Month: April 2017

Render in MVC a link with image and text

Enrico

Hi guys, I want in MVC to render a text with an image as an ActionLink. For creating a simple anchor tag, we use Html.ActionLink() helper which generates anchor tag for us. If you want to create something a bit more complicated, you must create you own component. For this reason, I created the following code. It allows you to create an anchor with an image and a text. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Web.Mvc; using System.Web.Routing; namespace PSC.MVC.Helpers { public static class CustomHtmlHelpers { ///…

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A Simple Speedtest Application

Enrico

The purpose of this code is the detect how slow is your connection downloading a file from a site. First of all, you have to create a file with a known size: for that you can use fsutil in the prompt (see another post in this blog for info). When yo do put your file in a webserver (or you can use my url), we can create the code to check the connection speed. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Net; namespace SpeedTest { class Program { static void…

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