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Modernizing Legacy ASP.NET Applications Without a Full Rewrite
A surprising amount of the business world still runs on ASP.NET WebForms and older ASP.NET MVC applications targeting the .NET Framework. These systems were often built fifteen or…
Understanding and Maintaining ASP.NET WebForms in a Modern World
ASP.NET WebForms is often spoken of in the past tense, yet a remarkable number of business-critical applications still run on it. Built to bring the familiar, event-driven model o…
Modernizing Legacy .NET Applications Without a Full Rewrite
Almost every organisation that has built software for any length of time owns a legacy .NET application that still earns its keep. It runs critical processes, embodies years of ha…
How AJAX Evolved from XMLHttpRequest to the Modern Fetch API
It is easy to forget how radical AJAX once felt. For much of the early web, every interaction meant a full page reload: click a link, submit a form, and the browser would blank ou…
Building Maintainable .NET Applications with Clean Architecture
Most .NET applications do not fail because the code stops working. They fail slowly, as a once-tidy project grows into a tangle where every change risks breaking something else, b…
How AJAX Powers the Modern Casino Front End
A decade ago a casino lobby was a sea of static thumbnails wrapped in full page reloads. Click a category, wait for the server to render a fresh HTML document, repeat. Today that…
HTMX and the UpdatePanel — Why the Original AJAX Pattern Came Back Twenty Years Later
For about three years now, HTMX has been the framework you cannot avoid in developer Twitter, Hacker News threads, and conference talks. It is positioned, by its creators and most…
ViewState — What It Actually Was, Why It Broke Things, and What Modern Frameworks Quietly Learned From It
If you started writing web applications after about 2014, there is a reasonable chance that the first time you opened the DevTools on a WebForms application, you saw a hidden fiel…