Ben Cull - Payments Engineer and Microsoft Development Professional

My Blog

The culmination of my learnings over the years. The best way to learn is to explain to others.

A focus on Web for Visual Studio - What I'd love to see 02 Apr 2022
What it takes to bring Payments to the Xero Roadshow 12 Feb 2019
Lessons from the "Lobster Hat" guys in Startup Alley at XeroCon 13 Sep 2018
Time Service 23 Jul 2018
Material Design stack for Angular 6 17 May 2018
Expression and Projection Magic for Entity Framework Core 04 Jan 2018
Identity Server 4 Solution Architecture 18 Oct 2017
Creating a Self-Signed Certificate for Identity Server and Azure 09 Jun 2017
Enable Entity Framework Core Migrations in Visual Studio 2017 30 May 2017
Parse and Modify Query Strings in ASP.NET Core 11 Apr 2017
How to Send Email using .NET Core 13 Feb 2017
Is Active Route Tag Helper for ASP.NET MVC Core 29 Jan 2017
ASP.NET Community Standup TL;DW - 22 Nov 2016 25 Nov 2016
Global Routes for ASP.NET Core MVC 07 Aug 2016
Using Sessions and HttpContext in ASP.NET Core and MVC Core 23 Jul 2016
Why Angular-CLI Creates a Shared Index.ts - Barrel Modules 05 Jul 2016
Entity Framework Core Migrations for Class Library Projects 29 Jun 2016
Dotnet EF Migrations for ASP.NET Core 28 May 2016
Single Sign-Out / Logout for Identity Server 4 08 Apr 2016
New Configuration and AppSettings for MVC6 - Web.config is Gone 07 Apr 2016
Getting Started with Autofac and MVC6 + ASP.NET Core (aka ASP.NET 5) 26 Jan 2016
Angular 2 Routing with ASP.NET Core 1 (aka ASP.NET 5) 21 Jan 2016
Better Error Handling and Custom Errors for ASP.NET MVC 23 Oct 2015
A Better Require HTTPS Attribute for ASP.NET MVC 06 Oct 2015
Tips for Hiring a Development Team and CTO 14 Jul 2015
Using Sessions and HttpContext in ASP.NET 5 and MVC6 10 Jul 2015
NDC Oslo 2015 - Taking Other People's Money 25 Jun 2015
Get the Absolute URI from ASP.NET MVC Content or Action 20 May 2015
Subdomain Routing in ASP.NET MVC 20 Feb 2015
Remove Identity from Primary Key with Drop and Recreate Table 13 Feb 2015
Run IIS Express on Port 443 Using SSL and Wildcard Subdomains 04 Nov 2014
Handling Validation Errors with AngularJS and ASP.NET MVC 09 Oct 2014
Angular Directive for Bootstrap-Switch 25 Jul 2014
IE is caching my AngularJS requests to ASP.NET MVC 24 Jul 2014
The State of Payments in Australia - DDD Melbourne Edition 21 Jul 2014
Kendo Date Picker Directive for AngularJS 01 May 2014
Move Shelveset to a Different Branch in TFS 15 Apr 2014
The State of Payments in Australia 31 Mar 2014
Wizard Style Navigation Tabs for Bootstrap 12 Mar 2014
Track Created and Modified fields Automatically with Entity Framework Code First 07 Mar 2014
Download an ASP.NET MVC View as a Word Document 30 Jan 2014
You can use TextBoxFor to output other HTML5 elements in ASP.NET MVC 14 Nov 2013
QuickEvent - A tiny javascript event engine 17 Feb 2013
WinJS - Call a Static Method or Property from an Instance 16 Dec 2012
Run Multiple SSL Websites on IIS6 Using a Wildcard Certificate 29 Nov 2012
Using LESS CSS With MVC4 Web Optimization 01 Oct 2012
Property with NotifyOfPropertyChange Code Snippet for Caliburn.Micro 16 Sep 2012
How to Force Light Theme in your XAML Windows 8 App 13 Sep 2012
Setting up a SOAP WebService with SSL using Configurationless WCF 21 Aug 2012
Navigation for WinJS Metro Style Apps | Windows 8 Tutorials 05 Aug 2012
JobFork - The Australian Developer Job Board 02 Jul 2012
What is Gadgeteer? – Getting Started 21 Feb 2012
Using Multiple Application Bars in Windows Phone Development 12 Dec 2011
Continuum Transition for Windows Phone Silverlight Toolkit 07 Nov 2011
How to Use the Long List Selector for Windows Phone Mango 09 Oct 2011
Using the MVC-Mini-Profiler with Entity Framework 26 Jul 2011
Scrollfixed Sidebar Tutorial with jQuery 05 Jun 2011
TwitLinkz Wp7 App – Summarizing a Twitter Feed Near You! 24 May 2011
Torrential – uTorrent WP7 App – Version 1.3 Available Now! 08 May 2011
A Brand New Set of Live Tiles for Torrential Coming Soon 05 May 2011
Push Notifications in Windows Phone 7 – 3: Push that Notification 23 Apr 2011
Push Notifications in Windows Phone 7 – 2: Code on the Server 18 Jan 2011
Getting Started Guide 17 Jan 2011
Push Notifications in Windows Phone 7 – 1 Code on the Device 13 Dec 2010
Torrential – uTorrent WP7 App – Version 1.2 Available Now! 04 Dec 2010
Torrential – uTorrent client for Windows Phone 7 in the Marketplace! 15 Nov 2010
Building Torrential – A Windows Phone 7 Story 10 Nov 2010
Torrential 08 Nov 2010
Privacy Policy 08 Nov 2010
Credit Card Validator Attribute for ASP.NET MVC 3 04 Nov 2010
SplitQuoteSafe – A SQL function for splitting a string 16 Sep 2010
SuperQ – A Portable Persistent .NET Queue 05 Sep 2010
jQax jQuery plugin – The jQuery plugin version of the jQax ajax wrapper 18 Aug 2010
jQax – A Simple jQuery Ajax Wrapper with Loading Notification 13 Aug 2010
Endless Scrolling ListView in Android 09 Aug 2010
Simple MVC 2 Pager Control – PagerHtmlHelper 26 Jul 2010
Android Updates for the HTC Hero the Custom Way with VillainROM 21 Jul 2010
How to use SQL Server Encryption with Symmetric Keys 11 May 2010
How to return multiple formats with WCF including XML, JSON and ATOM 06 May 2010
Deserializing JSON in Android using GSON 30 Apr 2010
I’m an Android developer 22 Apr 2010
Javascript Classes are a Best Practice for Cleaner Javascript 15 Apr 2010
Using SMTP with Wordpress and IIS 28 Mar 2010
5 Lifesaving Tips for Creating a WCF RESTful API in .NET 4 23 Mar 2010

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