I recently moved my email from Gmail to Outlook.com. It’s not a small deal. I needed to get all my friends and family to update their contact info for me, and I’ve had to update my contact info on countless sites. As part this move I also started unsubscribing to pretty much anything that came into my Gmail account, but not signing up to receive those emails in my Outlook.com account.
I ran across this problem trying to deploy an Asp.Net MVC website with an AngularJS front end. Everything worked fine as long as the site was deployed as it’s own website within IIS, but when we deployed to an Application folder within an existing site things started going wrong.
The problem was that the URLs were not getting their trailing slashes properly. IIS adds a trailing slash to URLs when the last segment of the address refers to a folder rather than a file.
I was recently tasked with changing the view in our TFS Project Portal’s document library to show the file extension so you knew whether you were opening a PDF, Word Document, PowerPoint or something else for which you might not have the software installed. There is an easy way and a hard way, and the guidance I received from a few Google searches skipped a few steps on the hard way.
Here’s my list of New Year’s Resolutions for 2014:
Historically, I only wrote technical posts whenever I came across something really novel and wasn’t so specific that I didn’t think anyone else can use it. This year I’m going to loosen my standards for a technical blog posts. That means there should be more posts, but some of them might just be a different spin on things that others have covered, or things that are really specific and may not be as useful to a broad audience.
First let me say if you’re reading this and you haven’t checked out Breeze.js, you should. It’s a nice little library. I’m using it in an Angular.js based application and it has greatly simplified data access. Now on to the show.
I’m using Breeze.js for data access and as part of that I am registering some constructors like so.