eWorld.UI - Matt Hawley : Development

WikiPlex v1.2 Released

mhawley — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:52:52 GMT

It’s been a few months since the last release of WikiPlex, but I honestly have good reasons – paternity leave! This updated version has taken in a lot of user feedback and put it into action – so thank you for contributing ideas… (read more)

WikiPlex v1.1 Released

mhawley — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:42:32 GMT

It's only been a few weeks since the v1.0 release, but a lot of work has gone into a new release of CodePlex's embeddable wiki engine, WikiPlex. The time in between has not been without a few highlights, including… (read more)

Extending WikiPlex with Custom Renderers

mhawley — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:27:10 GMT

Following up from my prior post on Extending WikiPlex with Custom Macros it’s now time to talk about creating custom renderers. When we left off, we had created our title link macro and registered it with WikiPlex…[read more]

Extending WikiPlex with Custom Macros

mhawley — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:48:09 GMT

One of the very nice features of WikiPlex is the ability to extend it to your hearts desire. The API is completely open, and the entry points off of WikiEngine are merely wrappers. This means that, if you really wanted to, you could create your own parser and formatter - but the majority of extending WikiPlex will be done via macros and renderers. A summary of the extension points include… (read more)

WikiPlex – An Embedded Wiki Engine

mhawley — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:29:13 GMT

I’d like to introduce you to WikiPlex, which is CodePlex’s wiki engine that we have re-written and made open source under the MS-PL license. I’m also happy to announce that our first public release is now available! Read more about WikiPlex here!

MEF + Factories Using an Export Provider

mhawley — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:29:27 GMT

Taking a different approach to resolving factory exports within MEF by using an ExportProvider (new in preview 3 drop) over using a part catalog. This approach ultimately leads to a cleaner and simpler solution. Read more …

MEF + Factories

mhawley — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:13:32 GMT

Lately I've been really digging into MEF and have been looking at it's pros & cons, ease of use, extensibility, and the simple DI container that it can provide. I'm not going to give an overview of MEF, as others have done so already. What I am here to show off is a concept that may prove useful for some applications. Many of us use a DI container in very simplistic ways, as well as registering injection strategies during type resolution. Read more …

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 Finds

mhawley — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:53:44 GMT

I’ve went through the ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 source and found some interesting finds that will help you do work more easily. These 6 finds are just the tip of what I’m sure is included in this drop. (Read more…)

Plea for Help: WCF 404 Error

mhawley — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:32:30 GMT

I’m putting out a plea for help. For some odd reason, we have a WCF service (running in IIS 6) that’s using streaming and BasicHttpBinding that will return a 404 error message every time it’s called from our client. Hitting the same URL on the box itself through IE renders the WSDL just fine. If you have seen this issue, please contact me. We’ve been struggling with this issue and have yet to find a resolution. BTW, it works great on another web server that is configured the same, and we’ve looked at all of the verbose logs WCF can give us. Ultimately, we’re seeing the message being sent from the client, and a 404 in the IIS log, but nothing on the server logging. Thanks!

MVC Post-Redirect-Get Sample Updated

mhawley — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:30:45 GMT

ASP.NET MVC Sample for using the Post-Redirect-Get pattern updated to the MVC Preview 3 bits. Showcasing some newer functionality that makes the pattern more simplistic.(Read more…)

Using SubDataItems and View User Controls in ASP.NET MVC

mhawley — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:07:00 GMT

Learn how to use the new SubDataItems within the ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 bits with your View User Control. Also explains a small patch to the framework to get this to work correctly. (Read more…)

RedirectToAction Nasty Bug in ASP.NET MVC Preview 3

mhawley — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:07:01 GMT

Find out about a nasty bug identified using certain routing schemes and RedirectToAction, and what workarounds you have. (Read more…)

Lambda Based RedirectToAction Sample Updated to MVC Preview 3

mhawley — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:42:18 GMT

Utilizing Lambda expressions, make the RedirectToAction method much easier to use, read, and refactor! This update took the original sample and it now works with the MVC Preview 3 bits. (Read more...)

ViewData "dot" Notation Expressions in ASP.NET MVC

mhawley — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:53:26 GMT

Here's something very cool I just found in the ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 bits, you can specify, what I call, "dot" notation expressions on your view data. With the new ViewDataDictionary you can now use the "dot" notation expressions to get access the same value as using the safely typed Model. (Read More...)

ASP.NET MVC - Localization Helpers

mhawley — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:01:40 GMT

Learn how to easily use localization within an ASP.NET MVC application utilizing similar methods to that of ASP.NET resource expressions. I show 3 different approaches to using localization within your application. (Read more...)