Ethan Cabiac
Ethan is a Senior Consultant for Catapult Systems and blogs about application architecture and development using the .NET framework. Ethan is a MCTS in ASP.NET.

ModelMetadata for CSS Classifiers in ASP.NET MVC

Published: Feb 01, 2012
​With a type-per-hierarchy approach to data mapping, one (or more) of the columns represents a classifier. In this scheme, the classifier field acts like metadata. This can also be a useful approach in ASP.NET MVC for designing a model which using C …[Read more]
Posted in .Net, ASP .NET MVC, C#, Razor| 

Community Kit for SharePoint Enhanced Blog Edition (CKS:EBE) Archive Count Fix

Published: Jan 30, 2012
​ Catapult's very own Rachel Switzer posted about upgrading the CommunityKit for SharePoint Enahanced Blog Edition to SharePoint 2010. In that post she mentions a couple of known issues, including the archive count which displays a count for all p …[Read more]
Posted in SharePoint 2010, CKS EBE| 

Using using? Never say never

Published: Jan 30, 2012
This is a repost from my personal site: I was having a discussion with a colleague of mine regarding use of the using statement as it applies to WCF calls. I always wrap using statements around any IDisposable (except in a few cases, like instantia …[Read more]
Posted in .Net, C#, WCF|