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Strong naming has caused a religious war in the Open Source .NET-community. If you are a writing a third-party library or you simply are a .NET-enthusiast, then you will definitely want to read this extensive thread on NuGet. You will learn a lot about strong naming, its implications and the pickle the Open Source community is currently in. Be warned, the thread is long, contains heated debates and has been running for over three years.

KnockoutJS is a kick-ass JavaScript framework for creating rich and interactive web sites. One caveat of KnockoutJS is that, after you have applied your viewmodel to your page, it may be hard to figure out what data went where. Fortunately, there’s a quick trick to debugging live KnockoutJS views, right from your Chrome browser window!

DbEntityValidationException is the exception thrown by Entity Framework when entity validation fails. While this exception is extremely valuable, the exception message omits the most important bit of information: The actual validation errors. In this blog, I present a quick and easy way to unwrap and rethrow these exceptions with a more meaningful message.

ASP.NET MVC 4 is a framework for building scalable, standards-based web applications using well-established design patterns and the power of ASP.NET and the .NET Framework. Two powerful features of ASP.NET MVC 4 are Areas and WebApi. Areas let you partition Web applications into smaller functional groupings, while WebApi is a platform for building RESTful applications. Unfortunately, combining both features is not supported by ASP.NET MVC 4. In this blog, I discuss these limitations and present a possible solution.