As part of Formulate's Designed Emails feature, Nicholas wanted it easy as possible to create a Razor view to access form-submitted data that could send nice-looking emails even if some fields were changed or had the wrong casing. His solution, which he teaches us, was to create fault-tolerant, case-insensitive, dynamic properties using SafeExpandoObject.
Umbraco lets us build sites virtually any way we please, which can be both a blessing and a curse with an overwhelming range of choices. Nicholas is here to help with a technique he thinks virtually everybody can make use of: making websites with widgets using Archetype and Ditto.
Deserialization is hard, with a lot of tricky situations that can arise. Nicholas Westerby has walked through this dark land and faced its dangers firsthand, and fortunately for us he's willing to share the techniques he used to defeat the deserialization beast.
