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Combining ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Charting Controls
As ScottGu recently posted on his blog, Microsoft have recently released a set of charting components. Several people followed up with comments on his post asking whether it was possible to use them with ASP.NET MVC. The good news is that it certainly is, if you are using ASP.NET as the View engine (the default). And there's actually relatively little that you have to do. This post outlines the steps you'll need to take to get it up and running.
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MVC ModelBinder and Localization
One of the great things about the way in which the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework is being developed is the fact that the team are publishing the source code as they go along. This makes it very simple to dig into the framework when something slightly surprising is happening and figure out exactly how it is supposed to work. A good example of this cropped up for us yesterday when looking at a form posting scenario using DateTimes. We were dealing with an Action Method that looked something like this: