Samsung Smart TV’s HTML app with AngularJS

If you haven’t checked out my previous post about developing a Chrome cast custom receiver app with AngularJS, click here. Angular JS framework into Samsung Smart TV is very much possible as well. I’m making available a project that you can use to get started with navigating , selecting and focusing on objects on screen. It’s […]

Chromecast receiver app development with AngularJS

Despite what everyone will tell you, AngularJS just happens to be an excellent tool for developing Chromecast receiver apps because Angular is lightweight and it’s essentially a great tool for Single Page Applications, which is exactly what a custom receiver app is. If this is your first time with Chromecast, I suggest you read more about it here before […]

Prevent caching on Chromecast receiver app

This article intends to assist on enabling and disabling cache on a Google cast custom receiver application. During development, we don’t want the Chrome cast dongle to cache our receiver app because during this phase we are constantly making changes and we want those changes to immediately reflect on the Chrome cast session for testing […]

Web Server not serving certain file types

Internet Information Services (IIS, formerly Internet Information Server) will not return file types that are not added to the <staticContent> element or that have mappings in the <handlers> element by default. This behavior prevents unauthorized access to files that do not have mappings in the IIS configuration settings. The message returned is: “The resource you are looking […]

Conditional Compilation Symbol on cshtml and aspx

According to msdn, you can define symbols/constants for the c# compiler and use them in your code as compile conditions using the #if directive. Those symbols can be used to specify conditions for compilation. However, CSHTML (MVC Razor), ASPX (WebForms) and other ASP.NET pages do not recognize project level compilation symbols. These directives are compile […]

Solve Hierarchical One-to-Many Relationship in Dynamic Data Application

How to correctly display the value of a parent-child relationship and also be able to select items on the DropDownList  in ASP.NET Dynamic Data web application? This method will work with either a recursive or hierarchical relationship between a table and itself, or a relationship between two different tables or entities. It also works with either Entity Framework or Linq To […]