Life as a Developer Evangelist

The "Quick Tips About ASP.NET MVC" series of posts is getting a lot of attention and I've been receiving a lot of feedback about it, which is not only very rewarding, but also surpasses what I could have foreseen. I do have a few more tips coming out...

In the small poll I made , one of the users suggested implementing a Dashboard/WebPart framework in MVC as a good subject for a quick tip. Obviously, implementing this kind of framework is hard work so I chose to use the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid...

Lately, I’ve been having a lot of conversations about ASP.NET MVC. I’ve been following this technology for quite some time and delivered a couple of technical sessions around it that were very appreciated by the audiences. Unfortunately, usually being...

While I was preparing another demo, I ran into an interesting problem that hadn’t occurred to me before. I was building a sample e-commerce site and thought it would be nice to always display the category list on the left hand side of every page. The...

So, you’re using ASP.NET MVC and having a blast (at least I hope you are). If you are anything like me (and most developers), your design skills are pretty much non-existent. That’s why there are designers working in most web applications. But anyway...

The n-Tier headache The huge growth of the Multitier application architectures has drastically changed the way we envision, develop and support software solutions. The notions of greater scalability, reutilization of services and independent software...

In the first post of this series I proposed a different timeout handling mechanism to remove the typical tier-dependency performance problems. In order to keep this post under a reasonable size, I recommend you read the first one to fully understand the...

One very interesting addition to MVC 2 is the power to assign templates to fields in your classes and make the rendering suit your needs. The advantage is that, if you need to display the same field in several views, you can benefit from a one-stop place...

In the last quick tip , I showed off how you can use the UIHint data annotation to specify a custom template for rendering of a particular field. An important part of that mechanism is the DisplayFor strongly-typed html helper that was introduced in ASP...

Following the " Quick Tips About ASP.NET MVC - Editor Templates ", I found this great example of using an Editor Template to render a JQuery date picker. http://geekswithblogs.net/michelotti/archive/2010/02/05/mvc-2-editor-template-with-datetime.aspx...

Ok, so this one is not really a “Quick” tip. It’s a bit long, so I’m dividing it into two posts to make it a bit more readable. The objective is to build a solid Edit view with both client and server-side validation of data, as well as showing you...

Continuing where we left off , and before we add some custom validation to our model, let’s try to clean up things a bit. If we take a look at the current form, we notice two things: First, we have some fields here that the user shouldn’t be...

In the previous Quick Tip , we handled a one-to-many relationship between two entities, by allowing users to update the association in an Edit View. We did do it on the easy side, however, since in our example, one Author only has one Community assigned...

In the last post of this series we implemented a way of handling the one-to-many relationship between the Author and the Community entities, allowing the user to specify which community an Author belongs to. Previously , you saw me adding both client...

Any public facing web site has one very important goal to achieve: be reachable. That means it has to be correctly crawled by search engines and appear in the relevant search results. The IIS SEO Toolkit is a great tool that will help you achieve this...

This question is interesting, and it is actually a bunch of questions bunched up together. It took me a while to figure out why I was getting so many questions around this topic but I finally figured it out. Most of the sessions around MVC and even...

In the last “Quick Tip” we talked about the model and we pretty much reached the conclusion that it can be anything. After all, as long as the View that we pass the model to can interpret it and render it, it’s all good. In any case, there are two...

In the last post , we successfully implemented a webpart framework that renders simple static Views and allows the user to change the layout. However, one must wonder what needs to be done to make our web parts richer. At the moment, I’m not passing...

Exciting times ahead as I prepare to officially join the team that is organizing the Microsoft Techdays 2010 event in Portugal . I usually take part at these events solely as a speaker, so I’m sure it will be fun to be a part of the “backstage experience...

In the last quick tip about MVC , we created an AJAX-enabled Partial View that used JQuery to get the data from an action method that returned JSON. After fetching the data, we used JQuery again to add rows to a pre-existing table as a way to render...