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  • Writing an ASP.NET MVC Controller Inspector

    Writing an ASP.NET MVC Controller Inspector

    Aug 11
    11

    99.99999% of the time (yes, I measured it), a controller in ASP.NET MVC is a type, and an action is a method — with reflection as the glue that holds it all together. For most folks, that’s the best way to view how ASP.NET MVC works. But some folks like to dig deeper and get their hands dirty a bit by taking a peek under the hood. Doing so reveals that while the reflection based mapping of controllers types and actions to methods is true by default, it can be easily changed to something else...

  • Text templating using Razor the easy way

    Text templating using Razor the easy way

    Aug 11
    02

    As a web guy, I’ve slung more than my fair share of angle brackets over the tubes of the Internet. The Razor syntax quickly became my favorite way of generating those angle brackets soon after its release. But its usefulness is not limited to just the web. The ASP.NET team designed Razor to generate HTML markup without being tightly coupled to ASP.NET. This opens up the possibility to use Razor in many other contexts other than just a web application. For example, the help documentation fo...

  • Templated Razor Delegates

    Templated Razor Delegates

    Feb 11
    27

    David Fowler turned me on to a really cool feature of Razor I hadn’t realized made it into 1.0, Templated Razor Delegates. What’s that? I’ll let the code do the speaking. @{ Func<dynamic, object> b = @<strong>@item</strong>; } <span>This sentence is b("In Bold").</span> That could come in handy if you have friends who’ll jump on your case for using the bold tag instead of the strong tag because it’s “not semantic”. Yeah, I’m looking at you Damian . I mean, don’t both words signify being ...

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