Localization in ASP.NET 5 & MVC 6

ASP.NET 5 is a pretty revolutionary version - it's a complete rewrite, and an open source effort. They say that the reason for the ground-up redesign is the fact that the world has changed, and it has. We now have micro-services, on-premise servers that do not have to be…

Deciding between Azure Web Apps and Cloud Service

Recently, at a project, we had to decide which technology to use. So far, for most of the projects I've been a part of, that run on Azure, we've gone with Cloud Services. Obviously, each project had their own separate reasons. For example, when we rebuilt MojeDelo.com [http://www.…

Complex validation in MVC and web apps, using FluentValidation

Most projects require some sort of form input. And additionally, those form inputs need to be validated. For the validation, ASP.NET developers have a lot of options, but the default one is pretty good. That is the DataAnnotations [http://www.asp.net/mvc/overview/older-versions/mvc-music-store/mvc-music-store-part-6] . Those give…

Saying "no"

I wrote this post a couple of years ago. I think I even posted it here for a short time, then decided to remove it due to the potential bad connotation in regards to the projects & clients of my former team - even though it was not related. Still, today,…