If you’ve purposefully been ignoring the announcements out of PDC, I don’t blame you one bit. Everybody knew it would be the unveiling of Microsoft’s “cloud computing” initiative, and just about the only thing we didn’t know was the official name of it: Windows Azure. And of course I pronounce it wrong every time (I [...]

I really enjoyed giving my talk on ASP.NET MVC at Indy Tech Fest this year. Thanks to all who came! I think there were 75-100 people there.
A poll at the beginning showed that most people in attendance had done some sort of web development, about a third had done ASP.NET development, and 2 people had [...]

With much fanfare Apple announced the availability of the iPhone SDK. I downloaded it and someday plan to play around with it, though with the SDK already having gone through 4 or 5 beta releases (each a ~2GB download) I’ll probably wait a long time before cracking it open. However, for web applications the best [...]

I had a chance to play with the latest ASP.NET MVC drop tonight. There’s a few changes (some of which came in Preview 2) but a few items caught my eye fairly quickly.
ActionResult
This change came with Preview 2, but it’s worth mentioning. Instead of controller actions returning void, they now return an ActionResult instance. This [...]

About a month and a half ago Ben Scheirman wrote about testing TempData in ASP.NET MVC. It’s good stuff, and aside from changes between Preview 1 and Preview 2, it still works fine. (See Scott Hanselman’s post for some Preview 2-friendly mock helpers using Rhino Mocks.)
While I can easily understand what Ben’s code is doing, [...]

Frequently in web applications there’s a requirement like this: “Every page should display [foo].” Where “foo” can be literally anything: a list of favorites, sponsors, news, or whatever – it’s data. In what I’ll call “normal, by a long shot” ASP.NET cases, universally displayed data will probably be encapsulated in a user control and [...]