i should have known something was up when i caught jeffrey palermo my boss at headspring browsing the asp.net mvc preview 5 source. were working on a enterprise web application using asp.net mvc. that week one of our tasks was to create a rather complex page full of robust components that did intricate little things like fieldlevel security. we wanted the ability to push behavior decisions to sma...
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if you are curious about linq to nhibernate and want to quickly check it out here is an easy way to do it. check out a copy of the codecampserver source svn. codecampserver is easy to work with because it has good tests on an alreadyworking nhibernate implementa tion. chec k out a copy of nh contrib svn open the nhibernate.linq solution in visual studio and build. you may have to remove the compi...
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just today the mvc framework team dropped the soure code refresh on its codeplex workspace. this includes a big controller base class refactoring along with other enhancements. a big deal also is that the source code drop now includes the unit tests thats awesome. great job levi eilon phil and rob now we have some work to do to upgrade mvccontrib and codecampserver to the new drop. the biggest ...
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this post is a quick rundown of action method behaviors. this will be halfway obsolete with the next mvc drop on codeplex but here goes you can download mvccontrib from httpmvccontrib.org. the convention controller is there. the convention controller takes away nothing from system.web .mvc.contr oller but it adds some useful things on top. my example controllers inherit from convention controll...
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a while back i thought up the idea of the smartbag which has a very friendly api for working with viewdata objects. with the december ctp adding objects to viewdata was a bit difficult but now that the viewdata property is an idictionary on the controller base class getting objects in is very easy. if you like this post subscribe to my feed at httpfeeds. feedburner .comjeffre ypalermo. consider t...
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my rss feed httpfeeds. feedburner .comjeffre ypalermo you can download it here. its public and announced at the mix conference. a new release of the asp.net mvc framework. the license allows you go go live and use it in production. youll have to uninstall the december ctp first. the new install will only drop the assemblies in cprogram filesmicrosoft asp.net mvc preview 2assemblies and then youll...
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a tip for mapping value objects that is sort of buried in the nhibernate documentat ion. pleas e note that a composite element mapping doesnt support nullable properties if youre using a . nhibernate has to use each columns value to identify a record when deleting objects there is no separate primary key column in the composite element table which is not possible with null values. when you fail ...
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to subscribe to my feed add the following url httpfeeds. feedburner .comjeffre ypalermo. with the original 0.86 beta 1 release there was a small problem with folks who only had vs 2008 installed because there was a dependency on a registry key that was installed with the .net 2.0 sdk or vs 2005. the latest nightly build has fixed this and a clean machine with vs 2008 can now use nant just fine. ...
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