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Persisting model state in ASP.NET MVC using Serialize HTMLHelper

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:04:00 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 2 futures assembly provides a HTML helper method Serialize that can be use for persisting your model object.

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Use ASP.NET 4 Browser Definitions with ASP.NET 3.5

Stephen Walther — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:22:16 GMT

We updated the browser definitions files included with ASP.NET 4 to include information on recent browsers and devices such as Google Chrome and the iPhone. You can use these browser definition files with earlier versions of ASP. ...

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Maintainable MVC Series: Introduction | blog.jorrit salverda.nl

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:16:00 GMT

I’m going to do a series on how I’ve set up a number of ASP.NET MVC projects for customers with very high-traffic sites and continuously changing...

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Separation of concerns in Input Builders

shashankshetty — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:56:00 GMT

In our ASP.Net MVC application we want to separate the presentation code associated with HTML views from the act of binding data to HTML controls. We also want to get more of the UI control generation under test. This is our latest refinement towards those goals. Html page for Address:

<%= Mod ...

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Update textbox with ASP.NET, MVC, jQuery

bill sternberger — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:45:23 GMT

This post arrives to you today from the awesome Hotel Dunn Inn in beautiful San Jose, Costa Rica! Best. Beds. Ever. It was time to clear the brain and work on.

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test-automation-pyramid-asp-net-mvc

todd — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:51:00 GMT

Test Automation Pyramid in ASP.NET MVC This is a reposting of my comments from Mike Cohn’s Test Automation Pyramid I often use Mike’s Test Automation Pyramid to explain to clients’ testers and developers how to structure a test strategy. It has proved the most effective rubric (say compared with the ...

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Better Application Services and CQS using S#arp Architecture 1.0 Q3 2009

Billy McCafferty — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:47:00 GMT

Obviously, S#arp Architecture is the bee's knees when it comes to developing ASP.NET MVC applications. ;) But as a project evolves and gets larger, "out of the box" S#arp Architecture 1.0 guidance runs into a few pain points. Particularly, there's poor use of the application services layer, the sepa ...

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Deran Schilling, Learner: Contact Form with ASP.NET MVC, Castle ...

noreply@blogger.com (Deran Schilling) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:43:00 GMT

Contact Form with ASP.NET MVC, Castle Validation, & fluentHtml. Here's another little tutorial for those of you new to MVC &/or fluentHtml. I figure I'll do these little tutorials until I find a new project to work on. ...

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Mister James: Returning a LINQ to SQL Image from ASP.NET MVC

ChipOne — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:40:00 GMT

I am working with a set of images stored in an SQL database in my ASP.NET MVC project. I would like to load the images asynchronously (and preferably effortlessly) and as “in-line” as possible from my pages. ...

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My crazy (probably very stupid) idea for an mvc language

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:29:00 GMT

I’m not certain why but for a while now I’ve really wanted to write a sort of python/ruby-esque DSL on top of ASP.NET MVC. I am probably going a little crazy and this is a dumb idea but I thought I might as well write it down and get it out of my system. It would look something like this: controller ...

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ASP.NET MVC meet SEO; SEO meet ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:13:05 GMT

In my next few posts I’ll explain how we can overcome all of these shortcomings of ASP. ... NET MVC to create a great SEO-friendly web site. Stay tuned!...So let’s take a look at all the things we really want to be able to do when creating an SEO friendly web site and see how we can get ASP. NET MVC to handle them....

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The DerivedTypeModelBinder in ASP.Net MVC2 RC2

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:49:00 GMT

I ran into a situation where I need to model bind to types derived from a common base (class or interface) in MVC....

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Asp.net MVC – When to use strongly typed ViewData?

West — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:01:00 GMT

In short; most of the time unless you have a *really* good reason not to. With the use of generics being able to specify a strongly typed model per view / partial view is so easy with the baked in functionality in the framework, so why aren’t you using it? Why? The whole point of MVC is to have cont ...

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jQuery client-side templates with jqote and Asp.Net MVC

(liammclennan) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:48:00 GMT

Why Use Client-side Javascript Templates? When building rich internet applications you often need to construct html on the client. I am going to demonstrate how to construct DOM elements using the jqote jQuery plugin (2.0.0). The naive approach to client-side html generation is to embed html inside ...

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The Importance of TypeId in ASP.NET MVC DataAnnotations Validation ...

Travis Illig — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:53:58 GMT

Messing around with ASP.NET MVC 2.0 (in VS2010 RC1), specifically the validation done with DataAnnotations, and created a simple no-op custom validator attribute like this: [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class, AllowMultiple = true ...

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NHibernate Validator ASP.NET MVC 2 Model Validation

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:42:00 GMT

Now we have a ModelValidatorProvider but ASP.NET MVC knows nothing about it, so we go to the global.asax file and register this new provider:

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Creating a PDF with iTextSharp and ASP.Net MVC 2

Ozzie Perez — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:23:00 GMT

Here’s a simple example to create a PDF on the fly and provide it as a streaming download, rather than creating a physical file: public FileStreamResult About() { //mem buffer MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(); //the document Document document = new Document(); //the writer PdfWriter.GetInstance( ...

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Converting a classic ASP site to ASP.NET MVC Part III - Links and avoiding violating the DRY principle

Ian — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:02:00 GMT

At the end of our last post we had the home page of the site displaying correctly , so it looks like this - But we were left with a number of problems or code ‘smells’ the last post described things thusly - The ‘RightTable’ and ‘LeftTable’ views are explicitly linked to the Home controller yet they ...

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Spoofing an ASP.NET MVC request to use a ViewMasterPage with a non MVC content page

Chris Hynes — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:36:00 GMT

Sometimes my application has a section with normal ASP.NET requests that doesn't go through the ASP.NET MVC pipeline. I still want to integrate it with the ASP.NET MVC section of my app, using the same master page for example. The ViewMasterPage validates to make sure that the page being rendered is ...

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ASP.NET MVC – AJAX or JQUERY?

Eric Malamisura — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:36:04 GMT

When using ASP.NET MVC you have a wide degree of freedom, especially compared to the traditional ASP.NET WebForms. But with that freedom comes a degree of complexity and choices, one of those choices is how to handle asynchronous calls, ...

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An Evolution of Test-Specification Styles – My Journey to MSpec

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:32:00 GMT

...a behavior-driven/context-specification style. I would like to use the standard HomeController, created in an ASP.NET MVC 1.0 project, as an...

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4 Top Tips for portable ASP.NET MVC Apps

Alex Holt — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:22:00 GMT

ASP.NET MVC is awesome ( find out how awesome it is over dinner) and allows for some great applications to be made, quickly, while at the same time offering a high degree of maintainability over the code that is written. The danger with being able to do things too fast is that simple mistakes are so ...

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Building a Star Rating System with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery

mikeceranski — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:46:00 GMT

While working on the WeBlog project I realized that I needed a star rating system for blog posts. A star rating allows your readings to rate content based on a .5-5 scale. A fully lit star represents a full point on the rating scale. Therefore in order to give half point increments each star uses tw ...

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Autopostback and Cascading Drop Downs in ASP.NET MVC and jQuery

Liam — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:24:00 GMT

I often find myself using Autopostback to create a Cascading Drop Down in regular Webforms .NET applications, although recently, I have made the move to ASP.NET MVC both for personal projects and at work. There is a need within the company I work for where users need to be able to create new users b ...

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JQueryUI Datepicker in ASP.Net MVC | Rajeesh's Blog

Rajeesh — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:39:00 GMT

Datepicker is nice and cool plugin for displaying the calendar with ease. It is very easy to use JQuery plugin, it comes as part of JQueryUI library, so if you.

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