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Taking a look at the various ways to implement Binding in Asp.Net MVC

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:46:13 GMT

A short screen casts that takes a look at the various ways to implement Binding in Asp.Net MVC

Programming Asp.Net MVC by O'Reilly

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:16:07 GMT

Well, it is about time we (Tim, Chris and myself) actually made this announcement. We will be doing a MVC book with O'Reilly titled 'Programming MVC'. We are super excited and super pumped to get this out the door. All three of us are huge fans of the MVC framework and know that this is framework going to be smashing success.

Learning how to turn an Anonymous object into a Dictionary

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:31:17 GMT

Learning how to turn an Anonymous object into a Dictionary via a short screencast

Useful HtmlHelpers for ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:49:32 GMT

HtmlHelpers are super tiny weapons in ASP.NET MVC and they are growing day by day. In this post you will find a list of most useful HtmlHelpers for ASP.NET MVC and this list will be completed and completed! So you can join me to enlarge this list ;-)

Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:31:02 GMT

"At the users group I asked the question to the group 'who creates automated tests as part of their daily development cycle?'. After I asked this question I followed it up with, and if you don't WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY...... Below are some of the answers I received (btw, not the first time I have heard these reasons)."

C# 4.0 New Features Part 4 - Generic Contravariance

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:01:13 GMT

A simple and easy to follow example of Contravariance in C# 4.0

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.

Some Common Operations using LINQ To XML - Part II

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:16:14 GMT

In this article, we will explore some common 'How Do I' kind of examples using LINQ to XML. This article is the Part II of the 3-part LINQ to XML series.

Becoming a ReSharper Samurai - Part 1

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:01:02 GMT

Part 1 of Becoming a ReSharper Samurai - A short video on how to use various features of ReSharper to make you a better, faster coder.

Grouping Controllers with ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:01:02 GMT

question that often comes up is how do you group controllers when building a large application with ASP.NET MVC. Often, the question is phrased as whether or not ASP.NET MVC supports "Areas", a feature of Monorail. According to the Monorail documentation, MonoRail supports the concept of areas, which are logical groups of controllers. All controllers belong to an area. The default area is an empty (unnamed) one

C# 4.0 New Features Part 2 - default and named parameters

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:16:03 GMT

New feature in C# 4.0 number 2, default and named parameters! Look at what they are, and how they are used in C# 4.0.

Leveraging the power of ActionName and AcceptVerbs in Asp.Net MVC

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:16:04 GMT

A short screencast on how to leverage the power of ActionName and AcceptVerbs in Asp.Net MVC

ASP.NET MVC: Simplified Localization via ViewEngines

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:01:17 GMT

Thanks to Brad, he identified a few areas that made things MUCH simpler from my prior implementation. Notably, while you still have your ViewEngine specify "here's your view's path" there's no longer a need for having a new helper, derived classes, etc. This implementation goes back to the simplified HtmlHelper extension in which you can use in any ViewEngine regardless. It also allows you to "replace" the implementation by just changing the namespace, just as you can do with Html and Ajax.

Creating Live Templates with Resharper

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:46:17 GMT

A short screencast on how to Create a Live Templates with Resharper. Learn how to use LiveTemplates to increase your coding productivitly

Visual Studio/Intellisense Doesn't Recognize Web Controls & Code

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:50:16 GMT

Intermittently at times, Visual Studio for some odd reason, refuses to recognize web controls or C# syntax during a build/compile that you know is fine. You've included all the right usings, assembly or project references, and the syntax you know worked before, but for some reason it just decides to piss you off when you try to compile by stating it is not familiar with the syntax or control. There are a slew of things one can try in order to sort of kick Visual Studio in the pants when you try to build, and it still can't seem to notice those web controls even when they are in the designer file and there are no conflicts or syntax issues. Today I has such an issue again. When you exhaust all the tricks of the trade, the next best thing to do is ultimately just recreate the file itself and paste back in your code.

Form Validation Simplified w/ Asp.Net MVC

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:16:11 GMT

A short screencast on how to simplify form validation w/ Asp.Net MVC

Combining independent widgets on ASP.NET MVC pages

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:46:02 GMT

As great as ASP.NET MVC is, it doesn't have such an easy way to set up reusable controls or "widgets". Steven Sanderson explains a technique similar to MVC Contrib's "subcontrollers", but much simpler.

Introduction to NHibernate: CRUD and Basic Transparent Cascading (Part

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:46:17 GMT

Another short screencast introduction to NHibernate: CRUD and Basic Transparent Cascading (Part 3)

Introduction to NHibernate: Configuring NHibernate (Part 2)

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:16:13 GMT

A short screen cast showing on NHibernate: Configuring NHibernate (Part 2)

Creating and Applying patches with Subversion (SVN)

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:46:12 GMT

A short screencast on creating and applying patches with Subversion (SVN)

Introduction to NHibernate: Setting up your Mappings

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:31:02 GMT

A short screencast performing an Introduction to NHibernate: Setting up your Mappings

Introduction to NHibernate: What does NHibernate bring to the table

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:01:02 GMT

A short screencast introduction to NHibernate: In this episode we will talk about what does NHibernate bring to the table

Using Reflection to Populate a ComboBox from an Enumeration

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:31:02 GMT

A short how to on how to use Reflection to Populate a ComboBox from an Enumeration.

ASP.NET MVC Request Flow

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:46:02 GMT

I looked all over the net for a good diagram that outlined the major classes involved an ASP.NET MVC request. I couldn't find one, and so I created this one. If you want to get a very high level overview, then check it out.

Contextual binding with StructureMap 2.5

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:01:03 GMT

A short screencast on contextual binding with StructureMap 2.5. What is Contextual Binding? Contextual Binding is the ability to switch out different concrete implementations of a service (i.e. class) at runtime depending on the context in which they are used.