Articles by John Atten (Articles: 19, Technical Blogs: 56)

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	ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Setting Up Account Validation and Two-Factor Authorization 20 Apr 2014 Updated: 9 Jun 2014 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 29 Popularity: 7.18 Licence: CPOL Views: 145,814 Bookmarked: 59 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. With the release of the Identity 2.0 framework in March of 2014, the Identity team has added a significant set of new features to the previously simple, but somewhat minimal ASP.NET Identity system. Some of the most visible, and in-demand features introduced with the new release are account validati
	Creating A Basic Make File for Compiling C Code 9 Jul 2014 Updated: 10 Jul 2014 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 60,846 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The basics of compiling C code and using Makefiles
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C#	ASP.NET Web Api 2.2: Create a Self-Hosted OWIN-Based Web Api from Scratch 24 Jan 2015 Updated: 26 Jan 2015 Rating: 4.99/5 Votes: 33 Popularity: 7.57 Licence: CPOL Views: 143,990 Bookmarked: 61 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Building up a lean, minimal Web Api application from scratch is a terrific way to become more familiar with how things work under the hood in a Web Api (or any other ASP.NET) project.
	C#: Using Reflection and Custom Attributes to Map Object Properties 11 Mar 2014 Updated: 11 Mar 2014 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.82 Licence: CPOL Views: 150,079 Bookmarked: 33 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I have a general distaste for decorating my code with Attributes and Annotations. Most of the time, I can't help but feel like there must be a better way to accomplish what I am trying to do, and/or that I have somewhere sprung a leak in what should be a helpful abstraction. Other times, though, c
	C# - Generate and Deliver PDF Files On-Demand from a Template Using iTextSharp 3 Dec 2013 Updated: 12 Dec 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 98,246 Bookmarked: 50 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this article, we will examine the specifics of this "Just-In-Time" PDF generation.
SQL	C#: Avoiding Performance Issues with Inserts in SQLite 16 Dec 2014 Updated: 17 Dec 2014 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.73 Licence: CPOL Views: 80,530 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. If you are new to SQLite, you may well run across one of the most confounding of its implementation details the moment you attempt to do some sort of bulk or batch processing of inserts or updates. What you will discover is that unless properly implemented, inserting or updating multiple records
Security
Identity	ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Implementing Group-Based Permissions Management 18 Aug 2014 Updated: 16 Sep 2014 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 6.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 70,656 Bookmarked: 61 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Earlier this year we looked at Implementing Group-Based Permissions Management using the ASP.NET Identity 1.0 framework. The objective of that project was to gain a little more granular control of application authorization, by treating the now-familiar Identity Role as more of a "permission" which c
	ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Introduction to Working with Identity 2.0 and Web API 2.2 25 Sep 2014 Updated: 6 Nov 2014 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 123,782 Bookmarked: 63 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In recent posts, I've covered a lot of ground using ASP.NET Identity 2.0 in the context of an MVC application. Since it's RTM in March of this year, Identity 2.0 has offered a substantial expansion of the Authentication/Authorization . toolset available to MVC applications. Similarly, Identity 2.0
Web Development
ASP.NET	Extending Identity Accounts and Implementing Role-Based Authentication in ASP.NET MVC 5 13 Nov 2013 Updated: 24 Jun 2014 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 81 Popularity: 9.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 419,678 Bookmarked: 156 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Implementing simple role-based identity management and working with identity accounts in ASP.NET MVC 5.
	ASP.NET MVC 5 Identity: Extending and Modifying Roles 14 Feb 2014 Updated: 14 Jul 2014 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 45 Popularity: 8.14 Licence: CPOL Views: 325,591 Bookmarked: 112 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. 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
	ASP.NET Identity 2.0 Extending Identity Models and Using Integer Keys Instead of Strings 17 Jul 2014 Updated: 6 Aug 2014 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 6.47 Licence: CPOL Views: 101,985 Bookmarked: 37 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A deeper look at extending the core set of models afforded by the Identity 2.0 framework, and re-implementing the basic Identity Samples project using integer keys for all of our models, instead of the default string keys which are the default.
	ASP.NET MVC 5 Identity: Implementing Group-Based Permissions Management Part I 20 Feb 2014 Updated: 11 Aug 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 25 Popularity: 6.99 Licence: CPOL Views: 265,139 Bookmarked: 84 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Add Basic Group-Based permissions management to your ASP.NET MVC application. For applications of moderate complexity, which require a little more granularity in authorization permissions, but which may not warrant moving to a heavy-weight solutions such as Active Directory.
	ASP.NET MVC 5 Identity: Implementing Group-Based Permissions Management Part II 20 Feb 2014 Updated: 11 Aug 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 46,673 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is the second part of a two-part series in which we figure out how to implement a basic Group-based permissions management system using the ASP.NET MVC 5 Identity system. In this series, we are building upon previous concepts we used in extending the IdentityUser class and implementing Role-Bas
	ASP.NET Web Api: Unwrapping HTTP Error Results and Model State Dictionaries Client-Side 2 Oct 2014 Updated: 3 Oct 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 6.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 102,875 Bookmarked: 21 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. When working with ASP.NET Web Api from a .NET client, one of the more confounding things can be handling the case where errors are returned from the Api. Specifically, unwrapping the various types of errors which may be returned from a specific API action method, and translating the error content in
	ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Customizing Users and Roles 27 Jun 2014 Updated: 6 Nov 2014 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 44 Popularity: 8.14 Licence: CPOL Views: 243,635 Bookmarked: 123 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The ASP.NET Identity team released the Identity 2.0 framework RTM back in march. The new release contained significant additions to the functionality found in the original 1.0 release, and introduced some breaking changes as well. In a previous post, we took a high-level look at how Identity 2.0 w
	ASP.NET MVC and Identity 2.0: Understanding the Basics 20 Apr 2014 Updated: 8 Jan 2015 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 70 Popularity: 9.11 Licence: CPOL Views: 629,173 Bookmarked: 189 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. On March 20, 2014, the ASP.NET team released the RTM version 2.0 of the new Identity framework. The new release brings with it some long-awaited new features, and marks a substantial expansion of the security and authorization capabilities available to ASP.NET applications of all types. The ASP.NE
	Creating a Clean, Minimal-Footprint ASP.NET WebAPI Project with VS 2012 and ASP.NET MVC 4 4 Jul 2013 Updated: 13 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.70/5 Votes: 23 Popularity: 6.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 153,555 Bookmarked: 70 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Creating a clean, minimal-footprint ASP.NET WebAPI project with VS 2012 and ASP.NET MVC 4.
	Customizing Routes in ASP.NET MVC 22 Aug 2013 Updated: 26 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 59 Popularity: 8.68 Licence: CPOL Views: 432,941 Bookmarked: 114 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to customize routes in ASP.NET MVC.
HTML	ASP.NET MVC: Add a Select All Checkbox to a Checklist Table Using JQuery 6 Jan 2014 Updated: 6 Jan 2014 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 60,860 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. ASP.NET MVC: Add a Select All Checkbox to a Checklist Table Using JQuery

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Cloud
	Understanding Windows Azure Blob Storage (A Quick Overview) [Technical Blog] 25 May 2013 Updated: 25 May 2013 Rating: 3.67/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.75 Licence: CPOL Views: 47,490 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A quick overview of Windows Azure Blob Storage
Database Development
	A More Useful Port of the Chinook Database to Postgresql [Technical Blog] 6 Apr 2015 Updated: 6 Apr 2015 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,190 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A More Useful Port of the Chinook Database to Postgresql
PostgreSQL	Installing and Configuring PostgreSQL 9.4 on Linux Mint/Ubuntu [Technical Blog] 19 Apr 2015 Updated: 22 Apr 2015 Rating: 4.77/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.03 Licence: CPOL Views: 132,892 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Installing and configuring PostgreSQL on a Linux box is either simple, because you are a Linux and/or Postgres expert, or not so simple, because you are new(er) to Linux, Postgres, or both. Over the past year, I have resided firmly in the latter camp.
	Use Postgres JSON Type and Aggregate Functions to Map Relational Data to JSON [Technical Blog] 29 Jun 2015 Updated: 29 Jun 2015 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,912 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use JSON type and aggregate functions to map relational data to JSON
DevOps
Git	Basic Git Command Line Reference for Windows Users [Technical Blog] 11 Sep 2012 Updated: 18 Sep 2012 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 21 Popularity: 6.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 445,708 Bookmarked: 40 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. CodeProjectWhile there are GUI interfaces available for GIT (some good, some bad), familiarity with at least the basics of git’s command line interface can only enhance your ability to use the tool to maximum effectiveness.
	Getting Started with Git for the Windows Developer (Part III) - Working with Files Using Bash [Technical Blog] 19 Sep 2012 Updated: 20 Sep 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,400 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Third part in a series focused on getting familiar with Git for Windows developers
	Git Subtree Merge –The Quick Version [Technical Blog] 16 Mar 2013 Updated: 16 Mar 2013 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 44,624 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Here is the quick version of Git Subtree Merge
	Managing Nested Libraries Using the GIT Subtree Merge Workflow [Technical Blog] 16 Mar 2013 Updated: 16 Mar 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 47,675 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Managing nested libraries using the GIT subtree merge workflow
	Git: Interactively Stage Portions of a Single Changed File for Commit Using git add -p [Technical Blog] 8 Sep 2013 Updated: 11 Sep 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,191 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Interactively stage portions of a single changed file for Commit using git add -p.
	Git Quick Reference: Interactive Patch Staging with git add -p [Technical Blog] 8 Sep 2013 Updated: 20 Sep 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,251 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Interactive patch staging with Git add -p.
Testing	C#: Building a Useful, Extensible .NET Console Application Template for Development and Testing [Technical Blog] 8 Sep 2014 Updated: 18 Sep 2014 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 7.08 Licence: CPOL Views: 106,487 Bookmarked: 66 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How often do you find yourself tossing together a console application for the purpose of trying out code, "testing" in the sense of seeing what works best, or, possibly, as a means to demo some library of function? I do, a lot.
DNVM
	DNVM, DNX, and DNU - Understanding the ASP.NET 5 Runtime Options [Technical Blog] 29 Jun 2015 Updated: 1 Jul 2015 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 30 Popularity: 7.12 Licence: CPOL Views: 137,469 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Understanding the relationship between the .NET Version Manager (DNVM), the .NET Execution Environment (DNX) and .NET Development Utilities (DNU) is fundamental to developing with ASP.NET 5.
Editing
	Install Sublime Text 3 (beta) on Linux Mint or Ubuntu [Technical Blog] 25 Aug 2013 Updated: 28 Jan 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 82,223 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Install Sublime Text 3 (beta) on Linux Mint or Ubuntu.
General Programming
Exceptions	Java: Checked Exceptions, Revisited Part II [Technical Blog] 6 Nov 2012 Updated: 6 Nov 2012 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,610 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Checked exceptions in Java.
	Java: Checked Exceptions, Revisited (or, a closer examination of a flawed mechanism) [Technical Blog] 6 Nov 2012 Updated: 6 Sep 2013 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.34 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,250 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post is a re-examination of some topics I discuss in an older post.
Hosted Services
Azure	Deploying an Azure Website from Source Control [Technical Blog] 15 Apr 2013 Updated: 25 Oct 2013 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,130 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Deploying an Azure website from source control.
Serverless	Installing and Using SQLite on Windows [Technical Blog] 7 Dec 2014 Updated: 9 Dec 2014 Rating: 4.91/5 Votes: 24 Popularity: 6.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 117,683 Bookmarked: 53 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to install and use SQLite on Windows
MVC
	ASP.NET MVC Display an HTML Table with Checkboxes to Select Row Items [Technical Blog] 6 Jan 2014 Updated: 6 Jan 2014 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 3.95 Licence: CPOL Views: 152,247 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Often we need to create a table for our ASP.NET MVC web application with a checkbox next to each row, in order to allow the user to select one or more items from our list for additional processing. While the concept is not terribly challenging, it is not intuitive or obvious if you are newer to MVC.
Operating Systems
Linux	Installing Sublime Text 2 on Linux Mint/Ubuntu (for Linux Newcomers) [Technical Blog] 24 Apr 2013 Updated: 11 Sep 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.49 Licence: CPOL Views: 131,464 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Installing Sublime Text 2 on Linux.
	Git: Setting Sublime Text as the Default Editor for Git (Linux Mint/Ubuntu) [Technical Blog] 11 Sep 2013 Updated: 12 Sep 2013 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 23,441 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Setting Sublime Text as the default editor for Git (Linux Mint/Ubuntu).
Windows	Git: Combine and Organize Messy Commits Using Interactive Rebase [Technical Blog] 3 Apr 2013 Updated: 18 Sep 2013 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.07 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,770 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post describes a rather specific use of Git’s rebase command.
	Keep Nuget Packages Out of Source Control with Nuget Package Manager Restore [Technical Blog] 10 Nov 2013 Updated: 21 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.55 Licence: CPOL Views: 49,554 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Keep Nuget packages out of source control with Nuget Package Manager Restore.
	Getting Started with Git for the Windows Developer (Part I) [Technical Blog] 3 Sep 2012 Updated: 3 Sep 2012 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,712 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Introductory examination of Git in a Windows Environment for those who are just getting started
	Getting Started with Git for the Windows Developer (Part II) - Get Acquainted with Bash [Technical Blog] 11 Sep 2012 Updated: 11 Sep 2012 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,861 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is the second installment of a multi-part series about getting your feet wet with Git for Windows developers.
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C#	Splitting and Merging PDF Files in C# Using iTextSharp [Technical Blog] 9 Mar 2013 Updated: 10 Dec 2013 Rating: 4.88/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.73 Licence: CPOL Views: 213,843 Bookmarked: 41 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Splitting and merging PDF files in C# using the iTextSharp library.
	Working with PDF files in C# using PdfBox and IKVM [Technical Blog] 2 Feb 2013 Updated: 3 Feb 2013 Rating: 4.33/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.30 Licence: CPOL Views: 80,056 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Working with PDF files in C# using PdfBox and IKVM.
	.NET DataGridView: Change Formatting of the Active Column Header to Track User Location [Technical Blog] 12 Oct 2012 Updated: 12 Oct 2012 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,562 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to change the formatting of the Active Column Header to track user location.
	Extending C# ListView with Collapsible Groups (Part I) [Technical Blog] 3 Sep 2012 Updated: 3 Sep 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 64,007 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Examination of a quick way to create more useful expandable groups in the .NET ListView control.
	Extending C# ListView with Collapsible Groups (Part II) [Technical Blog] 3 Sep 2012 Updated: 3 Sep 2012 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.86 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,090 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Continued examination of C# ListView subclass with collapsible groups.
	Send Email to Selected Recipients from your ASP.NET MVC Web Application Part II [Technical Blog] 19 Jan 2014 Updated: 19 Jan 2014 Rating: 4.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.20 Licence: CPOL Views: 34,720 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is the second part of an article demonstrating how to build out an application for sending personalized email to recipients selected from a list. In the first part, we put together the basic structure of our ASP.NET MVC application, according to a simple list of requirements.
	Modeling a Directory Structure on Azure Blob Storage [Technical Blog] 25 May 2013 Updated: 25 May 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 41,896 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post discusses modeling a directory structure on Azure Blob Storage.
	C# SMTP Configuration for Outlook.Com SMTP Host [Technical Blog] 21 Dec 2013 Updated: 27 Dec 2013 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 5.15 Licence: CPOL Views: 126,474 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. C# SMTP configuration for Outlook.com SMTP host
	Use Cross-Platform/OSS ExcelDataReader to Read Excel Files with No Dependencies on Office or ACE [Technical Blog] 18 Oct 2013 Updated: 18 Oct 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 41,816 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Use cross-platform/OSS ExcelDataReader to read Excel files with no dependencies on Office or ACE.
	C#: Create and Manipulate Word Documents Programmatically Using DocX [Technical Blog] 29 Sep 2013 Updated: 14 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 38 Popularity: 7.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 571,435 Bookmarked: 94 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Create and manipulate Word documents programmatically using DocX.
	C# - Wildcard Search Using LINQ [Technical Blog] 8 Aug 2013 Updated: 10 Aug 2013 Rating: 4.56/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.74 Licence: CPOL Views: 57,901 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Wildcard search using LINQ
	C#: Query Excel and .CSV Files Using LinqToExcel [Technical Blog] 26 Sep 2013 Updated: 14 Nov 2013 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 31 Popularity: 7.36 Licence: CPOL Views: 203,632 Bookmarked: 74 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. C#: Query Excel and .CSV files using LinqToExcel.
Javascript	Is Duck Typing a Type System, or a Way of Thinking? [Technical Blog] 5 Jan 2014 Updated: 6 Jan 2014 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.31 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,661 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Ok, so there is what might be my first-ever "link bait" title. Especially dangerous because I am about to jump into a discussion propagated by some well-known, highly-respected developers against whom my own self-taught, inexperienced knowledge pales.
Visual Basic	Visual Studio: Use Conditional Compilation to Control Runtime Settings for Different Deployment Scenarios [Technical Blog] 3 Sep 2012 Updated: 20 Sep 2013 Rating: 4.94/5 Votes: 17 Popularity: 6.08 Licence: CPOL Views: 88,675 Bookmarked: 37 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Use conditional compilation to control runtime settings for different deployment scenarios.
XML	C#: A Better Date-Masked Text Box [Technical Blog] 29 Sep 2012 Updated: 29 Sep 2012 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 85,581 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. John on Google CodeProjectLet’s face it. Managing date information within the .net framework (or any framework, really . . . Java is not much better) is a pain the the ass. Really. What makes it even worse is managing user data entry of date information.
Security
	Send Email to Selected Recipients from your ASP.NET MVC Web Application Part I [Technical Blog] 19 Jan 2014 Updated: 19 Jan 2014 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 25,251 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I recently had to throw together an application for work allow users to send email to recipients selected from a list.
Identity	ASP.NET Web Api and Identity 2.0 - Customizing Identity Models and Implementing Role-Based Authorization [Technical Blog] 17 Nov 2014 Updated: 19 Nov 2014 Rating: 4.97/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.54 Licence: CPOL Views: 82,983 Bookmarked: 40 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In a previous post, we took a high-level look at using Identity 2.0 in the context of a Web Api application. We essentially poked and prodded the default Visual Studio Web Api project template, learned where things live, and got a basic sense for how it all is supposed to work.
	ASP.NET Web API: Understanding OWIN/Katana Authentication/Authorization Part III: Adding Identity [Technical Blog] 22 Mar 2015 Updated: 23 Mar 2015 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.81 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,580 Bookmarked: 22 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This is the third post in a series in which we have built up a minimal, self-hosted, OWIN-based Web Api application essentially from scratch. In this post we'll pull in a minimal ASP.NET Identity implementation.
SSH
	How to Use SSH to Access a Linux Machine from Windows [Technical Blog] 23 Nov 2012 Updated: 28 May 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 5.73 Licence: CPOL Views: 397,797 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to use SSH to access a Linux machine from Windows
Visual Studio
	Visual Studio–Painlessly Renaming Your Project and Solution Directories [Technical Blog] 15 Dec 2013 Updated: 2 Jan 2014 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 28 Popularity: 7.18 Licence: CPOL Views: 228,366 Bookmarked: 39 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Renaming your project and solution directories.
Web Development
ASP.NET	Routing Basics in ASP.NET Web API [Technical Blog] 22 Jul 2013 Updated: 22 Aug 2013 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 6.10 Licence: CPOL Views: 209,503 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post covers the most basic and fundamental concepts of routing as applied to the ASP.NET Web API framework.
	Reverse-Engineering an Existing Database in your ASP.NET MVC Application Using Entity Framework Model/Database-First [Technical Blog] 21 Oct 2013 Updated: 22 Oct 2013 Rating: 4.58/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.14 Licence: CPOL Views: 50,184 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post we will take a quick look at how to reverse engineer an existing database to create your conceptual data model.
	ASP.NET MVC–Azure Websites and EF Model First Connection Strings when Deploying from Github [Technical Blog] 21 Oct 2013 Updated: 23 Oct 2013 Rating: 4.80/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.44 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,751 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, we are going to look specifically at the vexing situation I ran into deploying from source control with an application using Entity Framework's "Model-First" strategy.
	ASP.NET MVC: Configuring ASP.NET MVC 4 Membership with a SQL CE Database [Technical Blog] 6 Oct 2013 Updated: 2 Dec 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 48,680 Bookmarked: 14 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Configuring ASP.NET MVC 4 membership with a SQL CE database.
	Routing Basics in ASP.NET MVC [Technical Blog] 22 Jul 2013 Updated: 10 Dec 2013 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 32 Popularity: 7.21 Licence: CPOL Views: 219,240 Bookmarked: 51 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This post covers the most basic and fundamental concepts of routing as applied to the ASP.NET MVC framework.
	Code-First Migration and Extending Identity Accounts in ASP.NET MVC 5 and Visual Studio 2013 [Technical Blog] 27 Oct 2013 Updated: 18 Dec 2013 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 40 Popularity: 7.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 401,128 Bookmarked: 83 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post we will review setting up the basic Identity accounts, pointing them at an external SQL Server (or whatever other database you choose) instance instead of the default (local) SQL Server CE in App_Data, and configuring Entity Framework Migrations so seed the database with initial data.
	ASP.NET MVC: Show Busy Indicator on Form Submit using JQuery and Ajax [Technical Blog] 23 Dec 2013 Updated: 2 Jan 2014 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 5.24 Licence: CPOL Views: 125,102 Bookmarked: 31 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. As we all know, users are impatient. We also know that if we don't tell them our application is "doing something" they tend to do silly things like click the mouse repeatedly, seeking some sign that the requested action is indeed being performed.
	ASP.NET Web Api: Understanding OWIN/Katana Authentication/Authorization Part I: Concepts [Technical Blog] 16 Feb 2015 Updated: 16 Feb 2015 Rating: 4.96/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 5.53 Licence: CPOL Views: 73,762 Bookmarked: 34 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Identity is fully compatible with the OWIN Authorization model, and when used in this manner, represents a very useful, ready-to go concrete implementation.
	Building Out a Clean, REST-ful WebAPI Service with a Minimal WebApi Project [Technical Blog] 4 Jul 2013 Updated: 22 Oct 2013 Rating: 4.98/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.85 Licence: CPOL Views: 106,083 Bookmarked: 40 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Build out a clean, minimal-footprint REST-ful API.
	ASP.NET MVC: Keep Private Settings Out of Source Control [Technical Blog] 6 Apr 2014 Updated: 7 Apr 2014 Rating: 4.25/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.03 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,620 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. ASP.NET MVC: How to keep private settings out of source control
	ASP.NET: Understanding OWIN, Katana, and the Middleware Pipeline [Technical Blog] 12 Jan 2015 Updated: 26 Jan 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 71 Popularity: 9.26 Licence: CPOL Views: 230,583 Bookmarked: 120 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. OWIN, Katana and Middleware Pipeline in ASP.NET
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	Webmatrix 3: Integrated Git and Deployment to Azure [Technical Blog] 15 Apr 2013 Updated: 15 Apr 2013 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 24,941 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Integrated Git and deployment to Azure

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John Atten

Software Developer XIV Solutions

United States

My name is John Atten, and my username on many of my online accounts is xivSolutions. I am Fascinated by all things technology and software development. I work mostly with C#, Javascript/Node.js, Various flavors of databases, and anything else I find interesting. I am always looking for new information, and value your feedback (especially where I got something wrong!)

Articles by John Atten (Articles: 19, Technical Blogs: 56)

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