Garry Pilkington


Application Developer
Liverpool, UK

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Multiple Strongly Typed Partial Views in MVC
Creating strongly typed views with the ASP.Net MVC framework is really easy, but what if you want to have multiple types on the same view? One way to achieve this is to create partial views for each type and creating a combined view model. Then the view...
Posted: Oct 20 2009, 09:29 AM by capgpilk | with 6 comment(s)
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TempData and DropDownList in ASP.Net MVC
TempData Sometimes while developing web applications, you have a need to keep certain data between web requests. In asp.Net MVC you can use TempData which will keep hold of any values you pass to it for that request and the next request when it is then...
Posted: Sep 29 2009, 11:15 AM by capgpilk | with 6 comment(s)
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Complex Types in the Entity Framework
In this post I will describe the process you need to go through to get a stored procedure to return a complex type in the Entity Framework. It is very easy in the Entity Framework to quickly create crud functions that will manipulate data in your tables...
Objectives 2009
I am a little late in setting out my resolutions, and although 1st January is a good time of year to set out your objectives, I’ve never liked to be restricted by a date. If I smoked (which I don’t), and I wanted to give it up, I wouldn’t wait until the...
Protect your job...perhaps by learning new tech goodies
It is in the news so much recently that there is no avoiding the fact we are either in or about to go in to a recession ( here in the UK that is ). There is already job losses in the tech industry, wether these losses were going to happen anyway, and...
My notes on becoming a better developer
Following on from Justin Etheredge post about becoming a better developer, I would just like to add my nuggets of info. I find that it is very easy to get swamped by the amount of info out there just on .net. I am currently following three simple practices...
Getting to grips with MVC
A few posts back I listed goals I wished to achieve over the next six months. Currently I am looking in to the Microsoft MVC Framework. I have started by watching Scott Hanselmans' four screen casts over at www.asp.net , these give a pretty good introduction...
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