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ASP.NET MVC XForms released on CodePlex

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:01:01 GMT

Just noticed there's a new project on CodePlex related to the ASP.NET MVC framework: MVC XForms. MVC XForms is a simple UI framework for ASP.NET MVC based on the W3C XForms specification. It provides a set of form controls that allow updating of complex model objects.

Tips & Tricks: Use DebuggerDisplayAttribute for easier debugging

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:01:02 GMT

When debugging, it's common to hover over an object to get a quick view of what its properties are. This is where DebuggerDisplayAttribute comes in. The format string looks similar to normal .NET format strings in that the values to replace are between curly braces, but instead of being told what to substitute the debugger treats these values as expressions and attempts to evaluate them using the current context.

ASPNET MVC P4 is on codeplex

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:31:02 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC pre-preview 4 source code + installer is available on Codeplex. Enjoy!!

The Linq let keyword

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:31:07 GMT

Make your Linq queries more readable using the "let" keyword.

Webforms is dead. Long live MVC!

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:46:02 GMT

WebForms are now legacy. Enjoy your MVC koolaid!

ASP.NET MVC: Securing Your Controller Actions

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:31:02 GMT

Many people on the forums want to know how to best protect Actions on their Controller using Forms Authentication. The MVC Team has done a nice job introducing Filters (using Attributes) to this latest drop of MVC, and in this post I'll show you how to create a filter that can handle security.

ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 is out

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:31:04 GMT

Title says it all ;)

Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated?

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:31:02 GMT

"Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file."...

Microsoft releases Unity, an IoC library

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:16:02 GMT

A nice wrapup of IoC

jQuery for ASP.NET Mvc - part 2

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:46:02 GMT

All new and improved version of the jquery and asp.net mvc sample..

Patrick Smacchia on metrics for Coupling, Dead Code, and Design Flaws

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 03:01:02 GMT

Patrick shows us how to use NDepend to spot dead code and other design flaws in our code

Congrats! Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president, .NET Developer Platform. Previously general manager, Guthrie will continue to oversee several development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web applications.

ASP.NET MVC Framework Road-Map Update

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:31:02 GMT

Scott gives an update to where ASP.NET MVC is going

LINQ to JSON beta

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:16:02 GMT

A beta release of Json.NET 2.0. New in 2.0 is a LINQ to JSON API.

JScript IntelliSense: Working with jQuery

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 02:16:02 GMT

Looks like the new VS 2008 hotfix will help VS 2008 work better with jQuery. If you haven't checked out jQuery and you are doing web development give it a try and I think you'll be impressed.

No, you're crazy! (or, the problem with assuming that computer program

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:01:04 GMT

An excellent post on how to think about programming as a profession.

WebForms Unplugged

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:58:08 GMT

Think of ASP.NET MVC as the raw, acoustic version of the more heavily produced and multi-layered ASP.NET WebForms we use today

Naming Guidelines for Generic Dictionaries

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:07:01 GMT

Save tons of time by following this incredibly simple naming guideline for generic dictionaries.

There is too much money to be made in software development

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:16:02 GMT

Opionions on the fact that "Too many developers don't have incentive to improve their processes and abilities because they are overly compensated for their skills"

Ajax and json for ASP.NET MVC with jQuery

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:31:02 GMT

an example project that uses the jQuery library to create an ajax enabled ASP.NET MVC website. Generally what this project does: * Load views through ajax (with back-button support) * Do ajax-style form-posts and retrieve only the messages, errors and updated content * Do json form-posts and retrieve the errors and messages as a json object

Introducing NHaml - An ASP.NET MVC View Engine

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:01:03 GMT

NHaml (pronounced enamel) is a pure .NET implementation of the popular Rails Haml view engine. From the Haml website: "Haml is a markup language that's used to cleanly and simply describe the XHTML of any web document, without the use of inline code. Haml functions as a replacement for inline page templating systems such as PHP, ERB, and ASP. However, Haml avoids the need for explicitly coding XHTML into the template, because it is actually an abstract description of the XHTML, with some code to generate dynamic content." In other words, NHaml is an external DSL for XHTML. It's primary qualities are it's simplicity, terseness, performance and that it outputs nicely formatted XHTML. Additionally, the NHaml view engine provides support for Rails style layouts and partials.

ASP.NET MVC: Choosing Your Data Access Method

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:16:02 GMT

Rob Conery discusses the pros and cons of using Linq To Sql, SubSonic, and NHibernate with MVC (and ASP.NET in general).

How To: Validation Using ASP.NET MVC

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:31:02 GMT

Validation using ASP.NET MVC.

More MVC mockery

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:01:04 GMT

A follow up post to the last post on using mocks for testing Routes in the MVC framework.

NAnt 0.86 Released

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:44:37 GMT

The recent release for nAnt and release notes.