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Migrating from jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js to jQuery.Validation.Unobtrusive.Native

· 4 min read
John Reilly
OSS Engineer - TypeScript, Azure, React, Node.js, .NET

So, you're looking at jQuery.Validation.Unobtrusive.Native. You're thinking to yourself "Yeah, I'd really like to use the native unobtrusive support in jQuery Validation. But I've already got this app which is using jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js - actually how easy is switching over?" Well I'm here to tell you that it's pretty straightforward - here's a walkthrough of how it might be done.

Using Bootstrap Tooltips to display jQuery Validation error messages

· 3 min read
John Reilly
OSS Engineer - TypeScript, Azure, React, Node.js, .NET

I love jQuery Validation. I was recently putting together a screen which had a lot of different bits of validation going on. And the default jQuery Validation approach of displaying the validation messages next to the element being validated wasn't working for me. That is to say, because of the amount of elements on the form, the appearance of validation messages was really making a mess of the presentation. So what to do?

How I'm Using Cassette part 3:Cassette and TypeScript Integration

· 7 min read
John Reilly
OSS Engineer - TypeScript, Azure, React, Node.js, .NET

The modern web is JavaScript. There's no two ways about it. HTML 5 has new CSS, new HTML but the most important aspect of it from an application development point of view is JavaScript. It's the engine. Without it HTML 5 wouldn't be the exciting application platform that it is. Half the posts on Hacker News would vanish.

How I'm Using Cassette part 2:Get Cassette to Serve Scripts in Dependency Order

· 8 min read
John Reilly
OSS Engineer - TypeScript, Azure, React, Node.js, .NET

Last time I wrote about Cassette I was talking about how to generally get up and running. How to use Cassette within an ASP.Net MVC project. What I want to write about now is (in my eyes) the most useful feature of Cassette by a country mile. This is Cassettes ability to ensure scripts are served in dependency order.

Death to compatibility mode

· 7 min read
John Reilly
OSS Engineer - TypeScript, Azure, React, Node.js, .NET

For just over 10 years my bread and butter has been the development and maintenance of line of business apps. More particularly, web apps built on the Microsoft stack of love (© Scott Hanselman). These sort of apps are typically accessed via the company intranet and since "bring your own device" is still a relatively new innovation these apps are invariably built for everyones favourite browser: Internet Explorer. As we all know, enterprises are generally not that speedy when it comes to upgrades. So we're basically talking IE 9 at best, but more often than not, IE 8.

DecimalModelBinder for nullable Decimals

· 2 min read
John Reilly
OSS Engineer - TypeScript, Azure, React, Node.js, .NET

My memory appears to be a sieve. Twice in the last year I've forgotten that MVCs ModelBinding doesn't handle regionalised numbers terribly well. Each time I've thought "hmmmm.... best Google that" and lo and behold come upon this post on the issue by the fantastic Phil Haack:

Using Expressions with Constructors

· 3 min read
John Reilly
OSS Engineer - TypeScript, Azure, React, Node.js, .NET

Every now and then you think "x should be easy" - and it isn't. I had one of those situations this morning. Something I thought would take 5 minutes had me still pondering 30 minutes later. I finally cracked it (with the help of a colleague - thanks Marc!) and I wanted to note down what I did since I'm sure to forget this.

Twitter.Bootstrap.MVC4 meet Bootstrap Datepicker *and* get your Internationalization on...

· 6 min read
John Reilly
OSS Engineer - TypeScript, Azure, React, Node.js, .NET

Last time I wrote about marrying up Twitter.Bootstrap.MVC4 and Bootstrap Datepicker. It came together quite nicely but when I took a more in depth look at what I'd done I discovered a problem. The brief work on regionalisation / internationalisation / localisation / globalisation / whatever it's called this week... wasn't really working. We had problems with the validation.

Getting up to speed with Bloomberg's Open API...

· 12 min read
John Reilly
OSS Engineer - TypeScript, Azure, React, Node.js, .NET

A good portion of any devs life is usually spent playing with APIs. If you need to integrate some other system into the system you're working on (and it's rare to come upon a situation where this doesn't happen at some point) then it's API time.

XSD/XML Schema Generator + Xsd.exe:Taking the pain out of manual XML

· 8 min read
John Reilly
OSS Engineer - TypeScript, Azure, React, Node.js, .NET

Is it 2003 again?!?

I've just discovered Xsd.exe. It's not new. Or shiny. And in fact it's been around since .NET 1.1. Truth be told, I've been aware of it for years but up until now I've not had need of it. But now now I've investigated it a bit I've found that it, combined with the XSD/XML Schema Generator can make for a nice tool to add to the utility belt.

Granted XML has long since stopped being sexy. But if you need it, as I did recently, then this is for you.