Latest General ASP.NET Articles

ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta introduced Single Page Applications (SPA), web applications that provide rich functionality to a web page through a client side script. Support is limited, but a basic framework for building data driven web pages using popular JavaScript libraries is provided. This article discusses the SPA project template and parts of a typical SPA application.

In a typical ASP.NET MVC application, the controller sends model data to the view and the view then renders the data in the required form. Bipin Joshi shows you how child action methods can be used to render markup dynamically.

Asynchronously running code can improve the overall performance and responsiveness of your web application. In ASP.NET 4.5 web forms applications you can register asynchronous methods with the page framework. The ASP.NET page framework and .NET 4.5 asynchronous programming support then executes the operations in asynchronous fashion. This article shows how this can be done.

For security reasons browsers don't allow cross-domain communication. However, in some legitimate situations cross-domain communication becomes necessary. A common work-around for this restriction is to use JSON with Padding or JSONP. In this article you will learn how JSONP can be used in an ASP.NET MVC application.

Unhandled exceptions in the Web API controller class are often indicated as HTTP status code 500, i.e. Internal Server Error. This generic error message is of little use to the client. Bipin Joshi explains how to use Web API to fine tune and customize the HTTP errors that are sent to the client browser.

Earlier releases of ASP.NET validation controls depended upon JavaScript, emitted by the ASP.NET web form framework. Unobstructive validation makes use of the data-* attributes of HTML5 for validation purposes. Bipin Joshi shows you how the new unobstructive validation features work for Web Forms.