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Who is using MVC?

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT

So MVC have been out now for a while, and I have seen a few things come by my way with it. I just wanted to see who all was using it and how it was working out for you. I am really curious about things like: Did you have to modify your project plans to fit MVC or did it do exactly what you wanted? Have you run into any problems using MVC? Are the documentation that explains when you use MVC clear? How useful have you found the ability to use unit testing with your MVC site? Look forward to hearing from everyone. Feel free to share other things as well. I'd like to hear any success or failures you have had with it. Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Forums #4 - Server-Side Form Validation

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:22:24 GMT

In this series of blog entries, I build an entire ASP.NET MVC forums application from start to finish. In this blog entry, I add server-side form validation to the forums application. Before reading this blog entry, you should read the previous three blog entries in this series: ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Forums #1 – Create the Perfect Application – In this first entry, I explain the overall goals of the ASP.NET MVC Forums application. I emphasize the importance of Software Design Principles and justify my choice to use test-driven development. ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Forums #2 – Create the First Unit Test – In the second entry, I build the first unit test and create the Index() action which returns a...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC Tip #41 - Create Cascading Dropdown Lists with Ajax

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:56:26 GMT

In this tip, I demonstrate three methods of creating cascading drop down lists in an MVC application. First, I demonstrate how to write JavaScript code to update one dropdown list when another dropdown list changes. Next, I show you how you can retrieve the data for the dropdown lists from either a controller action or a web service. A reader of this blog emailed me recently and asked how he could create cascading dropdown lists in an MVC application. Why would you want to create cascading dropdown lists? Imagine that you want a user to select a car make and model. You display a dropdown list of car makes. Each time a user selects a new car make, a dropdown list displaying car models is populated (see Figure 1). Figure 1 – Cascading DropDown...(read more)

Physical vs. Non-Physical Reality

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:05:48 GMT

If you can clearly and vividly imagine what you want, why does it take so long for that vision to show up in physical reality? I’ve addressed this question once before in the article “Why Do Intentions Take So Long to Manifest?” In this article I’ll answer this question from a different angle. The first [...]

Microsoft Extensibility Framework released on CodePlex

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:10:01 GMT

I am super jazzed that we released the Microsoft Externality Framework CTP2 on CodePlex. http://www.codeplex.com/MEF We have taken a lot of good feedback in from the community... a few cool things here: 1. We shipped source code! 2. We have a complete set of developer Overviews , guidelines and samples . 3. Because of community feedback, we now support constructor injection 4. MEF itself is now more extensible... For example, want POCO ?, no problem, you can easily write an extension to store the customer attribute metadata in an external file. More to come here, but it is a solid start! 5. Lots of API cleanup based on feedback.. Related, we also recently updated Framework Design...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Forums #3 - Post Messages

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:44:17 GMT

In this series of blog entries, I build an entire ASP.NET MVC forums application from start to finish. In this blog entry, I add the functionality to the Forums application that enables users to post new messages and replies. Before reading this blog entry, you should read the previous two blog entries in this series: ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Forums #1 – Create the Perfect Application – In this first entry, I explain the overall goals of the ASP.NET MVC Forums application. I emphasize the importance of Software Design Principles and justify my choice to use test-driven development. ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Forums #2 – Create the First Unit Test – In the second entry, I build the first unit test and create...(read more)

MvcFutures And ASP.NET MVC Beta

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:36:15 GMT

Wanted to provide a quick heads up about the MvcFutures assembly within ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 5 . As mentioned in various places, this assembly contains various experimental features we are considering for future versions of ASP.NET MVC. When we release the BETA for ASP.NET MVC, it will not automatically be included in the project template by the installer. We've included it in the various previews for convenience, but we want the BETA installer to be as close to the RTM installer experience as possible. We will make sure that the assembly remains available on CodePlex . I just wanted to make you aware of this so there is no surprises when we release the Beta regarding this. Thanks! Technorati Tags: aspnetmvc Read More......(read more)

StackOverflow Podcast #20

Joel Spolsky — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:47:01 GMT

This week's StackOverflow Podcast is up: episode 20.

We talked about the deadlock that was fixed, which was the last thing holding up the public beta... caused by a very small bug in third party libraries, which is exactly why I've always had a bias against using third party libraries. I tell an interesting story about why the Excel team had their own compiler. And I explain to a listener why Jeff never listens to me.

Thanks to everyone who came to the Business of Software conference and made it a huge success. The speakers were all incredible, the attendees were fabulous, even the food was pretty good for a convention center.

P.S. The Conversations Network, a not-for-profit organization which hosts our podcast, is looking for sponsors for their podcasts, including this one. It would be a very modest, NPR-style intro at the beginning... "The StackOverflow Podcast is brought to you by Gummy Bears, Inc., bringing fine chewy treats to grubby children everywhere." If your company might be interested in sponsoring the podcast and becoming a hero to developers worldwide, or at least the eight developers who listen to the podcast, please email me.

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Firefox, ClickOnce, XBAPs and .NET 3.5 SP1

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:21:49 GMT

One of the things that I noticed immediately when I made the SmallestDotNet was that Firefox was reporting the version of the .NET Framework installed. There's a Firefox extension that is installed with .NET 3.5SP1. I was stoked about this because I'd like users of BabySmash to be able to use ClickOnce from Firefox to launch it. ClickOnce and Firefox When you install .NET Framework 3.5SP1, there's a key written to the registry whether Firefox is installed or not. If Firefox is installed later, it will notice the key and use the plugin. If it's already installed, it'll just work. The registry key points to a Firefox Extension (XPI) that acts like the 3rd party FFClickOnce extension that a lot of us installed before. The registry...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Forums #2 - Create the First Unit Test

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:41:29 GMT

In this series of blog entries, I build an entire ASP.NET MVC Forums application from scratch. In this blog entry, I create my first unit test for the Forums application and implement the code necessary to pass the test. Before reading this blog entry, you might want to read the first entry in this series: ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Forums #1 – Create the Perfect Application – Describes the goals of the ASP.NET MVC Forums application. Create the ASP.NET MVC Application Let me start by creating a new ASP.NET MVC application. Launch Visual Studio 2008 and select the menu option File, New Project. Select the ASP.NET MVC Web Application project type, give the project the name MvcForums, and click the OK button. When the dialog...(read more)