Derik Whittaker

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• 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

• 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

• 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

• MVC and BindingHelperExtension Gotcha's

  In my continuing effort to become educated on the MVC framework, I stubbed my toe on something today. I setup a simple edit screen and I wanted to updated the data on that screen to the database. I built my edit form by using the Html helper methods ... Posted Mar 09 2008, 02:04 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: HowTo, ASP.Net MVC