Tag: ASP.NET
All the articles with the tag "ASP.NET".
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ReMIX Belgium session on ASP.NET MVC
Just learned I’ll be doing a session on ASP.NET MVC at ReMIX Belgium. ReMix brings the best of MIX09 in Las Vegas to Belgium: it bring us international speakers presenting on the best of MIX09, as well as local cases, with a story focus on User Experience (UX). The session will be around building a Twitter clone in 60 minutes. Bear with me at ReMIX 2009! Abstract: “What are you doing right now?, that's Twitter's question to its users. How about you creating own microblogging platform? "What are you working on?", "What are you reading?", ..., are all specific questions for your own community. This session takes you along in building a Twitter clone using the ASP.NET MVC framework.”
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Authenticating users with RPXNow (in ASP.NET MVC)
Don’t you get sick of having to register at website X, at website Y, at website Z, …? It is really not fun to maintain all these accounts, change passwords, … Luckily, there are some large websites offering delegated sign-in (for example Google Accounts, Live ID, Twitter OAuth, …). You can use these delegated sign-in methods on your own site, removing the need of registering yet another account. Unfortunately, not everyone has an account at provider X…
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I’m an MVP ASP.NET!
Yesterday evening, I received the following e-mail: Dear Maarten Balliauw, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in ASP/ASP.NET technical communities during the past year. (...) Toby Richards General Manager Community Support Services Translated in short: I’m now officially an MVP ASP.NET! I am really honored to be recognized as an MVP. Thank you for the nomination!
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How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 5: the front-end
“After having found a god-like guardian for his application, Knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker found out that his application still had no functional front-end. It’s OK to have a guardian and a barn in the cloud, but if there’s nothing to guard, this is a bit useless. Having asked the carpenter and the smith of the village, our knight decided that the so-called “ASP.NET MVC” framework might help in his quest.” This post is part of a series on how we built TwitterMatic.net. Other parts:
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How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 4: Authentication and membership
“Knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker just returned from his quest to a barn in the clouds, when he discovered that he forgot to lock the door to his workplace. He immediately asked the digital village’s smith.to create a lock and provide him a key. Our knight returned to his workplace and concluded that using the smith’s lock would be OK, but having the great god of social networking, Twitter, as a guardian, seemed like a better idea. “O, Auth!”, he said. And the god provided him with a set of prayers, an API, which our knight could use.” This post is part of a series on how we built TwitterMatic.net. Other parts:
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How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 3: Store data in the cloud
“After setting up his workplace, knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker thought of something else: if a farmer wants to keep a lot of hay, he needs a barn, right? Since the cloudy application would also need to keep things that can be used by the digital villagers, our knight needs a barn in the clouds. Looking at the azure sky, an idea popped into the knight’s head: why not use Windows Azure storage service? It’s a barn that’s always there, a barn that can catch fire and will still have its stored items located in a second barn (and a third). Knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker jumped on his horse and went on a quest, a quest in the clouds.” This post is part of a series on how we built TwitterMatic.net. Other parts:
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How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 2: Creating an Azure project
“Knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker was about to start working on his TwitterMatic application, named after the great god of social networking, Twitter. Before he could start working, he first needed the right tools. He downloaded the Windows Azure SDK, a set of tools recommended by the smith (or was it the carpenter?) of the digital village. Our knight’s work shack was soon ready to start working. The table on which the application would be crafted, was still empty. Time for action, the knight thought. And he started working.” This post is part of a series on how we built TwitterMatic.net. Other parts:
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How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 1: Introduction
“Once upon a time, Microsoft started a Windows Azure developing contest named new CloudApp();. While it first was only available for US candidates, the contest was opened for international submissions too. Knight Maarten The Brave Coffeedrinker and his fellow knightsmen at RealDolmen decided to submit a small sample application that could be hosted in an unknown environment, known by the digital villagers as “the cloud”. The application was called TwitterMatic, named after the great god of social networking, Twitter. It would allow digital villagers to tell the latest stories, even when they were asleep or busy working.”
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Application-wide action filters in ASP.NET MVC
Ever had a team of developers using your ASP.NET MVC framework? Chances are you have implemented some action filters (i.e. for logging) which should be applied on all controllers in the application. Two ways to do this: kindly ask your developers to add a [Logging] attribute to the controllers they write, or kindly ask to inherit from SomeCustomControllerWithActionsInPlace.
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Revised: ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)
A while ago, I did a blog post on combining ASP.NET MVC and MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework), making it possible to “plug” controllers and views into your application as a module. I received a lot of positive feedback as well as a hard question from Dan Swatik who was experiencing a Server Error with this approach… Here’s a better approach to ASP.NET MVC and MEF. The stack trace was being quite verbose on this one: