Upgrading MVC Beta project to RC1

Enjoying the Californian winter

Ajax Design Patterns

I stumbled today on this site entirely dedicated to Ajax Patterns, what they are and how to use/implement them.

ListView Databinding to an object list – Part 1

The past 2 weeks I spend my time trying to fix a bug that ended up in re-writing the entire feature from scratch. But this allowed me to learn and experiment with some new things such as binding data to a DataList. It’s something I haven’t touched before, so it was to say the least interesting. I decide to write this up as an article but when I started to write the demo application, I figured out that it would be nice to bind it to the new asp.net 3.5 ListView control. I also used a few new things that I started to touch for retrieving the demo data: Linq (to Xml).

Tips & Tricks: Accessing server controls in client script

A JavaScript tip for working with asp.net server controls.

Creating an ASP.NET Feature from scratch

I wrote before a way of implementing an asp.net feature using the provider model. I created this on my own with the knowledge I had back then. I created my own provider class and did the reflection part manually. You can still read over it at my previous post. Right now, I’ve been reading a little more and I read that the asp.net framework already has the basis set up for creating your own “features” like they call it. I will now show you how to re-write the dynamic pages feature that I explained in my previous post to make full use of the asp.net framework features.

Tips & tricks: the configSource attribute in web.config

I’m running from time to time in small, probably well known, things that make developing so much easier and/or more interesting. I decided to write them down here when I run into one under the section “Tips & Tricks”.

Loading dynamic pages from a data source through a Provider Model (part 2)

In my previous post I mentioned the ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model and how I used it for loading dynamic pages from a data source in a portal framework. This article will go through the code and gives some technical information of how to accomplish this in ASP.NET 2.0.

ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model and more

The ASP.NET Framework makes heavy use of the provider model. That is, for every service that requires saving data or states in some data source. Using this model allows a complete separation of “using the service” and “saving and retrieving the data” from the data source. I will give here an overview of this model and how it is used in the current ASP.NET services. Later I will go deeper in how to implement a similar model for our own services.