WebHooks are a relatively new concept in ASP.NET but they have been around for a while with other platforms. GitHub, PayPal and even Dropbox support them already. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of a webHook then go read the introduction first. Recently I needed to solve a problem for which WebHooks seemed like… Continue reading WebHooks vs Message Bus
Recently I was working on an MVC 4 application and I ran into a couple of issues with how property validation works with the default binder. I thought it was useful enough to share. Conditionally Required Fields The first issue I ran into was conditionally requiring a field based upon some other field. In my… Continue reading MVC Property Validation Gotcha
I’m finishing up my company’s second rewrite of an ASP.NET application to MVC and Razor. One of the things we learned along the way is that controllers and views are no more testable than forms and code behinds in ASP.NET. So we have been using the orchestrator pattern for newer code. I’d like to share… Continue reading Orchestrator Pattern
I have to admit that ASP.NET MVC is cool. The ability to interleave UI elements with control flow statements makes things a lot easier than the traditional databinding of ASP.NET. The ability to pass strongly-typed objects to methods and auto-magically have pages appear with the data without ugly hacks is just awesome. The new Razor… Continue reading ASP.NET MVC Is the New ASP