Sean Lynch

In my previous post I had talked about my decision to implement OpenId, and how DotNetOpenAuth worked well for this. In this post I will talk a little about the only issue that I ran into while doing this. The root of this issue had to do with how my hosting is setup for sites [...]

I recently integrated OpenId into a project that I am working on with my wife, WebQuest Builder in order to avoid the extra considerations related to storing user password. Originally I had planned on using RPXNow in order to do this. But after reading about how realms worked, specifically that Google gives a different identifier [...]

As of late I have gotten a chance to use the ASP.Net AJAX extenders and script controls, and so far am really liking how they work, though it would be nice if adding the .js was a little cleaner then manually adding them to the assembly wether in the AssemblyInfo.cs or the controls cs file. [...]

I have been following Rob Conery’s posts on the MVC Storefront, and trying the repository/pipes-filters for data access that he has been using. While trying out the implementation of a LazyList he was using, I had noticed that the example table was being joined onto the category table. At the time however, I really had [...]

Since administration was the next part I wanted to work on. I decided that for the moment I just want a little login for in the upper corner like I decided to put the login screen view logic into a user control, and added the following user control named Login.ascx and placed it into the [...]

Its amazing how fast things can be done when not fighting bad assumptions. In this case it was that my admin URLs needed to use the nice descriptive URLs, instead of just /[Controller]/[Action]/[id] type routing. Once I realized I was making things overly complicated I, I ended up with a set of routing functions that [...]

My first thought is, I really wish I could use this at work, but it is working nicely so far for my rewrite of my web site. Writing Classic ASP style again is taking a little getting used to again though, the visual preview from the designers made styling the page a lot nicer. The [...]

After working on the login usercontrol, I decided that I wanted to add similar functionality to the navigation sections of the site for accounts/roles that didn’t get ads displayed. So I needed a standard way to put dynamic sections into a page. I liked the syntax used by the form HtmlHelper methods, so decided to [...]

It turned out to be a lot easier to work around not being able to override the route parsing method then I had thought it would be last night. Though when they allow me to override that method I will be changing over. By setting up the following routes I was able to get almost [...]

I finally had a chance to sit and work with LINQ for a bit, and while it is very cool, a little bit of its luster was lost when I can assign interfaces to the anonymous classes generated by the queries. Meaning I can not do something like: public interface IExample { string Name { [...]