Tokken: A New Way of Paying it Forward

You may have read the book or seen the 2000 film adaptation of Pay It Forward, the story of eleven year Trevor McKinney, who is given a social studies assignment to “change our world and put it into action.” Trevor comes up with the idea of “Pay it Forward,” where he will perform 3 random … Continued

EF Code First 4.3 Migration Exceptions

While working on a project using EF Code First recently, and came across the EF database migration. By following the Microsoft blog on how to perform the automatic migration, we hit an strange error when running the command “Update-Database”. System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. —> System.ArgumentException: The parameter is … Continued

SSL redirection

From www.mydomain.com or mydomain.com TO https://www.mydomain.com To accomplished the above redirection, there are few options, you can do it in IIS, web.config, live server sitting, redirection in the code level Web.config In web.config you can put the below code inside tag and that should work: <rewrite> <rules> <rule name=”Redirect domain.com to www” patternSyntax=”Wildcard” stopProcessing=”true”> <match … Continued

E-commerce … or NopCommerce?

When I was first asked to write a E-commerce site, I have to decide which language to use? Should I use open source or should I use a product out there? And after a lot of research, there is really not a single product out there that will just work out of the box and … Continued

To Azure or not to azure

Lately we been moving website into the cloud, but before answering the question to azure or not to azure, perhaps we should find out to cloud or not to cloud… I think there is no definite answer to this question, and to see if your project fits into the cloud, you should look into what … Continued