Well it's happened; a short while ago I left the UK PSfD (Premier Support for Developers) team for new horizons. I had an awesome time in that team, and learned a lot from some very clever people - so if you fancy it check out the Microsoft careers site...

Recently Stuart Leeks and I have developed a worrying pattern of having the same ideas at the same time. I’m starting to doubt we’re different people. Except he’s about a foot taller so maybe that’s aspirational from my side. ...

I was with a customer in Germany this week, and just before I left one of the (rather talented I might say) developers asked me about passing markup into an HtmlHelper extension. It turns out this is pretty easy, as covered by Phil Haack under Templated...

Update : I've not forgotten about this everyone, apologies for the delay. My attempt to get approval to publish failed due to vacations (mine and others) so as soon as I can I'll try again. My blog posts on doing conditional validation in MVC have...

Patterns and Practices have just released their latest round of guidance for developing web applications - “Project Silk”. I’ve been watching what they generate closely and I think you’ll be impressed. To quote the landing page; “Project Silk provides...

My blog has been quiet of late – because our team is busy I think. We’re recruiting by the way Something I’ve been wanting to blog about for a while now is “Project Silk”. This is Patterns & Practices latest round of web development guidance. Karl...

No, that isn’t meant to be an oxymoron. But something I’ve noticed recently is that people’s approach to JavaScript seems to be diverging down two common paths. This blog post is designed to encourage you to adopt the one you probably aren’t planning...

If you’re wondering what it is I do all day, the UK TechNet Blog have just published an interview with me as part of their “day in the life” series, which looks at the various technical roles within Microsoft UK. Be sure to check the others out too! On...

I’ve seen a few hacks in the past to try and work out which button caused a form POST in ASP.NET MVC, but the truth is it is pretty easy. Step 1 : Inside your form, add two Submit buttons. Add a name attribute to both (note it isn’t added by MVC by default...

Update: If you like this, you'll like Mvc.ValidationTookit even more - check out this post ! Some time ago I blogged on Conditional Validation in MVC , and Adding Client-Side Script to an MVC Conditional Validator . A number of people have asked me...

Update : Phil Haack has now blogged on this under Routing Regression With Two Consecutive Optional Parameters . When upgrading the Labs and Demo code for a course I run from MVC 2 to MVC 3 I discovered some odd behaviour with one of the routes. We...

Two things I always encourage customers to do are; Always delete the default route pattern after a File –> New project. This helps you focus on designing your routes throughout your site, and helps reduce SEO-unfriendly routes etc. Always unit test...

Something I do a lot with customers is improving their ASP.NET Web Site performance. Most people spend hours looking at server-side performance, but just don’t realise what kind of gains you can get by looking at often-overlooked settings. I’ve seen cases...

If you don’t get the UK edition of MSDN Flash delivered to your inbox, you might want to head over to the latest edition to check out the jQuery article I wrote for this month; MSDN Flash feature article: Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery, HTML 5 Style...

I blogged way back in January about what I see as the three variants of View Model usage in ASP.NET MVC. If you’ve not read that post, check it out here and report back! The Problem What I’ve started to see is that many other developers like my approach...

Patterns and Practices are spinning up their next round of guidance soon, and they want to know what to focus on… so go and answer their incredibly short survey if you want your chance to make a difference to what they produce! Check out Karl and Don...

I had the pleasure of visiting some guys in Munich this week to talk about ASP.NET MVC. Well, the time with them was a pleasure, but I did have two awful airport experiences due to snow in 48 hours! Something we discussed that I’ve come across before...

I’ve been building a Windows Phone 7 application that basically lets a user create records offline, and then pushes those up to a cloud service when network connectivity is available. These offline records are not as offline as I would like though – it...

I’ve been working with Silverlight (specifically for Windows Phone 7) recently and something I’ve found useful is the ability to “bubble” PropertyChanged event up. So for example; 1: public class MainPageViewModel : INotifyPropertyChanged 2: { ...

Validate, Act, Translate, and Respond. That’s about it. I’ve been trying to come up with a nice acronym for how to structure code in Actions for some time now, and this is the best I have managed. I wish it spelt a nice word – so...

Often when I speak with people that are planning a new solution they have a few different products or platforms in mind. To compare these options, most try something like a “capability matrix” (which goes by many names). Roughly these end...

Update: If you like this, you'll like Mvc.ValidationTookit even more - check out this post ! In a previous post I covered how to write a conditional validator to work with ASP.NET MVC, and a little gotcha to avoid. However, I didn’t include any...

Update: If you like this, you'll like Mvc.ValidationTookit even more - check out this post ! Recently I put together samples for different types of validation for some customers, and one of those was Conditional Validation – that is “this...

A customer recently asked me how to get MVC with the MVC Futures project’s MicrosoftMvcJQueryValidation.js adapter file to play nicely with the Validation Summary HTML helper. It turns out that this functionality isn’t built into the adapter...

About six months ago a few customers asked me about coding standards when writing custom JavaScript using Microsoft’s frameworks… it turned out that we didn’t really have any publicly available standards. To address this myself and Stuart Leeks set...