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As you probably know by now (i.e. from Phill's blog ), however both Routing and Abstractions are. MVC Preview 4 , however, has its own version of both assemblies. In order to get MVC to use the new RTM bits of both assemblies (and avoid weird side-by...
The latest MVC release adds some pretty cool usage of LINQ expression trees. It's another example of how cool (and WAY beyond querying) LINQ is. Specifically, you can now replace untyped, "magic" strings when rendering links like: <% = Html.ActionLink...
Note : this entry has moved . AJAX is OLD. It's been around for a decade . It's based on the techniques that exist almost since the web exploded: HTML, Javascript. Both have served the Web well. Both are bound to die. Seriously: do you really want to...
Note : this entry has moved . Quite some time ago I started warning people about an important feature that was removed from ASP.NET Whidbey: non-visual components (IComponent-based classes). I logged the bug in Product Feedback , which resulted in a major...
Note : this entry has moved . Regular expressions are really powerful and very cool. Most people think of them as just a validation mechanism. They are missing a big scenario enabled by regexes: parsing. Some other people think that if you're doing any...
Note : this entry has moved . For quite some time now , I've been trying to raise developer's (and MS) awareness of how an unbelievable bad idea it is to remove an amazing feature in ASP.NET v1.x and replace it with a bad, already tried and failed one...
Note : this entry has moved . A couple months ago I posted about a major regression happening in ASP.NET v2 . It's amazing that even after an overwhelming difference of 10 to 1 people voting to keep the Components tray in the designer, which allowed wizards...
Note : this entry has moved . Before I get to the point where I expect to convince you of what we're loosing with ASP.NET v2, I'll make a brief recap, just in case you haven't used the technique in question. What are components? Components, in the strict...
Note : this entry has moved . The usual approach to custom role-based security using forms authentication (i.e. roles and users fetched from a database) on web apps is the following: protected void Application_AuthenticateRequest(Object sender, EventArgs...
Note : this entry has moved . I'm reading PAG guide on Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability (a must-read for every .NET developer), and I noticed they missed one of the most interesting and useful state management features ASP.NET introduced...
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