During work, I discovered that the pager that I created a while ago didn’t work properly when using ASP.NET MVC2 area’s. The links that were generated didn’t count for the current area that the controller and views were in, resulting in wrong urls. Luckily the ASP.NET MVC team also ran into this issue and created [...]
Categories: ASP.NET MVC
Tagged: Area, ASP.NET MVC, Paging
Warning: highly subjective content ahead. In the recent weeks we’ve seen several control vendors come up with toolkits that target ASP.NET MVC. Personally, I don’t see anything that might make me starting to consider picking one of these toolkits to speed up development. Why on earth would I prefer a wrapper around jQuery UI or [...]
Categories: ASP.NET MVC,Web development
Tagged: ASP.NET MVC, Components, Web Standards, WebForms
This post briefly describes a solution to mix ASP.NET WebForms and MVC in one project. You can download a sample project that might be more useful than my ramblings. Download the sample here, unzip, open with VS 2008 SP1 and hit F5. There are lots of ‘legacy’ ASP.NET WebForms applications out there in the wild. [...]
Categories: ASP.NET MVC
Tagged: Area, ASP.NET MVC, Sample, WebForms
For a long time, there has been a distinct separation between ASP.NET and PHP developers. The platforms have been so fundamentally different and also have the surrounding cultures. Generally speaking, ASP.NET developers consider the PHP guys script kiddies with no real understanding of ‘real’ software development and the PHP guys saw ASP.NET developers as some [...]
Categories: ASP.NET MVC,Web development
Tagged: ASP.NET MVC, PHP, Web Standards, WordPress
Warning: this post doesn’t only contain the usual software dev stuff, but also some serious guitar-geekiness. This morning, I was shocked when I found out how much the development of my pedalboard went through exactly the same stages as the way I’m building ASP.NET web applications. First let’s see where I’m coming from: In the [...]
Categories: ASP.NET MVC,General
Tagged: ASP.NET MVC, Guitar
Lots of companies are positioning SharePoint as their preferred platform for everything that has to do with the web, both intranet and public facing websites. Now out-of-the-box, SharePoint delivers excellent value, but when building custom functionality or public facing sites, there are some serious issues. My biggest gripes are: The whole development experience is awful. [...]
Categories: ASP.NET MVC,SharePoint
Tagged: ASP.NET MVC, MOSS, SharePoint, Web Standards
The sample project that belongs to the Paging with ASP.NET MVC post is upgraded to ASP.NET MVC RC. Get it from here.
Categories: ASP.NET MVC
Tagged: ASP.NET MVC, Paging
The post about paging in ASP.NET MVC still gets many hits, but the demo was created with ASP.NET MVC preview 5, so therefore I upgraded the demo to ASP.NET MVC Beta. I also removed a little bug that occurred when paging an already filtered list. You can download the updated demo here.
Categories: ASP.NET MVC
Tagged: ASP.NET MVC, Paging
This is part 4 of a series of posts. See also: Validation in ASP.NET MVC – part 1: basic server-side validation Validation in ASP.NET MVC – part 2: custom server-side validation Validation in ASP.NET MVC – part 3: client-side validation with jQuery validation In the previous posts, I described how we implemented model-based validation on [...]
Categories: ASP.NET MVC
Tagged: ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Sample, Validation
This is part 3 of a series of posts. See also: Validation in ASP.NET MVC – part 1: basic server-side validation Validation in ASP.NET MVC – part 2: custom server-side validation In the first two parts, I showed how you can perform validation on the server side with Castle Validation attributes and extend that model [...]
Categories: ASP.NET MVC,Cuyahoga
Tagged: ASP.NET MVC, Cuyahoga, jQuery, Validation