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  • Wishful Thinking: Why can't HTML fix Script Attacks at the Source?

    Wishful Thinking: Why can't HTML fix Script Attacks at the Source?

    Apr 12
    15

    The Web can be an evil place, especially if you're a Web Developer blissfully unaware of Cross Site Script Attacks (XSS). Even if you are aware of XSS in all of its insidious forms, it's extremely complex to deal with all the issues if you're taking user input and you're actually allowing users to post raw HTML into an application. I'm dealing with this again today in a Web application where legacy data contains raw HTML that has to be displayed and users ask for the ability to use raw HTML as...

  • Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part IV: Dependency injection, it's what's for breakfast

    Rebuilding CoasterBuzz, Part IV: Dependency injection, it's what's for breakfast

    Apr 12
    11

    (Repost from my personal blog.) This is another post in a series about rebuilding one of my Web sites, which has been around for 12 years. I hope to relaunch soon. More: Part I: Evolution, and death to WCF Part II: Hot data objects Part III: The architecture using the "Web stack of love" If anything generally good for the craft has come out of the rise of ASP.NET MVC, it's that people are more likely to use dependency injection, and loosely couple the pieces parts of their application...

  • ASP.NET MVC Now Accepting Pull Requests

    ASP.NET MVC Now Accepting Pull Requests

    Mar 12
    29

    Changing a big organizations is a slow endeavor. But when people are passionate and persistent, change does happen. Three years ago, the ASP.NET MVC source code was released under an open source license. But at the time, the team could not accept any code contributions. In my blog post talking about that release, I said the following (emphasis added): Personally (and this is totally my own opinion), I’d like to reach the point where we could accept patches. There are many hurdles in the w...

  • Writing a Recipe for ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview

    Writing a Recipe for ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview

    Sep 11
    22

    NOTE: This blog post covers features in a pre-release product, ASP.NET MVC 4 Developer Preview. You’ll see we call out those two words a lot to cover our butt. The specifics about the feature will change  and this post will become out-dated. You’ve been warned. All good recipes call for a significant amount of garlic. Introduction Last week I spoke at the //BUILD conference on building mobile web applications with ASP.NET MVC 4. In the talk, I demonstrated a recipe I wrote that automates...

  • The history of ASP.NET MVC, so far

    The history of ASP.NET MVC, so far

    Jun 11
    29

    This post is a mile high overview of the history of ASP.NET MVC, the features it brought with the various versions and the extensibility points introduced. I am starting to work on both a series of webcasts and articles and I was doing some preparatory work, collecting information on the various features and extensibility points that got into the various (official) releases of ASP.NET MVC, so I thought it could have been useful to share my little summary. There have been 3 major official r...

  • Community Day 2011 - Fun with ASP.NET MVC, MEF and NuGet

    Community Day 2011 - Fun with ASP.NET MVC, MEF and NuGet

    Jun 11
    24

    To start the blog post: AWESOME! Thats what I have to say about the latest edition of Community Day 2011. I had the privilege of doing a session on ASP.NET MVC 3, MEF and NuGet, and as promised to the audience: here are the slides. For those who want to see the session, the recording can be found on Channel 9 from a previous event. Fun with ASP.NET MVC3, MEF and NuGet Community Day 2011, Mechelen, Belgium, 23/06/2011 Abstract: So you have a team of developers And a nice architecture to bui...

  • Conditional Filters in ASP.NET MVC 3

    Conditional Filters in ASP.NET MVC 3

    Apr 11
    25

    Say you want to apply an action filter to very action except one. How would you go about it? For example, suppose you want to apply an authorization filter to every action except the action that lets the user login. Seems like a pretty good idea, right? Currently, it takes a bit of work to do this. If you add a filter to the GlobalFilters.Filters collection, it applies to every action, which in the previous scenario would mean you already need to be authorized to login. Now that is security ...

  • Slides for my talk at MIX11: Fun with ASP.NET MVC 3, MEF and NuGet

    Slides for my talk at MIX11: Fun with ASP.NET MVC 3, MEF and NuGet

    Apr 11
    14

    As promised, here are the slides and demo code for my talk "Fun with ASP.NET MVC 3, MEF and NuGet" I presented at MIX in Las Vegas. Abstract: "So you have a team of developers And a nice architecture to build on How about making that architecture easy for everyone and getting developers up to speed quickly? Learn all about integrating the managed extensibility framework (MEF) and ASP.NET MVC with some NuGet sauce for creating loosely coupled, easy to use architectures that anyone can grasp."...

  • Official Belgium TechDays 2011 Windows Phone 7 app released

    Official Belgium TechDays 2011 Windows Phone 7 app released

    Apr 11
    09

    I’m proud to announce that we (RealDolmen) have released the official Belgium TechDays 2011 Windows Phone 7 app! The official Belgium TechDays 2011 gives you the ability to browse current upcoming sessions, as well as provide LIVE feedback to the event organizers. Is the current session awesome? Let us know! Is the food too spicy? Let us know! Why am I blogging this? Well: one of the first sessions at the event will be Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Windows Azure, jQuery, OData and RIA Servi...

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