Development Articles

We would all love to work with only new development, however, we know that isn't possible. Although we might be working with legacy code, or databases we can still work to leverage new technology even if bound by old semantics and standards.

Code quality analysis is a tricky task that has many tools and so many opinions about which tools are better than another etc. In this post, I share my experiences with NDepend.

It is important for a 404 page to return the proper HTTP Status to those visiting the website. DNN's default 404 page, unfortunately, doesn't always set the proper status unless it is configured properly.

One of the biggest pain points that I have encountered with ASP.NET MVC is working with the rendering of input fields for date values and differences between web browsers. This post explores solutions that have helped me.

Developers will often need to add custom functionality that ties into, or consumes data from, existing DNN tables. There are many ways that one can do this, and this post explores one of the best ways to do this without impacting DNN.

Bundling with ASP.NET MVC should be a part of all developer's toolkits. This post explores a unique situation where developers could be met with inconsistent processing of bundles.

This post outlines detailed response steps for those that were exploited by recent DNN security issues.

A recent security vulnerability has been exploited resulting in rogue host users being created, everything you need to know to mitigate and clean up your environment safely.

Those following best practices guidance will leverage memory-based caching as often as possible, however, this apparently isn't always enough as there are situations where additional steps are necessary to FORCE memory-based caching.