I’m using the ASP.NET MVC REST Toolkit for a REST API I’m building for a mobile infrastructure. Long story short, it will be responsible for service hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of users through their mobile phones and rich applications (Android, iPhone and eventually the WP7 Phones). The one thing that the Toolkit did…
Category Archives: ASP.NET
Editable Grid / List Binding in MVC2
Steve Sanderson has a great post on how to perform list binding with MVC2 and custom HTML Prefix Scoping. However, it did not demo the out of box functionality that MVC2 provides, so I’m going to do that here. Please note, I’m using MVC2 RC2 in this example. At the end if this post you…
ASPNET MVC2: TempData Now Persists
In MVC1, TempData did not persist: The value of TempData persists only from one request to the next. (source) This has changed in MVC2. The TempData dictionary will not persist data until the key is read from the dictionary. …We’ve changed the implementation in MVC 2 slightly as a result: the value will be removed…
New DimeCast: Spark Partials Part 2
I have another DimeCast up on DimeCasts.net. More Info: In this episode we are going to continue looking at how to use Partials within the Spark View Engine. In this episode we will take a deeper look at partials and learn more about their _undocumented_ features. We will also be learning how partials will allow…
MVC vs. WebForms. Stop It.
Since Microsoft joined the MVC foray with ASP.NET MVC (other options existed previously, such as Monorail) I’ve personally witnessed (and been part of ) a lot of MVC vs. WebForms discussions. Usually these discussions end up with opposite sides taking their ball and going home in a pissed-off offended rage. Usually the WebForm fans snicker…
