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Detecting ASP.NET MVC 1.0 using WiX
Once you are done writing your MVC application you will probably start looking at deploying it. In many instances, creating a simple web deployment project should suffice, but if you decide to distribute your application using an MSI then you will most likely need to determine whether MVC is installed on the target system. The simplest way to do this when using WIX is to specify a launch condition. For MVC 1.0 there are two options at your disposal to create a property for a launch condition.
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Creating Dynamic Forms with MVC and jQuery
About six months ago Phil Haack wrote a post on how to use the DefaultModelBinder to bind a form to a list. He concluded by asking how this functionality would be used. In this post I'm going to show how a dynamic form that uses the model binder’s ability to work with lists can be created using MVC and jQuery. The example I’m going to use was inspired by an application I'm working on that provides a web interface to the bug tracking system we used during the development of MVC. The application is not intended to become an internal tool, but rather to explore the capabilities of MVC and hopefully identify areas that can be improved in future releases. It also afforded me a chance to explore jQuery.