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13 ASP.NET MVC extensibility points you have to know

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:46:06 GMT

One of the main design principles ASP.NET MVC has been designed with is extensibility. Everything (or most of) in the processing pipeline is replaceable so, if you don't like the conventions (or lack of them) that ASP.NET MVC uses, you can create your own services to support your conventions and inject them into the main pipeline. This post shows 13 extensibility points that every ASP.NET MVC developer should know, starting from the beginning of the pipeline and going forward till the rendering of the view.

How to use Ninject with ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:16:02 GMT

By default, the ASP.NET MVC framework instantiate controllers calling their default constructor. This makes using Dependency Injection impossible. But, as almost everything inside that framework, the logic with which a controller is instantiated can be replaced with you own logic. This can be done creating your own ControllerFactory, which is pretty simple. But if you are using one of the many popular DI/IoC libraries, that task is even simpler, since there are already custom controller factories for almost all the IoC libraries available. In this post we are are going to see how to use the ControllerFactory that delegates to Ninject the creation of your controllers.

http://codeclimber.net.nz/archive/2008/12/30/looking-at-oxite-the-ldqu

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:16:02 GMT

Simone Chiaretta shares his opinions about Oxite, the CMS built by MIX team as a showcase for ASP.NET MVC, and talks how the downsides of the software can help you apply your knowldege in ASP.NET WebForms in ASP.NET MVC.

Silverlight 2.0 RTM available from Oct 14th, on a Linux machine next t

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:01:02 GMT

Silverlight 2.0 will go RTM tomorrow morning, with an Eclipse plugin to allow development of SL app on Linux to Java developers

ReSharper 4 approaching beta status

Wed, 21 May 2008 00:16:05 GMT

No official announcement yet, but the ReSharper 4.0 Nightly Build page is showing the first build marked as stable and with the status "Beta Candidate".

Sick of Opera

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:16:05 GMT

Simone provides some insite and opinion on the Opera open letter.

How to install ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:01:04 GMT

To install the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview you need to be carefull installing the requirements in thr right order. Here is how.

What convinced me to adopt a (kind of) Test Driven Design approach

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:01:01 GMT

If you are still reluctant to write more tests for you applications because you think it's a waste of time, here is the motivation that convinced me

How to use the command line CodePlex Client

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:31:01 GMT

A step by step guide on how to install and use the CodePlex Client, command line tool to commit changes to CodePlex without using the huge Team Explorer

Microsoft vs TestDriven.Net Express

Thu, 31 May 2007 10:01:01 GMT

Does TestDriven.Net violate Visual Studio Express EULA?