How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 1: Introduction

blog.maartenballiauw.be — “Once upon a time, Microsoft started a Windows Azure developing contest named new CloudApp();. While it first was only available for US candidates, the contest was opened for international submissions too. Knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker and his fellow knightsmen at RealDolmen decided to submit a small sample application that could be hosted in an unknown environment, known by the digital villagers as “the cloud”. The application was called TwitterMatic, named after the great god of social networking, Twitter. It would allow digital villagers to tell the latest stories, even when they were asleep or busy working.” read more...

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OpenForum - A Free Forum for ASP.NET MVC Applications

published 4 days, 14 hours ago, submitted by crpietschmann 5 days, 3 hours ago

software.herbrandson.com — One of the things that I really like about the MVC framework is that it offers some unique possibilities when it comes to third parties developing entire sub-systems that can easily be plugged into existing applications. Recently, I had some “down time” at my work and decided to take the opportunity to experiment with doing just that. Here are the results of that experiment. OpenForum is a forum that can easily be plugged into any MVC application with very little effort. In fact, there are only three steps to get OpenForum working with most MVC applications. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC: An Application Platform

submitted by developmentalmadness 10 days, 10 hours ago

developmentalmadness.blogspot.com — When deciding on your ASP.NET development platform I recently read a recommendation that boiled down to: application? WebForms. Web site? MVC. MVC isn't just for creating SEO/RESTful web sites. It's a full fledged application platform with everything you need. read more...

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The ASP.NET MVC ActionController – The controllerless action

submitted by alley 11 days, 17 hours ago

jeffreypalermo.com — There has been quite a bit of discussion about how controllers are really namespaces trying to get out once you use the concept on a nontrivial application. Brian Donahue’s post on The anti-controller revolution prompted me to do this little experiment. He references some twitter posts by Jimmy Bogard, one of my esteemed consultants at Headspring Systems. Chad Myers also has opined about the notion of more independent actions and has cited precedence. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, One-to-Many and Many-to-Many INSERTS

mikesdotnetting.com — Taking on two new technologies - ASP.NET MVC and the Entity Framework - at the same time was bound to provide some "interesting" moments. Getting data out via EF has so far been pretty straightforward. But when it got to building the back end of my site, I had some fun trying to manage INSERTS with One-To-Many and Many-To-Many relationships. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Installer For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 And Roadmap

published 24 days, 20 hours ago, submitted by Jemm 25 days, 10 hours ago

haacked.com — "Today I’m happy to announce that we’re done with the work I described and the installer is now available on CodePlex. Be sure to give it a try as many of the new VS10 features intended to support the TDD workflow fit very nicely with ASP.NET MVC, which ScottGu will describe in an upcoming blog post." read more...

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A view from the cloud (or: locate your ASP.NET MVC views on Azure)

blog.maartenballiauw.be — Hosting and deploying ASP.NET MVC applications on Windows Azure works like a charm. However, if you have been reading my blog for a while, you might have seen that I don’t like the fact that my ASP.NET MVC views are stored in the deployed package as well… Why? If I want to change some text or I made a typo, I would have to re-deploy my entire application for this. Takes a while, application is down during deployment, … And all of that for a typo… Luckily, Windows Azure also provides blob storage, on which you can host any blob of data (or any file, if you don’t like saying “blob”). These blobs can easily be managed with a tool like Azure Blob Storage Explorer. Now let’s see if we can abuse blob storage for storing the views of an ASP.NET MVC web application, making it easier to modify the text and stuff. We’ll do this by creating a new VirtualPathProvider. read more...

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A Degradable jQuery AJAX Email Form for ASP.NET MVC

mikesdotnetting.com — Pretty much every web site on the Internet features a form for users to provide feedback via email to site owners. Migrating to ASP.NET MVC requires a slightly different approach to that used by Web Forms development, so this article looks at one way to implement a web site contact form using the MVC framework and jQuery that degrades nicely. AJAX functionality is said to be "degradable" if a way is provided for the process to work, even though users don't have Javascript available to them. read more...

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