Last night I was having some problems with a simple piece of functionality using ASP.NET MVC and FluentHtml (the MvcContrib flavor). When a user selected from a menu, which in this case caused a form to be posted back to the server, upon postback the user’s selection was cleared. The post happ... [More]

Mildly silly and maybe making too many assumptions though it is, I worked up a little extension method to generically evaluate (and return) the Data property of a JsonResult class. Makes life a little easier when testing JsonResult action methods on controller instances. Helps during testing, for... [More]

I had a great time last night speaking on [what I call] composite web application development in Asheville, NC last night. Thanks a lot to the group for allowing me the opportunity to provide the presentation. Hope you guys got some inspiration from it and that it'll aid in your development efforts ... [More]

Today I gave a short presentation today at Microsoft Charlotte on using Unity and ASP.NET MVC together. I promised to post the code and presentation, so this is the requisite blog post doing that very thing. Thanks a lot to Brian Hitney, Chad Brooks, Glen Gordon, and the Southern Fried Road Show cre... [More]

Scott does an excellent job in his introduction blog post to the new features in the ASP.NET MVC beta release. The Model Binder support is an excellent feature for which I wanted to put forth a simple example.  In essence, Model Binding allows you to pass an object into your controller methods... [More]

Tonight I attended the local Enterprise Guild's ASP.NET MVC presentation by Brian Hitney. I don't know if I've ever given a review of a colleague's presentation (so this might suck) but I feel one's in order.  Brian's doing his best in this area for Microsoft to spread this and other informatio... [More]

I've tinkered with the method of posting JSON between the browser and the server via a generic handler. When the new MVC Preview came out and had native support for JSON I knew I needed to do some further tinkering. This post will describe in brief how to perform such a thing. I'll demonstrate how t... [More]

Like most everyone else in the ASP.Net community I've been dedicating a good deal of time recently to learning more about the ASP.Net MVC implementation. Today, as you may already know, Woot.com is having a woot-off. Given that most of the tools I've found on line for tracking these wonderful events... [More]