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Last week marked the one year anniversary our team’s first ASP.NET MVC application in production. We really have two different types of production. Internal and external. While an internal application might get used by 2 to 100 people, our external applications get used by millions. After chatting with...
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I have created enough simple projects using ASP.NET MVC with unit tests to notice a very helpful pattern. The following is a sample of a test fixture using RhinoMocks and NUnit to test a controller. 1: [TestFixture] 2: public class AdminControllerTests 3: { 4: private IFacilityRepository facilityRepository;...
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For those who don’t know what Spark is… Spark is an open source view engine for Castle’s MonoRail Project (version 2.0 just recently released!) and ASP.NET MVC . The creator of Spark, Louis DeJardin , came up with the project in a comment left on a Phil Haack blog post amidst people complaining about...
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Like it or not, WebForms is not going away. Fortune 50 companies use it for their public facing, mission critical websites, and I can’t really see many of these folks tossing away years of work simply because MVC is the new shiny. Talking with some industry folks, I see a lot of fear/misunderstanding...
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Next week, I’ll be teaching a 3-day course on ASP.NET MVC, as part of Headspring’s ASP.NET MVC Boot Camp . The material touches on a lot of the ASP.NET MVC features we use day-to-day, as well as looking at how we use ASP.NET MVC. Topics will include (but not be limited to): History...
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One of the more interesting abstractions in ASP.NET MVC is the concept of an action result. Instead of calling a method to direct the result of calling an action, such as frameworks like Rails allows: def create @book = Book.new(params[:book]) if @book.save redirect_to :action => 'list' else...
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Recently, a question came up on Twitter around your favorite project structure/solution organizing for ASP.NET MVC projects. I’ve toyed around with quite a few different strategies for structuring projects, and I’m currently settled around one that gives me the most flexibility. It’s extremely...
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A while back, I wrote about a ModelBinder enhancement we use to do arbitrary filtering on types. The underlying matching algorithm only matches on one type, but we like to use layer supertypes for a lot of our domain objects, so we want to use a single model binder for every Entity or Enumeration...
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Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Sample Portable Area Part 3 – Using of a Portable Area Part 4 – Using an Inversion of Control Framework. (this post) Using an Inversion of Control Container is a common scenario that would be needed by a Message Handler. The Bus has an extensibility point to...
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Using a Portable Area This is the third part in a series about using a Portable Area (PA) using MvcContrib. This sample walks through the Host Application side of consuming the Login Portable area. This example demonstrates how a portable area such as a login can send messages and recieve responses from...
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Sample Portable Area This is the second part in a series about creating a Portable Area (PA) using MvcContrib Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Sample Portable Area (this post) Part 3 – Usage of a Portable Area Part 4 - IoC Framework Support To create a Portable Area, the first step is...
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This is a multi post series on ASP.Net MVC Portable Areas Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Sample Portable Area Part 3 – Usage of a Portable Area Part 4 - IoC framework support What is a Portable Area? A Portable Area is a set of reusable multi page functionality can be dropped into an...
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Simone has a great post (as usual) on 12 ASP.NET MVC Best Practices : Controller: 1 - Delete the AccountController 2 - Isolate controllers from the outside world 3 - Use an IoC Container 4 - So NO to “magic strings” 5 - Build your own personal conventions 6 - Pay attention to the verbs Model: 7 – Domain...
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Some of the questions during the C4MVC presentation concerned how I liked to locate data displayed in the rendered HTML for validation purposes. You have quite a few options for doing so, such as: Traverse HTML directly through the DOM Using existing semantic HTML information Adding semantic HTML...
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Yesterday the C4MVC guys hosted a screencast with me on UI testing ASP.NET MVC. It was a lot of fun, but I actually forgot I was being videotaped (webcam’d?), so all those times I turned off my mic to catch a drink of water or cough uncontrollably are caught in glorious 370i. Anyway, check...