Update to JSON Service Provider using ASP.NET MVC Beta and Templating

polymorphicview.blogspot.com — Recently Microsoft has updated the ASP.NET MVC to Beta status, and along with that came code changes. One of the code changes to the IModelBinder and how it interacts with the Parameter bindings broke what I wrote on the last post (utilizing ASP.NET MVC as a JSON Service Provider, and coding the entire web site on the client side). Upon loading the Beta bits, I realized my AJAX Parameter function was infinite looping. The reason is that the Model Binder defaults to trying to bind Complex Types in the Action Parameter to the form values being passed back, however, since I am not doing a form postback, it could not bind that to the complex type, and could not run the ActionExecuting on the AjaxParameterAttribute I had set. Here is the changes along with testing Dates and the Microsoft Client Side Ajax Templating Engine. read more...

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Entity Framework and some Architectural Decisions

polymorphicview.blogspot.com — A conversation between myself, Muhammad, and the community about how to tackle Entity Framework in a mult-layered application similar to how MVC Storefront application works, but effectively utilizing EF. We are hoping to have community feedback on possible approaches to tackle this. read more...

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“The Next Web aka Web 3.0” and Silverlight's importance to it.

userfriendlythinking.com — I have recently been having some debates on Silverlight / AIRs importance to the web. Some of these people in the discussion often say that AJAX enabled web sites are enough for what you need on the web. I whole heartedly disagree with this assessment, so I thought I would make a blog posting about why I feel the importance of RIA development on the web is an important next step for our view of the web in the coming years ... read more...

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Detailed Look: Key components in LINQ to SQL and their Key Roles

userfriendlythinking.com — Discuss the core concepts of what the DataContext and the Entity classes do and a description of how it does it. For the Entity class part, we will actually get down and dirty with how it actually accomplishes its responsibilities, since we can visibly see how it does it via the code generated for us. read more...

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