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[Update 1/31/2011: I just attached a zip that demonstrates the files you'll get at each step. In the process, I verified that the steps still work well with VS 2010] This article applies to ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. Background Since...

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...

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...

I made a screencast which walks through a basic scenario of using ASP.NET Dynamic Data in a simple site using Northwind. It's about 17 minutes long. Enjoy and feel free to give any feedback here or in the forum .

This article applies to ASP.NET 2.0. Background This article originated from a customer question on the ASP.NET site .  What they are trying to achieve is running multiple sites under a single actual ASP.NET application.  This can be useful...

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...

Update : Please read this post for the newest and greatest. A couple weeks ago, I blogged about using a Build provider and CodeDom to generate strongly typed MVC helpers at runtime. I followed up a few days later with another version that used T4 templates...

Update (9/04/2009) Actually downloading this fix for 3.5SP1 has been a confusing topic. Here are links from which you can download it directly without having to call Product Support. Note that even though the links appear to refer to an unrelated issue...

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...

Update: the Many to Many template is now part of the default Dynamic Data project template (when using Entity Framework), so you should not need to download this template separately unless you're on 3.5SP1 Unlike Linq To Sql, Entity Framework directly...

Short version : the MVC T4 template (now named T4MVC) is now available on CodePlex, as one of the downloads in the ASP.NET MVC v1.0 Source page . Go to T4MVC home page Poll verdict: it’s ok for T4MVC to make small changes Yesterday, I posted...

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...

Support for LINQ based O/R mappers Out of the box, ASP.NET Dynamic Data has support for both Linq To Sql and Entity Framework.  In addition, it has a provider model which allows additional O/R mappers to be supported.  For instance, we have...

T4 templates have been a pretty popular topic lately. If you have no idea what they are, don’t feel bad, I didn’t either only a couple weeks ago! In a nutshell, it’s a simple template processor that’s built into VS and allows for all kind of cool code...

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...

Update : Please see this newer post for the latest and greatest MVC T4 template   One downside of using Html.ActionLink in your views is that it is late bound.  e.g. say you write something like this: <% = Html.ActionLink( "Home"...

Update (8/26/2010): I updated some of the content to reflect the new way to get the bits.   One of the big things that I discussed in my MIX 2009 talk is the new DomainDataSource control.  It is available as part of the WCF RIA Services Toolkit...

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)...

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...

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...

If you’ve ever written any non-trivial ASP.NET control, you’re probably familiar with the concept of a Control Builder.  Basically, it’s a class that you associate with your control and that affects the way your control gets processed at parse time...

Update : Please see this newer post for the latest and greatest MVC T4 template   Earlier this week, I wrote a post on using a BuildProvider to create ActionLink helpers .  That approach was using CodeDom to generate the code, and there was...

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to T4MVC page on CodePlex This post is a continuation of various previous posts on the T4MVC template for ASP.NET MVC: A new and improved ASP.NET MVC T4 template The MVC T4 template is now up on CodePlex...

A while back, I blogged about how ASP.NET Dynamic Data apps can uses an Associated Metadata class (aka a ‘buddy’ class) to add metadata attributed to properties defined in a generated class. It’s a mostly ugly thing that was made necessary by limitations...