Mar 30
SOLID motivational pictures
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Just take a look.
March, 2009Archive
Mar 26
Another short post on the features available on the MVC futures assembly…today, we’re going to take a look at the ContentTypeAttribute. This attribute is an action filter attribute and you can use it to setup the content type of the current response (ie, you can apply this attribute to an action method to influence the […]
Mar 25
Ok, not really! It’s still free…today I didn’t really had the time to dig into the stuff I wanted to investigate. So, I’ll just present several interesting topics about the MVC futures assembly: Binders: the MVC future has some offers in this area. Let’s start with the ByteArrayModelBinder. This binder will recover a byte array […]
Mar 24
The MCV framework: view extensions
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Ok, here we are again for another episode on the inner workings of the MVC futures assembly. Today, we’re going to take a look at the HtmlHelper extension methods defined on the ViewExtension class. The current release of this class introduces two (static extension) methods which you can use to execute an action “in-place” during […]
Mar 23
A few months back, we’ve seen how TempData is implemented and how it should be used. Today we’re going to keep looking at the future assembly and we’ll take a look at the CookieTempDataProvider class. The class implements the ITempDataProvider interface and you can use it it you intend to persist the temp data dictionary […]
Mar 22
Ok, so in the previous posts I kept talking about some of the helpers available on the future assembly. In this short post we’re going to complement that information with some more methods that let you expressions for specifying form actions (yes, this can be seen as form extensions, part III). The future assembly introduces […]
Mar 22
I”ve started watching MIX sessions and, until now, I can tell you that I’m really impressed with SuperPreview. I’ll be getting the expression tools just to see what it can be done with it (do keep in mind that there’s also a free version for IE).
Mar 22
Today we’re going to keep looking at other helps available on the future assembly. The topic for today is: ButtonBuilder and using the available extension methods for adding HTML button type elements to the page. We’re going to start looking at the functionalities available on the ButtonBuilder class (keep in mind that you won’t probably […]
Mar 21
The MVC framework: more on links
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Ok, now that codeplex is up again, I’ve already downloaded the latest bits for the ASP.NET MVC framework. In the past, we’ve already seen that there are several helpers for generating links for specific actions. As we’re going to see today, the future assemblies adds more ActionLink extension method helpers that let you specify the […]
Mar 20
Mix sessions online
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Just a quick note for those that stayed home: there are several MIX 09 sessions are already available. Go get them!
Mar 20
MIX almost over
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And I still haven’t finished watching the 1st keynote…oh well, that’s what happens when you have lots of things to do…as you all know, MVC is out (which is great!) and I do intend to continue my posts on it as soon as I can get my hands on a futures assembly which works with […]
Mar 17
Today we’re going to keep looking at the futures assembly. In a previous post, we’ve seen how we can easily return a file from an action method. Today, we’re going to take a look at how we can use the FileCollectionModelBinder to get access to a group of files that have been uploaded to the […]
Mar 16
Technical debt
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Technical debt is a cool metaphor introduced by Ward Cunningham. Martin Fowler has a nice post on it here too. In my current job, I see this happening almost every day. The worst thing is that it really seems like there’s nothing that can be done to correct things. It always starts with a tight […]
Mar 16
Protected: Monodevelop 2.0 looks good
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There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Mar 16
Today we’re going to look at the last available control on the futures assembly: we’re talking about the Repeater control. If you’ve dealt with web forms server controls in the past, then looking at the code of the Repeater class shouldn’t make you have any “haha moment”. As you might expect, the class expands the […]
Mar 14
References are not pointers in C#
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As you know, C# supports the concepts of references and value types. Most of the time, reference types tend to be presented as some sort of synonym for a memory address. I’ve seen it everywhere and I’ve used that analogy too when trying to help others to understand the difference between value types and reference […]
Mar 13
Why can’t we use var on field declaration?
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This was a question I’d always wanted to see answered… finally, I’ve got my answer..
Mar 13
Consistency vs availability
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Excellent article by Werner Vogels on how to achieve eventual consistency.
Mar 12
Multithreading is one of the topics I’ll have to start looking at with more attention and I’m thinking of adding posts about it in the future. Today I’ve read an interesting article on how to debug multithreaded applications on the site Packt. The author has also written a book on that topic (which I’ve already […]
Mar 12
Congrats!
Mar 11
Oh well…after all, the MvcInputControl is more complex than I initially thought. The problem was that I was using SVN for getting the code and it seems like the current available release is for that kind of access is still RC1. Fortunately, you can still download the source from codeplex and that is what I […]
Mar 11
As you might expect (from the title), this is another post on the MVC controls series. Today we’ll be looking at the MvcInputControl class which is responsible for rendering the text input controls. As you might expect, this class expands the MvcControl class and it exposes only one constructor which receives the type of text […]
Mar 10
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Mar 09
Ok, you’ve probably read Eilon’s post on the new MVC controls. I was asking for something like that when I mentioned that I dind’t think that codebehind files were evil. So, I thought it would be great to take a look at what’s available for the current release (even though the controls are still on […]
Mar 09
Beware: this is a rant! CGD returns withdrawn money to its clients
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You know what: Portugal is really becoming a 3rd world country…Just take a look at this. It’s only another sad episode that happened here. I’ll translate since it’s in Portuguese. It says something like this: CDG (Caixa Geral Depositos) returns money that it had withdrawn from the client’s accounts without any warning. What happened? Ok, […]
Mar 08
Book review: Our Iceberg is Melting
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I’ve just finished reading this John Kotter’s books. It’s really short (I’ve read it during this afternoon) and it really presents most of the problems you’ll find whenever you try to introduce any sort of change into an organization. The penguin fable is really cool and I bet you’ll identify all of the “penguins” of your […]
Mar 08
Greg Young DDD presentation on E-VAN
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Really interesting talk by Greg Young on DDD and on how to apply CQS to your domain. Recommended.
