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jQuery Ajax uploader plugin (with progress bar!)

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:46:04 GMT

Do you want your HTML file upload controls to show a progress bar during the upload? That's always been tricky. Here's a cool jQuery plugin that gets the job done, along with a demo app written in ASP.NET MVC.

Combining independent widgets on ASP.NET MVC pages

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:46:02 GMT

As great as ASP.NET MVC is, it doesn't have such an easy way to set up reusable controls or "widgets". Steven Sanderson explains a technique similar to MVC Contrib's "subcontrollers", but much simpler.

ASP.NET MVC Screencast: Model-based client-side validation

Thu, 01 May 2008 15:31:08 GMT

A very sweet and simple way to get validation into an MVC app, just by specifying rules as attributes on model objects (e.g. [ValidateEmail]). Client-side validation happens automatically...

ASP.NET MVC: Making strongly-typed ViewPages more easily

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:00:41 GMT

Check out FlexiViewPage - a quick and neat way to work with strongly-typed MVC ViewPages more easily.

ASP.NET MVC: Prevent XSS with automatic HTML encoding

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:31:02 GMT

Tired of having to remember to HTML-encode all your strings to prevent cross-site-scripting? Here's a way to change the ASPX page compilation process so that output is correctly encoded by default.

In depth: The ASP.NET MVC Pipeline

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:46:02 GMT

Lots of technical details about the new ASP.NET MVC framework, with a comprehensive diagram of the whole pipeline. A great way to get to know the new framework.

Official ASP.NET MVC framework will get first CTP in "next few weeks"

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:31:02 GMT

Microsoft's Matt Gibbs announced today that the first CTP for ASP.NET MVC will appear in "the next few weeks". At last we can get our hands on the bits and try out the biggest shift in ASP.NET since its birth!

jMVC.NET - free client-side MVC control for ASP.NET

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:01:41 GMT

The open-source jMVC.NET control lets you add some client-side MVC magic to your existing ASP.NET pages without changing their architecture. You can build repeaters, grids etc that update on the client without needing AJAX or postbacks, using a simple but powerful templating system.