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Strongly Typed Icon Fonts in ASP.NET MVC

This a technique for working with icon fonts, which have been steadily gaining in popularity. I love icon fonts. They allow me to package up a whole bunch of simple glyphs and pictograms, use them on my site or application without too much fuss on nearly every browser, and let me control presentation attributes such as color, size, etc. I especially like the recent trend of web-based tools for building custom icon fonts from an available library of glyphs (I tend to use Fontastic, but I've also had good luck with IcoMoon and FlatIcon).

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Getting an HtmlHelper for an Alternate Model Type

First off, I'm back and have a lot of little tips to blog about over the next several weeks. Since my last post I have changed jobs and am no longer working with Mono, Gtk#, or XML on a daily basis. However, I am still developing for the .NET platform and have been focusing recently on ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework. Now, on to the topic at hand...

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