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How to get ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 to run with .NET SP1
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...
Expression tree usage in ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 rocks!
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...
AJAX may be the biggest waste of time for the Web
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...
ASP.NET v2.0: is the non-visual components support finally back?
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...
The lost art of using regular expressions for parsing?
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...
When the reasons for cutting an ASP.NET feature are not credible...
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...
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