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Who Called Me?

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:16:08 GMT

Sometimes it is important to understand what method called other method. In ths post I will show you an easy way to do that.

Using the ASP.NET MVC ModelBinder (screencast)

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:16:04 GMT

Abstract: "This screencast demonstrates how code can be made more maintainable and testable by delegating binding to client data to the ASP.NET MVC model binder architecture."

Creating a Task in Outlook

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:41:13 GMT

This article helps us to create a new task in Microsoft Outlook and send it through a mail.

Partial page updates with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery (and action filters)

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:38:08 GMT

When building an ASP.NET MVC application, chances are that you are using master pages. After working on the application for a while, it's time to spice up some views with jQuery and partial updates.

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

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:46:13 GMT

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

Reactive programming (II.) - Introducing Reactive LINQ

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:53:06 GMT

In the second part of the series about reactive programming, I introduction the Reactive LINQ project, which allows writing event processing code in C# using LINQ queries.

ASP.NET MVC HtmlHelper Extensions for jQuery AutoComplete

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:25:28 GMT

The jQuery JavaScript library has a rich repository of plugins. The AutoComplete plugin provides an easy mechanism to make any textbox perform like a searchable drop down list. While the code to provide a textbox with this autocomplete functionality is somewhat simple, it requires a little finessing to use it in place of a drop down list on an MVC view page. The HtmlHelper extension methods in this article will demonstrate how to achieve this behavior.

C# 4.0 New Features Part 4 - Generic Contravariance

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:01:13 GMT

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

Integrating NUnit test results in Team Build 2008

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:24:48 GMT

When using Team Foundation Server 2008 and Team Build, chances are you are developing unit tests in Microsoft's test framework which is integrated with Visual Studio 2008. This integration offers valuable data hen a build has been finished on the build server: test run results are published in the Team Foundation Server 2008 data warehouse and can be used to create detailed metrics on how your development team is performing and what the quality of the product being developed is. Not all software development teams are using Microsoft's test framework. Perhaps your team is using Team Foundation Server 2008 and creates (unit) tests using NUnit. By default, NUnit tests are not executed by the Team Build server nor are they published in the Team Foundation Server 2008 data warehouse. The following guide enables you to leverage the features Team Foundation Server 2008 has to offer regarding metrics, by customizing the build process with the necessary steps to publish test results.

Microsoft ADO.NET team: The future of LINQ To SQL

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:37:55 GMT

I always get the same question about the future of LINQ to SQL. Finally the ADO.NET Team, which is supporting both LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework, made some clear statements. It is now clear that as of .NET 4.0, LINQ to Entities will be the recommended data access solution for LINQ to relational scenarios. The original statements can be found here: 1st: http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/29/update-on-linq-to-sql-and-linq-to-entities-roadmap.aspx 2nd: http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/31/clarifying-the-message-on-l2s-futures.aspx

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

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - ASP.NET and jQuery

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:55:04 GMT

It looks like many of you have already noticed that there's an official Visual Studio autocomplete file for jQuery posted up at the jQuery site

Tips for Preparing for a Technical Presentation

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:45:01 GMT

Scot Hanselman's tips on preparing for a technical presentation.

Best practice DDD/TDD ASP.NET MVC example applications

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:52:25 GMT

It's no secret that I'm a big fan of the ASP.NET MVC Framework. One of the reasons I like it is because it's opinionated - instead of leaving developers free to fumble things as they choose, it recognises that most projects will be more-or-less exactly the same, and imposes some conventions to keep everyone on the same path.

Best of the web - my pick for October 2008

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:01:02 GMT

There were a lot of high quality articles dawned in my Google Reader last month. Chris Spooner (Blog.SpoonGraphics) posted two awesome tutorials on how to create a modern blog design. Angie and Robert Bowen (Arbenitng) launched Social Media Directory for Designers. Dave Ward (Encosia) shared & of his favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASAP.NET. I published Handycons, free hand-drawn social media icon set, and I'm working on Handycons II.

Authorization in ASP.Net MVC using XML Configuration.

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:17:29 GMT

Doing authorization in a clean way is always tricky, You want delicate balance between extreme abstraction and embedding roles in-side your compiled code, I have always preferred simple abstraction either using roles and their corresponding mappings in the database or using simple xml file to store action to role mappings. Asp.net MVC comes with built in Authorization filter attribute that you can use on your Controller and Action to define the role that can access corresponding Controller or Action. This approach will work fine for small application where you have predefined action to role mappings, but when you have bigger application where developers are not going to define role mappings and mappings might change frequently then maintenance of hard quoted roles might become nightmare.

Microsoft kills Linq to SQL

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:01:13 GMT

Ayende (aka Oren) expresses disbelief at Microsoft's decision to effectively kill off LINQ to SQL.

Creating a generic Linq to SQL ModelBinder for the ASP.NET MVC framewo

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:00:47 GMT

How about this action method, using a Person class which is a Linq to SQL entity type. It accepts a Person object as a parameter. The Person class is a Linq to SQL entity type. It's cleaner not to use the Linq to SQL data context here! Using the ASP.NET MVC ModelBinder infrastructure, I am actually able to bind action method parameters to real objects, based on simple query string parameters like, in this case, id. A custom ModelBinder maps this string id to a real Person instance from my Linq to SQL DataContext. Let me show you how I've created this ModelBinder.

ASP.NET MVC: Simplified Localization via ViewEngines

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:01:17 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.

ASP.Net MVC Extension method to create a Security Aware Html.ActionLin

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:25:06 GMT

The following is my attempt at creating an "security aware" action link that detects if a user is authorized to click (invoke) the action. The point is to show, hide or disable a link based on the Authorize attribute of the controller.

ASP.NET MVC: Localization Delegated via View Engines

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:05:53 GMT

Adding support for localization resources within ASP.NET MVC where the delegation of the resources is determined via the ViewEngine. Provides an example for a derived WebFormViewEngine implementation that adds support for both Global and Local resources via the ASP.NET resource provider.

CarTrackr - Sample ASP.NET MVC application

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:32:39 GMT

Some people may have already noticed the link in my VISUG session blog post, but for those who didn't... I've released my sample application CarTrackr on CodePlex. CarTrackr is a sample application for the ASP.NET MVC framework using the repository pattern and dependency injection using the Unity application block. It was written for various demos in presentations done by Maarten Balliauw.

ASP.NET MVC - View Model Inheritance

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:01:23 GMT

If you are new to MVC web development it can initially be tricky to figure out how to handle UI features that will be used by multiple views. In WebForms you would simply create a control that encapsulated this element's look and function. In order to handle the common view elements I organized the hard typed view models into an inheritance hierarchy.

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.