Articles by Abhimanyu K Vatsa

With the ASP.NET File upload control we can only upload one file at a time whereas HTML5 can upload multiple files at a time. Look at the animated image given below, that was the actual framework before HTML5 and equivalent with the ASP.NET 4.5 Framework.

Discover Entity Framework 6's new feature: logging database operations. Easily debug and troubleshoot performance issues by logging SQL commands, parameters, timestamps, and more. Customize logging output for better insights into your application's behavior.

Model Binding is a great feature we use today with Web Forms and MVC. In this post you will learn what are Default Model Binding and Explicit Model Binding in MVC. I will use few code snippets in this post so that you can understand it quickly.

MVC4 has gone through some major changes in Windows Authentication functionality with IIS Express. In this article you will learn how to enable Windows Authentication in MVC4 Web Application on IIS Express.

In this quick article you will learn how a view can be rendered without its native Controller Action method.

Model and ViewModel are two things we always hear about in MVC. In this article I will show you the differences between them.

In this article, you will learn what Eager Loading and Lazy Loading are and how they work in an application and how you can take advantage of them.

This article is a continuation of the article How to Create Custom Data Annotations, This article explains how to create or enable client-side validation for custom data annotations.

This article intoduces BLOB Storage and explains the installation of the Azure SDK for .NET, creating a MVC Application (Web Role) to upload BLOBs (for example, images) and delete BLOBs, and publishing to Windows Azure (Storage and Web Role).

In this post you will learn how to create custom data annotation in MVC. MVC framework has great extensibility feature and because of this we can create our own customized data annotation attributes.

In this quick post you will learn how to globalize and localize the model validation messages in MVC Applications. At the end of this article, you will also learn how to display the localized message (greeting) on the page.

This article explains how to create an MVC application using the Nested Model concept, allowing users to add or remove multiple phone numbers for an employee. It covers database setup, model creation, prepopulating input fields, and dynamic form handling using Entity Framework and View templates.

In this post, you will learn how to retrieve the views which is inside another folder. For example a view which is inside folder Views|Application|General|Index.cshtml. How will you map it or use it from controller? Is this possible?

In this article, you will learn how to remove or customize View Engines not being used by an application.

In this article you will learn what Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is and is the best way to prevent such attacks. After a quick introduction about CSRF I will show you an example where the attacker will change the profile information with one click.

Error Logging Modules and Handlers (ELMAH) is an alternative to Health Monitoring System (HMS) for logging errors and is free and available under an open-source license created and managed by Atif Aziz.

In this article, you will learn, with examples, how to avoid XSS attacks in MVC Applications with Microsoft's AntiXSS library.

It is often required live ‘username’ checking on user registration page in web applications. Today I developed this for my one of the web application and would like to share that with you.

In my last blog post I talked about ‘retrieving views from different folders in MVC’ and it works cool when we want view pages always inside Views folder (which is on the project root) but our requirement not ends here.

In this article you will learn the use of the Ajax.ActionLink helper and Html.ActionLink. I will compare both to show you how they differ.

Learn how to use jQuery Ajax GET and POST requests with ASP.NET MVC controller methods, including parameters, JSON responses, and model binding.