A few years back I started dallying with test-driven development, but I never fully committed to the practice. This wasn’t because I didn’t believe in the value of TDD; it was more a matter of not completely understanding how to incorporate “test first” into my everyday development. Back in my web forms days, I could [...]
What’s up with Ben? All he’s been writing about lately is Ruby, Ruby, Ruby. Doesn’t he work with ASP.NET MVC anymore? Let me assure you that I do – just about every single day and it’s been for quite a while now. Sure, I have been spending time learning Ruby but I’m also constantly developing [...]
The jQuery Treeview Plugin is a lightweight and flexible transformation of an unordered list into an expandable and collapsible tree. It supports both location and cookie based persistence and it’s completely skinnable through CSS. I’ve been using the plugin for a while now. Though the author, Jörn Zaefferer, states it has some shortcoming and it [...]
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I have previously explained how to properly configure your web deployment projects to replace web.config sections. The example I used was pretty standard – swap out connection strings to support the specific deployment environment. It worked great, right? Well, today this technique complete fell short for me as I was dealing with a custom section. [...]
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I was thrilled to find Cory LaViska’s jQuery Context Menu Plugin a few months ago. In very little time, I was able to integrate the context menu with the jQuery Treeview. I quickly had a really pretty user interface which took full advantage of limited real estate. And guess what. As promised, the plugin worked [...]
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The MVCContrib Grid allows for the easy construction of HTML tables for displaying data from a collection of Model objects. I add this component to all of my ASP.NET MVC projects. If you aren’t familiar with what the grid has to offer, it’s worth the looking into. What you may notice in the busy example [...]
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In this episode, Noah and I explain how to use Web Deployment Projects to deploy your web application. This screencast will get you up and running, but in a future screencast, we discuss more advanced topics like excluding files, swapping out the right config files per environment, and alternate solution configurations. This screencast (and the [...]
In this screencast, Noah and I show you how to quickly get started with the ASP.NET Membership Provider. We’ll take you through basic features and setup and walk you through membership table creation with the ASP.NET SQL Server Wizard. I’ve written about the ASP.NET Membership Provider and setup before. If you missed the post, this [...]