wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage are open source (LGPLv3) command line tools to render HTML into PDF and various image formats using the Qt WebKit rendering engine. These run entirely "headless" and do not require a display or display service. 

• Use BindAttribute on the action method 
• Use [Editable] or [BindNever] on the model 
  
• Use two different models 
• Use a base class 
  
• Use ModelMetadataTypeAttribute 
  
• Explicit binding via TryUpdateModelAsync<> 
  

This was a very quick run down of some of the options available to you to prevent mass assignment. Which approach you take is up to you, though I would definitely suggest using one of the latter 2-model approaches. There are other options too, such as doing explicit binding via TryUpdateModelAsync<> but the options I've shown represent some of the most common approaches. Whatever you do, don't just blindly bind your view models if you have properties that should not be edited by a user, or you could be in for a nasty surprise.

And whatever you do, don't bind directly to your EntityFramework models. Pretty please. 

You might not sign up for all of them (particularly those around classes and inheritance), but these ‘Uncle Bob’-inspired tips might help you think more about how you name things and structure your code. 

Performs a smooth 2D/3D transition from one HTML element A to another element B.  2D Demo  3D Demo

• Runs a single transition or a sequence of transitions;
• Transition effect is automatically computed between two slides;
• Fallbacks to browsers that do not support 3D transformations and CSS3 animations;
• Highly customizable:
  • Any markup you want. Only restriction is sliders to be contained in a parent blocked element;
    
  • Strong event driven support;
    
  • Single transition or a sequence of transitions (movie mode);
    
  • Transition duration, easing function animation and zoom vertexes;
    
  • Optional user zoomming and panning between each transition.
    

• Responsive design, suitable for any window sizes;
• Optionally loads images asynchronously to save page load times, when slides are images.

JS Is Weird
JavaScript is a great programming language, but thanks to the fact that its initial release was built in only ten days back in 1995, coupled with the fact that JS is backward-compatible, it's also a bit weird. It doesn't always behave the way you might think. In this quiz, you'll be shown 25 quirky expressions and will have to guess the output. Even if you're a JS developer, most of this syntax is probably, and hopefully, not something you use in your daily life. 

A component licensed under LGPL can be used by closed source, proprietary software, both internally used and distributed, for free, with no effects on the software using the component. LGPL is not “contagious” in the same way as GPL, so it only affects the component under LGPL. As long as you’re only using official distributions of the component, it is free to use and free to redistribute. The only requirement is that you include a notice in your “about” page or similar that the component is used. 

I watched a lot of talks and read a lot of articles relevant to Angular performance, and this post is the summary of my findings.

In this post, we introduced the idea that not all performance optimisations need to be complex to implement. In this example, we optimised the ToUrl method of the NEST library by conditionally avoiding executing code we know would cause allocations.