Hot off the presses, and new to ASP.NET MVC (Preview 5) is an awesome capability that (in my opinion) revolutionizes the way we design web applications. This feature is being touted (by me) as “the ViewState for MVC”. First, the Challenge A common challenge of web applications is passing complex types and (more difficultly) stateful [...]
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One of the biggest benefits of MVC is it’s direct link to Test Driven Development. Because of some of the new features of ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 (ModelBinders in particular), testing your Action methods is even easier. This article will demonstrate how easy it is to ensure the quality of your MVC app with unit [...]
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The previous article on ModelBinders gave a basic introduction, showed a few code samples, and showed a creative usage of ModelBinders. However, some questions arose, some claims were challenged (particularly about comparing ModelBinders to the WebForms ViewState) and some controversial code needs further flushing out. This article will do just that. To begin with, we [...]
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As AJAX-enabled web sites continue to grow in popularity, the development community continues to try to solve the common problems of using AJAX. One big concern that used to require a lot of work is that of gracefully degrading your AJAX site for non-capable browsers. Thankfully, the ASP.NET MVC framework makes this an easy task. [...]
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ASP.NET is an awesome web development platform that many developers wouldn’t ever want to part with. However, if given the option, there are definitely parts of the package that you may want to swap out. This article will show you how easy it can be to break away from the “inline-ASP” or “Web Forms” world, [...]
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