It is now official from a post by great Scott Guthrie that jQuery is bundled with Asp.net MVC Beta. jQuery is a tiny 15K JavaScript library that contains features from UI tweaks, DOM manipulation to full Ajax control. In my last post, I have shown how to get going with Ajax.Form using Microsoft MVC Ajax...

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 of using a MVC methodology is that it helps enforce...

When you are planning to host your asp.net MVC application under IIS7 integrated mode environment. There are few easy tweaks that can make your application or starter kit work right out of the box but also can save a lot of your time finding things out. You might see a Http 404 page if default document...

In my last post, I have mentioned of creating Flickr app with Asp.net MVC. In recent update I have modified it with Asp.net MVC Preview 3. You can find a general reference about the project here . But in this post, I will say, what are the changes due to the new release and where to start especially...

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 a controller action that uses TempData, you probably...

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 framework involves a thread-safe collection 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 away. And yes, I will be there! My previous blog...

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 on the design of this framework. This isn't a post...

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 look (e.g. ~/products/beverages), not the way your...

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 extend the Web Application Project type. If you...