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 fans of the MVC framework and know that this is...

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, please do. Info on the 2 sessions TriNug - Taking...

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 markup for the repeater was 'WOW, that looks like...

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. When using Html.Form the parameter order was "Controller"...

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 global system usage. Please note you can (and...

Awww cmon Microsoft, play nice with us. I want to do something that should be pretty simple, I just need to know what action is being wrapped by my custom filter in ASP.NET MVC After a surreal amount of Googling I finally found a blog post that showed where this little bit of information hides, in filterContext...

I wrote a nice little charting component for our site recently, and needed to call a Javascript function in one View (the one that was the main page for charting), from another View (one that went off to the server using Ajax to load up a list of feeds that could be charted). This would have been traditionally...

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 to define a layout for the DataTable. There are built...

We just added a new dropdown list to one of our forms, which has a javascript function to change the background colour of a textarea. And the UpdateModel() on our controller class promptly fell over ... It turns out that UpdateModel() requires your class to have a property it can map for every form control...

We just spent far too long on what turned out to be a stupid problem ... we kept getting an error telling us that the view did not inherit from System.Web.UI.Page ... unfortunately the guy who was working on the particular view and controller could not think of a specific change he had made to cause...