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Using the West Wind Web Toolkit to set up AJAX and REST Services
Nov 1103I frequently get questions about which option to use for creating AJAX and REST backends for ASP.NET applications. There are many solutions out there to do this actually, but when I have a choice - not surprisingly - I fall back to my own tools in the West Wind West Wind Web Toolkit. I've talked a bunch about the 'in-the-box' solutions in the past so for a change in this post I'll talk about the tools that I use in my own and customer applications to handle AJAX and REST based access to servic...
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Microsoft dev stack vNext from Build
Sep 1115Unless you are living under a rock, you have probably heard that two days ago, at Build, Microsoft unveiled the new version of Windows, named Windows 8. Windows 8 This is revolutionary both from the consumers’ and developers’ perspectives. The UI is deeply based on the concept of the tiles of Windows Phone 7.5 “mango” and the Metro design language, and the API are now allowing applications to be written either in C#/C++ and the usual .NET/Win32, or using WinRT, basically an Object Oriented v...
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Text templating using Razor the easy way
Aug 1102As 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...
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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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Creating a Custom ASP.NET MVC Project Template
Jun 1106When 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...
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Hanselminutes Podcast 268 - Personal Systems of Organization - Rey Bango interviews Scott Hanselman
May 1131Tables turned this week and Rey Bango interviews Scott on his personal systems of organization. How has Scott synthesized the systems of Stephen Covey, David Allen, J.D. Meier and the Pomodoro Technique into a living system that works for him. Links from the Show Free eBook: Getting Results the Agile Way The Pomodoro Technique Book: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity My system in 2005: Personal Systems of Organization Oredev Keynote - Information Overload and Ma...
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Compiling MVC Views In A Build Environment
May 1109ASP.NET MVC project templates include support for precompiling views, which is useful for finding syntax errors within your views at build time rather than at runtime. In case you missed the memo, the following outline how to enable this feature. Right click on your ASP.NET MVC project in the Solution Explorer Select Unload Project in the context menu. Your project will show up as unavailable Right click on the project again and select Edit ProjectName.csproj. This will bring up the p...
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EF Code First and Data Scaffolding with the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update
May 1106Earlier this week I blogged about the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update that we shipped last month. In today’s blog post I’m going to go into more detail about two of the cool new features it brings: Built-in support for EF 4.1 (which includes the new EF “code-first” support) Built-in data scaffolding support within Visual Studio (which enables you to rapidly create data-driven sites) These two features provide a really sweet, and extremely powerful, way to work with data and build d...
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EF Code First and ASP.NET MVC Scaffolding of CRUD Actions and Views
Apr 1119Using the new Add Controller Dialog in the ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update to generate CRUD Controller Actions and Views using EF Code First!...
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ASP.NET MVC 3 Scaffolding with Entity Framework - Code Generation
Apr 1118A quick look at the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update which enhances the Add Controller Dialog with scaffolding of controller and views using the Entity Framework....
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