For all the debate regarding if Captcha's are a good thing or a bad thing one thing is certain (in my book). If you do not have some way to stop spam-bots your site will become overridden with junk in a hurry. In an effort to reduce the amount of spam comments I am getting over at Dimecasts.net I...

If you have been using the MVC framework I am sure you are aware that in many cases there are multiple ways to accomplish the same task. One such case in point is how to render content for a View. Now I am not talking about how to render an entire View, but rather how do I render partial Views (aka user...

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...

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 this we can incorporate Inversion of Control/Dependency...

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 to build a production application of any size...

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 this by default (there is a work around) so I decided...

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 of the episodes on the site, I did not want to...

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 (Html.TextBox to be exact), but I made a few mistakes...