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Named Anchors And MVC Urls

Posted By Mikesdotnetting - 14 June 2010 10:15

Named Anchors And MVC Urls Named Anchors are used to generate links to specific locations within a web document. Unless you are careful, you may end up having a little trouble getting these to work using the MVC LinkExtension helpers.

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Google Sitemap Generation From A Custom SiteMapResult

Posted By Mikesdotnetting - 31 May 2010 20:42

My previous article showed how to use a custom ActionResult and the classes within WCF to generate an RSS feed. There are no similar classes to help build a valid Google Site Map for an ASP.NET MVC application. So here's how your can build your own.

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Rss Feed Generation From a Custom RssResult

Posted By Mikesdotnetting - 31 May 2010 09:14

When I looked at producing RSS Feeds in ASP.NET MVC before, I used the ContentResult method to return XML. Best Practice suggests that you should create a new ActionResult if required. So this article looks at creating an RssResult, and a different way to generate the feed itself.

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Validating the Contact Manager with MVC 2.0 And VS 2010

Posted By Mikesdotnetting - 29 March 2010 22:17

The MVC 2.0 Framework was finally RTM'd on March 11th 2010, so I took the opportunity to update my Contact Manager application with some of its new features. While the focus of this article is validating the Model using DataAnnotations, I also touch on one or two other new features in the latest release.

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ASP.NET MVC v. Web Forms Debate - My View

Posted By Mikesdotnetting - 22 February 2010 21:53

It seems that the whole world (and Margate) is having its say on which is better - MVC or Web Forms. Scott Guthrie posted his views on technical debates in general, and then contributed his thoughts on MVC v. Web Forms. Ian Cooper has an interesting contribution to make to the debate too. Rob Conery (formerly of Microsoft) posted probably the most linked to opinion on the matter. (There - I've just added another link...) A lot of other blog posts around scream that MVC is better because its better. One even tries to posit the notion that some kind of score card approach can help you decide.

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ASP.NET MVC is not all about Linq to SQL

Posted By Mikesdotnetting - 21 February 2010 08:21

Pretty much every sample application that illustrates ASP.NET MVC uses Linq To SQL or the Entity Framework as the data access method. I've seen a number of questions posted to the forums at www.asp.net asking if there are any alternatives, and indeed there are. This article will look at using plain ADO.NET within a data access layer to provide dynamic content to a typical small CRUD application.

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Get The Drop On ASP.NET MVC DropDownLists

Posted By Mikesdotnetting - 07 January 2010 21:27

DropDownLists in ASP.NET MVC seem to cause a fair amount of confusion to developers fresh from Web Forms World. This article looks to provide you with all (well, most) of what you need to know to get your DropDownLists working in ASP.NET MVC.

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ASP.NET MVC - Prevent Image Leeching with a Custom RouteHandler

Posted By Mikesdotnetting - 25 December 2009 22:31

Have you ever noticed an unusually high number of requests in your web server log files for image files? It may well be that someone is linking to your images from their own site, and basically stealing your bandwidth. Here's how to implement a custom RouteHandler within an ASP.NET MVC application to prevent people leeching your images.

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ASP.NET MVC Uploading and Downloading Files

Posted By Mikesdotnetting - 21 December 2009 22:29

If you come to ASP.NET MVC from a purely ASP.NET Web Forms background, one of the first things you are likely to notice is that all those nice easy Server Controls have disappeared. One of those is the FileUpload, and its absence seems to cause a few problems. This article looks at how to upload files to the server in an MVC world, and how to get them back from the server to the user again.

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Book Review - Professional Enterprise .NET

Posted By Mikesdotnetting - 28 October 2009 15:49

I reviewed an ASP.NET Architecture and Design book recently. It was OK. I felt it was a bit thin, and didn't cover topics beyond beginner level. Then I got sent a review copy of another book: Professional Enterprise .NET. Having read it, this is the book that the previous book should want to be when it grows up.

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Displaying Google Analytics Data in ASP.NET

Posted By Mikesdotnetting - 26 October 2009 22:30

If you have a Google Analytics account, you can use the Data Export API provided by Google to access your visitor stats, and retrieve them for use elsewhere. Here's how to display some stats in ASP.NET.

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Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control with ASP.NET MVC

Posted By Mikesdotnetting - 10 October 2009 22:46

As you delve more into ASP.NET MVC you start to come across a whole new way of doing things that Web Forms development didn't really expose you to. Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection (DI) are two phrases that crop up a lot in the MVC space. So what are they all about? And should you care?

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Microsoft Chart Controls to PDF with iTextSharp and ASP.NET MVC

Posted By Mikesdotnetting - 15 September 2009 22:16

If you are developing a business application using ASP.NET MVC, and need to produce some kind of dashboard-style reporting, the Chart Controls from Microsoft are a good place to start. Having a summary in some form of document, say a PDF is also a common requirement. This article introduces you to satisfying both needs.

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jQuery Star Rating with ASP.NET MVC

Posted By Mikesdotnetting - 08 September 2009 13:40

There are a number of jQuery star rating plugins to choose from. All have their pros and cons. For this site, I decided to implement the one from FyneWorks because it allows for split stars. Here's how I did it.

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ASP.NET MVC - Battle of the Books

Posted By Mikesdotnetting - 27 July 2009 13:25

There's always a splurge of new books that come out around the RTM of any new ASP.NET related technology. Authors all over the place are burning the midnight oil, cursing the changes from one CTP to the next, through to Betas and hoping against hope that the Release Candidates and final RTMs aren't stuffed with "breaking changes" which inevitably mean total rewrites of whole sections or chapters in their draft. And then the race between the publishers is on, as each tries to get their offer to market before the others. Here, I look at three of the titles that were published around the time that ASP.NET MVC was launched, and give my judgement on how they fare in covering not only the core Framework but the key features that ASP.NET MVC is designed to offer:

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