML, including XML Syntax, Elements & Attributes, and the XML Tree Structure. Don't fear the evil twins Can a language have too many equality operators? Of course not. Perhaps JS should add ==== and !=== for amusement's sake? (more: Sitepoint) Why we left AngularJS: 5 surprisingly painful things about client-side JS Here's the 'counterpoint' for all the pro-SPA framework articles that we've been running for a while. Mileage does indeed vary. (more: Sourcegraph) Beyond tracking: how to improve your web metrics Page views are such a simplistic model for tracking your site (and so easily manipulated). So, here are a few more things to keep track of. (more: Sitepoint) Preventing code injection Don't let little Bobby Tables hack your site. (more: Net Tuts) Latest Articles 29 articles overall. 16 new, 13 updated. New articles added .NET Framework Home Automation with Microsoft Kinect Point Cloud and Speech Recognition - Dan Thyer Use a Microsoft Kinect to control the home automation in the house. Lights can be turned on an off from speech recognition or from pointing at them and waving your other hand one way to turn on and the other way to turn off. Algorithms & Recipes Getting your features out - Matthias Kainer How to stop believing in "Never change a running system" and going live as often as possible ASP.NET Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7 days – Day 5 - Shivprasad koirala, Marla Sukesh As the article's name says, learn MVC. Ao the agenda is simple, we are going to learn ASP.NET MVC in 7 days. ASP.NET Web API - ambilykk ASP.NET Web API is a framework for building HTTP services that can be accessed from various clients, such as browsers and mobile devices. ASP.NET Web API was introduced as part of ASP.NET MVC 4; however, it has its origins in WCF as WCF Web API. This new HTTP service model is simple to develop and c ASP.NET MVC 5 Identity: Extending and Modifying Roles - John Atten In a recent article I took a rather long look at extending the ASP.NET 5 Identity model, adding some custom properties to the basic IdentityUser class, and also some basic role-based identity management. We did not discuss modifying, extending, or working directly with Roles, beyond seeding the d Another Generic Util for Easily Testing REST Methods - B. Clay Shannon Easily test REST methods that do not include args in routing attributes Tools and IDE Tracking Microsoft Solutions (a Newer SCM tool) - sbarnes A small utility that feature-creeped into Yet Another SCM tool - a useful app to examine Uncategorised Technical Blogs Understanding CSS3 Translation Methods - Arpit Jain Here, we will learn about translate method of CSS3 Articles updated ASP.NET Learn MVC (Model View Controller) step by step in 7 days – Day 1 - Shivprasad koirala As the article's name says, learn MVC. Ao the agenda is simple, we are going to learn ASP.NET MVC in 7 days. MVC interview questions with answers - Shivprasad koirala The whole purpose of this article is to quickly brush up your MVC knowledge from an MVC interview perspective. Learn MVC (Model View Controller) Step by Step in 7 Days – Day 3 - Shivprasad koirala This article is Part 3 and continuation to the Learn MVC Step by Step in 7 Days series. Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7 days – Day 2 - Shivprasad koirala Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7 days – Day 2 Learn MVC (Model view controller) Step by Step in 7 days – Day 4 - Shivprasad koirala In day 4 we will look in to JSON ,Jquery ,Aysnch controllers and session management. Using DayPilot 2 (Outlook-Like Calendar/Scheduling Control for ASP.NET) - Dan Letecky Showing the features of a flexible ASP.NET event calendar/scheduling control. Service Based Membership Providers for ASP.NET - Shuqian Ying Service based, multi-application ASP.NET custom membership, role and profile providers with a hierarchical role system. Membership Stores for ASP.NET - Shuqian Ying Service based, multi-application, post ASP.NET 4.0 asynchronous custom membership stores with a hierarchical role system. Build and deploy ASP.NET Web API 2 service layer at the speed of thought! - Naveen Karamchetti Learn how to develop WebAPI service layer using a simple example Date and Time Time Period Library for .NET - Jani Giannoudis Extensive time period calculations and individual calendar periods. XML XMLFoundation - Brian Aberle XMLFoundation is the fastest approach to dealing with XML and it also delivers a simple and easy to manage pattern of software development into your application. New Tips and Tricks added Algorithms & Recipes Knight's Tour - JS00001 JavaScript implementation of Knight's tour problem ASP.NET Run ASP.NET Website on Network through IIS 8.0 - PallavSingh How to run a website on one PC to another PC through IIS 8.0 How to Instantiate Objects in Web API from Args Passed in a URI to a RESTful Method - B. Clay Shannon Easily (and elegantly) inflate objects based on args passed to a REST method in a URI C / C++ Language Tracking BSTR Memory Allocations to Find Memory Leaks - Eyal Rosner If you are looking for memory leaks related to BSTR pointers, this tip might be very relevant for you. Client side scripting Using jQuery $() Function and Animation and an Image Carousel Example - m@nish.patil Using jQuery $() function and animation and an image carousel example Grid & Data Controls GridView with DataPager in ASP.NET 4.0 - Mithun Achar GridView with DataPager in ASP.NET 4.0 Tips and Tricks updated Web Services Use C# to get JSON Data from the Web and Map it to .NET Class => Made Easy! - Mikhail-T Easy steps on how to get JSON formatted data from a web service, deserialize it, and map it to custom local class for further usage New Technical Blogs added ASP.NET ASP.NET CheckBoxList Client Side Validation using JavaScript - Tadit Dash In this Blog, we will explore a Trick to validate whether any CheckBox inside one CheckBoxList is checked or not. ASP.NET MVC bundles internals - Sebastian Solnica The idea of minimizing and combining multiple script and style files into one file has been popular among web developers for quite some time. 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