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Adding Export Capabilities to the Razor WebGrid
Sep 1103When MVC first came out I really missed having a grid control. Now a few years later, we finally have a grid control again. In case, you didnt know the WebGrid was included in the System.Web.Helpers assembly which shipped with MVC 3. After using a variety of grid controls over the years I was actually glad that the API for the new WebGrid was kept clean and simple. Here is a screenshot of what the grid looks like: To display a grid on a razor view page, you basically create a new grid objec...
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New Ajax Grid Scaffolding NuGet Package for MVC 3
Aug 1118EDITOR’S NOTE: Microsoft has an amazing intern program. For a summer, these bright college students work with a feature crew getting real work done, all the while attending cool events nearly every week that, frankly, make the rest of us jealous! Just look at some of the perks listed in this news article! This summer, the ASP.NET MVC is hosting an intern, Stephen Halter, who while very smart, doesn’t have a blog of his own (booo! hiss!). Being the nice guy that I am (and also being amenable ...
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What’s the Difference Between a Value Provider and Model Binder?
Jun 1130ASP.NET MVC 3 introduced the ability to bind an incoming JSON request to an action method parameter, which is something I wrote about before. For example, suppose you have the following class defined (keeping it really simple here): public class ComicBook { public string Title { get; set; } public int IssueNumber { get; set; } } And you have an action method that accepts an instance of ComicBook: [HttpPost] public ActionResult Update(ComicBook comicBook) { // Do something with ComicBo...
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The history of ASP.NET MVC, so far
Jun 1129This 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...
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June 26th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, .NET and NuGet
Jun 1127Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my Best of 2010 Summary for links to 100+ other posts I’ve done in the last year. [I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] ASP.NET Introducing new ASP.NET Universal Providers: Great post from Scott Hanselman on the new System.Web.Providers we are working on. This release delivers new ASP.NET Membership, Role Management, Session, Profile providers that work with SQL Ser...
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Free “Guathon” all day event in London on June 6th
May 1124The (awesome) UK developer community is holding another all day event with Steve Sanderson and me in London on June 6th. The event is free to attend, and the venue will be in Central London (at the ODEON Covent Garden). The website for the event is here. Content The event goes from 9am to 5pm, and will feature a bunch of great .NET content. The current agenda includes the following talks: Build an app using ASP.NET MVC 3, EF Code First, NuGet and IIS Express (ScottGu) We'll spend 2 ho...
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Great Free Video Training on ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC
May 1116We’ve recently published some great end-to-end ASP.NET video training courses on the http://asp.net web-site. Created by Pluralsight (a great .NET training company), these video courses are available free of charge and provide a great way to learn (or brush-up your knowledge of) ASP.NET Web Forms 4 and ASP.NET MVC 3. Each course is taught by a single trainer, and provides a nice end-to-end curriculum (from basic concepts to working with the new Entity Framework “code first” model to securit...
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How to convert an ASP.NET Web Forms web application into ASP.NET MVC 3
May 1106So, you have a traditional web forms web application and you are inspired by the new ASP.NET MVC 3 are you? Well this is definitely doable. In this how to guide I will tell you step by step exactly how you can add your new ASP.NET MVC 3 work into your existing ASP.NET web forms project. 1. Add referencesRight click on your web root project in Visual Studio (2010 in my case) and add the following references: System.Web.Routing System.Web.Abstractions System.Web.Mvc System.WebPages System.Web...
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Hanselminutes Podcast 261 - ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update with Phil Haack
Apr 1121Scott and Phil sit down to talk about the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update. Have you updated? That button up there will automatically check your system for SP1, as well as get you IIS Express, SQL Compact and basically the whole Web Stack of Love. That's the official install it all button. It's a great way to get a fresh machine ready to develop with. Don't worry, it won't install VS Express if you have VS already. That said, if you're paranoid, you can just download the MVC 3 installer. D...
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Mix 11 Videos - Download them all with RSS
Apr 1118Such a fun time was had at Mix 11 this last week in Vegas. I only saw a few talks as I was busy presenting, but now as I sit at home on my first day back, I say to myself, Self, how can I get all the Mix videos at once? First, you can watch all the videos online at http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX11 Second, you can get them via RSS. Most major browsers are hiding the RSS button these days, but the discovery metadata is all still there. In IE9, for example, if you show the Command B...
