ASP.NET MVC - Think Before You Bind

published 15 hours, 43 minutes ago, submitted by justin_etheredge 17 hours, 10 minutes ago

codethinked.com — ASP.NET MVC is a powerful and simple framework, but there are a few things that ASP.NET developers will need to pay careful attention to when moving to MVC. This post discusses the automatic binding abilities in ASP.NET MVC and why you need to think before you bind. read more...

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My Take On Variable Length Lists in ASP.NET MVC

justsimplecode.com — Another solution to the variable length list problem. read more...

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Verifying code and testing with Pex

blog.maartenballiauw.be — Earlier this week, Katrien posted an update on the list of Belgian TechDays 2009 speakers. This post featured a summary on all sessions, of which one was titled “Pex – Automated White Box Testing for .NET”. Here’s the abstract: “Pex is an automated white box testing tool for .NET. Pex systematically tries to cover every reachable branch in a program by monitoring execution traces, and using a constraint solver to produce new test cases with different behavior. Pex can be applied to any existing .NET assembly without any pre-existing test suite. Pex will try to find counterexamples for all assertion statements in the code. Pex can be guided by hand-written parameterized unit tests, which are API usage scenarios with assertions. The result of the analysis is a test suite which can be persisted as unit tests in source code. The generated unit tests integrate with Visual Studio Team Test as well as other test frameworks. By construction, Pex produces small unit test suites with high code and assertion coverage, and reported failures always come with a test case that reproduces the issue. At Microsoft, this technique has proven highly effective in testing even an extremely well-tested component.” After reading the second sentence in this abstract, I was thinking: “SWEET! Let’s try!”. So here goes… read more...

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Tip #40: Did you know…How to scope master pages?

submitted by ethilik 7 days, 20 hours ago

blogs.iis.net — Master page is a template page that can be used to create a consistent layout for your application. First you create a master page to define the look & feel of the application and then you create the content pages that contains the content. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate shipping in January

published 20 days, 20 hours ago, submitted by simonech 20 days, 22 hours ago

weblogs.asp.net — ScottGu talks about the upcoming Release Candidate of ASP.NET MVC V1 and the features it brings to the table read more...

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How To Guarantee That Your Software Will Suck

published 1 month ago, submitted by justin_etheredge 1 month ago

codethinked.com — Do you bad software and unhappy developers? Well, it isn't that hard... read more...

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Fluent NHibernate’s AutoPersistenceModel: I Love it!

published 1 month, 5 days ago, submitted by alley 1 month, 6 days ago

chrisvandesteeg.nl — I checked out the latest version of Fluent NHibernate today and noticed the AutoPersistenceModel. I looked at the unit-tests to see what it’s supposed to do and I loved what I saw… read more...

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Grouping Controllers with ASP.NET MVC

published 2 months, 3 days ago, submitted by alley 2 months, 3 days ago

haacked.com — 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 read more...

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