mvc5

This post describes the easiest way to show description texts for properties in ASP.NET MVC 5. Sounds simple, right? We can use something like @Html.DescriptionFor(x => x.Property), right? Alas, it's not that straightforward....

Have you ever struggled to make your ASP.NET MVC views format your properties of type DateTime correctly? I have. And I've been shot in the leg by weird hacks made by both myself (just 6 months earlier) and someone else. ....

Are you getting duplicate object values (or whatever those Objects output in .ToString())? Eh, so was I, after I edited the display template for String. Found a fix, though. Description Okay - I just ran into one of my more stupid mistakes since.....

This post describes an issue with EF's code-first migrations, when mapping between DB's DateTime (datetime2) and C#'s DateTime simply fails, and results in the Update-Database cmdlet failing, too....