Feb
26
Recently I have been working on an MVC site using the Entity Framework. I have some related entities in my EF model, as show below in the form of “Reader” and “Category”, and the relationship between them, i.e. many to many. When it came to proucing a view and action to perofrm the Create Reader …
Jan
12
If like me you are using ASP.NET MVC for some of your web applications these days and use MasterPages within them, then you may have come accross the need to pass ViewData to the MasterPage. For example, this might be for a dynamically generated navigation bar. When I first started using MVC, I simply passed …
Oct
20
Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 Beta 2 has now been released to members of MSDN, with a public download available from Wednesday. Beta 2 brings many improvements to the table, including improvements in Sharepoint, WPF, ASP.NET, WinForms, as well as improvements to the core IDE and testing tools. I saw some of these IDE improvements at …
Sep
16
Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice Presedent and all round .Net Guru is coming to Manchester, UK, later this month to talk about what’s new with Visual Studio 2010, ASP.Net 4.0, Silverlight 3 and upcoming improvements to the MVC Framework! Seating for this event, entitled Guathon 2009, is very limited and as such you can only join the …
Aug
07
Title: Professional Refactoring in C# and ASP.Net Publisher: Wrox Author: Danijel Arsenovski Even the most experienced developers can sometimes be found sat staring at their monitor trying to decide which way to implement a solution. Asking a fellow developer for input will probably result in more avenues to consider as opposed to narrowing down the …
Jul
26
Expression Web 3, part of Expression Studio from Microsoft has now been released and is available for purchase / download. MSDN license holders should find Expression Studio including Expression Web 3 available for download now from the MSDN web site, whilst everyone else can take advantage of free trials (the Expression Web 3 trail can be …
Jul
01
UPDATE: Expression Web 3, Sliverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3 have now been released, which you can read about in my post, “Expression Web 3 Released” here. I received an email this morning inviting me to an exclusive launch event for Silverlight 3 and Expression 3. Unfortunately I am out of the country, but the launch …
Jun
29
Title: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Problem – Design – Solution Publisher: Wrox Authors: Nick Beradi, Al Katawazi, Marco Bellinaso It seems that recently every man and his dog have been talking about ASP.Net MVC and the many advantages it brings along with it. I have to admit that, up until now, I have not really looked …
May
20
Following up on my recent post about the improvements to the Entity Framework in .Net 4.0 this is the first in a series of posts examining some of the new features and showing you how to put some of them into practice. In this post I am going to look at one of the most …
May
19
This is fresh from the typemock.com blog; Unit Testing ASP.NET? ASP.NET unit testing has never been this easy. Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle – and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and their readers. The ASP.NET Bundle is the ultimate ASP.NET unit …