In the latest release of ASP.NET MVC, a new attribute ValidateInput is introduced which is same as Web Forms ValidateRequest page directive, certainly a good choice. Phil Haack blogged it , so as Steven Smith and also Nick Berarrdi . But it starts to break when you want to accept html tags from your...

In this post, I will show you how can you extend Microsoft Patterns & Practices Unity Application Block and use it in ASP.NET MVC in conjunction with Patterns & Practices Common Service Locator . Extending Unity Unity is a dependency injection container from MS Patterns & Practices team....

In my previous post , I have shown how to create Linq to Sql Repository which will have the maximum code coverage, In this post, I will show a simple UnitOfWork class which will flash the changes back to your database. I will be again use my ongoing UnityCommonServiceLocatorMVC project. Lets assume that...

Last night the forehead four head has released the 1st chapter of their upcoming Wrox book along with a sample project NerdDinner and I think this is the best application to check if anyone is trying to lean the new ASP.NET MVC framework. And this is the list of currently available Open Source Projects...

ASP.NET MVC comes with different action results for various purpose, but some times, you will find those are not adequate for your scenario, lets consider the following screenshot: When user navigates to a different tab or change the sort order or moves to a different page number, it will load the content...

[Edit 2: Kobe is now pulled off from the ASP.NET front page as well as from the news section, the msdn page also has a red notice – congrats MS for this step.] [Edit: There are few people who mentioned that MS is not claiming it as a Best Practice, but I think they are wrong as the moment I am typing...

I was looking  for an Ad Rotator for DotNetShoutout , as the sponsors are coming and most of them wants to show different images for the site and as well as in the feed. Certainly, I can use the built-in AdRotator control for the site, but it does not at all feels MVC-ish. So I decided to create...

Recently there has been quite some talk on HtmlHelper.RenderPartial() in ASP.NET MVC space which you will find over here and here . After reading those posts, I did an in depth analysis of the view location part, I am sharing the details with you so that it can help  both of us better understanding...

If you are familiar with YSlow recommendations, I guess you know that it recommends to put your CSS files at the top( #5 )  and JavaScript files at the bottom( #6 ) of the pages. Placing the CSS files at the top is not an issue but putting the JavaScript files at the bottom of the pages has some...

My last post on Script and CSS Management in ASP.NET MVC has well accepted by the community and I have got few valuable suggestions, specially from Jake Scott . Beside those, there are one more awkward things I found while working with the Fluent html version which makes me to change few public signatures...