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The ASP.NET MVC ActionController - The controllerless action

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:51:17 GMT

There has been quite a bit of discussion about how controllers are really namespaces trying to get out once you use the concept on a nontrivial application. Brian Donahue's post on The anti-controller revolution prompted me to do this little experiment. He references some twitter posts by Jimmy Bogard, one of my esteemed consultants at Headspring Systems. Chad Myers also has opined about the notion of more independent actions and has cited precedence.

Session Attacks and ASP.NET - Part 1

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:30:01 GMT

I've spent some time recently looking for updated information regarding session attacks as they apply to ASP.NET and am still not completely satisfied with how Microsoft has decided to implement session management in ASP.NET 2.0+. Part 1 explores ASP.NET session management, authentication, and session attacks against ASP.NET with a comparison of how ASP.NET stacks up against mitigation techniques against these attacks.

A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Actio

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:07:25 GMT

A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

Scripting ASP.NET MVC Views Stored In The Database

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:31:17 GMT

Say you're building a web application and you want, against your better judgment perhaps, to allow end users to easily customize the look and feel - a comment scenario within a blog engine or any hosted application

An Aha Moment on MVC Validation Extensibility in DefaultModelBinder

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:16:02 GMT

It is obvious that I don't like using IDataErrorInfo for use with a validation framework, like the Validation Application Block, so what is this validation extensibility API that scott mysteriously speaks of?

ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:46:14 GMT

Microsoft's Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a .NET library (released on CodePlex) that enables greater re-use of application components. You can do this by dynamically composing your application based on a set of classes and methods that can be combined at runtime. Think of it like building an appliation that can host plugins, which in turn can also be composed of different plugins. Since examples say a thousand times more than text, let's go ahead with a sample leveraging MEF in an ASP.NET MVC web application.

Making Unity work more like the others

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:16:14 GMT

I love MS Unity as an IoC container, it has some great features. Though I found it to function incorrectly at two points (it's not that the path chosen by the Unity team is incorrect, I just want/excpect it to act differently). The first thing that bothered me was the fact that Unity throws an exception when Resolve<T> is not able to resolve the given type: I'd prefer it to return null instead, hence most containers do that. The second, even more irritating point, was that ResolveAll<T> only returned the named instances/types instead of all registered types

ReSharper 4.5 gone gold

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:16:11 GMT

JetBrains has released version 4.5 of their multi purpose productivity plugin for Visual Studio, ReSharper. This updates contains some pretty cool features. For example, solution wide analysis now checks for members that can be made internal. Also, JetBrains promises to have improved performance and memory use. All in all certainly an update that is worth installing, especially because updating from licenses for version 4.0 and above is free

Using the ASP.NET MVC Futures AsyncController

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:31:04 GMT

Last week, I blogged about all stuff that is included in the ASP.NET MVC Futures assembly, which is an assembly available on CodePlex and contains possible future features (tonguetwister!) for the ASP.NET MVC framework. One of the comments asked for more information on the AsyncController that is introduced in the MVC Futures. So here goes!

Binding Dynamic Properties in XAML, ASP.NET...

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:36:47 GMT

Another useful helper to build a dynamic wrapper / facade class from an arbitrary collection of properties. The wrapper implements INotifiyPropertyChanged so can be used with two-way databinding in WPF, Silverlight and ASP.NET (probably other places too).

MVC Storefront is now Kona : Screencast

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:31:19 GMT

MVC Storefront - changes directions to a flexible, pluggable Open Source community application. This screencast is all about that change and what's become of the MVC Storefront.

The Weekly Source Code 39 - Commodore 64 Emulator in Silverlight 3

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:59:32 GMT

I had the pleasure of interviewing Pete Brown this last week and talking about the Silverlight 3 Commodore 64 Emulator he's been working on. He just launched the CodePlex site a few minutes ago (my time), but I've had the code for a while to play with. You can read Tim Heuer's blog post for details on how to get started with Silverlight 3 Beta and the tools you'd need or see some video of the emulator in action.

ASP.NET MVC goes RTM before MIX09

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:46:04 GMT

Not sure if the release was intentional or just someone that forgot to set the timezone field while publishing the download, but ASP.NET MVC has been RTMed before MIX09.

ioDrive, Changing the Way You Code

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:31:07 GMT

A look at the new ioDrive device and how devices like it will drastically change how you think about performance critical data storage applications.

Is Nick Stakenburg Bullying His Open-Source 'Competitor'

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:16:02 GMT

This is obviously a scare tactic used by a vendor to frighten a 'competitor' who is encroachinig on his sales. Nick (the vendor) is jarred by the fact that someone has released a comparable (better?) product that his and it is free. It behaves somewhat the same, so obviously it was copied... This is a serious issue, we can't let companies push around open-source with threats like this.

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:16:03 GMT

Release Candidate 2 for ASP.NET MVC is now available

23 amazing JQuery Photo/Gallery Plugins

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:01:03 GMT

A collection of 23 JQuery Plugins to prepare your site for the use of photos.

AnkhSVN 2.0.6310 Released - Subversion Plugin for Visual Studio.

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:31:20 GMT

New features include: Experimental support of Visual Studio 2010, Overall performance improvemens, and much more...

Multi/Dual Monitor Visual Studio Settings

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:01:02 GMT

Following up to personalising Visual Studio (I covered theming the VS IDE with the Visual Studio Desert Nights Theme not too long back), I'd like to offer the settings I run on a dual monitor setup for Visual Studio to, I believe enhance productivity and gives you easier access to common tasks.

S#arp Architecture Beta 1.0 now available!

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:01:02 GMT

Bill McCafferty announces the beta release of S#arp Architecture, a foundation for building ASP.NET MVC application with NHibernate, complete with support for testing, IoC, and validation.

Visual Studio 2010 == Visual Studio 2008 + ReSharper

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:31:04 GMT

o you want the next gen of next-gen applications? Get the Visual Studio 2010 CTP! Which is - according to Microsoft itself - really just Visual Studio 2008 with ReSharper installed.

Fluent NHibernate - AutoPersistenceModel auto mapping

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:12:26 GMT

An blog post presenting Fluent NHibernate AutoPersitanceModel through simple code example

Compressing JS files as part of your build process

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:16:02 GMT

Ideally, we want to develop using readable JavaScript files (even 3rd party files) and deploy compressed/obfuscated code. Our solution has simply been to apply a post-build task to our project. Here's what we did

MVC/JQuery meets X-Mas Music Project

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:31:03 GMT

My friend Dave and I embarked on a project a few weeks ago, initially just meant to be a audio CD for our family in what ended up being a potentially super-scalable ASP.NET MVC + JQuery site.

Oxite: OpenSource CMS from Microsoft Built on ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:16:18 GMT

Simone Chiaretta writes about the recent announcement by Microsoft Evangelist, Jeff Sandquist, about Oxite which is an open source CMS built by Microsoft as a showcase and sample for ASP.NET MVC.