Chris Hardy : ASP.NET

On the way back from Mix 09

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:44:00 GMT

AT&T have kindly opened up their internet for the weekend (at Philly airport) which gives me a good opportunity to update my blog a little bit. This week I popped over to Las Vegas for the Microsoft Mix 09 conference. A conference which puts together...(read more)

Great Fridays dot Com version 0.11 is live!

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:08:00 GMT

Twitter reference: http://twitter.com/chrisntr/status/1158701480 We finally got a site up on the tubes for Great Fridays - go check it out!...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC RC1 Is Out!

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:44:00 GMT

Twitter reference... After being in Beta for a month or two, the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 1 is out and ready to download. Scott Guthrie put together a gigantic post on the features of this release - which heavily focuses on tooling support and bug...(read more)

MVC Storefront

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:00:00 GMT

Twitter reference... Last night I finished watching the MVC Storefront videos; Since April 2008, Rob Conery has been putting together example videos of building a real world ASP.NET MVC app called the MVC Storefront. Through these videos there have been...(read more)

Great Fridays - A new start with ASP.NET MVC

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:52:00 GMT

For the past 9 months I have been working at Lightmaker Manchester. Since last Friday I am now working at Great Fridays (GFGP Limited) with the same great team from Lightmaker Manchester, with the same enthusiasm and skills from Lightmaker Manchester...(read more)

Oxite - The ASP.NET MVC CMS

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:38:00 GMT

The guys over at Channel 9 have created the first blogging engine/content management system (CMS) based on the open source ASP.NET MVC framework. It's named Oxite and is avaliable to download now (in a Alpha version) on the Codeplex website . The first...(read more)

DDD7 Grok Talk - Open Source and Microsoft

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:05:00 GMT

This weekend I attended DDD7 , a free community conference held at the Microsoft Reading Campus. I presented a short Grok talk during the lunch hour on Open Source and Microsoft. Since the event didn't seem to have a internet connectivity, I used Dom...(read more)

WebForm Gripe - Getting LinkButton to work without Javascript.

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:25:00 GMT

WebForms is a sort of love/hate thing for me. There are some things I love about WebForms and then there's quite a few things that really cause me a lot of pain. Sadly, the ones that cause me a lot of pain are the ones that stand out. I might turn these into a little series - depending on how many of these gripes show up and how many I can remember! Most of these gripes are probably me just not understanding WebForms correctly, I'm willing to learn so any pointers in the right direction would be good. The first one that I'm going to write about is the LinkButton control. For the most part it's a nice control, which allows a method to be called when a normal anchor link has been clicked. The problem occurs when the method is only called via a Javascript PostBack method in the href attribute. What this does is stop people who do not have Javascript running on their browser (for whatever reason that may be) from using the site. ...(read more)

First look at Monorail..

Chris Hardy (ChrisNTR) — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:07:00 GMT

I might be behind the times a little bit but for various different reasons I have delved back into the world of MVC for ASP.NET with Monorail - an open source framework which runs on top of C# and ASP.NET....(read more)