Latest Microsoft Blogs : MVC

T4MVC 2.6.10: fluent route value API, shorter way to refer to action, and more

Angle Bracket Percent : ASP.NET — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:45:36 GMT

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to T4MVC page on CodePlex I just posted build 2.6.10. There were also a few builds in between since I last blogged about 2.6, so this post describes some of those changes (full history here ). Fluent route value API As you probably know, T4MVC uses a pattern where the route values are encapsulated using a pseudo-call to a controller action, e.g. Html.ActionLink("Delete Dinner", MVC.Dinners.Delete(Model.DinnerID)) This adds the controller, the action and the method parameters to the route values in a convenient way with no hard coded strings. But in some situation, you may need to add extra values to the route that don’t exist in the action method. Now you can do it as follows...(read more)

ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight 4 Videos of my Talks in Europe

ScottGu's Blog — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:05:17 GMT

[ In addition to blogging, I’m also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] Hope you all had a great holiday – welcome to 2010! Last month I did a blog post about some of the presentations I did in Europe and posted the slides+demo files from them. High-quality videos of the talks I did in Sweden were posted two weeks ago on the Channel9 site, so you can also now watch videos of the talks online as well. The videos use a nice format where you can watch me talking as well as the screen at the same time. The code is readable when running in full-screen mode. Below are links to the different talks along with the slides+sample files: ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 Web Development This...(read more)

Passing anonymous objects to MVC views and accessing them using dynamic

Angle Bracket Percent : ASP.NET — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:06:00 GMT

First, I’ll start with a little disclaimer: this post is not about whether using dynamic is better/worse than static typing. Instead, it’s about making it more convenient to use dynamic if you choose to go that route . Clearly, some people dislike dynamic, as you can see in the comments in that post from Phil Haack , and for the most part, all the key arguments for/against have been made. So anyway, let’s proceed… Recently, a few people have experimented with extending their view pages from ViewPage<dynamic>. The idea is to then be able to access model data using the more convenient dynamic syntax. e.g. check out this thread on StackOverflow, as well as Phil’s post I mention above. One limitation that people are hitting is that you can...(read more)

My Presentations in Europe (December 2009)

ScottGu's Blog — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:04:10 GMT

This past week I’ve been traveling around Europe giving a bunch of presentations (approximately 5 hours in each country) – Norway on Tuesday, Sweden on Wednesday, Denmark on Thursday, and Belgium on Friday. I’ll then be presenting at the BizSpark Camp in France this coming Tuesday. Things went well with the talks, and I had fun meeting lots of new people (more than 3,000 attended the talks!). Below is a picture of my talk in Belgium – where everyone showed up in a red shirt :-) Download Talks My talks were filmed in a few locations – and I’ll update this post with pointers to the videos once they are online to watch. Below are copies of my slides + demos bits: ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 Web Development: Slides + Demos + Blog Posts ASP.NET MVC...(read more)

T4MVC 2.6: MVC 2 Areas support

Angle Bracket Percent : ASP.NET — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:51:36 GMT

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to T4MVC page on CodePlex One of MVC 2's major new features is the support for breaking up a large application into "Areas". This works by following a structure that looks like: Root folder Models Views Controllers Areas NerdDinner Models Views Controllers Blog Models Views Controllers So basically you still have your top level Models/Views/Controllers folders, and in addition to that you can have an arbitrary number of “Areas”, each having their own set of Models/Views/Controllers folders. Starting with MVC 2.6, T4MVC lets you use areas in much the same way it lets you access top level items. e.g. you can now write: <%= Html.ActionLink("Delete Dinner", MVC.NerdDinner...(read more)

T4MVC now has a real home and a dedicated forum!

Angle Bracket Percent : ASP.NET — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:09:39 GMT

Up until now, most things related to T4MVC were happening through my various blog posts about it. And while that was sort of working ok for a while, it was also less than ideal for a couple reasons. First, there was no single place to go to in order to get information about it. You’d basically have to go through the various posts that describe the various features as they were added. And as the number of posts grew, so did the pain involved in doing that. The second issue is that there was no good place to discuss it, ask questions and report issues. So all of those things were mostly just happening organically as comments in my various posts, which really doesn’t work so well. Blog Post comments don’t support threading...(read more)

Orchard team looking for a new developer

Tales from the Evil Empire : ASP.NET — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:24:19 GMT

My team is looking for a new full-time developer. The project is to build a completely new open-source CMS based on ASP.NET MVC 2. It’s a lot of fun :) https://careers.microsoft.com/JobDetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=9434&jlang=EN Read More......(read more)

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

Angle Bracket Percent : ASP.NET — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:10:19 GMT

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, if you have an Action like this: public ActionResult Menu(MenuOptions options) { return PartialView(options); } You can write this in your View: <%= Html.Action("Menu", new { options = new MenuOptions { Width=400, Height=500} })%>...(read more)

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

BillS IIS Blog : ASP.NET — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:13:44 GMT

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 the relevance of your site to search engines. This tool is now out of beta and available for download through Web PI . ASP.NET MVC 2 beta! The ASP.NET team has been hard at work on the second release of MVC, which is now available...(read more)

T4MVC 2.5.00 update: multiple output files and minified javascript support

Angle Bracket Percent : ASP.NET — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:41:15 GMT

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 work: they just generate one file. But last week I got an email from Stuart Leeks who pointed me to a new blog post from Damien Guard that describes a nice way to get around this description. All of Damien’s logic is very nicely encapsulated...(read more)

ASP.Net MVC in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Visual Web Developer Team Blog — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:15:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 contains ASP.Net MVC 2 in the box so there is no need to install an out of band update to Visual Studio 2010 to develop ASP.Net MVC applications. Phil Haack posted about the in-box experience for Beta 2 andd also provides some info on how to upgrade your ASP.Net MVC 1 apps to ASP.Net MVC 2. From a tooling perspective, all of the new functionality released in ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 for Orcas is available in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 including support for Single Project Areas . Additionally, if you look in the Scripts folder of a new ASP.Net MVC application, you will notice that jquery.validate is included as well as a vsdoc file to go with it. I'll post more on how to use jquery.validate in the coming weeks but...(read more)

T4MVC 2.4.04 update: MVC 2 support, new settings, cleanup, fixes

Angle Bracket Percent : ASP.NET — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:02:13 GMT

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to download page on CodePlex Though I haven’t blogged for a while about T4MVC, I’ve been making a few minor updates and only sent notification via Twitter. Now, I have a few things that are worth discussing in a little more detail. Note that you can see the complete list of changes from version to version in the readme.txt file that comes with it. BTW, I used to have all this revision information directly in the .tt file, but it was getting a little long so I moved it to the readme. The changes described below were added between version 2.4.00 and 2.4.04. MVC 2 Preview 2 support The most interesting things to many people is that I just made a fix to allow T4MVC to work on MVC...(read more)

Single Project Add View in ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2

Visual Web Developer Team Blog — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:56:00 GMT

Last week we released ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 Sp1. In the box support for single project areas is now included and the Add View tool has been modified to streamline this scenario. A walkthrough that creates two simple single project areas can be found here . If you follow the steps in the walkthrough you will notice that Add Controller and Add View are now available in the single project areas in your ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 application. Here are some screenshots that show off the tooling changes. Right-Clicking the Controllers folder of any single project area (Areas –> Blog –> Controllers) will invoke the familiar Add Controller dialog. The new controller will be added to the Controllers folder of the single project...(read more)

Walking the tight rope

Tales from the Evil Empire : ASP.NET — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:40:00 GMT

I think today is an appropriate time to write this post, as Rob Conery is leaving Microsoft tomorrow . “Who?”, you might ask. Rob is the author of the excellent MVC Storefront and Kona series where he explored the challenges in building an MVC-bound storefront application. I’ve been working with Rob for a few months on the continuation of that, which will be the subject of this post. This is challenging for a number of reasons. First, Rob’s are large shoes to fill (he’s a 12, I’m an 11). That’s fine, I’m just going to do things my way and try to have as much fun as possible (and communicate that if I can). Second, the focus of the application has changed and that is a much more important challenge. Rob built this as a learning tool, as much...(read more)

A total n00b’s guide to migrating from a custom data layer to Nhibernate: getting started

Tales from the Evil Empire : ASP.NET — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:29:01 GMT

(Screencast can be found at the end of the post) To be clear when I say “total n00b”, I’m not talking about you, dear reader, I’m talking about me. The last time I wrote any serious data access code was circa 2002. Since then, I got hired by the Evil Empire and started developing new tools to make it easier to build demos of Northwind master-details. I jest, I jest. Or do I? So let me explain what I’m going to talk about in this and future related blog posts. We have this e-commerce application that Rob started and that we’re going to continue developing. Last time Rob touched the data access, he wanted to experiment with going back to less abstraction and to working directly with that interesting data-centric Domain Specific Language, you know...(read more)