Sometimes we need server-side comments in ASP.NET MVC views. New version of Razor view engine supports comments in views and in this posting I will show you example of view with multiline comments. (more…)

First new helper in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta I blogged about was chart helper. In this posting I will introduce you another cool helper that is called WebImage and that provides you with image manipulation functions. Also this helper is made for web and instead of messing with more complex GDI+ functions you can do a lot of stuff with images very easily. (more…)

One of the new features of Razor view engine is support for strongly-typed models. In this posting I will show you how to use strongly-typed model with Razor using simple view page.

To follow better DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle Razor views support now defaults that are applied to all views in ASP.NET MVC web application. Default can be applied by special file so you have one place where everything common is defined. In this posting I will show you how defaults work and how to use them.

In my previous posting about charts in ASP.NET MVC 3 I gave you basic idea about how to use them. In this posting I will show you something cool – we will optimize performance of our application by caching charts so we don’t have to generate them on every request. (more…)

ASP.NET MVC does not have built-in support for chart control and that’s why I worked out my own solution to make ASP.NET MVC support chart control. With ASP.NET MVC 3 we will get official support for charts right out of the box. In this posting I will show you how to use charts in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta.

I played with Bing Maps AJAX-based API and found it to be very easy to use after you know basic objects and you are able to use them. In this posting I will show you simple example about how to add pushpins to map and how to show coordinates of pushpins to users.

Lately I wrote about how to make a lot of asynchronous calls to web services during ASP.NET page processing. Now it’s time to make same thing work with ASP.NET MVC. This blog post shows you how to use asynchronous controllers and actions in ASP.NET MVC and also you will see more complex scenario where we need to gather results of different web service calls to one result set. (more…)

Sometimes we need publisher/subscriber messaging in our applications to broadcast messages to different parts of system in real time. We can always build our own solution for this but we can also use something that is already there. In this posting I will show you how to use MemBus to send messages from MDI parent form to MDI child forms. (more…)

I made quick comparison of performance of four DI/IoC containers. I measured Unity,Castle Windsor, StructureMap and Ninject in two scenarios – resolving objects with empty constructor and resolving object with injected parameters in its constructor. Results are here.