Jul 31
It''s official: I''m on vacations!
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So, don”t expect too many updates on the next month :,,)
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Jul 31
My favourite TV series
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Ok, since today is my last day at work before vacations, I’ve though that it would be a great time to relax and since I was talking with a friend of mine about TV series, I thought that I should publish my top 6 TV series of all time, starting from 6 to 1. 6. […]
Jul 31
As we’ve seen in the last post of the series, the MVC platform introduced the notion of “request associated data” by creating the TempDataDictionary which can be accessed through the Controller’s TempData property. As we’ve discussed, the data you put in that dictionary will only “survive” a single request. What this means is that the […]
Jul 31
In my last post,we’ve seen how the MvcRouteHandler creates an IController instance that is responsible for processing the current request. Today I’ll keep talking about the MVC platform and we’re going to step through the tipical controller lifecycle. When you build a new controller, you end up extending the System.Web.Mvc.Controller class. This class implements several […]
Jul 30
Routes and namespaces
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As I”ve said in one of my previous posts, you can have 2 controllers with the same name, but on different namespaces. The problem with this approach is that you”ll only be able to get a route by specifying its name. So, if you don”t want to use a name or if you can”t (for […]
Jul 30
Yes, I’ve been asking this for some time now…in fact, this is the only thing I miss from the traditional ASP.NET Web Forms model. Those clear aspx pages, with really few <%%> crap (oopss, I mean tags) springled through out my pages – the only place I did need them was inside templates. Notice that […]
Jul 28
Book review: Powershell pocket reference
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[Disclaimer: I’ve received a copy of this book for review] I’m really happy to have received a copy of this book. It’s really a simple, easy to read, concise book which contains all you need to get started with PowerShell. You can easy read the book in 1 or 2 days (that is, if you’re […]
Jul 24
In one of my previous posts, I’ve showed how you could access the Values property of the RouteData class to get info about the current controller and action. What I forgot to mention at the time was that you should use the GetRequiredString method to get the url parameter values that must be filled when […]
Jul 24
As we’ve seen in the previous post, all “MVC routing requests” are handled by the MvcRouteHandler class which will simply return an instance of the MvcHandler type. The MvcHandler is an IHttpHandler which is responsible for creating other classes that end up handling the current request and processing its response. This handler doesn’t create an […]
Jul 24
One of the things I needed when I started playing with ASP.NET MVC is getting info about the current Route. That’s easy when you’re on the controller, but what happens when you need that info on a module? In these scenarios, the easiest way of achieving this is getting a reference to the current HttpContext, […]
Jul 23
Book review: Professional IIS 7 and ASP.NET Integrated Programming
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[Disclaimer: I’ve received a copy of this book for review] I’ve just finished reading the Professional IIS 7 and ASP.NET integrated programming book by Dr. Shramram. If you’re trying to understand how to leverage the new IIS 7 managed features, then this book is just what you need. If you don’t know what you must […]
Jul 23
As we’ve seen in the previous post, by default you’ll end up using the MvcRouteHandler class for setting up the handler that will return the HTTP response to the client. As you can see (by looking at the code), the GetHttpHandler will only return a new MvcHandler and pass it the current RequestContext. If this […]
Jul 17
Loads cannot pass other loads…or can they?
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Great post by Joe Duffy (does this guy ever sleep???) which points to a somewhat disturbing fact regarding some of the conventions taken as granted today…want to know what I”m talking about? Then go read it ASAP!
Jul 15
Opera 9.5: finally with a good enough debugger for JS
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In these last days I”ve finally upgraded to Opera 9.51. I”ve always been a Opera user, though when I was actively developing for the web, I”ve generally ended up using Firefox and IE only. Now, the good news is that the latest version of Opera already has a JS debugger, which means that now I […]
Jul 15
Yes, it”s one of those posts where you either agree or disagree completely :,,) Anyway, after having a 15 minutes discussion with my friend Paulo (which, btw and as usual, disagrees with me) yesterday at 1AM, I”ve decided to write this post. The problem: MS recommends that variable names shouldn”t have any sort of prefix […]
Jul 15
Great post by Scott presenting the new things one can expect to see in the next preview of ASP.NET MVC. This means that it”s time to pick up where I left and go back to the internals of the MVC platform.
Jul 09
Why I’m not buying an IPhone
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Simply because you can only buy it (officially) from a mobile phone operator. Simply a no-no to me…
Jul 08
This is one of the things I”ve been thinking about in these last days. To be honest, I still see Flash only sites (feel free to add Silverlight to the list too) as more trouble than they”re worth it. Even though some say they”re more usable, I”d say that”s nonsense. To be honest, they aren”t […]
Jul 08
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Jul 07
Book review: Professional Engine Optimization with ASP.NET: a Developer''s Guide to SEO
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[Disclaimer: I”ve received a free copy of this book for reviewing] Ok, so this is the second book I”ve got from Wrox for reviewing (and yes, I did enjoy it much more than the first). SEO is one of those things that most developers end up forgetting when building ASP.NET pages Unfortunately, that might cost […]
Jul 04
Today I’m going to start posting some personal rumblings about the MVC framework. In fact, I haven’t started developing real apps with it, so I’m starting this series to force me look at it since in my current job I’m no longer working with web apps. One of things you should keep in mind is […]
Jul 04
The routing series
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I’ve just noticed that I didn’t put up a resume of the routing series. Here’s the list of associated posts: The MVC routing assembly – part I The MVC routing assembly – part II The MVC routing assembly – part III The MVC routing assembly – part IV The MVC routing assembly – part V […]
Jul 03
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