On one of our recent projects, we needed to add a feature to a client’s website that would dynamically generate XML in a Razor CSHTML file. In order to do this, we first needed to tell razor that we’re writing XML, which we did by quite simply writing code to set Response.ContentType to XML’s MIME…
Hey Everyone, we have some exciting news over here at Liberty Fox! Today we just singed our new commercial lease. Liberty Fox will have its own brick-and-mortar address now instead of shared space! If you ever want to come visit, you’re welcome at any time; we make tenancy on Monday, July 1st! Our new place…
So recently we were working on a large enterprise project that involved Entity Framework 5, Repositories and Dependency Injection. We were working with a previously designed database, so every time we wanted to bring an entity into the project, we needed to create the entity, create it’s code-first map and add the map and the…
So, last week we were beating our heads against a wall trying to figure out why we could not decrypt encrypted XML files supplied by our client along with the decryption algorithm. We tried to rewrite the decryption method, researched the Rijndael Cryptography, tried other test files. We even encrypted our own files and then…
Working on an architecture framework for a client of Liberty Fox, I discovered a little known caveat of the Entity Framework. If you implement the repository pattern (or any data access methodology), then I am sure you’ve created a method to retrieve data from the data source based on some business rules. For Example: public…