Category Archives: MVC

MDC 2009 – Presentation

For anyone who attended this years MDC 2009 and came to my presentation “ASP.NET MVC w/ Spark View Engine” knows that we had some _major_ technical difficulties. We could not get the projector to present via my laptop. To make up for this I have decided to create a screen recording of the presentation. The…

MDC 2009 Presentation

For anyone who attended this years MDC 2009 and came to my presentation “ASP.NET MVC w/ Spark View Engine” knows that we had some _major_ technical difficulties. We could not get the projector to present via my laptop. To make up for this I have decided to create a screen recording of the presentation. The…

Auto-Creating Your DB with Active Record

During some recent development the team I was experiencing some friction with databases and developing. We were using Castle Active Record and we soon realized that as new people joined the team, left the team (rinse, wash, repeat), db changes occurred in the Active Record Schema etc, that the set up time to going was…

ASP.NET MVC – Windsor Container Controller Factory

Here is a simple class that allows you to use a container to register and resolve your instances of controllers. You’d want to do this if you inject dependencies into your controller via constructor injection. Controller Example: public class AdminController : Controller { private readonly ILocalDbManager _localDbManager; public AdminController(ILocalDbManager localDbManager) { _localDbManager = localDbManager; }…

New DimeCast: Exploring Expressions with Spark

I have another DimeCast that went live this morning. This one is entitled “Exploring Expressions with Spark.”. Here’s what we cover: ”We are going to take a look at the various different ways you can use Expressions with the Spark View engine. We are going to review simply scenarios such as math based expressions and…