Craig Stuntz, Author at IderaBlog

Adding a [FixedLength] Attribute in Code-First Entity Framework

In Code First Entity Framework models, you can define the length of a string field with StringLengthAttribute, but you have to write code in...

How to Fix MSBuild Error MSB4006

by Craig Stuntz

You may encounter an error which looks like this: MSB4006: There is a circular dependency in the target dependency graph involving target...

YAML and Remote Code Execution

by Craig Stuntz

YAML's security risks are in no way limited to Rails or Ruby. YAML documents should be treated as executable code and firewalled accordingly....

Faking a placeholder Attribute for an Editable div, and Some CSS Tricks

by Craig Stuntz

HTML input elements have a placeholder attribute which you can use to show a bit of text to prompt the end user. Although you can make an editable...

Why Won’t Visual Studio Step Into This Code?

by Craig Stuntz

I helped another developer debug an interesting problem this morning. Let's see if you can spot the problem. The code in question looked...

Troubleshooting Entity Framework Connection Strings

by Craig Stuntz

In an application which uses the Entity Framework, you may see the following error at runtime: MetadataException: Unable to load the specified...

In LINQ, Don’t Use Count() When You Mean Any()

by Craig Stuntz

If you have a list, array, or query in a C#/LINQ application and need to check and see if the list is empty, the correct way to do this is to use...

A Math Primer for Gentry’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption

by Craig Stuntz

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote What Is Homomorphic Encryption, and Why Should I Care? In that post, I promised to share my C# implementation of the...

What is Homomorphic Encryption, and Why Should I Care?

by Craig Stuntz

The March 2010 issue of the Communications of the ACM includes a technical paper with an introduction entitled "A First Glance of...

jqGrid and XSS Security

by Craig Stuntz

Version 3.5.2 of jqGrid included an important new feature: Now when autoencode is set to true we encode the data coming from server and not only...

Entity Framework Models and Source Control

by Craig Stuntz

As you're probably aware, an Entity Framework model is stored in a single XML file, with the extension EDMX. Developers occasionally ask if this...

Using DayPilot with ASP.NET MVC

by Craig Stuntz

I'm going to demonstrate how to use the open-source DayPilot Lite calendar control in an ASP.NET MVC application. I will discuss the...

Using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC: Deleting Records

by Craig Stuntz

This is the fifth post in a series on using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC. Today, we’re going to begin examining the grid's editing features by...

Using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC: Search and Formatting

by Craig Stuntz

This is the fourth post in a series on using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC. Today, we're going to examine search and formatting results. I will...

Using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC: Finally, A Solution

by Craig Stuntz

Having introduced jqGrid and written LINQ extension methods to make supplying data to the grid easy, we're now ready to put together a demo...

Using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC: LINQ Extensions

by Craig Stuntz

Mere hours after I posted the first in a planned series of posts on using jqGrid in ASP.NET MVC applications, Phil Haack, a...

ASP.NET MVC TempData Is Really RedirectData

by Craig Stuntz

Update: This post was written for MVC 1. TempData behaves completely differently in MVC 2 Beta and higher. In these versions, TempData is cleared...

SQLDA missing or incorrect version, or incorrect number/type of variables

by Craig Stuntz

The error in the title comes from InterBase. Actually, the full error is: [DataDirect][ODBC InterBase driver][InterBase]Dynamic SQL Error, SQL error...