MVC 2 is officially released, there are so many excellent features, but the best feature for me is the strongly typed Html helpers. I’ve been playing around with this feature and will share some of my experiences with you.
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/03/11/asp-net-mvc-2-released.aspx
Generally bug fixes and performance enhancements.
One cool addition for me, is the HTML input helpers supporting array/collection indexes, for example: Html.EditorFor(foo=>foo.bar[i]) . I was working around this limitation using Html.EditorFor((foo)=>foo.bar[i], “Bar”) i.e. passing a function expression, but this means you have to pass a template name (to get the correct HtmlFieldPrefix), this addition means cleaner code and no hard references to templates, thanks MVC team.
Another notable change is Query 1.4.1, is now included by default with ASP.NET MVC 2 projects.
More info @ScottGu’s blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/02/05/asp-net-mvc-2-release-candidate-2-now-available.aspx
I recently downloaded ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Preview 2 and was surprised to see, that the NUnit test templates haven’t made it into the build. Again we are stuck with MSUnit being the only template available.
Fear not help is at hand Joe Cartano posted an excellent solution for MVC 1.0. I have made a minor one line tweak (in NUnit.reg) to his solution, so that it works with MVC 2.0. After reading some of the comments on the Visual Web Developer Team Blog, it was apparent that some people are having issues installing the templates, here is a very quick guide: Continue reading »
I am currently converting a lot of legacy ASP.NET Web Sites over to ASP.NET Web Application Projects. The reason for doing this is so I can make my NUnit Test project reference my Web Application Project. There are various discussions about ASP.NET: Web Site vs. Web Application, but for me it was solely for testability purposes.
In Visual Studio 2008, the process to convert a Web site over to a Web Application project is relatively painless: Continue reading »
I have relaunched the website, blog and forum today. I have replaced the very basic bespoke blog I developed in ASP.NET and the phpBB forum solely with wordpress.
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