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  • Portable Area excerpt from MVC2 in Action

    Portable Area excerpt from MVC2 in Action

    Apr 10
    22

    If some of you want to know why I have not been blogging as much for the last few months.. and this is why. I have been putting my energy into this book as a co-author. I am excited to be part of it and glad to share the results of all of this work. The following is an excerpt from ASP.NET MVC 2 in Action, a book from Manning appearing in bookstores in May. The early access (MEAP) edition is available now on http://manning.com/palermo2. Authors include Jeffrey Palermo, Ben Scheirman, Jimmy B...

  • MVC Portable Areas Enhancement – Embedded Resource Controller

    MVC Portable Areas Enhancement – Embedded Resource Controller

    Apr 10
    14

    MvcContrib contains a feature called Portable Areas which I’ve recently blogged about. In short, portable areas provide a way to distribute MVC binary components as simple .NET assemblies where the aspx/ascx files are actually compiled into the assembly as embedded resources. This is an extremely cool feature but once you start building robust portable areas, you’ll also want to be able to access other external files like css and javascript.  After my recent post suggesting portable areas be e...

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  • MvcContrib - Portable Area – Visual Studio project template

    MvcContrib - Portable Area – Visual Studio project template

    Apr 10
    07

    I just uploaded a visual studio project template for creating portable areas. You can find the release here: http://mvccontrib.codeplex.com/releases/view/43162 This project template includes a little msbuild trick to automatically include all of your content files as embedded resources, so you do not have to remember to manually keep track of them. This was a neat little trick that Steve Michelotti pulled together. Additional information on MvcContrib Portable Areas For more informat...

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  • MVC Portable Areas – Web Application Projects

    MVC Portable Areas – Web Application Projects

    Apr 10
    05

    This is the first post in a series related to build and deployment considerations as I’ve been exploring MVC Portable Areas: #1 – Using Web Application Project to build portable areas #2 – Conventions for deploying portable area static files #3 – Portable area static files as embedded resources Portable Areas is a relatively new feature available in MvcContrib that builds upon the new feature called Areas that was introduced in MVC 2. In short, portable areas provide a way to distribute...

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    • MVC2
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