Note: The content in this blog post is based on the an early prototype of the ASP.Net MVC Framework and stuff can or will change. I got a question if it’s possible to use data binding with the ASP.Net MVC Framework. Sort of it’s possible, at least to display data but not to do a two-way data binding...

NOTE: “The information in this post is from an early stage of the MVC Framework and only an overview of the basics. The MVC Framework can and will be changed over time.” As many of you already know Microsoft is working on a MVC Framework for ASP.Net. MVC stands for “Model View Controller”. The Model...

When building application today (X)HTML-based web interfaced is often used as the front-end choice today. Several companies used Microsoft SharePoint or other web-based portals solutions as intranet; we have several public applications which are web based. Enterprise applications continue to adopt web...

In this post I’m going to show you how we can easy create our own IControllerFactory for the ASP.Net MVC Framework and use Spring.Net to create our Controllers. I will in this post also use the Spring.Net Dependency Injection support to pass a Repository that should be used by our Controller. To create...

In my previous post I wrote about how we can create our own IControllerFactory for the ASP.Net MVC Framework; in this post I will show you how we can create our own IRouteHandler. The RouteHandler in this post will replace the IControllerFactory with my own Controller Factory, and also set a default...

I really love how extensible the ASP.Net MVC Framework is, for example the normal pipeline looks like this: Request -> Route (IRouteHandler) –> ControlFactory (IControllerFactory) -> Controller (IController) -> ViewFactory (IViewFactory) -> View (IView) -> Response By implementing my...

Note: This post is based on an early version of the ASP.Net MVC Framework. When using the ASP.Net MVC Framework it will do a URL routing to route an URL to a Controller, and the Controller should execute some logic and render the Views. We can for example use an URL like /Products/Edit/1 to edit a product...

I have seen several developers that want and have no problem by using server-side code blocks in a View when they are working with the MVC pattern. But I think the server-side code block should be used only in some advanced and special occasions and instead use an Expression Language. By using a lot...

Note: This post is based on an early preview version of the ASP.Net MVC Framework and much will happen until the next milestone. In this post I will show how we can handle errors that occur in a Controller’s Action method. The Controller base class has a virtual method with the name OnError, this method...

Note: This is based on the pre-CTP version of the ASP.Net MVC Framework and it is in an early stage. I got a comment on one my previous post “ ASP.Net MVC Framework - Exception Handling ” that the Rescue style MonoRail is a nice solution to handle Exception thrown within a Controller. In this post I...