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You can now find my blog at http://blog.davidebbo.com/ , and all posts from now on will be there.  Here is the intro post on the new blog.  My feed goes through feedburner, so if you were subscribing to this blog before, you should now get updates...

If you’ve submitted a package to the NuGet feed, then you’re probably aware that our submission process is not as good as it could be.  Ok, this may be an understatement, so let’s go ahead and say it: it sucks! With the current process, you have...

Note: the generator has evolved since this post. Although the post is still worth reading, please go to http://razorgenerator.codeplex.com/ for the most up to date doc. The first blog post I ever wrote was titled “ Turning an ascx user control...

[Please see the WebActivator wiki for the latest docs] Wow, it’s hard to believe that it’s been less than a week since NuGet went public. We were hoping to get noticed, but the attention we got was way beyond my wildest expectations! The...

I’m thrilled to announce that the secret project we’ve been working on for the last few months is no longer a secret!  It’s called NuGet, and you can download it from here .  Make sure you also read ScottGu’s post about it. So what the heck...

Entity Framework supports a concept called a ‘Defining Query’, which is basically a client side database View. I only learned about that feature a few days ago, and I thought I’d share some tips about how to create them in a way that’s...

Yesterday, David Fowler blogged about the Microsoft.Data APIs that come with ASP.NET WebMatrix .  While there were some positive comments, the majority were negative.  The reason for that is that a lot of readers completely missed the point...

I just pushed T4MVC out to the MvcContrib CodePlex site.  You can go to the T4MVC Home Page to get started with it. Last time I blogged about a T4MVC release was for 2.6.13.  In the mean time, I released 2.6.14 and 2.6.15, but they were minor...

Just a quick post to point folks to a very cool CodePlex Add-In that you may not know about.  It’s called Chirpy and can be downloaded from http://chirpy.codeplex.com/ .  The reason I discovered it is that it includes functionality to automatically...

Today, we announced the public availability of the Microsoft WebMatrix Beta . This is an exciting time, as we’ve been working on this project for quite a while, and have been eager to get it out there! Our VP Scott Guthrie has been blogging about...

Last week, I blogged about a nice way of auto-running T4MVC by using the Macro IDE to write an OnBuildBegin event handler .  This was a big improvement over the hacky ‘AlwaysKeepTemplateDirty’ flag that we’ve been using since T4MVC’s early days....

Update: also see the newer post on this topic   T4MVC has always struggled with finding the right way of running automatically when you build.  Being a T4 template in your project, by default it just runs when you save it.  This is not...

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to MvcContrib T4MVC page on CodePlex   A few weeks back, we announced (mostly on Twitter) that T4MVC was moving into the MvcContrib Codeplex project.  I didn’t say much about it at the time because there...

Update 2/4/2010 : changed Technique #2 to use Debugger.Break()   This post applies to any ASP.NET app that uses .aspx files, whether WebForms or MVC. When you write an aspx/ascx/master file (I’ll just say aspx for here on, but it applies to all)...

Update 8/10/2011 : this project now has a home at https://github.com/davidebbo/ReflectionMagic . Also, it is installable via nuget. It's named ' ReflectionMagic '. Private reflection allows you to access private and internal members in other assemblies...

Note: this is based on ASP.NET MVC 2 RC , and will not work on earlier builds.   The quick pitch: make your User Controls as cool as built-in render helpers! The goal of this post is to show you how to change the way MVC user controls are called...

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to T4MVC page on CodePlex I just posted build 2.6.10. There were also a few builds in between since I last blogged about 2.6, so this post describes some of those changes (full history here ). Fluent route...

Note (12/22/2011): now that MVC 3 has direct support for dynamic, the technique below is no longer necessary. This post is in fact what led to integrating the feature into MVC! First, I’ll start with a little disclaimer: this post is not about...

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to T4MVC page on CodePlex One of MVC 2's major new features is the support for breaking up a large application into "Areas". This works by following a structure that looks like: Root folder Models...

Up until now, most things related to T4MVC were happening through my various blog posts about it.  And while that was sort of working ok for a while, it was also less than ideal for a couple reasons. First, there was no single place to go to in order...

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to T4MVC page on CodePlex MVC 2 Beta introduces two nice helpers called Html.RenderAction and Html.Action. Phil Haack described them in detail on his blog , so you may want to read through that before reading...

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to T4MVC page on CodePlex T4MVC build 2.5.00 brings a couple of fun new features that I’ll describe in this post. I can’t take too much credit for them as they came from users who suggested them to me, and helped...

Peter Blum has been well known is the ASP.NET world for many years for writing a whole suite of powerful controls, which you can read all about on his site .  One thing that was missing on Peter’s resume is that he never had a blog.  Well he...

Update (11/7/09) : fixed Execute() method per Richard’s suggestion to wrap IDataRecord instead of Reader. Recently, I started playing around with C# dynamic, and blogged how it could be used to call static class members late bound . Today, I was talking...

By now, you’ve probably heard that C# 4.0 is adding support for the dynamic keyword, which introduces some aspects of dynamic languages to C#.  I had not had a chance to really try it, but recently I was reading Bertrand Le Roy’s post on the topic...