ASP.NET

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.

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…)

Some ASP.NET web applications use web services to get some data that they display to users. Some pages may lay hardly on web services and these pages need some optimization to work better. In this posting I will show you how to use web services behind your ASP.NET page asynchronously and perform a lot of queries to web services. Sample code included!

In my last posting I introduced my idea about common membership provider for ASP.NET that is able to support multiple authentication providers. Before writing membership provider we need support for some authentication providers to get an better idea how to use them together. In this posting I will introduce you how to use OAuth protocol with Twitter. (more…)

I am trying to implement form based authentication (FBA) membership provider that is able to support multiple authentication mechanisms. Take it as an self-training experiment. In this posting I will introduce bases of my experiment and introduce my current plans and ideas.

Today I tried out ASP.NET MVC HTML5 Helpers Toolkit by Dean Hume. Although browsers today support HTML5 partially it is time to start playing with it. As soon as HTML5 gets common standard in web you should be able to react fast. In this posting I will introduce you HTML5 Helpers Toolkit and some HTML5 field types.

Lately I blogged about HttpNotFoundResult and HttpStatusCodeResult action results that come with ASP.NET MVC 3. These results are ideal for controller tests as we don’t have to mess with HttpContext and Response objects anymore. In this posting I will show you how to use HttpNotFoundResult in controller tests to check if errors are given correctly to user.