Hey Guys, it’s been a little while… I won’t bore you with what I’ve been up to, but long story short life has been a little crazy over the last year. I’ve wrote some apps at work and have learned a TON. I’m also dropping the TL;DR format because I just don’t like it anymore. …
Write an RSS Feed Aggregator, Displaying the Feed Content
TL;DR: We’re almost done with this series. Hallelujah? This one is about building the class that will display all of our feed contents and an HTML helper class that will help us build the HTML that goes into the WebBrowser control. Code is here, video is here. Displaying the Feed Content So again, a little…
Write an RSS Feed Aggregator, The FeedsManager class
TL;DR: We’re getting there. In this one, we build the Feed class and the FeedsManager class that manages all of the feeds the user wants to view in the Aggregator. Code is here, video is here (and down below) The Brain of the Aggregator Like I said above, we’re gonna talk about the Feed class…
Managing App Configs with the ConfigurationManager
TL;DR: So, ASP.NET has a build-in method for handling custom, user-specific app configs. It’s called the ConfigurationManager, and I’ll show you how to use it. Code is here, and the video is here (or down below, whatever floats your boat).
Write an RSS Feed Aggregator, Part 2.1 Setting Up the GUI
TL;DR: Just a bunch of GUI setup stuff. Watch the video here. If you’re not familiar with adding controls to forms and working with Visual Studio, I would recommend this video and this blog post.
What is MVC?
TL;DR: MVC = Model View Controller. Data from a database is represented as a model class. The view takes that data represented by the model and inserts it into an HTML template that is written into the view. The controller is responsible for creating the model from data retrieved from a database and passing that model into the view.
Turn a Razor Model into a JavaScript Model
Note: This post is out of date, please see the updated version here If you really want to read it, please be my guest but this method is unnecessary and @Html.Raw presents many XSS security issues. TL;DR: This one is a little different than my other posts. Basically, I wrote some code that I’m happy…
How to build a Simple Calculator in C#
TL;DR: Here’s the code: GitHub: Simple Calculator The video is down below.
Get started with Git version control, the easy way
TL;DR: If you haven’t gotten Git yet, get Git here. git init git status git add . git commit -m “Your commit message here” git reset
Want to start a blog?
TL;DR: Check out John Sonmez over at simpleprogrammer.com. Check out his email blog course at here. Check out his Youtube channel here.