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How To Setup Custom Theme Support In ASP.NET MVC using a Custom ViewEn

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:28:41 GMT

One option to do theming in ASP.NET MVC is to use the standard ASP.NET Theme functionality (App_Themes folder glory and all), but it just doesn't seem complete. Also, by doing that you don't get to generate completely custom HTML specific to each Theme. After all, the beauty of ASP.NET MVC is being able to completely control the HTML output of the application. So, I played around with things a bit and figured out how to create a custom ViewEngine that will allow you to create a seperate sub-folder within the Views folder for each Theme. This way you can have a completely different version of each View for each Theme, and maintain complete control over the HTML output on a per Theme basis.

Creating a custom ViewEngine for the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:06:19 GMT

Have you ever seen a presentation of ScottGu about the ASP.NET MVC framework? There is one particular slide that keeps coming back, stating that every step in the ASP.NET MVC life cycle is pluggable. Let's find out if replacing one of these components is actually easy by creating a custom ViewEngine and corresponding view.

Best possible url format in asp.net mvc on IIS6

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:03:59 GMT

A URL format for asp.net mvc which will work in iis 6 also

ASP.NET MVC Application Building #2: Family Video Website

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:47:19 GMT

Stephen Walther:ASP.NET MVC Application Building #2: Family Video Website - Add the Database

How To Use ASP.NET MVC in Website rather than Web Application Project

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:31:51 GMT

I recently started getting to know the ASP.NET MVC Framework (more specifically the Preview 4 release). The first thing I noticed upon installation is that it only comes with a Web Application Project Template. There is no regular ASP.NET Website template. So, I decided to try converting the Web Application Project Template to a regular ASP.NET Website. I actually prefer to use Website projects instead of Web Application projects since it gives a little more flexibility to deploy changes to the website after the website is already live. Plus, you can still throw anything you want into a DLL that goes into the Bin if you want.

First Thoughts on Wrox Beginning ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:16:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the new Wrox book that he and Keyvan Nayyeri are writing and is entitled Beginning ASP.NET MVC. This book targets beginner ASP.NET MVC developers.

ASP.NET MVC Tip #31 - Passing Data to Master Pages and User Controls

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:04:56 GMT

Another great tip from Stephen Walther

Recovering a Project with ASP.NET MVC and Agile

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:00:47 GMT

"I recently got brought on board to a new client where, true to form, a project was in a state of failure - everybody sort of knew it, but nobody would say it out loud."

Visual Studio Theme Generator

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:16:02 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.

File uploading in ASP.Net MVC

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:23:22 GMT

How to combine Silverlight and ASP.Net MVC

Using PreconditionFilter with the new HandleErrorAttribute in ASP.NET

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:45:53 GMT

An example of how to use Precondition Filters in conjunction with HandleErrorAttribute to provide user-friendly error pages when users try to link to your URLs with invalid route data, query strings, etc...

Utilizing Ninject with ASP.NET MVC Framework

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:55:36 GMT

A in depth article about how to use Ninject with ASP.NET MVC...

AJAX Panels with ASP.NET MVC

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:27:47 GMT

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 brought a bit of AJAX support, which is a natural fit for the MVC design pattern. This article will show how incredibly easy it is to create "lazy loading AJAX panels" with ASP.NET MVC.

Alternate View Folders in ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:52:59 GMT

How to make the ASP.NET MVC framework probe alternate folders when searching for views, without hard-coding view paths in controllers.

Partitioning an ASP.NET MVC application into separate "Areas"

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:31:10 GMT

A missing feature of ASP.NET MVC: separating controllers in different areas and namespaces.

jQuery for ASP.NET MVC unleashed!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:46:05 GMT

jQuery plugins for the ASP.NET MVC framework

Easy ASP.NET MVC + ASP.NET AJAX

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:53:31 GMT

Jess Chadwick describes how to integrate the ASP.NET AJAX framework with ASP.NET MVC. With a few tricks up his sleeve, Jess makes it easier than it seems.

ASP.NET MVC UserControls Start to Finish

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:46:12 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC framework ships with a number of Visual Studio project and item templates to ease our development tasks. One of these templates is a UserControl built specifically for the MVC framework. We are going to walkthrough building a re-usable Header control that can be added to the top of related pages (in this specific case, this Control will be added to all Account pages).

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 - Using Ajax and Ajax.Form

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:31:03 GMT

Hanselman explains how to use the new AjaxHelper in Asp.Net MVC Preview 4.

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 New Finds

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:51:34 GMT

A listing of 6 new finds within the released ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 to CodePlex. Also shows how or why you would use each.

ASP.NET Preview 4 Released

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:46:26 GMT

Scott Hanselman just alerted his followers that ASP.NET Preview 4 bits are ready for consumption on codeplex.

ASP.NET MVC Tip #19 - Use the nVelocity View Engine

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:13:57 GMT

In this tip, Stephen Walther demonstrates how you can use the nVelocity view engine, instead of the normal Web Forms view engine, when displaying views from an ASP.NET MVC application.

ASP.NET MVC Tip #18 - Parameterize the HTTP Context

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:12:39 GMT

Context is the enemy of testability. In this tip, Stephen Walther demonstrates how you can eliminate, once and for all, the HTTP Context from an ASP.NET MVC application by creating a custom Action Invoker and Controller Factory.

ASP.NET MVC preview release 4 - part 1

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:01:09 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new "Preview 4" release that they hope to ship later this week. The Preview 3 release focused on finishing up a lot of the underlying core APIs and extensibility points in ASP.NET MVC. Starting with Preview 4 this week you'll start to see more and more higher level features begin to appear that build on top of the core foundation and add nice productivity. There are a bunch of new features and capabilities in this new build - so much in fact that I decided I needed two posts to cover them all. This first post will cover the new Caching, Error Handling and Security features in Preview 4, as well as some testing improvements it brings. My next post will cover the new AJAX features being added with this release as well.

ASP.NET MVC - Upcoming preview 4 release

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:45:12 GMT

ScottGu just posted that there's an upcoming preview 4 release of the ASP.NET MVC framework. What I immediately noticed, is that there are actually some community concepts being integrated in the framework, yay! And what's even cooler: 2 of these new features are things that I've already contributed to the community (the fact that it these are included in the MVC framework now could be coincidence, though...).