ASP.NET Identity is Microsoft’s fourth and by far its best iteration of an authentication/authorization system that’s built right into ASP.NET. It’s super flexible and extensible, yet easy to use and ready to go right out of the box. That ease of use is achieved in part thanks to a default backing store provider based on …
Knockout is a JavaScript-based MVVM framework. If you’re reading this article I’m going to assume that you already know what Knockout is all about and are interested in using it in your ASP.NET MVC application. However, if you’re new to Knockout, I highly recommend checking out the official website at knockoutjs.com. Let’s take a typical example …
I had a need this week to flatten a similar hierarchy of objects into a single list. I figured there must be a fancy Linq extension to do the job so I headed on over to MSDN only to discover that there isn’t. So I decided to write my own extension to flatten any similar object hierarchy.