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Migrating ASP.NET MVC 1.0 applications to ASP.NET MVC 2

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...
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ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2: I declare myself to be declarative!

Today is a happy day: we released ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 2 . We're getting ever-so-close to the final (RTM/RTW) release of ASP.NET MVC - it won't be long! We think we fixed all the highest priority issues so that everyone out there can build ASP...
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Opening an ASP.NET MVC project without having ASP.NET MVC installed: The project type is not supported by this installation

Projects built with ASP.NET MVC are what are known as " flavored projects ." This means that instead of being an entirely new project type, ASP.NET MVC projects merely extend a different kind of existing project type. Specifically, the projects...
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Optimizing your route collection for URL generation in ASP.NET MVC (and more!)

If you're used ASP.NET MVC or ASP.NET Dynamic Data , you've using ASP.NET's new Routing feature. ASP.NET Routing is the feature that lets you easily create so-called "pretty" URLs. Pretty URLs are the ones that look the way you want them to...
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Upcoming talks: Microsoft Tech Ed South Africa

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...
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MVC: Unit testing controller actions that use TempData

Part of the "big deal" about ASP.NET MVC , and of course MVC in general, is that the code you write is more easily unit tested as compared to traditional ASP.NET WebForms. However, if you've used ASP.NET MVC and tried to write a unit test for...
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MVC: Locking the RouteCollection

Since the advent of multithreaded programming, the responsibility of locking collections has always been a contentious issue. Who should lock the collection? When should it be locked? And for how long? The ASP.NET Routing feature that is used by the MVC...
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MVC: I'll need a little bit more context on that

ScottGu recently announced the plans for the next public preview of the ASP.NET MVC framework. For those who don't feel like clicking on links to other peoples' blog posts Scott's blog says it's being released at MIX08 , which is only a couple of weeks...
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ASP.NET MVC Design Philosophy

This week the first preview of the ASP.NET MVC framework was released to the web as part of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP Preview . It's been a few months since we started coding and as the lead developer on the project I'd like to share my thoughts...
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