DotNetKicks.com - Stories tagged with MVC

Dynamic CSS with Razor and no LESS (part 1)

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:20:27 GMT

When I customize a web site template, I always replace the color palette looking for a consistent set of colors. In this series I'll tell how I managed to speed up the whole process, by building a set of Razor functions and push the Razor syntax inside a CSS stylesheet.

Dynamic CSS with Razor (part 2)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:21:32 GMT

In PART ONE we saw how to create a gradient programmatically in order automate a CSS stylesheet using the Razor engine. We started from a base color in the RGB space and converted it to the HSL space. Given its Lightness we could easily build shades and highlights of the starting color.

Clearer MVC

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:56:58 GMT

In every application there are some variables that are set by the ASP.NET application( ASP.NET_SessionId cookie ) and some that are set by the programmer( cached data in Application/Session/Cache/Cookies and so on).I wanted every time to have a page where I can "clear" / delete those - and not found. So it's the Clearer project.

Ease jQuery UI web development with the fluent Fluqi library

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:53:03 GMT

Fluqi is library for helping configure jQuery UI widgets with a fluent(ish) interface and rendering the control. Details and demos at http://fluqi.apphb.com/

Writing ASP.NET MVC bootstrapper with AutoBox

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:26:50 GMT

This will post will show how you can use AutoBox to easily write a bootstrapper for ASP.NET MVC. I have used the latest version of AutoBox (available from nuget, this version also includes Castle.Windsor internally for managing dependencies rather using its own resolver and does not require interface to type naming convention [IAccountRepository -> AccountRepository]) .

Clickable Tag Cloud using HTML 5 Canvas Elements

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:45:57 GMT

Learn how to create a tag cloud and in process, learn a bit of HTML5 Canvas. However on the way also see how LINQ and ASP.NET MVC routing can be added to the tag cloud

Handling Session Timeout Gracefully

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:38:16 GMT

Have you ever been to those sites that show you a nice helpful popup to let you know that your session will expire in a few minutes? You know, the ones that show you a countdown timer, and let you Continue Your Session, or Log Out? Do you want to build one? Noah tells you how with a bit of ASP.NET MVC 3 and jQuery.

Rendering Microsoft .NET 4.0 3D Charts in ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:06:35 GMT

Render Microsoft Charting 3D Charts the easy way in ASP.NET MVC in a straight-forward, cacheable, and easy to implement solution.

Using RavenDB in Brown-Field ASP.NET MVC projects

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:43:02 GMT

In this article, we will see how RavenDB can be used as Auto-Save cache in an ASP.NET MVC application. We will explore a use case that is typical of brown-field projects (projects involving enhancements to an existing application), where a handy functionality in an ASP.NET MVC application can be achieved by using RavenDB

MVC Asynchronous Controller : The Basics

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:43:37 GMT

When I first saw the Asynchronous Controllers introduced in MVC 2, I couldn't wait to start playing around. I thought that it would be a really easy to get up and running with a simple example, but after searching online for a few working examples - pretty much all of them used an event based pattern that wasn't easy to understand. In this blog post I am going to run through a really simple example that will show you the basics of Asynchronous Controllers, and show you how easy they really are.

ASP.NET MVC 3 Real Time Collaborative Apps with SignalR

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:53:27 GMT

In this article, we'll create a simple blog app using ASP.NET MVC 3 and SignalR, that will allow multiple collaborators to review the same article in real-time

Evolution of the Async Controller in ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:08:26 GMT

Asynchronous operations in ASP.NET MVC have always been left a bit behind. They appeared in ASP.NET MVC 2, remained untouched in v3, but now in MVC 4 (especially in combination with C# 5 and async/await) they reached the same easiness of use of the standard synchronous controller. Check out that absolutely awesome stuff you can do with them now!

Delayed Download Prompt in ASP.NET MVC 3

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:21:39 GMT

Walks through how to implement a delayed download prompt in ASP.NET MVC 3.

Herding Code 130: Dave Weaver on Loggr - a realtime analytics service

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:09:26 GMT

Herding Code podcast with Dave Weaver about Loggr, a complete logging, analytics and notification service built with ASP.NET MVC, SignalR, and MongoDB.

Essential guide to ASP.NET MVC3 performance

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:16:43 GMT

The .NET CLR can give your web application a significant performance boost compared to other platforms such as PHP due to it's compiled nature. Not only does your .NET code perform better because it's more low-level, it also comes with good support for parallel programming. This guide will not explain the basics of a responsive and fast web application by talking about CSS minifying, sprites, content delivery networks, etc. Instead this guide will be an essential guide for making sure you don't miss any features that can enhance the performance of your ASP.NET MVC3 application.

MVC 3: Accessing the RouteData inside of your code

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:21:22 GMT

You want to perform some dynamic processing in your code and you need to determine either the name of the current controller or the current action or both.

What's New In MvcDonutCaching 1.1?

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:42:45 GMT

A new version of MvcDonutCaching has just been released with even more features plus several bug fixes. Following user feedback, this release centres on allowing MvcDonutCaching to be used in place of the built-in OutputCache attribute in many common scenarios. This should mean that you can take advantage of the many MvcDonutCaching benefits without losing core OutputCache functionality. V1.1 adds support for non-view action results and cache location specification and also fixes several known bugs.

ASP.NET MVC 4 What's New: Task Support for Asynchronous Controllers

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:09:21 GMT

The feature I'm going to be focusing on today is task support for asynchronous controllers. Developing asynchronous controllers has been available since MVC 3, but for this to work you had to write a bunch of extra code - what I like to refer to as "code noise" - to get it to work. Not any more.

Difference between ViewBag and ViewData

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:32:22 GMT

Well explained.

AddThis Html Helper now available via NuGet

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:15:10 GMT

I have written and published my first Html Helper for MVC 3. It is the AddThis Helper which is currentlly at v0.55. The helper lets one add 1 of the 9 AddThis styles. You can see those 9 types at AddThis.com/Get/Sharing. Using the helper is extremely easy. Install it via NuGet.

Use SignalR with Knockout for real-time UX updates in ASP.NET MVC 3

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:39:33 GMT

Learn how to use SignalR and Knockout in an ASP.NET MVC 3 web application to handle real-time UX updates.

ASP.NET MVC Output Caching with Windows AppFabric Cache

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:54:29 GMT

Enterprise level web applications are typically hosted in web farms where in-process caching is less useful than a distributed caching approach such as Windows Server AppFabric or Memcached. Thanks to the extensibility features introduced with ASP.NET 4.0, modifying an application to use a distributed cache is a very simple process. This post explains how to create an AppFabric OutputCacheProvider and how to configure ASP.NET to use the new provider. We will also discuss a big limitation with the MVC3 OutputCacheAttribute and explain how this is addressed by the MvcDonutCaching NuGet package.

The ViewBag Property in ASP.NET MVC 3 is Just Syntactic Sugar

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:08:37 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 3 introduces a dictionary in the Controller base class called the ViewBag property to access view data. The new ASP.NET MVC 3 ViewBag property strictly speaking is just syntactic sugar!

MVC and HTML5 Web Workers

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:01:34 GMT

HTML5 Web Workers are cool. As a developer that spends most of his time working with server side code, I like to think of Web Workers as .net's System.Threading for the front end. Basically, Web Workers allow you to run client side scripts without interrupting the page or any other scripts that are currently running. They are basically an API specification that lets you create background JavaScript threads to process CPU intensive tasks. The major advantage to using Workers is that it allows long tasks to be executed without blocking to keep the page responsive. It's really good for fire-and-forget tasks and tasks that you can leave to run while the user continues working on the page. Another great thing about Workers is that getting started with them is really easy.

Creating a Login Form in MVC3 .NET with Attribute Security and CSS3

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:37:18 GMT

Step through a tutorial of creating an MVC3 login form for an example application. Learn how to style the form with CSS3 for rounded edges, a gradient background, and a lens flare highlight effect. Our login form will also contain form validation and authenticate against a custom membership provider.