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Friday, October 23, 2009 6:22 PM

Using C# dynamic to call static members

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,
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Attachment(s): DynamicCallsToStaticMembers.zip
Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:02 PM

T4MVC 2.4.04 update: MVC 2 support, new settings, cleanup, fixes

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to download page on CodePlex   Though I haven’t blogged for a while about T4MVC, I’ve been making a few minor updates and only sent notification via Twitter.  Now, I have a few things that are worth discussing
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 4:15 PM

T4MVC 2.4 updates: settings file, sub view folders, ActionName support and more

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to download 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 T4MVC 2.2
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Friday, July 24, 2009 6:31 PM

Using an Associated Metadata Class outside Dynamic Data

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
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Attachment(s): SimpleBuddyTypeSample.zip
Friday, July 17, 2009 12:43 AM

Two ways to use T4 templates: support code vs. one-time generation

T4 templates have proven to be useful is a whole range of scenarios, and more and more developers are finding interesting things to do with them. For the most part, all those scenarios fall under two very distinct categories: “support code” versus one-time
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Sunday, July 12, 2009 12:21 AM

AspPathGuru: A little T4 love for ASP.NET WebForms

Last month , I wrote a number of posts on using T4 templates to get strong typing in ASP.NET MVC applications. The result is the T4MVC template available on CodePlex . This template has been pretty popular with many MVC users, and I received a huge amount
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Attachment(s): AspPathGuru.zip
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 4:42 PM

T4MVC 2.2 update: Routing, Forms, DI container, fixes

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to download page This post is a continuation of various recent posts, most notably: A new and improved ASP.NET MVC T4 template The MVC T4 template is now up on CodePlex First, I’d like to thank all those who are using
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Friday, June 26, 2009 10:23 AM

The MVC T4 template is now up on CodePlex, and it does change your code a bit

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 download page Poll verdict: it’s ok for T4MVC to make small changes Yesterday, I posted asking how
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:45 PM

Mind if my MVC T4 template changes your code a bit?

Update : Please see this post for what came out of this ‘poll’, and for a pointer to the newest T4 template on CodePlex. When working on my MVC T4 template , I was not able to use reflection to discover the Controllers and Actions, because the code that
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 8:34 AM

A new and improved ASP.NET MVC T4 template

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
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:52 PM

A T4 based approach to creating ASP.NET MVC strongly typed helpers

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
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Monday, June 01, 2009 6:41 PM

A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

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"
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Attachment(s): MvcActionLinkHelper.zip
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:03 PM

A new flag to optimize ASP.NET compilation behavior

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
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:52 PM

Using a DomainService in ASP.NET and Dynamic Data

One of the big things that I discussed in my MIX talk is the new DomainDataSource control.  It is currently available in Preview form as part of ASP.NET Dynamic Data 4.0 Preview 3 .  This can be confusing, because even though Dynamic Data makes
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Monday, March 23, 2009 11:41 PM

My MIX 2009 ASP.NET Data talk is available online

Last Friday, I gave a talk at MIX on various things that we’re working on in ASP.NET data land.  This includes both some Dynamic Data features and some features usable outside Dynamic Data. The great thing about MIX is that they make all talks freely
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