Solution: (Error)Unable to Correct problems, You have held broken packages–Install .NET Core on Ubuntu

Recently, I have been using Linux(Ubuntu) machine on my virtual box quite a bit and as  Microsoft.NET Developer I want to install .NET Core on Ubuntu. So I tried following the instruction from below link to install .NET core on Ubuntu 16.04. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/linux-prerequisites?tabs=netcore2x But...

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Arguments in View Component : ASP.NET MVC 6

Recently before sometime, I have written a blog post about What's new in View Component : ASP.NET MVC 6. I have got lots of page view for that blog post and I am thank full to my readers for that. I got email from one of the readers that how we can pass arguments in View Component or how...

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Learning resources for ASP.NET MVC

I am getting lots of question regarding where to learn ASP.NET MVC. So I thought it will beneficial to write a blog post so that everyone get advantages of it. Today there are multiple resources available to learn ASP.NET MVC here I have listed some of the my favorite resources to learn ASP.NET MVC. Videos: Videos are great way to learn any technology and there are many video resources are available. 1)...

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Enum support for views in ASP.NET MVC 5.1

Recently before some time Microsoft has announced release of ASP.NET MVC 5.1. It’s comes with tons of feature and  Enum support is one of them. In the earlier release of ASP.NET MVC there was no direct support for the Enums and in the views but with ASP.NET MVC 5.1 Microsoft is providing directly @html.EnumDropDownList for which directly creates a dropdown from the Enum itself. So What we are...

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Getting started with ELMAH and ASP.NET MVC

We all need a framework to log exceptions in our web application. Today, We are going to learn about same. ELMAH(Error Logging Modules and Handlers) is an application wide error logging framework. How we can install it in ASP.NET MVC. What is ELMAH: ELMAH(Error logging Modules and Handlers) is...

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Compile time view checking for ASP.NET MVC.

While developing an ASP.NET MVC application, you need to create lots of views. At that time it does not compile the view. So if you have some typo in your view like namespace or any where you will get to know when you load that view in browser. At that time ASP.NET Complier will compile the complete view.  We all are humans and we tends to make spelling mistakes and sometimes it a productivity...

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Creating PDF with ASP.Net MVC and RazorPDF

Update: I have written a new blog post about better approach to create a PDF with asp.net mvc- You can find that following location.- A Better Solution to create PDF with Rotativa and ASP.NET MVC In this post we are going to learn how we can easily create PDF from ASP.Net application with the help of Razor PDF NuGet package. About Razor PDF: This NuGet package is created by Al Nyveldt It internally...

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Getting started with Twitter Bootstrap and ASP.Net MVC

Update: Now with ASP.NET MVC5 you don't need to install twitter bootstrap nuget package now its by default available with default template. In this blog I am going explain how we are  going integrate Twitter Bootstrap library with ASP.Net MVC. What is Twitter bootstrap: Twitter Bootstrap is open source library created by Twitter. As per twitter it’s Sleek, intuitive, and...

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Multiple file upload with asp.net mvc and HTML5

Few days I have written a blog post about Multiple file upload with asp.net 4.5 and Visual studio 2012. It was greatly appreciated by the community and also been part of www.asp.net community daily spot light.  On that post one of my reader Ciwan Kurd has requested the asp.net mvc version of that post. So in this post I will explain how we can do multiple file upload with HTML5. For this post...

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ASP.NET Web API Basics

We have seen that now web is really becoming cross plate form and you can see your services or API can be exposed to any client. Till now one of big challenges is to choose platform for this kind of service. There are so many options available like web services, WCF services,Generic Handlers, directly writing responses on aspx page etc. There are plenty of options available and each one has their...

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Creating Basic RSS Reader in ASP.NET MVC 3

In this post I am going to explain you how we can create a basic RSS Reader with the help of Linq-To-Xml and ASP.NET MVC3 Razor. Those who are writing or reading Blogs already knows what is RSS Reader. But those who does not know What is RSS. Below is the definition for RSS as per Wikipedia. RSS...

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Setting default value for @Html.EditorFor in asp.net mvc

Yesterday one of my friend asked me to set default value for @HTML.EditorFor in ASP.NET MVC. So I decided to write this blog post. In this blog post I am going to Explain How we create Default values for model Entities. So Let’s start this via taking a simple example Model class called User. In User...

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Insert with Dapper Micro ORM and ASP.NET MVC 3

As I have already posted about the how to fetch data in my earlier post for Dapper ORM. In this post I am going to explain how we can insert data with the dapper ORM. So let’s extend the earlier post project. As explained in earlier post I have already created a class called CustomerDB this class will...

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Playing with dapper Micro ORM and ASP.NET MVC 3.0

Some time ago Sam Saffron a lead developer from stackoverflow.com has made dapper micro ORM open source. This micro orm is specially developed for stackovewflow.com for keeping performance in mind. It’s very good single file which contains some cool functions which you can directly use in your browser....

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Nav tag in HTML5

HTML5 is great new version of HTML with great features. I am exploring that in great details for our forthcoming projects. I found a great tag that can be used in all websites for the navigation. <nav> tag defines a area for navigation in whole HTML markup. The HTML5 specification for nav tag...

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HTML5 Intellisense in Visual Studio 2010/2008

Recently I was playing with HTML5 and I was in need of the HTML5 intellisense in Visual Studio 2010. I found a great extension which will provide me a great intellisense for HTML5. I thought its great to share with you all.  You can download that tool from following link. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/d771cbc8-d60a-40b0-a1d8-f19fc393127d Once...

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New search feature Navigate To in Visual Studio 2010

While you are doing code review then it is very necessary to search code and navigate code what you are reviewing and Navigate To feature of Visual Studio 2010 is made for the same. With the help of that feature you can easily navigate through code. You can go to Navigate Window via Edit-> Navigate...

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Working with more then one web.config files in asp.net application.

Recently one of reader of my blog how we can work with more then one web.config files in asp.net application. So I decided to blog about that. Here is the my reply for that. You can work with more then one web.config file in asp.net. But you can not put more then one web.config in each folder. Let’s...

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