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Archives / 2011 / September
  • ASP.NET MVC 4: Display modes

    One new features of ASP.NET MVC 4 is support for display modes. This means that you can conditionally show different output to different user agents like desktop and mobile browsers. Of course, you can define your own custom rules too. In this posting I will show you how display modes work and explain how to use them in your ASP.NET MVC applications.

  • ASP.NET MVC 4: New template for web applications

    I’m playing with ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview. There is new default application template available for ASP.NET MVC 4 web applications. New template is modern, has better look than current one and has better support for different screen sizes. In this posting I will show you how new template looks like.

  • Using Lucene.NET search engine library in .NET applications

    Adding search capabilities to applications is something that users often ask. Sometimes it is not enough to have just filters on lists. Instead of going with mainstream and write complex SQL queries we can be smarter and use specialized indexing and search solutions that perform way better than custom large SQL queries that I consider as anti-pattern for searching something. In this posting I will introduce you Lucene.NET indexing and search engine and show you how to use it in your applications.