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In this tip, I discuss Eric Hexter’s TDD Class Generator Add-In for Visual Studio. This Add-In enables you to generate a class, an interface, and a test class by entering a single keyboard shortcut. Eric Hexter -- who has done valuable work on the MvcContrib project -- visited Microsoft last week and showed me one of his current projects. He has started a project for building ASP.NET MVC specific Add-Ins for Visual Studio. In particular, he has created an Add-In for generating testable classes automatically. You can learn more about the project, and download the binaries and source code, from the following website: http://erichexter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/TestFirstGenerator/ You also can view a quick video walk-through of the Add-In...
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I thought it would be fun to try something new here. So I am going to present a logic puzzle and let people try to answer it. I will post the solution in the future but I want to give people a chance to try to solve it. So here is the first...
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Last week, we shipped the first preview for the Ajax work we're doing in ASP.NET 4.0 under the simple form of a simple script file (release and debug versions). This should show how much emphasis this release puts on the client-side. As a matter of facts, I'll use a plain HTML file here instead of an ASPX file to make it perfectly clear that everything here (except for the web service that provides the data) runs on the client. One of the scenarios we're trying to improve is updating parts of the page with new data without a postback (in other words, Ajax). That's a scenario you could implement in a number of manners. First, you could put an UpdatePanel control around your server rendering of the data and be done with it. That...
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Deitel books are great learning tools and often used as course text or soup to nuts learning guides. Also the physical quality of the book (printing, paper choice, color, etc) make it a collectors item if your a book lover) I had the pleasure of being a technical reviewer on this one (though the way these guys write there isn't much review to do :) This book includes coverage of the new features in ASP.NET 3.5, Web Services, Silverlight, Winforms, LINQ, WPF and More. Get more info here: http://www.deitel.com/books/vb2008htp/ Read More...
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Not sure if everyone saw, but Microsoft has expanded the size of the Tech Preview for Live Mesh. You can see the announcement on the Live Mesh Forum . So what was announced? Well there are two main things: Doubled the maximum number of users...
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Another installment of Silverlight.FX additions to enable creating declarative views - this time, pre-packaged, declarative effects and transitions... Read More...
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In case you have installed the .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and are unable to find the Dynamic Data Website Template, you can install the latest version of runtime from http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Dynamic%20Data&referringTitle=Home To explain it further, I had the December 2007 CTP installed which contained the Dynamic Data Runtime and Astoria, Entity Framework etc., All of these gets bundled into the .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta and you dont need the December 2007 CTP any longer. So I went ahead and uninstalled the December 2007 CTP. Post the uninstallation, I was unable to find the "Dynamic Data Website" Template. After some research I found that instead of fixing the issue by installing/uninstalling SP1...
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During the recent Insiders summit, Wally cornered me into recording a really short video demonstrating a feature of ASP.NET MVC. I decided to sprinkle a little Ajax in my demo by showing how to use jQuery to call an action that returns a JsonResult . Specifically, I show how to update a couple of regions in the page (two dom elements) with data pulled from the server. I then add a little sparkle to the demo by implementing the ubiquitous yellow fade when adding the content to the DOM. As you’re watching it, you’ll notice that I’m making it up on the fly based on another demo I did earlier that day. He’s posted the video here in show #106. That’s heckuva a lot of shows Wally! Technorati Tags: aspnetmvc , ajax , jquery Read More...
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I have asked in the past, but wanted to ask again as it has been a while and there are different people looking at this blog now. Does anyone have any feedback on the SOS debugger extension? I am looking for things like: What commands are missing...
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In this tip, I show you how to create a custom ASP.NET MVC view engine that supports lightweight, declarative controls. I show you how to create both simple controls and controls that display database data. I also show you how to test the rendered output of the lightweight controls. One of the beautiful things about the ASP.NET MVC framework is that a view can look like anything that you want. Don't like inline scripts? You can build a new view engine. Don't like anything that looks like a tag in your views? Build your own view engine. You always have the option of replacing the default Web Forms view engine with your own custom view engine. In this tutorial, I explain how you can replace the default ASP.NET MVC Web Forms view engine...
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