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The Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) 3.5 provided some Visual Studio templates to create a Secure Token Service (STS.) Unfortunately these were not available in Visual Studio 2013 and also, they actually created a Web Site rather than a Web Application.

Recently I got a bit stuck trying to do the simple task of set some values on a checkbox. The form was quite complex and I was finding that checking a checkbox to signify a "FollowUp" had occurred was not being posted back to the server. It took quite a bit of fiddling around before I got to the bottom of the problem so thought I would record the solution...

In a previous post, I mentioned how a JavaScript object can be thought of simply as a collection of properties. But a property in JavaScript is more than just a value - property’s themselves have… well properties.

I've been messing around with JavaScript for years now, but have been more of a JQuery hacker. I thought it was time to learn the language properly as its becoming increasingly common in web applications these days. This is a bit of a dummies guide, but I guess you need to start somewhere...

A quick template below for the basic setup of Rhino Mocks Stubs...

You know your having a bad day when you have to logon to a server to start running SHRINKFILE commands to free up disk space. Recently our Team City builds will start failing because an application API is down and when we track that through, we find that a Sql Server has run out of disk space. Doh!

Twitter's typeahead JQuery plugin provides excellent auto suggest functionality that you can use on text boxes. It transforms a rudimentary lookup facility into a very useful search tool. There's a great example on the project homepage ...