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Embedding pre-compiled Razor views in your dll

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:27:06 GMT

Inspired by David Ebbo's blog post 'Turn your Razor helpers into reusable libraries' I wanted to be able to embed compiled Razor views in a dll. This would allow for easy distribution of asp.net mvc 'modules' that have their default views embedded, but allowing you to place files in your 'views' folder to override those default views

Learning Bourne - Tiered CRUD Part I

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:18:16 GMT

The first demo I thought I'd throw together is a tiered ASP.Net MVC application which uses a tender-flakey WCF service layer baked right in. I'm calling it Tiered CRUD because it's a simple CReate Update Delete application that's contrived as can be. You should absolutely, under no circumstances expect anything mind-blowing or spectacular about this application. It's not trying to be best practice, it's just demonstrating the nice stuff Bourne can do for you.

The Bourne Framework - A High Level Introduction

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:16:06 GMT

A lot of the framework comes from Evan's past experience with several open source projects. Most of them are fairly widely known: NHibernate FluentNhibernate NHibernateLinq StructureMap MassTransit TopShelf (part of MassTransit) log4Net The framework uses these open source libraries in order to provide out-of-the-box infrastructure for the following types of .Net applications: ASP.Net MVC WCF Windows Services

Just say no to Service Locator!

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:30:00 GMT

This is a blog post focusing on the differences between Service Locator and Dependency Injection based code particularly focusing on benefits DI has in unit testing.

IoC, SRP and DI best practices

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:00:00 GMT

A blog post summing some of real world IoC experiences in 5 "laws"

xVal v1.0 is now released

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:00:00 GMT

In case you're not aware, xVal is a validation helper for ASP.NET MVC that lets you use your own choice of server-side validation framework (e.g., Microsoft's DataAnnotations attributes, or Castle Validator, or NHibernate Validaion) and dynamically generates client-side validation code from your rules. Version 1.0 adds new features including dynamic client-side validation summaries and remote (ajax) validation rules.

ASP.NET MVC, DynamicData, Domain-/RiaServices, Unity and NHibernate

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:15:00 GMT

For this project the following (extensive) list of libraries is used (all these libraries are included in the download): * MS ASP.NET Mvc 1.0 * Microsoft .NET RIA Services July 2009 Preview * NHibernate 2.1.0CR1 * NHibernate Linq (latest trunk version) * FluentNhibernate (latest trunk version, patched to work with NHibernate 2.1.0CR1) * MS Unity 1.2 * ASP.NET Dynamic Data MVC Preview (since this project is pretty old, I had to modify it quite a bit, the source is included in the download) * I used Rob Conery's t4 templates as the base to generate entities from the database.

Apps for Windows: Silverlight 3 based Twitter Client by Sobees

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:09:41 GMT

Apps for Windows: Silverlight 3 based Twitter Client by Sobees <Date: 2009-07-11> <Author: Imran Hussain> 13 Comments Sobees Web Alpha Silverlight 3 Sobees web is a web version of bDule - a Twitter/Facebook client for Windows with a new twist though. It's made of Silverlight 3 and supports Silverlight out of Browser experience.

Piwik - Cool Open Source Alternative to Google Analytics

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:30:05 GMT

Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages and so much more.

The ASP.NET MVC ActionController - The controllerless action

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:51:17 GMT

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.

Session Attacks and ASP.NET - Part 1

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:30:01 GMT

I've spent some time recently looking for updated information regarding session attacks as they apply to ASP.NET and am still not completely satisfied with how Microsoft has decided to implement session management in ASP.NET 2.0+. Part 1 explores ASP.NET session management, authentication, and session attacks against ASP.NET with a comparison of how ASP.NET stacks up against mitigation techniques against these attacks.

A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Actio

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:07:25 GMT

A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

Scripting ASP.NET MVC Views Stored In The Database

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:31:17 GMT

Say you're building a web application and you want, against your better judgment perhaps, to allow end users to easily customize the look and feel - a comment scenario within a blog engine or any hosted application

An Aha Moment on MVC Validation Extensibility in DefaultModelBinder

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:16:02 GMT

It is obvious that I don't like using IDataErrorInfo for use with a validation framework, like the Validation Application Block, so what is this validation extensibility API that scott mysteriously speaks of?

ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:46:14 GMT

Microsoft's Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a .NET library (released on CodePlex) that enables greater re-use of application components. You can do this by dynamically composing your application based on a set of classes and methods that can be combined at runtime. Think of it like building an appliation that can host plugins, which in turn can also be composed of different plugins. Since examples say a thousand times more than text, let's go ahead with a sample leveraging MEF in an ASP.NET MVC web application.

Making Unity work more like the others

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:16:14 GMT

I love MS Unity as an IoC container, it has some great features. Though I found it to function incorrectly at two points (it's not that the path chosen by the Unity team is incorrect, I just want/excpect it to act differently). The first thing that bothered me was the fact that Unity throws an exception when Resolve<T> is not able to resolve the given type: I'd prefer it to return null instead, hence most containers do that. The second, even more irritating point, was that ResolveAll<T> only returned the named instances/types instead of all registered types

ReSharper 4.5 gone gold

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:16:11 GMT

JetBrains has released version 4.5 of their multi purpose productivity plugin for Visual Studio, ReSharper. This updates contains some pretty cool features. For example, solution wide analysis now checks for members that can be made internal. Also, JetBrains promises to have improved performance and memory use. All in all certainly an update that is worth installing, especially because updating from licenses for version 4.0 and above is free

Using the ASP.NET MVC Futures AsyncController

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:31:04 GMT

Last week, I blogged about all stuff that is included in the ASP.NET MVC Futures assembly, which is an assembly available on CodePlex and contains possible future features (tonguetwister!) for the ASP.NET MVC framework. One of the comments asked for more information on the AsyncController that is introduced in the MVC Futures. So here goes!

Binding Dynamic Properties in XAML, ASP.NET...

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:36:47 GMT

Another useful helper to build a dynamic wrapper / facade class from an arbitrary collection of properties. The wrapper implements INotifiyPropertyChanged so can be used with two-way databinding in WPF, Silverlight and ASP.NET (probably other places too).

MVC Storefront is now Kona : Screencast

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:31:19 GMT

MVC Storefront - changes directions to a flexible, pluggable Open Source community application. This screencast is all about that change and what's become of the MVC Storefront.

The Weekly Source Code 39 - Commodore 64 Emulator in Silverlight 3

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:59:32 GMT

I had the pleasure of interviewing Pete Brown this last week and talking about the Silverlight 3 Commodore 64 Emulator he's been working on. He just launched the CodePlex site a few minutes ago (my time), but I've had the code for a while to play with. You can read Tim Heuer's blog post for details on how to get started with Silverlight 3 Beta and the tools you'd need or see some video of the emulator in action.

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.

ioDrive, Changing the Way You Code

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:31:07 GMT

A look at the new ioDrive device and how devices like it will drastically change how you think about performance critical data storage applications.

Is Nick Stakenburg Bullying His Open-Source 'Competitor'

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:16:02 GMT

This is obviously a scare tactic used by a vendor to frighten a 'competitor' who is encroachinig on his sales. Nick (the vendor) is jarred by the fact that someone has released a comparable (better?) product that his and it is free. It behaves somewhat the same, so obviously it was copied... This is a serious issue, we can't let companies push around open-source with threats like this.

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:16:03 GMT

Release Candidate 2 for ASP.NET MVC is now available