ASP.NET

I ported views of my ASP.NET MVC application from ASP.NET to Razor. Although Razor is very new it is very promising view engine because of shorter and cleaner syntax. In this posting I will show you same view on ASP.NET and Razor view engine. I like Razor one more but what do you think?

I am using StructureMap as my IoC container. In my ASP.NET MVC web application I have controller factory based on StructureMap. I found interesting problem – when running my web application on development web server I get ArgumentNullException with every request to some controller action. In this posting I will describe why it is happening and how to avoid it.

With ASP.NET MVC 3 RC there is change in IControllerFactory interface. This interface includes new method called GetControllerSessionBehavior(). This method returns value from SessionStateBehavior enum. ASP.NET MVC uses this method to find out how to handle session for given controller.

Lately I blogged about global action filters in ASP.NET MVC 3. Yesterday I found cool article from Nick Berardi’s Coder Journal where he introduces how to use action filters to measure running time of ASP.NET MVC controllers. And here is my experiment – how to use global action filters to find out how long controller actions are running. You just need couple of lines of code.

This far I have blogged about WebImage and Chart helpers. Now let’s see another new helper – WebMail – that you can easily use to send e-mails. WebMail is easy to configure and extremely easy to use. In this posting I will show you simple feedback form that uses WebMail to send feedback messages.

Sometimes we need server-side comments in ASP.NET MVC views. New version of Razor view engine supports comments in views and

First new helper in ASP.NET MVC 3 Beta I blogged about was chart helper. In this posting I will introduce

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.

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

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

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.

ASP.NET MVC 3 brings us new view engine called Razor. Razor view engine was made available with WebMatrix first beta.