Comments for Richard Dingwall

Comment on Syntax for renaming a foreign key with sp_rename by Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:03:27 +0000

BTW – The same goes for Default Values.

Comment on Syntax for renaming a foreign key with sp_rename by Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:51:27 +0000

Thanks Richard, I’ve also been struggling with this.

Comment on Three common ASP.NET MVC URL routing issues by Richard

Richard — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:20:46 +0000

@Bill: not sure either. Have you tried the ASP.NET MVC Route Debugger?

Comment on Three common ASP.NET MVC URL routing issues by Bill

Bill — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:43:07 +0000

Hi. I’m absolutely baffled. As I understand the above, my code should be working. I have a mixed app. A calendar is served via MVC, but I have standard pages as well. If I go to directly to my pages URL (ie. domain/Default.aspx), the pages load and work correctly. If not, my MVC calendar is always loaded. That is, my Default.aspx page no longer loads by default. If I remove Global.asax and Global.asax.cs from my code, my Default.aspx page loads normally (but, of course, the MVC stops working).

I have the following in my Global.asax.cs page:

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute(“{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}”);
routes.IgnoreRoute(“{resource}.aspx/{*pathInfo}”);
routes.IgnoreRoute(“{resource}.aspx”);

routes.MapPageRoute(“”, “{*anything}”, “/pages/Main.aspx”);

routes.MapRoute(
“Calendar”, // Route name
“Calendar/{controller}/{action}/{id}”, // URL with parameters
new { controller = “Calendar”, action = “Index”, id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
);

}

protected void Application_Start()
{
AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
}

Any idea why “Default.aspx” won’t load by default when someone goes to my URL?

Thank you.

Comment on Returning camelCase JSON from ASP.NET Web API by deef

deef — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:25:29 +0000

Would be great if we could do this for regular mvc, but…
JsonResult uses JavaScriptSerializer directly in MVC3.
Don’t know if MVC4 allows us to change implementation.

Comment on Parallel vs serial javascript async tests by Richard

Richard — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:02:55 +0000

@Daniel: QUnit is very solid but a bit simple – I was outgrowing it with too many tests that needed to be put in some bigger hierarchy. Plus I wanted something a bit more BDD-ish. I am now using Jasmine (my preferred) for unit tests, and Mocha for full app integration tests (where I hit this parallel issue).

Comment on Parallel vs serial javascript async tests by Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:26:21 +0000

What was the reason for QUnit > anything else switch?

Comment on Recording the git commit hash in your assembly with TeamCity by Richard

Richard — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:05:11 +0000

@Joshka: thanks, I didn’t know there even was such an attribute. I have updated the post to use that instead.

Comment on Recording the git commit hash in your assembly with TeamCity by Joshka

Joshka — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:25:13 +0000

Richard,
The AssemblyInformationalVersion attribute is another alternative as it can be any string. E.g. “1.2.3.4 (git c9d183c857)”. This has an added benefit of being automatically included in your app’s app data path and registry key.
See: MSDN Docs for AssemblyInformationalVersion

Comment on The trouble with soft delete by Richard

Richard — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:51:33 +0000

@Brian: move the archive data into a separate archive/reporting store, denormalized, read-optimized and including active and inactive data.

Depending on the size and constraints, this could simply be a separate denormalized table, or a separate schema, a separate DB or even a cube or something. But basically the idea is to separate your transactional (live, normalized, write-optimized) data from historical reporting data (inactive, denormalized, read-optimized). If you try to do both in the same table, concerns will leak from one side to the other (e.g. reports will have to do too many JOINs, and the write side will have to have WHERE Active = 1 all over the place).