A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

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Eric Hexter — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:47:22 GMT

Is there a way to tie this into the build with a post build event... sort of like the aspcompile task that was added with the 1.0 release?

re: A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

davidebb — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:57:57 GMT

Eric, the use of BuildProvider makes it intrinsically something that gets generated at runtime rather than design time. If you precompile the app (e.g. using aspnet_compiler.exe), it will get compiled in there. But I'm not sure that it could be hooked into using a post build event.

re: A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

Eric Hexter — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:50:30 GMT

I see how the runtime compile is nice, I see that I can get intellisense support with VS but I loose the intelisense with my resharper plugin... :( It would be nice if I could specify my intellisense provider by file type (extension) and that would do what I need. It seems like the aspx web form editor must reference the dlls from the compiled (temp) directory, is that right?

A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

What's New — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:04:12 GMT

One downside of using Html.ActionLink in your views is that it is late bound.  e.g. say you write

Great tool for building Action Links

Tony Chevis — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:33:44 GMT

Very nice, thank you. I modified it to include the Title attribute for the anchor tag and plan to use it on our current project. YES! to Url and Form helpers!

re: A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

Andrew Gunn — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:07:54 GMT

Very nice! Thanks a lot for posting this.

re: A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

Eric Hexter — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:07:23 GMT

I prototyped a Url helper from your example... I do like this approach. I am thinking a syntax like. Url.Controller.Action would be interesting. Where I would use this in a form and I would expect all the parameters from my form post to come as form inputs . In this case I would make my "Action" a property rather than a method.

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re: A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

Sruly Taber — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:36:23 GMT

Have you tested the performance gains of using this solution rather than the regular Url Helpers?

re: A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

davidebb — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:02:19 GMT

Eric, I'm not sure I'm quite following your Url.Controller.Action idea. Can you include a small example of what the code you'll end up writing in the view would look like?

re: A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

davidebb — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:04:33 GMT

Sruly, I have not done in formal perf testing, but those helpers should be basically equivalent to calling Html.ActionLink directly, which is probably the fastest method available. So it should be much faster than the helpers that are based on Lambda Expressions.

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David Ebbo's blog — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:52:06 GMT

Earlier this week, I wrote a post on using a BuildProvider to create ActionLink helpers .  That

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David Hayden - Florida .NET Developer - C# and SQL Server — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:39:14 GMT

Our Html.ActionLink Helpers in ASP.NET MVC could use a little dash of named routes in Rails along with compile-time safety and refactoring support.

Named Routes in ASP.NET MVC like Ruby on Rails

David Hayden - Florida .NET Developer - C# and SQL Server — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:30:33 GMT

Our Html.ActionLink Helpers in ASP.NET MVC could use a little dash of named routes in Rails along with compile-time safety and refactoring support.

A new and improved ASP.NET MVC T4 template

David Ebbo's blog — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:34:42 GMT

A couple weeks ago, I blogged about using a Build provider and CodeDom to generate strongly typed MVC

re: A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

Bernard Simmons — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:20:29 GMT

Thanks this template is a great aid. I was wondering if this template could be modified to allow subfolders in the controllers Folder (all controllers in the same namespace) so that I can better organize them to avoid clutter.

re: A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

davidebb — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:23:37 GMT

Bernard, did you mean to comment on my later post (A new and improved ASP.NET MVC T4 template)? This post doesn't involve a template.

re: A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

Andrew Gunn — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:48:22 GMT

I've taken your idea a bit further by creating extension method for UrlHelper (e.g. UrlHelper.ActionToHomeIndex()). This works fine when I'm working in HTML, but I can't use the newly added helpers in class files. I've tried adding the same namespace to the top of the file with a using statement but still no joy. Am I missing something?

re: A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

davidebb — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:42:13 GMT

Andrew, please see my later post using T4 template (http://blogs.msdn.com/davidebb/archive/2009/06/17/a-new-and-improved-asp-net-mvc-t4-template.aspx). It supports Url helpers, and works in the class files.

re: A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

Andrew Gunn — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:21:27 GMT

Cheers for the new post link but I prefer the BuildProvider approach if I'm honest :-P. Is there no possible way to get this solution working in class files?

re: A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

davidebb — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:26:37 GMT

Andrew: unfortunately, that is not really possible in a Web Application, because the class files are built by VS at design time, while the BuidlProvider is a runtime thing. So the class files simply can't reference that code. With a Web *Site*, this would work, though most MVC apps use Web *Apps*.

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Pelez — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:15:23 GMT

Спасибо за частые обновления на блоге!!

re: A BuildProvider to simplify your ASP.NET MVC Action Links

Robert Schultz — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:42:47 GMT

In the next version of the MVC framework will we get strongly typed action links that we can point to our view. The MVC Futures has it already.

To me it's cleaner having an actionlink as something like:

<%= Html.ActionLink<CalveNet.Controllers.PatwareController>(c => c.Index(), "Here")%>

As opposed to:

<% Html.ActionLinkToPatwareIndex() %>