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In this post, I demonstrate how you can use the Grid UI helper of the MVCContrib project in your ASP.NET MVC application. MVCContrib is a community project that adds the functionalities to Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC Framework and makes the framework easier to use. MVCContrib provides several UI helpers and Grid UI helper is one of them. The Grid helper provides the functionalities of GridView control of ASP.NET GridView. The Grid component generates HTML tables for displaying data from a collection of Model objects and it support paging. The MVCContrib project can download from http://www.CodePlex.com/MvcContrib . The following are the steps to get Grid to work: Step1 Add a reference to the MvcContrib assembly (download available from http://www...

In just a couple of weeks I'll be in Durban, South Africa presenting three sessions at Tech Ed . These are the sessions: WEB304: Introduction to MVC Web Development Day: Monday, 04 August 2008, 09:15 - 10:30 Location: Session Room 07 One of the benefits of using a MVC methodology is that it helps enforce a clean separation of concerns between the models, views, and controllers within an application. In the very near future, ASP.NET will include support for developing Web applications using an MVC-based architecture. The MVC pattern can also help enable red/green test-driven development (TDD) where you implement automated unit tests, which define and verify the requirements of new code, before you actually write the code itself. Join us for...

There are a few blog posts out there mentioning that there is AJAX support in MVC Preview 4, but there's not a lot of "here is a real benefit to you" posts out there. So, I just finished writing this article: AJAX Panels with ASP.NET MVC - which shows concrete benefits and how to impliment it with MVC AJAX. Enjoy! (I hope) Read More...

In the latest preview of the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework, one of the newly included features is AJAX helper methods. It's going to be interesting to see where they go with these. At the moment, they've added just a couple of tasters. This blog post discusses how to set them up and make use of them if you want to try them out. Currently, there are two helper methods that have been created, Ajax.ActionLink and Ajax.Form. I will discuss both below. They both generate HTML, much in the manner of pre-existing helpers such as Html.Form. The first thing to look at is how to set a page up to be able to make use of these helper methods. Since they are going to call parts of the JavaScript libraries that are part of the Microsoft AJAX Framework...

I’ve went through the ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 source and found some interesting finds that will help you do work more easily. These 6 finds are just the tip of what I’m sure is included in this drop. ( Read more… ) Read More...

Hola a todos. El Preview 4 de ASP.NET MVC ha sido liberado en CodePlex . Saludos. Read More...

Hola a todos. El pasado lunes 14 de julio, Scott Guthrie anunció en su blog la inminente llegada del ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 (posiblemente a finales de esta semana). Dentro de las innovaciones que traerá el P4 encontraremos: Mejoras en los Filter Interceptors Filtros de Cache Filtros de manejo de errores Filtros de autorización Nuevas clases para manejo de cuentas y autenticación Clase Controller con mejoras en la colección TempData Extenso manejo de AJAX Esperemos que pronto podamos descargar este nuevo preview y ojalá que se interesen en esta nueva tecnología. Saludos. Read More...

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 has been released on the CodePlex. You can download it from here .The Preview 4 release provides the new features such as OutputCache Action Filter, Authorize Action Filter, AccountController, Ajax Helpers and Namespaces in Routes.Visit Guru Gu's (Scott Guthrie) blog entry for more detailed informations. Now the ASP.NET MVC is getting the maturity for live production and the product is going close to the official beta, after that RTM version will be available. I hope the community can expect V 1.0 release on this year itself and new enhanced features will be included in a future full release. The following is the higher level roadmap of MVC that available from CodePlex . Improved Ajax Support -Support multiple partial...

It's been announced on ScottGu's blog that MVC Preview 4 is due out later this week. Obviously we'll need to wait and see what it feels like when we get to have a play for real with it, but first impressions from reading down the article is that they seem to have nearly nailed down the core API to create a version that's close to what will go live, and are now busy working on all the bits and pieces that will be necessary for actually using it in a commercial sense. So we're now getting good authorisation, error handling and the like. I'll be getting it as soon as it's released and giving it a good going over to see how the new features play. Read More...

The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new "Preview 4" release that they hope to ship later this week.  The Preview 3 release focused on finishing up a lot of the underlying core APIs and extensibility points in ASP.NET MVC.  Starting with Preview 4 this week you'll start to see more and more higher level features begin to appear that build on top of the core foundation and add nice productivity. There are a bunch of new features and capabilities in this new build - so much in fact that I decided I needed two posts to cover them all.  This first post will cover the new Caching, Error Handling and Security features in Preview 4, as well as some testing improvements it brings.  My next post...