Thoughts on ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 and Beyond
At this year’s Mix conference, we announced the availability of the second preview for ASP.NET MVC which you can download from here. Videos highlighting MVC are also available.
Read MoreBack From Mix Back To Reality
You don’t so much return from Las Vegas as you recover from Las Vegas.
Read MoreThe Cost Of Breaking Changes
One interesting response to my series on versioning of interfaces and
abstract base classes is the one in which someone suggested that we
should go ahead and break their code from version to version. They’re
fine in requiring a recompile when upgrading.
Versioning Issues With Abstract Base Classes and Interfaces
Eilon
Lipton
recently wrote a bit about context objects in ASP.NET
MVC
and in an “Oh by the way” moment, tossed out the fact that we changed
the IHttpContext
interface to the HttpContextBase
abstract base
class (ABC for short).
Abstract Base Classes Have Versioning Problems Too
This is part 2 in an ongoing series in which I talk about various design and versioning issues as they relate to Abstract Base Classes (ABC), Interfaces, and Framework design. In part 1 I discussed some ways in which ABCs are more resilient to versioning than interfaces. I haven’t covered the full story yet and will address some great points raised in the comments.
Read MoreASP.NET MVC Update
By the way my blogging frequency has declined, you can guess I’ve been quite busy here at Microsoft preparing for the next release of ASP.NET MVC.
Read MoreBlocking Direct Access To Views in ASP.NET MVC
UPDATE: I improved this based on some feedback in my comments.
Read MoreTell Me Your Unit Testing Pains
So A Model, A View, and a Controller Walk Into a Bar
At the risk of embarrassing myself and eliciting more groans, I am going to share a joke I made up for my Code Camp talk. I was inspired to come up with some humor based on Jeff’s Sesame Street Presentation Rule post. I fully understand his post was addressing something deeper than simply telling a gratuitous joke in the presentation.
Read MoreCome Work With Me And Other Great People
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:
Read MoreSeattle Code Camp Wrapup
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. :)
Birthday Clusters and Code Camps
Research Supports The Effectiveness of TDD
In a recent post, Frans Bouma laments the lack of computer science or reference to research papers by agile pundits in various mailing lists (I bet this really applies to nearly all mailing lists, not just the ones he mentions).
Read MoreTDD Is Also An Organizational Process
After joining Microsoft and drinking from the firehose a bit, I’m happy to report that I am still alive and well and now residing in the Seattle area along with my family. In meeting with various groups, I’ve been very excited by how much various teams here are embracing Test Driven Development (and its close cousin, TAD aka Test After Development). We’ve had great discussions in which we really looked at a design from a TDD perspective and discussed ways to make it more testable. Teams are also starting to really apply TDD in their development process as a team effort, and not just sporadic individuals.
Read MoreCollection Initializers
File this in my learn something new every day bucket. I received an email from Steve Maine after he read a blog post in which I discuss the anonymous object as dictionary trick that Eilon came up with.
Read MoreSo Long L.A. And Thanks For All The Fish
Reopen The Comment Door For Your Readers With Subkismet
Six months ago and six days after the birth of my son, Subkismet was also born which I introduced as the cure for comment spam. The point of the project was to be a useful class library containing multiple spam fighting classes that could be easily integrated into a blog platform or any website that allows users to comment.
Read MoreHaacking 2007
You’ve been forewarned, this is yet another end-of-year slightly self-inflating retrospective blog post (complete with the cheesy meta-blogging introduction).
Read MoreFaceoff! Haack vs Hanselman - It Gets Real
Recently, Maxfield Pool from
CodeSqueeze sent me an
email about a new monthly feature he calls Developer
Faceoff
in which he pits two developers side-by-side for a showdown.
ASP.NET MVC Helpers For Repopulating A Form
A common pattern when submitting a form in ASP.NET MVC is to post the form data to an action which performs some operation and then redirects to another action afterwards. The only problem is, the form data is not repopulated automatically after a redirect. Let’s look at remedying that, shall we?
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