Melvyn Harbour

Software Developer living in Cambridge, England and working for Red Gate

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Combining ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Charting Controls
As ScottGu recently posted on his blog , Microsoft have recently released a set of charting components. Several people followed up with comments on his post asking whether it was possible to use them with ASP.NET MVC. The good news is that it certainly...
MVC ModelBinder and Localization
One of the great things about the way in which the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework is being developed is the fact that the team are publishing the source code as they go along. This makes it very simple to dig into the framework when something slightly...
Posted: Nov 21 2008, 11:13 AM by MelvynHarbour | with 33 comment(s)
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How to use the ASP.NET MVC ModelBinder
One of the new features in the latest build of ASP.NET MVC is the ModelBinder, which is provided to allow Action methods to take complex types as their parameters. Previously, action methods were only able to take simple types such as strings and integers...
Posted: Aug 29 2008, 11:30 AM by MelvynHarbour | with 10 comment(s)
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ASP.NET MVC Codeplex Preview 5
ASP.NET MVC Codeplex preview 5 went live last night. Available here . I haven't had a dig into it yet to have (just downloading now), but according to the release notes, some of the highlights include: More support for partial view rendering Moving AJAX...
Posted: Aug 29 2008, 09:53 AM by MelvynHarbour | with 2 comment(s)
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Clean Separation of Concerns in MVC
One of the main areas that is cited as a benefit of using the new ASP.NET MVC Framework is that you can obtain a 'clean separation of concerns'. But the question is, what does this really mean, how achievable is it in reality, and should we really be...
Posted: Jul 30 2008, 11:39 AM by MelvynHarbour | with 19 comment(s)
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MVC AJAX Support
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...
Posted: Jul 22 2008, 10:55 AM by MelvynHarbour | with 5 comment(s)
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MVC Preview 4
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...
Posted: Jul 14 2008, 12:01 PM by MelvynHarbour
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MVC training day 2
Back for more! We started the day with a quick look at Dynamic Data (no more than an overview for those that hadn't seen it before), then moved on to look at unit testing the MVC framework, before finishing off with a look at jQuery and how it works with...
MVC training day 1
We've had the first of our two half days with Steven Sanderson this morning. It was split in half, with the first half covering the new C# 3.0 language features and the second tackling MVC. LINQ We went through some fairly basic examples of LINQ to Objects...
Posted: Jul 08 2008, 02:47 PM by MelvynHarbour | with 1 comment(s)
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MVC Training
Starting tomorrow we've got a couple of training sessions on the new ASP.NET MVC framework lined up here at Red Gate with Steven Sanderson. Steven used to work here, but is currently busy writing one of the books that's going to be an authority on the...
Posted: Jul 07 2008, 11:50 AM by MelvynHarbour | with 3 comment(s)
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