Derik Whittaker

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• [ANN] Programming Asp.Net MVC by O'Reilly

  Well, it is about time we ( Tim , Chris and myself) actually made this announcement. We will be doing a MVC bo ok with O'Reilly titled 'Programming MVC'. We are super excited and super pumped to get this out the door. All three of us are huge... Posted Nov 19 2008, 08:20 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: Announcement, ASP.Net MVC

• Upcoming Speaking Engagements

  Just wanted to send a message out there to anyone that is going to be in the Raleigh/Durham area this week. I will be giving 2 talks this week. One at TriNug and another at the Raleigh Code Camp . If you are in the area and want to stop by to heckle me... Posted Nov 09 2008, 04:53 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Announcement, ASP.Net MVC, Conference

• The simplicity that is the Asp.Net MVC

  Today I was browsing my list of RSS feeds and I stumbled upon a posting that showed some Asp.Net code. This code was nothing out of the ordinary, it was simply someone building a table with a repeater. The first thing that came to mind when I saw the... Posted Nov 05 2008, 05:25 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: asp.net, Opinion, ASP.Net MVC

• Upgrading to Mvc Beta Gotcha to look for

  I forgot to mention in my upgrading to MVC beta post to mention one little gotcha. Since the MVC team renamed Html.Form() to Html.BeginForm you will have to update all your references. However, you will also have to swap the logic that is being used.... Posted Oct 17 2008, 08:10 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: HowTo, ASP.Net MVC

• Upgrading Dimecasts.Net to the MVC Beta

  Today is the official launch of the Asp.Net MVC beta (can get the bits here ) so I can finally blog about the upgrade process for Dimecasts.net First things first, what is new in this drop: The added the MVC assemblies into the GAC. This was done to allow... Posted Oct 16 2008, 12:40 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Feedback, HowTo, ASP.Net MVC

• Custom Formatters for YUI DataTable

  In a prior posting ( here ) I walked through how to add the YUI DataTable to your site. Today I thought I would take that a step further and explain how to create custom formatters so your grid can look all fancy and stuff. A custom formatter is a way... Posted Sep 17 2008, 06:43 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.Net MVC, YahooUI

• Upgrading Dimecasts.Net from MVC Preview 4 to Preview 5

  Like many other nerds (sorry people, lets face we are nerds :) ), as soon as I heard that MVC Preview 5 had been released I wanted to run out and upgrade Dimecasts.net. Let me first start off by saying this. Anyone that decides to build a production application... Posted Sep 03 2008, 06:49 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.Net MVC

• Asp.Net RenderPartial Exception - CS1502

  If you are trying to use the HTML Helper RenderPartial and you received the following error: CS1502: The best overloaded method match for 'System.IO.TextWriter.Write(char)' has some invalid arguments error do worry, you are not alone. When I was... Posted Aug 30 2008, 01:45 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.Net MVC

• Adventures of adding YahooUI (YUI) to a MVC Site

  I decided that I wanted to give the YahooUI (YUI) framework/library a go recently. My first task was to get a few of my data listing pages on Dimecasts.net to use the DataTable Control from YUI. Having never used the library I was not sure what I was... Posted Aug 18 2008, 04:10 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.Net MVC, YahooUI

• Setting up IoC/DI for your Controllers in ASP.Net MVC

  One of the really great things about the ASP.Net MVC framework is how extendable it is. One area of extension is in the area of controller creation. The framework allows you to replace the default ControllerFactory with your own factory and because of... Posted Aug 15 2008, 07:48 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: StructureMap, HowTo, ASP.Net MVC

• My wish list for the ASP.Net MVC Framework going forward.

  I have been using the MVC framework now for 3+ months. In fact I already have a public production site running on the framework ( www.dimecasts.net ). I have to say that I am really, really happy with the progress and direction that the team is making... Posted Aug 05 2008, 05:52 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.Net MVC

• My Initial Impressions with the new HandleErrorAttribute with MVC Preview 4

  As part of my process to upgrade DimeCasts.net to preview 4 I wanted to take advantage of the new HandleErrorAttribute. Out of the box this looked like something that I would want to use and could use very easily. However, I quickly realized that this... Posted Jul 27 2008, 04:35 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.Net MVC

• Upgrading DimeCasts.net to MVC Preview 4

  Today I decided to sit down and upgrade the Dimecasts.net code to run on MVC preview 4. To be honest I did not know exactly what to expect, and I have to say, it was kinda painful but not too bad. Let me first start off by saying this. Anyone that decides... Posted Jul 26 2008, 01:30 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Development, HowTo, ASP.Net MVC, DimeCasts.Net

• MVC Html helper to render an image with a Routable Link

  Today I ran into a need where I wanted to create the html needed to render an image as a link and I wanted that clicking of that image to route to a controller action.  The off the shelf Html helper that comes with the MVC frame does not support... Posted Jul 09 2008, 09:10 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: HowTo, ASP.Net MVC

• Using the MVC Route engine to preserve URL Routes for SEO

  Today I was making some changes to the DimeCasts.Net site and I realized that I did not like the URL's that I was currently using as I did not feel they accuracy reflected the intent of the route.  However, because Google has already linked many... Posted Jun 03 2008, 07:29 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: HowTo, ASP.Net MVC