Location: http://devhammer.net/ Feed: http://feeds.devhammer.net/devhammer/ Yep, I've finally done it. This blog has moved to my http://devhammer.net domain, and this is the last item I'll be posting here on blogs.msdn.com. As I noted before, if you already...

IMPORTANT NOTE : I will soon be moving my blog to my devhammer.net domain from its current home on blogs.msdn.com. If you typically access my blog by visiting http://devhammer.net , you can continue to do so, and it will work fine after the transition...

IMPORTANT NOTE : I will soon be moving my blog to my devhammer.net domain from its current home on blogs.msdn.com. If you typically access my blog by visiting http://devhammer.net , you can continue to do so, and it will work fine after the transition...

IMPORTANT NOTE : I will soon be moving my blog to my devhammer.net domain from its current home on blogs.msdn.com. If you typically access my blog by visiting http://devhammer.net , you can continue to do so, and it will work fine after the transition...

IMPORTANT NOTE : I will soon be moving my blog to my devhammer.net domain from its current home on blogs.msdn.com. If you typically access my blog by visiting http://devhammer.net , you can continue to do so, and it will work fine after the transition...

While I do a weekly “events this week” post each week that highlights events coming from Community Megaphone , I want to take a few minutes to talk about some events you may not be aware of, and highlight why you should consider attending them: Wintellect...

The latest episode of the Community Megaphone Podcast is up! In this episode, Dane and I bring back guest #2 (and frequent guest host) Joel Cochran, for a conversation on MVVM, WPF, Blend, and of course Joel’s new book. Joel shares his manifesto for practical...

For those who don’t subscribe, here’s my local editorial for the MSDN Flash newsletter for Mid-Atlantic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/hh124658.aspx In this issue, I talk about my favorite announcements from MIX11 , the announcement of speakers and...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar : MSDN Webcast: Introduction to the Rock Paper Azure...

Last night, I had the privilege of presenting at the Capital Area .NET User Group , on the topic of Microsoft WebMatrix . One of the compelling things about WebMatrix is the ease with which you can grab any of nearly 50 open-source software packages,...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar : MSDN Webcast: Introduction to the Rock Paper Azure...

The latest episode of the Community Megaphone Podcast is up! In this episode, Dane and I were at the MVP summit, where we had the opportunity talk to several members of the Visual FoxPro community. These current and former Visual FoxPro MVPs talk about...

An apropos follow-up read to my recent post on HTML5 : http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/standards-based-web-plug-ins-and-silverlight/ Pretty safe to consider the above to be Microsoft’s take on where these technologies fit. Can’t wait to see what...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar : To Manage and Deploy: Take control of your critical...

HTML5. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably at least heard of it. But what is HTML 5, really? Background HTML5 is a bit of an overloaded term at the moment, which unfortunately leads to no small amount of confusion. Wikipedia has a...

For those who don’t subscribe, here’s my local editorial for the MSDN Flash newsletter for Mid-Atlantic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/gg703250.aspx In this issue, I talk about the value of sharing your knowledge, how to speak at MADExpo , and highlight...

Want to learn more about some of the cool projects students have come up with for the Imagine Cup? What better way than to check out the Imagine Cup People’s Choice Awards : Of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t recommend specifically checking out...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar : Webinar - Learn How to Prevent Software Bugs Wednesday...

I’ve published a new DevNugget screencast on Channel 9, and linked below. In it, I demonstrate the use of the HandleError action filter that I described in my recent tutorial of the same name . Given that some folks learn best by reading, while others...

While preparing to record a video walkthrough of the action filters tutorial I recently published , I noticed that I was having some issues with syntax coloring and Intellisense in my Razor views. Now, given the number of CTP, beta, and RC releases of...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area, as well as webcasts of interest…this list includes events imported from the UGSS event calendar : Frederick Web Tech: Intro to Windows Phone...

Jennifer Ritzinger and Mike Swanson provide the latest on what’s coming for MIX11.

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If you’re new to ASP.NET MVC , or just new to MVC 3, it’s worth taking the time to check out K. Scott Allen’s MVC 3 video series, published by Pluralsight , and available for free for a limited time. I just watched the introduction, and it’s a good overview...

Update – for folks who learn best visually, I’ve posted a follow-up screencast of the demo steps discussed below, as a DevNuggets video. You can view the video here.

What’s an Action Filter?

If you’re just getting started with ASP.NET MVC, you may have heard of something called action filters, but haven’t had the chance to use them yet. Action filters provide a convenient mechanism for attaching code to your controllers and/or action methods that implements what are referred to as cross-cutting concerns, that is, functionality that isn’t specific to one particular action method, but rather is something you’d want to re-use across multiple actions.

An action filter is a .NET class that inherits from FilterAttribute or one of its subclasses, usually ActionFilterAttribute, which adds the OnActionExecuting, OnActionExecuted, OnResultExecuting, and OnResultExecuted methods, providing hooks for code to be executed both before and after the action and result are processed.

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Recently, I mentioned a new conference coming to the Mid-Atlantic this summer. The Mid Atlantic Developer Expo is THE place to learn about software development, microcontroller and other hardware boards, Kinect development, and more. And now YOU have...