Tag: MVC

All the articles with the tag "MVC".

• How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 4: Authentication and membership

  2 Jul, 2009

  “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:

• How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 3: Store data in the cloud

  2 Jul, 2009

  “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:

• How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 2: Creating an Azure project

  2 Jul, 2009

  “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:

• How we built TwitterMatic.net - Part 1: Introduction

  2 Jul, 2009

  “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.”

• Application-wide action filters in ASP.NET MVC

  24 Jun, 2009

  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.

• Revised: ASP.NET MVC and the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF)

  17 Jun, 2009

  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:

• ASP.NET MVC TDD using Visual Studio 2010

  10 Jun, 2009

  Phil Haack announced yesterday that the tooling support for ASP.NET MVC is available for Visual Studio 2010. Troy Goode already blogged about the designer snippets (which are really really cool, just like other parts of the roadmap for ASP.NET MVC 2.0). I’ll give the new TDD workflow introduced in VS2010 a take. First of all, I’ll create a new ASP.NET MVC application in VS2010. After installing the project template (and the designer snippets if you are cool), this is easy in VS2010: Proceed and make sure to create a unit test project as well. Next, in your unit test project, add a new unit test class and name it DemoControllerTests.cs. Go ahead and start typing the following test: Now when you type CTRL-. (or right click the DemoController unknown class), you can pick “Generate other…”:

• A view from the cloud (or: locate your ASP.NET MVC views on Windows Azure Blob Storage)

  9 Jun, 2009

  Hosting and deploying ASP.NET MVC applications on Windows Azure works like a charm. However, if you have been reading my blog for a while, you might have seen that I don’t like the fact that my ASP.NET MVC views are stored in the deployed package as well… Why? If I want to change some text or I made a typo, I would have to re-deploy my entire application for this. Takes a while, application is down during deployment, … And all of that for a typo…

• ASP.NET MVC Domain Routing

  20 May, 2009

  Ever since the release of ASP.NET MVC and its routing engine (System.Web.Routing), Microsoft has been trying to convince us that you have full control over your URL and routing. This is true to a certain extent: as long as it’s related to your application path, everything works out nicely. If you need to take care of data tokens in your (sub)domain, you’re screwed by default. Earlier this week, Juliën Hanssens did a blog post on his approach to subdomain routing. While this is a good a approach, it has some drawbacks: Unfortunately, the ASP.NET MVC infrastructure is based around this VirtualPathData class. That’s right: only tokens in the URL’s path are used for routing… Check my entry on the ASP.NET MVC forums on that one.

• MSDN session on ASP.NET MVC

  23 Apr, 2009

  As promised to all people attending my online session on ASP.NET MVC this afternoon, here is the slide deck I’ve used. I must say, doing a presentation using Live Meeting and a Microsoft Roundtable device seemed a bit strange at first. However, the setup that is used to do this kind of sessions is really cool to work with! Make sure to check Katrien’s blog for all other Live Meeting MSDN sessions that are planned.