Design resources for Windows Phone and Windows 8 programmers
I enjoy working with WP- and Win8 projects. New cool hardware, new application architectures, new tools and no more battleship-grey experiences! The developer scene has changed, especially at the frontend. I have collected some useful design resources for developers in this post.
Show tooltips in ASP.NET MVC using qTip
I am playing around with some movie data in a web application as a spike for a future Windows Phone app. I decided to test qTip for showing movie info in a tooltip when clicking on a movie in a table.
Dynamically set row background color in a WebGrid depending on the content
I created an exercise log with a grid showing the week results with a background color indicating if the week is in the future (white), failed (red) or was an epic success (green). The WebGrid does not support this out of the box at the moment. I looked over different alternatives to solve this.
Set up your own custom 404 and 500 error pages in an ASP.NET MVC site
Most website visitor appreciates a clean understandable error page, therefor I have set up custom 404 and 500 pages at my main web site. These are the steps:
Manually add ASP.NET Application Services in db when aspnet_regsql.exe fails
My website host offers me one single free MS Sql database. This leads me to share application specific parts together with Application Services, Membership and Roles in the same database. This can be done automagically with the tool aspnet_regsql.exe, but in my case it failed.
Present the most recent image from a Flickr imageset
The start page on my main site present the latest image from a flickr set I upload to from my mobile phone. Here’s how it’s done: