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  • Changing the default HTML Templates to HTML5 in Visual Studio

    Changing the default HTML Templates to HTML5 in Visual Studio

    Dec 11
    23

    If you're using Visual Studio 2010 to create Web applications, you probably have found out that the default Web templates for ASP.NET Web Forms and Master pages and plain HTML pages all create HTML 4 XHTML headers like this: <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="$fileinputname$.aspx.cs" Inherits="$rootnamespace$.$classname$" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w...

  • New Ajax Grid Scaffolding NuGet Package for MVC 3

    New Ajax Grid Scaffolding NuGet Package for MVC 3

    Aug 11
    18

    EDITOR’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 ...

  • How to convert an ASP.NET Web Forms web application into ASP.NET MVC 3

    How to convert an ASP.NET Web Forms web application into ASP.NET MVC 3

    May 11
    06

    So, 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...

  • Building a Nuget Server with gold plating

    Building a Nuget Server with gold plating

    Apr 11
    05

    Last week, Phil Haack wrote a post on how to build a NuGet Server. A NuGet server is really easy to build because 90% of the work is done by running a NuGet command. Just for fun, I decided to add some extra functionality to my NuGet Server such as a package upload form and a formatted list of packages. In preparing my NuGet server, I followed Phil’s direction to a tee except for the fact that I used a “empty MVC 3 app with Razor support” instead of using a “ASP.NET Empty Web Application”. ...

  • Changing Base Type Of A Razor View

    Changing Base Type Of A Razor View

    Feb 11
    21

    Within a Razor view, you have access to a base set of properties (such as Html, Url, Ajax, etc.) each of which provides methods you can use within the view. For example, in the following view, we use the Html property to access the TextBox method. @Html.TextBox("SomeProperty") Html is a property of type HtmlHelper and there are a large number of useful extension methods that hang off this type, such as  TextBox. But where did the Html property come from? It’s a property of System.We...

  • 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...

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