We’ve Moved!

Welcome readers!

We’ve moved! You can find the new blog situated at http://www.levibotelho.com, which contains all the articles found on this site and plenty of new stuff too. See you there!

 

Levi

On déménage !

Chers lecteurs, Ça ne fait pas trop longtemps depuis qu’on est en ligne, mais on va déjà déménager. La version 2.0 de ce blog se trouve à http://www.levibotelho.com. Par contre, j’ai dû malheureusement prendre la décision de ne plus écrire des articles en français de manière habituelle. J’aurais vraiment bien aimé de continuer dans les … Continue reading

The Great Big Microsoft Exam 70-487 Study Guide

I’ve been fairly busy lately studying for the Microsoft Certification 70-487 which I plan to pass in the near future (hence the lack of recent blog posts). In the course of studying I have compiled a list of links which provide information on (nearly) all the topics which, according to the Microsoft Learning website, may … Continue reading

Implementing a pop-in window in a web page

Implementing a pop-in window in a web page is a lot easier than most people think. Here’s how to do it: 1. Grey-out the screen The first step is to grey-out the screen. We do this by filling the viewport with a semi-transparent div element. To do this, apply the following CSS class to a … Continue reading

Make WebAPI Return JSON to an AJAX Request

If you make an AJAX call to a WebAPI service using an XmlHttpRequest object, you’ll notice that the data returned to you is formatted as XML. This is because the “Accept” header in a typical XmlHttpRequest call looks something like this: The Accept header plays a key role in a procedure known as “content negotiation”. … Continue reading

Eager and Lazy Loading in Entity Framework

If you have a customer entity that looks like this… …and need to get the customer’s name, chances are you will load the entire entity from the database and merely disregard the excess data. The simplicity of this is wonderful, and the impact that the excess data retrieval and storage has on application performance is … Continue reading