ASP.NET MVC
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ASP.NET MVC
The ASP.NET and Silverlight team are hiring! Brad Abrams (who happens to be my “grand-boss” as in my boss's boss) posted a developers wanted ad on his blog: Are you JavaScript guru who has a passion to make Ajax easier for the masses? Are you the resident expert in ASP.NET and consistently think about how data driven applications could be easier to build? Are you a TDD or patterns wonk that sees how ASP.NET MVC is a game-changer? Are you excited about the potential...
The Seattle Code Camp (which despite the misleading photo, isn’t a camping trip) is now over and I have nothing but good things to say about it. I didn’t get a chance to see a lot of talks but did enjoy the xUnit.net talk by Jim Newkirk and Brad Wilson. I’m a fan of their approach to providing extensibility and this session provided all the impetus I needed to really give xUnit.net a try rather than simply talking about trying it. :) As for my own talk, I had the great pleasure of showing up late to my...
Yesterday, Wally McClure interviewed me for the ASP.NET Podcast Show. We chatted for around half an hour on my background, Microsoft, and ASP.NET MVC. It was a fun chat, but I have to warn you, I was very sleep deprived (a constant condition lately), so at points I tend to ramble a bit, second-guess myself (I was right the first time, model-view-thing-editor!), and even contradict myself. I’m not normally that harebrained. I promise. Ok, maybe just a little. With all those caveats in place, give it a listen. This is why writing a blog is so much...
I have a set of little demos apps I’ve been working on that I want to release to the public. I need to clean them up a bit (you’d be surprised how much I swear in comments) and make sure they work with the CTP. Hopefully I will publish them on my blog over the next few weeks. In the meanwhile, there’s some great stuff being posted by the community I want to call out. All these great posts are making my life easier. Routing Revisited - Sean Lynch talks about some interesting route scenarios....
Eilon Lipton, the lead developer on the ASP.NET MVC project shares some of his thoughts on the design philosophy guiding the shaping of the framework. There have been many post describing what the framework is and how to perform tasks, which are really useful. I think a more reflective post like this is a breath of fresh air and a nice insight into how the team is making decisions. Eilon also covers some of the lessons we’ve already learned in building the CTP, and some of the changes we have planned for the next CTP. At...
Some developers who downloaded the ASP.NET Extensions CTP specifically for ASP.NET MVC and then opened up Visual Web Developer like it was Christmas morning instead got a lump of coal. We currently only include Web Application Projects for ASP.NET MVC, which Visual Web Developer does not support. I was planning to write up a post on this, but Scott Koon beat me to it. And thank goodness! I’m busy enough as it is already. It’s all part of my master plan to have members of the community doing my job for me so we can finally take...
Just a brief note on writing unit tests for controller actions. When your action has a call to RedirectToAction or RenderView (yeah, pretty much every action) be aware that these methods have dependencies on various context objects.
If you attempt to mock these objects, you sometimes also have to mock their dependencies and their dependencies' dependencies and so on, depending on what you are trying to test. This is why I wrote my post on Test Specific Subclasses. It provides an easier way to test some of these cases.
Some of these challenges are the nature of mocking and some of them...
Note: If you hate reading and just want the code, it is at the bottom. Eons ago, I was a youngster living in Spain watching my Saturday morning cartoons when my dad walked in bearing freshly made taquitos and a small cup of green stuff. The taquitos looked delicious, but I was appalled at the green stuff. Was this some kind of joke? My dad wanted me to simply just taste it but I refused because I absolutely knew it would suck just by looking at it. The green stuff, of course, was guacamole, which I love...
While at DevConnections/OpenForce, I had some great conversations with various people on the topic of ASP.NET MVC. While many expressed their excitement about the framework and asked when they could see the bits (soon, I promise), there were several who had mixed feelings about it. I relish these conversations because it helps highlight the areas in which we need to put more work in and helps me become a better communicator about it. One thing I’ve noticed is that most of my conversations focused too much on the MVC part of the equation. Dino Esposito (who I met very...
One task that I relish as a PM on the ASP.NET MVC project is to build code samples and sample applications to put the platform through its paces and try to suss out any problems with the design or usability of the API.
Since testability is a key goal of this framework, I’ve been trying to apply a Test Driven Development (TDD) approach as I build out the sample applications. This has led to some fun discoveries in terms of using new language features of C# to improve my tests.
For example, the MVC framework will include interfaces for the ASP.NET intrinsics....