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Fully qualified URLs with ASP.NET MVC

If you want to generate links in ASP.NET MVC you use the Url.Action or Html.ActionLink helpers. They will give you relative links to the controller action you are linking to.

Better URLs for Scandinavian letters in N2CMS

In N2CMS the default behavior when creating a page containing ‘Å’ or ‘Ö’ in the URL is to replace it with ‘Ae’ and ‘Oe’. I find this makes less readable URLs, and I believe people are more used to read URLs where you replace it with a single letter, e.g. ‘Å’ to ‘A’. Example for page title …

Error when trying to Add-Migration in EF Code First Migrations — Alpha 3

Getting an exception like the below one when trying to add a migration with the shiny new Alpha 3 of migrations?

Late to the Github party and how I got there

Right, so I was late but I am there now – in Github. I spent a few hours yesterday to setup everything and while it took a bit longer than with Subversion I still think it was easier than expected.

Displaying Assembly Version in Windows Explorer

I have been working a lot with upgrading assemblies to newer versions and debugging why things does not work. When doing this you often have to check which version you currently have in your “bin” folder. This takes quite a lot of time as you have to check properties of each file (or hover of the …

Notes from Øredev 2010

Time flies – the Øredev week is already over and I’m back at the office. The conference was really great. Reaching above my expectations. It was of course great to learn a lot of new stuff, but what I think was the best part about the conference is that it gives you a lot of inspiration to create applications, try out new things and walk that extra mile to make your application more maintainable and tested.