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  • Open source adventures with... wait for it... Microsoft

    Open source adventures with... wait for it... Microsoft

    Mar 12
    31

    Last week, Microsoft announced that it was going to open source the rest of the ASP.NET MVC Web stack. The core MVC framework has been open source for a long time now, but the other pieces around it are also now out in the wild. Not only that, but it's not what I call "big bang" open source, where you release the source with each version. No, they're actually committing in real time to a public repository. They're also taking contributions where it makes sense. If that weren't exciting enoug...

  • Creating a Custom ASP.NET MVC Project Template

    Creating a Custom ASP.NET MVC Project Template

    Jun 11
    06

    When you create a new ASP.NET MVC 3 project, the new project wizard dialog contains several options for different MVC project templates: Empty Internet Application Intranet Application (new in the April 2011 Tools update) There’s a lot of white space in that dialog. To many of you, all that unsullied territory smells like opportunity. When I talk about this dialog, I go to great pains to tell folks that, yes!, you too can extend that dialog and add your own project templates in there...

  • NuGet Package of the Week #2 - MvcMailer sends mails with ASP.NET MVC Razor Views and Scaffolding

    NuGet Package of the Week #2 - MvcMailer sends mails with ASP.NET MVC Razor Views and Scaffolding

    Mar 11
    15

    Have you implemented the NuGet Action Plan? Get on it, it'll take only 5 minutes: NuGet Action Plan - Upgrade to 1.1, Setup Automatic Updates, Get NuGet Package Explorer. The Backstory: I was thinking since the NuGet .NET package management site is starting to fill up that I should start looking for gems (no pun intended) in there. You know, really useful stuff that folks might otherwise not find. I'll look for mostly open source projects, ones I think are really useful. I'll look at how th...

  • Routing Regression With Two Consecutive Optional Url Parameters

    Routing Regression With Two Consecutive Optional Url Parameters

    Feb 11
    20

    It pains me to say it, but ASP.NET MVC 3 introduces an ugly regression in routing from ASP.NET MVC 2. The good news is that there’s an easy workaround. The bug manifests when you have a route with two consecutive optional URL parameters and you attempt to use the route to generate an URL. The incoming request matching behavior is unchanged and continues to work fine. For example, suppose you have the following route defined: routes.MapRoute("by-day", "archive/{month}/{day}", new { contro...

  • MvcSiteMapProvider 3.0.0 released

    MvcSiteMapProvider 3.0.0 released

    Feb 11
    04

    Just a quick note to tell that MvcSiteMapProvider 3.0.0 has been released and is available on CodePlex and NuGet. This version is targeted at ASP.NET MVC 3. If you are still using ASP.NET MVC 2, no worries: version 2.3.1 contains the exact same functionality but is targeted at ASP.NET MVC 2. The changelog: Additional UpdatePriority options for generating XML sitemaps Allow to specify target on SiteMapTitleAttribute One action with multiple routes and breadcrumbs Medium Trust optimizatio...

  • Make It Yours

    Make It Yours

    Feb 11
    02

    I went to a general store, but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific. - Steven Wright. One of the challenges of working with a general purpose programming language (like C#) and a general purpose framework (like ASP.NET, Silverlight, or any other application framework) is building something specific. The trick is to apply constraints and build abstractions to take ownership of the situation, and there is an entire bag of fancy tricks to pull from, like using fluent APIs or applying ...

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