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T4MVC 2.5.01: added support for Html.RenderAction and Html.Action

2009-11-21T02:10:19Z

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to download page on CodePlex MVC 2 Beta introduces two nice helpers called Html.RenderAction and Html.Action. Phil Haack described them in detail on his blog , so you may want to read through that before reading this post. Basically, they’re two additional methods that follow the standard MVC pattern of passing the controller name and action name as literal strings, and the action parameters as anonymous objects. e.g. Copying from Phil’s example...(read more)

Lot’s of new software for IIS, ASP.NET, AJAX and PHP this week

2009-11-20T18:13:44Z

Wow, what a week of innovation for the Microsoft Web Platform. This week we released a ton of new software which, if you haven’t already, you’ve got to check out. Here is a quick overview: IIS Search Engine Optimization v1 final release! The IIS team shipped the final release of IIS SEO toolkit which makes it easier to optimize your Website for search engines . It acts like a mini-search engine on your computer, scans your site and then provides useful tips for how to improve...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 2 Custom Validation

2009-11-20T06:14:25Z

This is the third post in my series ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta and its new features. ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta Released (Release Announcement) Html.RenderAction and Html.Action ASP.NET MVC 2 Custom Validation In this post I will cover validation. No, not that kind of validation, though I do think you’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and doggone it, people like you. Rather, I want to cover building a custom validation attribute using the base classes available in System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations . ASP.NET...(read more)

PDC09 Talk: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010

2009-11-19T21:30:00Z

I had a great time at my talk today at PDC2009 . I was able to spend much of the time in a demo… Here is a summary of that demo so you can walk through it on your own machine: What you need to get started: Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Silverlight 4 Beta (now includes RIA Services ) Completed Solution (starting step and demo files ) Check out the slides Starting Off I am starting off with the new Business Application Template that gets installed with RIA Services. ...(read more)

RIA Services: Jumpstarting RIA Development

2009-11-19T09:03:31Z

In my post on RIA Services: From Vision to Architecture , a while back (right after MIX09), I mentioned that I like to think of RIA Services as RAD for RIA. At that point we had a very early preview of framework bits with little tools support. A large part of jumpstarting your development actually centers around good tooling. VS2010 brings tooling for RIA Services (now: WCF RIA Services). Scott Hanselman demonstrated some key features used in building a Contacts application (as shown on the right...(read more)

HTML 5 intellisense and validation schema for Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer

2009-11-19T00:06:00Z

You all probably know that new HTML 5 standard is coming. We made a new intellisense schema that you can add to VS 2008 or VWD Express 2008 and get intellisense and validation on HTML 5 elements. Note that schema is for markup only, we do not have DOM2 update for jscript intellisense yet. How to install the schema: Download attached ZIP file. Place html_5.xsd in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Packages\schemas\html Run either x86 or x64 reg file depending on the OS and...(read more)

Silverlight 4 Debuts with Killer Demos at PDC09

2009-11-18T22:35:44Z

Lots of wow from this morning with Silverlight 4 (and RIA Services) taking center stage in the keynote, here at PDC09. [ Full post continued here... ] Read More......(read more)

Html.RenderAction and Html.Action

2009-11-18T18:22:24Z

One of the upcoming new features being added to ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta is a little helper method called Html.RenderAction and its counterpart, Html.Action . This has been a part of our ASP.NET MVC Futures library for a while, but is now being added to the core product. Both of these methods allow you to call into an action method from a view and output the results of the action in place within the view. The difference between the two is that Html.RenderAction will render the result directly to the Response...(read more)

Welcome to WCF RIA Services Beta!

2009-11-18T16:57:43Z

Today at PDC09 , Scott Guthrie Announced the beta of WCF RIA Services . As you may know RIA Services is a set of end-to-end experiences that makes it as easy to build Silverlight based n-tier applications as it is to build traditional 2 tier apps. I am very excited about this release as it represents a lot of great feedback we have heard from many of you. A few goodies in this release based on your feedback You told us you wanted to get up and running with the UI quicker...(read more)

News on the ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta

2009-11-18T02:31:24Z

The ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta was released today! The five big things I’m going to talk about in this post are: The ASP.NET Ajax Library is now in Beta Contributing the ASP.NET Ajax Library to the CodePlex Foundation Merging the Ajax Control Toolkit with the ASP.NET Ajax Library Plans to provide support for the ASP.NET Ajax Library ASP.NET Ajax Library features that provide: Powerful developer libraries and tooling support Performance – build high performance websites Interoperability – use it with...(read more)

PDC09 - A Call to Dream

2009-11-17T19:15:12Z

Immediate thoughts after Ray Ozzie's keynote at PDC09 [ Full post continued here... ] Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta Released

2009-11-17T18:21:00Z

Today at PDC09 (the keynote was streaming live ), Bob Muglia announced the release of ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta . Feel free to download it right away! While you do that I want to present this public service message. The Beta release includes tooling for Visual Studio 2008 SP1. We did not ship updated tooling for Visual Studio 2010 because ASP.NET MVC 2 is now included as a part of VS10, which is on its own schedule. Unfortunately, because Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta share components...(read more)

30 “Quick Hit” Videos for folks that couldn’t join us at PDC

2009-11-17T17:50:01Z

Hi folks! I’m posting this from the PDC09 keynote where I’m listening to Don Box show off Azure ! For web developers, I prepared 30 “Quick Hit” videos on stuff that’s new in the latest wave for ASP.NET Develoeprs. It’s far from a complete list, and they are not meant to be real tutorials (They are NOT How-Do-I videos). Think of them as “feature previews” with more learning based material coming in the near fututr. Here is a partial list. Have fun www.asp.net/learn ASP.NET 4 ASP.NET 4 "Quick...(read more)

T4MVC 2.5.00 update: multiple output files and minified javascript support

2009-11-17T02:41:15Z

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to download page on CodePlex T4MVC build 2.5.00 brings a couple of fun new features that I’ll describe in this post. I can’t take too much credit for them as they came from users who suggested them to me, and helped out getting the code going. Support for multiple output files Up until now, T4MVC.tt has always generated a single file, which is the T4MVC.cs that you see get nested under it in VS. And normally, this is the way T4 templates...(read more)