The ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update includes EF Code First as a preinstalled NuGet package. You can use EF Code First to generate models and then scaffold them with the updated Add Controller tool. Of course, you don’t have to use EF Code First to take advantage...

Before (Manual) ASP.NET MVC uses T4 templates to scaffold Views and Controllers through the Add View and Add Controller dialogs. A lot of people probably don’t know that these templates can be customized quite easily to generate whatever markup you prefer...

(Cross post from Visual Web Developer team site: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2010/04/13/visual-studio-2010-mvc-2-upgrade-wizard.aspx ) Prior to the RTM release of Visual Studio 2010, the only way to upgrade an ASP.Net MVC 1 application...

I just finished a two day PHP training with Keith Casey (Casey Software) with Blue Parabola and a key contributor to web2project and and thought I would write down my thoughts and notes before I forget everything. Here are some quick observations: ...

Cross Post from http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2009/10/15/single-project-add-view-in-asp-net-mvc-2-preview-2.aspx Last week we released ASP.Net MVC 2 Preview 2 for Visual Studio 2008 Sp1. In the box support for single project areas is now...

I hate code like this: void ProductsListView_ItemEditing(Object sender, ListViewEditEventArgs e) { ListViewItem item = ProductsListView.Items[e.NewEditIndex]; Label dateLabel = (Label)item.FindControl( "DiscontinuedDateLabel" ); if (String.IsNullOrEmpty...

ScottGu just posted details on all of the new features for ASP.Net MVC: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/07/31/asp-net-mvc-v2-preview-1-released.aspx I haven't had much time to play with ASP.Net MVC lately as we are hard at work on Dev10...

find me on twitter at twitter.com/cartano , I'll be making quick posts about mvc when I get the chance.

Today I got a lot of work in with the ASP.Net data controls. I haven't really used these much before as I have been working almost solely with ASP.Net MVC for over a year. The three controls I played with were DetailsView, ListView, and FormView. FormView...

Okay, now on to the Answer page. Wait a second, how do I get the id of the question? In ASP.Net MVC the viewpage can be strongly typed with a question object. Do I need to parse a url? Access some data in a hidden field? Something else? Am I going to...

This week the web tools team is working on Beta 2 apps. My team is building an internal question and answer site using traditional webforms. I'll post on what I liked and hated about webforms compared to ASP.Net MVC. I will try to be impartial but no...

In Win7, FTP does not come enabled on the default website. To enable FTP you can either work through a wizard in inetmgr or run the following commands: appcmd.exe set config -section:sites /+[name='"Default Web Site"'].bindings[protocol='ftp',bindingInformation...

Here is a cross post from my team's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools Add Controller (Ctrl-M Ctrl-C) Add Controller is a simple dialog box that lets you quickly add controllers to ASP.Net MVC Applications. Right-Click the 'Controllers' folder...

I only skimmed this so far but it looks pretty detailed. http://activewin.com/reviews/previews/windows7/

Here is a quick tip, although not related to ASP.NET MVC. To set a host header for the default website in IIS you can use the following command, where vwdhost is your host name. This will cause two bindings to be added to the default website. The standard...

Here is a cross post from my team's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools ASP.Net MVC 1.0 RTM has been out for a while and I noticed that people are still downloading an NUnit sample project I created for ASP.Net MVC Preview 3. Since then an AccountController...

Download MVC with the Web Platform Installer: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2009/01/30/asp-net-mvc-1-0-release-candidate-now-available-in-web-platform-installer.aspx

I will update this post with any tooling related bugs that come up with the RC release. Feel free to leave comments with any problems you are having. 1. Some people are having trouble adding strongly typed views of a type that references a type in...

Check out the RC candidate for ASP.Net MVC Download: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=141184&clcid=0x409 Scottgu's blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/01/27/asp-net-mvc-1-0-release-candidate-now-available.aspx Webtools...

Scott Guthrie writes about the tooling improvments for ASP.Net MVC that we have been working on. Now you will be able to add views to your mvc project that contain scaffolding for List, Edit, Details, and Update views: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu...

Recently I have seen a couple of posts describing how to implement autocomplete in an ASP.Net MVC application so I thought I would try it out. I got it working after a little trial and error so I thought I would try to outline my development process in...

Scottgu's batch of links contained a post describing how to create an autocomplete textbox in an mvc app using jquery. I experimented with this and ran into a couple of roadblocks (mostly my fault) but I got it working without too much pain. In my next...

Here are links to some blog posts I have previously written: ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Tooling Updates And Updated NUnit Test Project Templates ASP.NET MVC Test Framework Integration Walkthrough http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevelopertips/archive/2008...

Hi, my name is Joe Cartano and I am an SDET on the Web Tools team at Microsoft. I am responsible for testing the tooling (Visual Web Developer) features of ASP.Net MVC. I am very excited about the future possiblities for MVC and I am hoping to become...