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Entity Framework 4.3.1 Migrations and non English locale
Apr 1230A few days ago I started migrating a web app I was working on from ASP.NET MVC 3 and EF4 to ASP.NET MVC 4 and EF 4.3.1. All went well, except for some problems with the automatic generation of the DB scheme using EF Code First: it was creating the database, but no tables and not even the __MigrationHistory table added in 4.3; and during the execution of the schema generation an error was raised with a weird datetime conversion error. I tried this both on SQL Express 2005 and SQL Compact and I ...
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It’s The Little Things about ASP.NET MVC 4
Mar 1211Conway’s Law states, ...organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. Up until recently, there was probably no better demonstration of this law than the fact that Microsoft had two ways of shipping angle brackets (and curly braces for that matter) over HTTP – ASP.NET MVC and WCF Web API. The reorganization of these two teams under Scott Guthrie (aka “The GU” which I’m contractually boun...
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Open Source and Open Source Software Are Not The Same Things
Feb 1216It all started with an innocent tweet asking whether ASP.NET MVC 3 is “open source” or not? I jumped in with my usual answer, “of course it is!” The source code is released under the Ms-PL, a license recognized that the OSI legally reviewed to ensure it meets the Open Source Definition (OSD). The Free Software Foundation (FSF) recognizes it as a “free software license”1 making it not only OSS, but FOSS (Free and open source software) by that definition. Afterwards, a healthy debate ensued on...
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POP Forums v9.2 posted to CodePlex, with new languages, post voting and the scoring game
Jan 1224POP Forums v9.2.0 is the third release for the ASP.NET MVC3 version of POP Forums. It is feature complete, stable, and ready for feedback. For previous release notes, see previous releases. Check out the live preview: http://popforums.com/Forums Setup instructions are available in the documentation section. Upgrading? If you're upgrading from v9.0 or v9.1, simply replace the existing files. You'll also have to run the PopForums4.xto4.2.sql SQL script against your existing database. That ...
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The evolution of asynchronous controllers in ASP.NET MVC
Jan 1209Asynchronous 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...
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OSS and .NET Year In Review 2011
Dec 1126T’is the season for “Year in Review” and “Best of” blog posts. It’s a vain practice, to be sure. This is exactly why I’ve done it almost every year! After all, isn’t all blogging pure vanity? Sadly, I did miss a few years when my vanity could not overcome my laziness. This year I am changing it up a bit to look at the intersection of open source software and the .NET community in 2011. I think it’s been a banner year for OSS and .NET/Microsoft, and I think it’s only going to get better in 20...
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POP Forums v9.1.0 has been posted to CodePlex!
Dec 1115Finally! After moving, being a dad and engaging in a great deal of home improvement, I finally managed to find time to an update out to POP Forums. I hope to not be that guy anymore, going forever between updates. Release Notes This is the first release for the ASP.NET MVC3 version of POP Forums. It is feature complete, stable, and ready for feedback. For previous release notes, see previous releases. Check out the live preview: http://preview.popforums.com/Forums Setup instructions are ...
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Using QUnit with Razor Layouts
Dec 1111Given how central JavaScript is to many modern web applications, it is important to use unit tests to drive the design and quality of that JavaScript. But I’ve noticed that there are a lot of developers that don’t know where to start. There are many test frameworks out there, but the one I love is QUnit, the jQuery unit test framework. Most of my experience with QUnit is writing tests for a client script library such as a jQuery plugin. Here’s an example of one QUnit test file I wrote a ...
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New NuGet.org Deployed!
Dec 1106So my last day at Microsoft ended up being a very long one as the NuGet team worked late into the evening to deployan updated version of NuGet.org. I’m very happy to be a part of this as my last act as a Microsoft employee. This is complete re-write of the gallery. Why a rewrite? We’ve learned a lot since we first launched, and our needs have evolved to the point where a rewrite made sense. The new implementation is a vanilla ASP.NET MVC 3 application and highly optimized to be a gallery wit...
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Razor Donut Caching
Nov 1126Donut caching, the ability to cache an entire page except for a small region of the page (or set of regions) has been conspicuously absent from ASP.NET MVC since version 2. Mmmmm, donuts! – Photo by Pzado at sxc.hu This is something that’s on our Roadmap for ASP.NET MVC 4, but we have yet to flesh out the design. In the meanwhile, there’s a new NuGet package written by Paul Hiles that brings donut caching to ASP.NET MVC 3. I haven’t tried it myself yet, so be forewarned, but judging by th...
