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  • Writing an ASP.NET MVC Controller Inspector

    Writing an ASP.NET MVC Controller Inspector

    Aug 11
    11

    99.99999% of the time (yes, I measured it), a controller in ASP.NET MVC is a type, and an action is a method — with reflection as the glue that holds it all together. For most folks, that’s the best way to view how ASP.NET MVC works. But some folks like to dig deeper and get their hands dirty a bit by taking a peek under the hood. Doing so reveals that while the reflection based mapping of controllers types and actions to methods is true by default, it can be easily changed to something else...

  • ASP.NET MVC Unit Testing with UpdateModel and TryUpdateModel

    ASP.NET MVC Unit Testing with UpdateModel and TryUpdateModel

    Jan 11
    25

    Last week I was in the middle of re-writing an old MVC application. The app was written during the early days of MVC, and as a consequence it was a playground for learning and experimentation. As a developer, I am continuously learning new tricks so its’ no surprise that when I look at the code I wrote a few years ago, I generally will feel the urge to refactor it. For example, when I started out with ASP.NET MVC I did not fully understand how the model binders worked. Unfortunately, this mean...

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