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Contents tagged with MVC

  • Implementing resource oriented controllers in ASP.NET MVC

    One common problem with the naming convention and default routing mechanism in ASP.NET MVC is that we tend to group actions in a controller for sharing an URL space.  This basically leads to complex controllers with a lot of unrelated methods that break the SOLID principles.  Too many responsibilities in a simple class affects maintainability in the long run and causes secondary effects that complicates unit testing. For example, we usually end up with class constructors that receives too many dependencies as it is discussed here in SO.

  • The “Liike” project. Mobile Web guidance from Microsoft P&P

    Microsoft Patterns & Practices has recently started a new project whose codename is “Liike” (pronounced as LEEE-keh) for delivering guidance and a reference application in the mobile web space. As many of the recent initiatives started by different teams in Microsoft, this project will also be hosted in GitHub under http://liike.github.com/. All the artifacts, patterns and code generated during the project will be shared as part of that project.

  • Developing RESTful services with JSON and POX support in the ASP.NET MVC

    Many of the features available out of the box today in the ASP.NET MVC framework are only intended to develop web applications using REST principles. There is not support for accepting incoming messages encoded as JSON or plain old XML (POX), or even support for returning POX from a controller action. Only form-urlencoded data is accepted by default for incoming messages, and JSON/HTML (with support of the view engines) for outgoing messages in controller actions.

  • Dependency injection made easy for the ASP.NET MVC

    I decided to write this post to show how cool is Autofac for doing dependency injection in the ASP.NET MVC framework. Autofac, for me the Moq stepbrother  in the dependency injection arena because of its very-easy-to-use fluent interface and nice support of lambda expressions, comes with a built-in ASP.NET module to automatically intercept the creation of the controllers and pass the required dependencies to them, the only thing a programmer has to do is to provide instances of those dependencies or expressions to build them.