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5 Reasons to be Excited about ASP.NET MVC 3

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:30:52 GMT

It's already been 6 months since ASP.NET MVC 2 was released and version 3 is already taking shape. I, personally, am thrilled about that because this version seems to put ASP.NET MVC, in terms of maturity and functionality, on the first line along with other MVC frameworks out there like RoR. I've put together 5 main reasons why I'm excited about this upcoming version. What about you?

ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: View start files for Razor view engine

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:47:30 GMT

To follow better DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle Razor views support now defaults that are applied to all views in ASP.NET MVC web application. Default can be applied by special file so you have one place where everything common is defined. In this posting I will show you how defaults work and how to use them.

ASP.NET MVC 3: Caching charts

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:30:52 GMT

In my previous posting about charts in ASP.NET MVC 3 I gave you basic idea about how to use them. In this posting I will show you something cool - we will optimize performance of our application by caching charts so we don't have to generate them on every request.

ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta: Built-in support for charts

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:15:52 GMT

ASP.NET MVC does not have built-in support for chart control and that's why I worked out my own solution to make ASP.NET MVC support chart control. With ASP.NET MVC 3 we will get official support for charts right out of the box. In this posting I will show you how to use charts in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta.

Win a free ticket + hotel for the umbraco Codegarden '10

Fri, 07 May 2010 10:30:52 GMT

The Umbraco CodeGarder '10 is less than 2 months away, starting on June 23rd till June 25th, and thanks to the awesome Niels Hartvig, founder of Umbraco, I'm giving away an interesting package.

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.

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

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

5 blogs every asp.net programmer should know analyzed with 31-DBBB day

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:01:12 GMT

31-DBBB day 4 task is to analyze leader blogs in your niche. I do so here with some recommendation I hope you'll enjoy

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.

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.

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 put a backround image in a HR for IE with jQuery

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:31:12 GMT

IE till version 7 has a bug: you cannot put a background image in a <HR /> tag, so you cannot have a nice graphical line and keeping the semantic coolness of the hr tag. This post explain how to reach that goal using a bit of jQuery

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.

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.

Visual Studio Theme Generator

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:16:02 GMT

A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every color to make a decent theme is way too repetitive. This web application automatically chooses complements / contrasts based off your initial color selections (and uses jQuery to let you preview your theme before creating). Check it out and let me know what you think.

How to get up to speed with Team Foundation Server

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:01:03 GMT

A collection of links about TFS, from evaluation to installation to customization and maintenance.