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ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET (and MVC too!)

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:01:11 GMT

ELMAH has been one of the most useful tools for ASP.NET developers to log errors on their web applications. Now Scott has a nice talk on how to use it even in your ASP.NET MVC applications. Cool!

ASP.Net - Never again fear publishing your website with debug=true

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:31:02 GMT

What makes the deployment element special is that it is a machine level configuration element. When its retail attribute is set to true, it will disable the <compilation debug="true"> for ALL ASP.Net applications running on that machine. In addition, it turns of detailed errors messages being sent to remote machines and disables the ability to trace output.

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.

WorkGrabber.com - Sweet ASP.NET MVC 1.0 + jQuery Application

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:01:24 GMT

Mike Bosch shows us his latest creation using ASP.Net MVC: WorkGrabber.com is a social marketplace for local contractors and customers to interact and get projects done.

ASP.NET MVC Best Practices (Part 1) - Kazi Manzur Rashid's Blog

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:46:02 GMT

In this post, I will share some of the best practices/guideline in developing ASP.NET MVC applications which I have learned in the hard way. I will not tell you to use DI or Unit Test instead I will assume you are already doing it and you prefer craftsmanship over anything.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 has been released!

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:31:02 GMT

To keep up with a good tradition (see here and here), I'm being one of the earliest bloggers having great news on ASP.NET MVC: we are at version 1.0! This means production ready, supported, stable, .! Grab the download at Microsoft.com.

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.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 released

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:01:26 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM is released

Static typed propety names

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:46:04 GMT

This blog post describes how to avoid using literals with property names (like "FirstName") and protecting from mistyping those names in your code. Examples based on Nhibernate queries, notifying on property changes and displaying error messages...

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.

Replacing the default view engine in MVC w/ Spark

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:16:15 GMT

DimeCast - Replacing the default view engine in MVC w/ Spark

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.

jQuery 1.3 Released

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:31:02 GMT

"The jQuery team is pleased to release the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone in to this release and we're really quite proud of it. "

Automatic/Convention-based mapping entities with Fluent NHibernate

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:31:12 GMT

James Gregory has a 4-part post on the "auto-mapping" features of Fluent NHibernate. Basically, Fluent NHibernate can automatically map most of your entities based on the conventions you specify and can apply other conventions such as table names, foreign-key constraint naming, etc. This is the first post of the 4, the others are linked as Trackbacks at the bottom. After reading these 4, you should have a better idea of how to get started using the conventional mapping features of Fluent NHibernate.

xVal - a validation framework for ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:46:03 GMT

xVal lets you link up your choice of server-side validation mechanism with your choice of client-side validation library. It guides you to fit them both into ASP.NET MVC conventions, so everything plays nicely with model binding and errors registered in ModelState.

The Problems with NHibernate

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:46:02 GMT

The problems that exist for NHibernate to become better, and have better adoption rates.

Checking username availability with jQuery (screencast)

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:01:03 GMT

Abstract: "This screencast explains how to use jQuery and the ASP.NET MVC framework to quickly add a username availability checker to a user registration page."

Spark Language Package - Preview 1

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:46:02 GMT

This is a very early copy of a msi which installs a Spark language package for Visual Studio 2008. It will put dlls into a Program Files\Spark directory and add just enough registry keys to add color and intellisense to files with a .spark extension.

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate shipping in January

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:01:02 GMT

ScottGu talks about the upcoming Release Candidate of ASP.NET MVC V1 and the features it brings to the table

Intellisense in Spark ViewEngine is coming

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:46:02 GMT

On the other hand if you look at the feedback from people who wouldn't consider it a viable alternative there's a definite theme surrounding Visual Studio integration in general and Intellisense in particular. So I decided a few weeks ago to muster up my courage and take another pass at the task of making a Visual Studio integration package to provide a Spark language service.

jQuery Ajax uploader plugin (with progress bar!)

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:46:04 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.

The MonthCalendar is now kryptonized

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:37:41 GMT

This free component from VisualHint (localizable, nullable, not limited to 1753-9998, today and clear buttons, ...) can now be painted with the beautiful Krypton toolkit palettes (built-in and custom).

A free localizable MonthCalendar

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:03:20 GMT

A new custom MonthCalendar has been added to the VisualHint's products and it is also free when used standalone.

ASP.NET MVC P5 released on Codeplex

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:16:12 GMT

Keeping on with the 6 weeks release plan, the ASP.NET MVC team quietly release P5 of ASP.NET MVC on Codeplex.

Create apple.com-like breadcrumb using simple CSS

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:01:02 GMT

Janko shows an extremely simple and nicely polished way to create graphical breadcrumbs like on apple.com.