It’s that time of year again when the sakura (cherry blossoms) bloom and allergies kick into high gear. When the drive home is no longer shrouded in darkness and when the ASP.NET team releases Software!

If there’s one impression that Austin left on me, besides the one that Rudy’s “extra moist” barbecue left on my gut, is that it’s a developer friendly town.

During the MVP summit, an attendee asked me for some help with a common scenario common among those building content management systems. He wanted his site to use human friendly URLs.

If you have a model object with a property named Id, you may have run into an issue where your model state is invalid when binding to that model even though you don’t have an “Id” field in your form.

As many of you have probably heard, the release candidate for Visual Studio 2010 was recently released containing immense performance improvements and tons of bug fixes.

UPDATE: We moved the date to February 24th.

UPDATE: This blog post is out-of date. We released the RTM of ASP.NET MVC 2 in March 2010. Read about it here.

One question that came up recently during my mid-year review is how am I measuring customer satisfaction with the products that I work on? For example, how can I measurably demonstrate that customers are happy with the work we are doing on ASP.NET MVC and that my team is responding to customer feedback?

UPDATE: 2011/02/13: This code is now included in the RouteMagic NuGet package! To use this code, simply run Install-Package RouteMagic within the NuGet Package Manager Console.

UPDATE: THIS POST IS DEPRECATED!!! I’ve updated the original post for editable routes to work in medium trust and not require a full app domain reload like this approach does. I think that approach may supersede this approach until I learn otherwise. :)

This is the second job posting in two days for positions on the ASP.NET team, how exciting! This one is a developer position for upcoming graduates.

The ASP.NET Team is still looking for that QA person out there who shares our passion for technology and improving the means by which software is made.

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Note: This describes the behavior of ASP.NET MVC 2 as of the release candidate. It’s possible things might change for the RTM.

It’s that time of year again when a young man’s thoughts turn to Las Vegas! Yep, it’s another year and another Mix Conference (March 15-17, 2010), but this time they’ve changed locations to Mandalay Bay.

Confirmation dialogs were designed by masochists intent on making users of the web miserable. At least that’s how I feel when I run into too many of them. And yes, if you take a look at Subtext, you can see I’m a perpetrator.

UPDATE: 12/30 I had transposed the rgb colors. I corrected the function.

UPDATE (12/26): I updated this post to use the href instead of the rel attribute

Just wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, or a Happy whatever you are celebrating at this time of year. I hope you are spending it well with family and friends! :)

When we released ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta back in November, I addressed the issue of support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.