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One of the upcoming new features being added to ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta is a little helper method called Html.RenderAction and its counterpart, Html.Action . This has been a part of our ASP.NET MVC Futures library for a while, but is now being added to the Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Today at PDC09 (the keynote was streaming live ), Bob Muglia announced the release of ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta . Feel free to download it right away! While you do that I want to present this public service message. The Beta release includes tooling for Visual Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Dear readers, as you know that we have released our beta few weeks back, we are currently looking for your feedback on the existing features as well as the features that you would like to see in our next release. This is a very short survey only 4/5 screens to complete, click here to submit your valuable feedback . Thanks in advance for your precious time. Read More...

Scott showed how to render the Grid in a Transaction. Certainly it does the job but in my opinion view component should not be responsible for this kind of cross cutting concerns, instead we can use the Action Filters. Lets see how we can utilize the Action Filter in this scenario instead of modifying the Grid code. What Scott is trying to do is encapsulate the data access operation in a transaction, the Action Filter has several methods which the ASP.NET MVC framework executes in different stages of a request. In this case, we will use the OnActionExecuting which fires before the code enters into the controller method to start a transaction and OnResultExecuted which fires when the view is processed, we will commit/rollback based upon the status...

I learned something new yesterday about interface inheritance in .NET as compared to implementation inheritance. To illustrate this difference, here’s a simple demonstration. I’ll start with two concrete classes, one which inherits from the other. Each Read More......( read more ) Read More...

In the recent release, there has been few enhancements in the Web Asset Management. One of the new thing that we introduced which was actually requested by the community is Shared Web Asset. In this post, I will show you, how to use it in your ASP.NET MVC Application. In the previous version, you can only define the web assets either in the ScriptRegistrar or StyleSheetRegistrar like the following: <% Html.Telerik() .ScriptRegistrar() .Scripts(scripts => scripts.AddGroup("myScripts", group => group.Add("script1.js") .Add("script2.js") .Add("script3.js") .Combined(true) .Compress(true) ) ) .Render();%> if you want to reuse it in another page, you have to copy the exact same thing. Also the url...

I am proud to inform you that yesterday we released our Q3 2009 version of Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC. As promised this release includes: Grid Menu PanelBar TabStrip You can find the live version and source codes in the following locations: Live Version Source Code Also checkout the product home page and part-II of Tod’s unofficial faq . In this post, I will show you how to create a basic CRUD(Create/Read/Update/Delete) application with our new MVC Grid. I will be using both Entity Framework v1.0 with the default web form view engine and NHibernate with Spark to create the CRUD screens for the Customer table of Northwind database. Lets start with the Entity Framework and Default View Engine. First, lets create a new ASP.NET MVC application...

In a recent blog post, I introduced ASP.NET 4’s new HTML Encoding code block syntax as well as the corresponding IHtmlString interface and HtmlString class. I also mentioned that ASP.NET MVC 2 would support this new syntax when running on ASP.NET 4 . Read More......( read more ) Read More...

You probably don’t need me to tell you that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has been released as it’s been blogged to death all over the place. Definitely check out the many blog posts out there if you want more details on what’s included. This post will focus Read More......( read more ) Read More...

To help our customers adopt ASP.NET MVC 2 I built an application that helps upgrade Visual Studio 2008 solutions that use ASP.NET MVC 1.0 to use ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 . This application is inspired by Scott Hanselman’s blog post on updating ASP.NET MVC projects to work in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. Download The app is a single executable: Download MvcAppConverter.zip (220 KB) . Usage The only requirement for this tool is that you have .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 on the machine. You do not need to have Visual Studio or ASP.NET MVC installed (unless you want to open your project!). Even though the tool performs an automatic backup of your solution it is recommended that you perform a manual backup of the solution as well. To convert an ASP.NET MVC...