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Columbus Give Camp

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:33:03 GMT

The Columbus Give Camp is a way for developers to give back to the local community.

The Dynamic Programmer - Tuple, a new type on .Net 4.0

Mon, 25 May 2009 19:00:06 GMT

If you ever played with some language that have the Tuple type I bet you miss it in .Net. Well 4.0 adds it. Let's take a look at the implementation and how to use it.

I Spose I'll Just Say It: You Should Learn MVC

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:31:21 GMT

I'm never shy about my opinion - why start now? I've been reading a lot of posts flying about on whether you should learn MVC, Summing up the differences so you can decide when to use it, I even found a post that offers a scorecard approach! I remember reading the latter post thinking to myself "how can you possibly put a number next to Testability? And why it is only 2 more points than "using a RAD designer"? Isn't this missing the entire point?

How to improve HtmlHelper.RenderPartial perf: don't run in debug mode

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:01:01 GMT

There has a been a lot of talking on a possible "big design flaw" in ASP.NET MVC: partial view path resolution was not cached. After a bit of testing I found out that caching kicks in only in release mode. So probably all the other tests were run in debug mode.

How I Learned to Love Dependency Injection: The Code Samples

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:01:16 GMT

Code samples from a presentation on Dependency Injection at Central Ohio Day of .NET

Ditching the Micro-Optimization Fetish

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:01:02 GMT

Seems like today is the day for performance optimization talks: in String.Empty, in calls to ActionLinks, in high-performance IoC containers. But people sometimes miss the point that these are micro-optimizations: thanks God Justin tries to bring a bit of sanity in this geeky world of micro-optimization

Using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC: Finally, A Solution

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:41:56 GMT

Having introduced jqGrid and written LINQ extension methods to make supplying data to the grid easy, we're now ready to put together a demo application. The solution I'm going to build demonstrates sorting and paging. In a future post, I will enhance it to demonstrate search, formatting, and editing data. I've made the demo application available for download, but be advised that I intend to update it in the next few days; it's currently a work in progress.

Project Kobe community feedback

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:31:02 GMT

A project that we recently worked on in my team is Kobe , a Web 2.0 service development resource kit. The goal of the resource kit was to provide a collection of resources in the form of presentations, white papers, and a working sample application to enable business and technology decision makers to develop a good foundational understanding of Web 2.0 services, a conceptual architecture of a Web 2.0 service, challenges to think through when embarking on a new Web 2.0 service development project, and Microsoft platform implementation assets that are available and can be applied to materialize Web 2.0 services.

Using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC: LINQ Extensions

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:55:33 GMT

Mere hours after I posted the first in a planned series of posts on using jqGrid in ASP.NET MVC applications, Phil Haack, a rather-more-widely-read-ASP.NET-MVC-blogger, wrote a long post on, er, exactly the same thing. Who, me, bitter? Naahhh. :) But it turns out that we're using the grid in a different way, and I think the difference is important. So rather than just referring you to Phil's post and skipping the rest of the series, I think I still have some important information to contribute. In particular, I'm using the grid in a way which allows me to write an extension method for IQueryable<T> which returns data suitable for the grid, without having to know anything about the type T. If you look closely at the code in Phil's post, you will see that populating the cell array requires custom code (or use of reflection) every time you want to return data to a grid.

Using jqGrid with ASP.NET MVC: Introduction

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:54:27 GMT

This is the first post in a short series on using the jqGrid jQuery plug-in with ASP.NET MVC. In this short introduction I will describe the plug-in, list some of its strengths and weaknesses, and explain why we selected it for our MVC applications. In the next few days, I will give detailed information about how to use the grid in your own applications.

Using jQuery Grid With ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:31:02 GMT

Continuing in my pseudo-series of posts based on my ASP.NET MVC Ninjas on Fire Black Belt Tips Presentation at Mix (go watch it!), this post covers a demo I did not show because I ran out of time. It was a demo I held in my back pocket just in case I went too fast and needed one more demo. A common scenario when building web user interfaces is providing a pageable and sortable grid of data. Even better if it uses AJAX to make it more responsive and snazzy. Since ASP.NET MVC includes jQuery, I figured it'd be fun to use a jQuery plugin for this demo, so I chose jQuery Grid.

5 Most Common Asked Questions When Using .Net RIA Services

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:01:03 GMT

From the comments on my previous articles on .Net RIA Services and from the search queries that lead to those articles, a pattern of a recurring set of questions showed up and I am sure that most .Net RIA Services enthusiasts face the same issues. This post address a few of these issues

File Uploads in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:16:10 GMT

I had not messed around with file uploads in ASP.NET MVC for a while and so when I fired up ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM I was pleasantly surprised to find out how easy they had made it!

Back to the future! Exploring ASP.NET MVC Futures

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:01:19 GMT

For those of you who did not know yet: next to the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 version and its source code, there's also an interesting assembly available if you can not wait for next versions of the ASP.NET MVC framework: the MVC Futures assembly. In this blog post, I'll provide you with a quick overview of what is available in this assembly and how you can already benefit from. "the future".

ASP.NET Routing and ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:51:42 GMT

A detailed examination of how ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Routing interact and the consequences of those interactions.

Integrating Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:31:01 GMT

I mean come on. Doesn't that title just suck you right in? Tim Heuer bridges the gap.

Finalmente, ASP.NET MVC LANÇADO

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:30:31 GMT

Finalmente foi publicada a versão final do asp.net mvc

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 released

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:01:26 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM is released

xVal 0.8 improves client side validation in ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:01:16 GMT

xVal is an open source validation framework bridge for ASP.NET MVC. Its new release, version 0.8, became available this morning and adds the following features: Support for NHibernate.Validator, Internationalization, Custom validation logic, Fluent syntax for defining ad-hoc validation rules, Comparison validators, and more.

Tips for Managing ASP.NET MVC Views

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:46:09 GMT

The author gives some tips on managing asp.net mvc views and organizing files withing an asp.net mvc project. Includes suggestions on keeping code out of views.

Announcing my book: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Quickly

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:01:02 GMT

Maarten Balliauw announces his new book and provides a large retrospective on the writing process itself. Must read for everyone thinking about writing a tech book!

ASP.NET MVC TempData Is Really RedirectData

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:40:31 GMT

Many people seem to be confused about the TempData feature in ASP.NET MVC. TempData behaves like the ViewData dictionary, except that it persists until the next request from the same browser. Because of this, TempData should only be used when you know exactly what the next request is going to be. Realistically, this means that you should only use TempData immediately before you redirect !

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:16:02 GMT

Phil Haack talks about ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:01:18 GMT

Finally Scott Guthrie announced ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC. Check it out.

Javascript Array Fun

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:28:57 GMT

Interesting Javascript array behavior