Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• Article on ASP.NET MVC in .NET magazine #21

  3 Jul, 2008

  Yesterday, I received the new Dutch edition of .NET magazine containing my article on the ASP.NET MVC framework. Since the article was written quite a while ago, soucre code is no longer up-to-date. Readers who are interested (or anyone else interested in ASP.NET MVC) can download up-to-date code examples on the ASP.NET MVC guestbook page.

• Extending ASP.NET MVC OutputCache ActionFilterAttribute - Adding substitution

  1 Jul, 2008

  In my previous blog post on ASP.NET MVC OutputCache, not all aspects of "classic" ASP.NET output caching were covered. For instance, substitution of cached pages. Allow me to explain...

• Creating an ASP.NET MVC OutputCache ActionFilterAttribute

  26 Jun, 2008

  In every web application, there are situations where you want to cache the HTML output of a specific page for a certain amount of time, because underlying data and processing isn't really subject to changes a lot. This cached response is stored in the web server's memory and offers very fast responses because no additional processing is required.

• The devil is in the details (Visual Studio Team System test policy)

  12 Jun, 2008

  Have you ever been in a difficult situation where a software product is overall very good, but a small detail is going wrong? At least I've been, for the past week... Team System allows check-in policies to be enforced prior to checking in your code. One of these policies is the unit testing policy, which allows you to enforce a specific test list to be run prior to checking in your code.

• Code based ASP.NET MVC GridView

  4 Jun, 2008

  Earlier this week a colleague of mine asked me if there was such thing as a  DataGrid or GridView or something like that in the ASP.NET MVC framework. My first answer was: "Nope!". I advised him to look for a nice foreach implementation or using ExtJS, Dojo or similar. Which made me think... Why not create a simple GridView extension method which generates a nice looking, plain-HTML grid with all required features like paging, editing, deleting, alternating rows, ...?

• Detailed code metrics with NDepend

  29 May, 2008

  A while ago, I blogged about code performance analysis in Visual Studio 2008. Using profiling and hot path tracking, I measured code performance and was able to react to that. Last week, Patrick Smacchia contacted me asking if I wanted to test his project NDepend. He promised me NDepend would provide more insight in my applications. Let's test that!

• ASP.NET MVC framework preview 3 released!

  27 May, 2008

  Don't know how I do it, but I think this blog post is yet again the first one out there mentioning a new release of the ASP.NET framework (preview 3)  The official installation package can be downloaded from the Microsoft site. Source code is also available from CodePlex. Update instructions from preview 2 to preview 3 are contained in the download. If you created a project based on the "preview-preview" version, here's what you'll have to update:

• Creating a custom ViewEngine for the ASP.NET MVC framework

  20 May, 2008

  Have you ever seen a presentation of ScottGu about the ASP.NET MVC framework? There is one particular slide that keeps coming back, stating that every step in the ASP.NET MVC life cycle is pluggable. Let's find out if replacing one of these components is actually easy by creating a custom ViewEngine and corresponding view.

• ASP.NET MVC custom ActionResult (ImageResult)

  13 May, 2008

  The ASP.NET MVC framework introduces the concept of returning an ActionResult in Controllers since the "preview preview" release on CodePlex. The purpose of this concept is to return a generic ActionResult object for each Controller method, allowing different child classes returning different results.

• Having fun with project managers! (or: why you should lock your desktop)

  8 May, 2008

  Have you ever left your computer unattended? (I do hope that!) Do you lock your desktop when this occurs? (I hope so either!) Not locking your desktop can be a risk. Your data might get stolen, someone might install a trojan, ... My project manager is one of those people who do not lock their computer when away. After having explained that this is a very simple thing he still seems to forget it everytime. Since a few weeks, we are using some more persuasive manners to teach him to press the Windows-key + L whenever he leaves his computer. Some practical jokes...