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Best of 2009: the 5 most popular posts

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:15:01 GMT

Simone looks at the last year's stats and lists the most popular posts we wrote in 2009. And also writes his overall top 10

12 ASP.NET MVC Best Practices

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:00:01 GMT

In this post Simone Chiaretta outlines a list of 12 best practices to use with ASP.NET MVC.

My ASP.NET MVC stack and why I chosen it

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:00 GMT

In this post Simone Chiaretta talks about the tools, components, and technologies he uses along with ASP.NET MVC to build web applications.

How to create a DropDownList with ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:15:00 GMT

The DropDownList html helper differs a bit from the standard Html helper methods, and, not surprisingly, the way it works is one of the questions I get asked the most. So in this post Simone dissects this helper method, and shows you how to use it.

11 books for a .NET Summer reading list

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT

A great list of books to read this summer (its almost over though so get to it)

Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 - Finally Available

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:30:18 GMT

Kevan announces the availability of the book Beginning ASP.NET MVC by Wrox, and explains in details the contents of the book and the level it is targeting

Ajax survey 2009: jQuery and MS Ajax are almost tied

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:45:00 GMT

Simone posts the results of the survey about ajax adoption among .NET developers. jQuery gained 58% since 2007 and now is almost tied to the MS Ajax stack (Control toolkit and ajax core)

Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers in 2009

Fri, 22 May 2009 16:04:40 GMT

Take the survey to see how the adoption of Ajax among .NET developers changed since the survey held in 2007

Free Chapter of Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Published

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:46:05 GMT

Simone Chiaretta announces the availability of chapter 9 of Wrox Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 book about Testing ASP.NET MVC Applications and shares some good news about the release date of the book.

ASP.NET MVC brings FUN back inside web development, on .NET

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:01:03 GMT

Simone writes about his impressions on ASP.NET MVC and why it has reactivated the motivation of developers on the .NET community for web development.

How to improve the performances of ASP.NET MVC web applications

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:46:04 GMT

Today I stumbled upon a nice presentation that Rudi Benkovic gave last week at the Slovenian DotNet User Group, about ASP.NET MVC Performances. It is an in depth analysis of a Digg-like site and how it went from serving (on a test machine) 6 req/sec to 390 req/sec. The analysis prove the usual rule of performance optimization: no matter what you do to optimize your code, the biggest performance hit is data retrieval, and the first thing you have to optimize is always this. But apart from this obvious outcome, I just want to take out from this presentation the 3 point that are really specific to ASP.NET MVC

13 ASP.NET MVC extensibility points you have to know

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:46:06 GMT

One of the main design principles ASP.NET MVC has been designed with is extensibility. Everything (or most of) in the processing pipeline is replaceable so, if you don't like the conventions (or lack of them) that ASP.NET MVC uses, you can create your own services to support your conventions and inject them into the main pipeline. This post shows 13 extensibility points that every ASP.NET MVC developer should know, starting from the beginning of the pipeline and going forward till the rendering of the view.

A lap around MIX09 keynote announcements

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:31:09 GMT

Simone collects all the big announcements from MIX09 and provides links to get deeper into the new stuff

ASP.NET MVC goes RTM before MIX09

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:46:04 GMT

Not sure if the release was intentional or just someone that forgot to set the timezone field while publishing the download, but ASP.NET MVC has been RTMed before MIX09.

Joining "IE6: Do NOT want!" campaign

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:01:16 GMT

IE6 users are still too many... it started with a tweet from a Norwegian web developer, and spread like fire across Europe. Joining the campaign is easy: just add a few lines of code to your site or blog. In this post is how to do it and a little more of background on how to do it.

Interest in ASP.NET MVC is Rising

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:46:09 GMT

Simone Chiaretta extracts some Google Trends stats to show the rising interest in ASP.NET MVC in the past few months.

Extending Ninject to inject dependencies into Action Filters

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:16:09 GMT

In this last post of the series Simone shows the changes he did to Ninject to make it transparent for the developer to inject dependencies into ASP.NET Action Filters. And he also release the small integration library as opensource

Learn the Basics Before Programming

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:46:16 GMT

Simone Chiaretta wraps up the recent discussion on the community about the controversy opinions of building a software that only works versus building the software that has a high quality. After that, the leaves his own opinions on this.

How to use Ninject to inject dependencies into ASP.NET MVC ActionFilte

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:01:03 GMT

Simone shows us how to use Ninjet to inject dependencies to ASP.NET MVC.

How to use Ninject with ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:16:02 GMT

By default, the ASP.NET MVC framework instantiate controllers calling their default constructor. This makes using Dependency Injection impossible. But, as almost everything inside that framework, the logic with which a controller is instantiated can be replaced with you own logic. This can be done creating your own ControllerFactory, which is pretty simple. But if you are using one of the many popular DI/IoC libraries, that task is even simpler, since there are already custom controller factories for almost all the IoC libraries available. In this post we are are going to see how to use the ControllerFactory that delegates to Ninject the creation of your controllers.

Best of 2008: 5 most popular posts

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:16:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta, MVP, has gathered his favorite blog's posts in this post. Don't miss it!

http://codeclimber.net.nz/archive/2008/12/30/looking-at-oxite-the-ldqu

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta shares his opinions about Oxite, the CMS built by MIX team as a showcase for ASP.NET MVC, and talks how the downsides of the software can help you apply your knowldege in ASP.NET WebForms in ASP.NET MVC.

Oxite: OpenSource CMS from Microsoft Built on ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:16:18 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the recent announcement by Microsoft Evangelist, Jeff Sandquist, about Oxite which is an open source CMS built by Microsoft as a showcase and sample for ASP.NET MVC.

The Book Writing Process

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:31:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the writing process of a book, especially a programming book, based on his own experiences with Wrox when working on Beginning ASP.NET MVC.

How to Call Controllers in External Assemblies in ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:16:05 GMT

In this post Simone shows you how to call ASP.NET MVC controllers that are embedded in external assemblies.