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Fun With Named Formats, String Parsing, and Edge Cases

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:31:02 GMT

Recently I found myself in a situation where I wanted to format a string using a named format string, rather than a positional one. Ignore for the moment the issue on whether this is a good idea or not, just trust me that I'll be responsible with it.

Haacked: ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6 Walkthrough

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:31:10 GMT

"In this post, I want to provide a definitive guide to getting ASP.NET MVC running on IIS 6. I will walk through using the .mvc or .aspx file extension for URLs first, then I will walkthrough using extension-less URLs."

Combining JQuery Form Validation and Ajax Submission with ASP.NET

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:01:13 GMT

Using JQuery Form Validation and Ajax Submission with ASP.NET

ScottGu:Nov 6th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, jQuery, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Great collection of links. Again.

Donut Caching in ASP.Net MVC - Revisited by Phil Haack

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:01:04 GMT

In this article Phil makes an improvement to the Maarten Balliauw's MVC OutputCache substitution ActionFilter Attribute

Grouping Controllers with ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:01:02 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

How to run ASP.NET MVC on Windows Azure

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:31:02 GMT

A quick how-to on getting ASP.NET MVC up and running on Windows Azure.

PDC Video: ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:41:02 GMT

Take a walk through the 4.0 landscape from ASP.NET and learn how you can get involved in shaping ASP.NET future. This talk focuses on the next release of ASP.NET including web forms and MVC

ScottGu: ASP.NET MVC Beta

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:46:03 GMT

One of ScottGu´s monster blogposts

ASP.net MVC goes Beta

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:31:05 GMT

Hot on the heels of Silverlight, MVC is out of preview and into Beta today.

Prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) using ASP.NET MVC's AntiForg

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:46:02 GMT

Steve Sanderson covers an attack that is not as well known as cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks called Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and some helpers in ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 5 that can help mitigate the risk.

ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 and Form Posting Scenarios

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:01:03 GMT

Another epic post by The Gu

ASP.NET MVC preview 5's AntiForgeryToken helper method and attribute

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:31:02 GMT

The new ASP.NET MVC preview 5 featured a number of new HtmlHelper methods. One of these methods is the HtmlHelper.AntiForgeryToken.

Using the ASP.NET MVC ModelBinder attribute

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:31:02 GMT

ASP.NET MVC action methods can be developed using regular method parameters. In earlier versions of the ASP.NET MVC framework, these parameters were all simple types like integers, strings, booleans, . When required, a method parameter can be a complex type like a Contact with Name, Email and Message properties. This blog post shows you how to use the ModelBinder attribute which allows ASP.NET MVC action methods to accept complex types.

Building an ASP.NET MVC sitemap provider with security trimming

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:46:13 GMT

If you have been using the ASP.NET MVC framework, you possibly have been searching for something like the classic ASP.NET sitemap. After you've played with it, you even found it useful! But not really flexible and easy to map to routes and controllers. In this post, Maarten describes how to build a custom sitemap provider which uses ASP.NET MVC route data and AuthorizeAttribute to render MCS sitemap data with security trimming enabled!

Subtext 2 supports OpenID

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Jon explains how OpenID works in Subtext 2 and how to configure it.

Subtext 2.0 "Poseidon" Released!

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Subtext 2.0 is hot off the CI Server and the new bits are packed with a metric crap-load of bug fixes, new features, and patches.

Microsoft and Open Source...A New Love Story

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:31:02 GMT

Brian Prince outlines the latest happenings between Microsoft and the open source community. Including sponsoring the Apache Software Foundation.

Herding Code Podcast: Episode 9 with Rob Conery

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:31:13 GMT

The Herding Code crew (K. Scott Allen, Kevin Dente, Scott "LazyCoder" Koon, and Jon Galloway) catch up with Rob Conery on SubSonic 2.1, Where SubSonic fits in the Microsoft data access tools explosion, Why LINQ to SubSonic is so durn tricky, MVC Storefront - has it made Rob a TDD believer, and What else is Rob up to at Microsoft.

Negative Attitudes are a Cancer to Successful Teams

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:16:09 GMT

Team members with a negative attitude are thieves, robbing the team of its potential, its moral, and often its success.

ViewData "dot" Notation Expressions in ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:16:13 GMT

ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 introduced a new concept that I'm calling "dot" notation expressions off of your ViewData. See how these expressions can be used and how powerful they are.

ASP.NET MVC - Extracting Web Resources

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:31:05 GMT

One nice feature that ASP.NET added in the 2.0 feature set was the ability to embed resources directly within an assembly and then later extract them through a separate Http Handler. You've notably saw this by all the WebResource.axd calls. If you're building a ASP.NET MVC view, you have two ways of extracting web resource urls. Find out how to do this in your view and through a new extension method.

Delegating Action Result

Mon, 12 May 2008 16:53:39 GMT

An MVC Action Result that uses a lambda to allow putting in any code in the result.

Writing A Custom File Download Action Result For ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 12 May 2008 17:01:02 GMT

In this post, I'll walk through building a custom action result for downloading files. As you'll see, they are extremely easy to build. Let's start at the end and see what the end-user behavior of this new result will be.

Hacking Visual Studio to Use More Than 2Gigabytes of Memory

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:01:02 GMT

Got more than 2GB of RAM in your machine? Get around the 2GB memory limit by making Visual Studio large address aware.