I know the new MVC 5 HTML tag attributes for rendering ASP.NET widgets is all the rage, but there are a lot of useful approaches to using the server-side HTML helpers.  One simple extension method we are going to look at is adding control level security.  Often within our applications, we have a means of […]

In many social networking sites, pasting a URL from a news site into Facebook or Linked In displays a nice synopsis of that link.  The URL pasted into such status box is read, capturing information about the page and it’s specific contents, such as a title,description, thumbnail, etc.  One common technique used is to extract […]