I just finished writing an HTML Helper Extension for ASP.NET MVC 2 that produces a jqGrid. Following this example, I think a lot of people can make their code easy to read and maintain
This blog post gives you an introduction to how to utilize automatically generated jQuery code to enforce client-side validation rules using MVC 2, DataAnnotations, jQuery, and VS2010 Beta 2
Every view in your application needs "support data" like the information needed to populate dropdown boxes and turn lookup IDs into user-friendly strings. This blog post discusses an elegant way to declare what each view needs and make it available
Here's a problem people might run into: You're utilizing an ASP.NET membership provider over cloud storage and your application has no administrators. How do you log in as admin to create a new admin??
When you create a new ASP.NET MVC project, you get a fully unit tested controller but there are also hundreds of lines of wasted code creating Mock classes. In this blog post, I remove all that stuff and replace it with some easy Moq code.
One of the first things that I did after creating a new ASP.NET MVC project was to rig it up so that it was dependency-injected via Unity, including the controller factory itself
I found a ZDnet article from 2002 that outlined Microsoft's plans to extend ASP.NET to run on Apache, .NET to run on non-MS Operating Systems, and .NET to connect to Oracle.
In a previous blog entry, I talked about how to consume a POX service using Cocoa. In this entry, I talk about how to create that POX service using ASP.NET MVC and how incredibly easy it is. Makes you wonder why anybody uses SOAP anymore...
Are you hopelessly addicted to programming in SharePoint? Do you think that everything in the world can be fixed using a custom list, some duct tape, the BDC and chewing gum? If so, read this post!
After the initial keynotes at MIX '08, Microsoft unleashed an onslaught of betas, CTPs, and other goodies that people like me have been waiting for. I've got details and links and some thoughts on the releases
It's no secret that new drops of the ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight 2.0 are impending at MIX '08. Scott Guthrie has just released a list of what will be coming out in the next drop of the MVC CTP!
On February 28th, I will be in Dublin giving the IWTC a presentation on web development with the iPhone. If you happen to be in the neighborhood, register and come see it!
If you're like me and your primary machine is a Mac, then there's a good chance you do your ASP.NET dev in a VMWare fusion virtual machine. Getting an IIS-hosted website inside a VMware Fusion machine is not easy.
In this entry in my ASP.NET MVC development series, I take a look at how I've used the Astoria client library to communicate with a back-end data store that resides behind a RESTful ATOM facade
I have mentioned in the past that Volta is far more than just a JavaScript generation tool. It is a generic tier-splitting tool. One such tier is the browser. I want to show what you can do using nothing but C# without knowing a drop of JavaScript.
In this blog post I will follow up on my initial post showing how to use the role and membership providers with ASP.NET MVC framework to show how to implement fine-grained security
This article in my ASP.NET MVC development series covers creating re-usable user controls that are flexible enough to be used on multiple pages but still work with strongly-typed Views and ViewData
In this blog post I cover some of the things that I discovered when integrating the new ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview (MVC application) with the existing provider model for membership and forms authentication
The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions (including MVC and Astoria) have been released in their first CTP. Read on for my take on this release and its impact on ASP.NET development
