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  • The evolution of asynchronous controllers in ASP.NET MVC

    The evolution of asynchronous controllers in ASP.NET MVC

    Jan 12
    09

    Asynchronous operations in ASP.NET MVC have always been left a bit behind. They appeared in ASP.NET MVC 2, remained untouched in v3, but now in MVC 4 (especially  in combination with C# 5 and async/await) they reached the same easiness of use of the standard synchronous controller. Now (or better, in a few months with the release of ASP.NET MVC 4, .NET 4.5 and C# 5) you can write public async Task<ViewResult> Stuff() { return View(await DoStuff("Some stuff")); } In this post I’m going to...

  • 3 things that changed ASP.NET development in 2010

    3 things that changed ASP.NET development in 2010

    Dec 10
    23

    As 2010 draws to a close I thought about how I was writing code last year. I realised how much development has changed in just one year. I want to look at how my work has evolved during 2010. Entity Framework 4I really like using Entity Framework. I wasn't quite sure about it in its first version, however, since the release of Entity Framework 4 in April I fully adopted it. It solves so many problems that I feel exist in modern web development. I like stored procedures, I know a lot about usin...

  • Using RavenDB with ASP.NET MVC

    Using RavenDB with ASP.NET MVC

    Nov 10
    08

    Traditionally when you think about a database you think of tables, views, indexes and stored procedures. If you have made a career out of developing database centric applications like I have, then chances are that you have spent a great deal of time dealing with issues around referential integrity, normalization and performance. Unless you have been living underneath a rock, then you have probably heard of the newest database trend named NoSQL. NoSQL refers to non relational document databas...

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