Monthly Archives: June 2009

New adventures under medium trust 11

Many web hosting companies only allow ASP.NET applications to run under medium trust. This has been a major drawback for Cuyahoga because it required full trust (or better: some libraries require full trust). This has already caused some nasty surprises when people deployed their site to the host to find out it would not run. [...]

The problem of data grids in your web application 2

I’m sure everybody who builds web applications uses grids to display data. There is nothing wrong with that per se, but you might not realize that you’re increasing the customers expectations to an unreachable level: Yes, all very nice and well, but can’t you make that thing work like Excel? My first thought is always [...]

ASP.NET WebForms and MVC together in one project 3

This post briefly describes a solution to mix ASP.NET WebForms and MVC in one project. You can download a sample project that might be more useful than my ramblings. Download the sample here, unzip, open with VS 2008 SP1 and hit F5. There are lots of ‘legacy’ ASP.NET WebForms applications out there in the wild. [...]