Want to learn more about building great forms in MVC? Attend my free DevelopMentor webcast this Tuesday. Webcast: Building Rich Input Forms in ASP.NET MVC https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/559059054 In this webcast we will explore the powerful features of ASP.NET MVC that allow … Continue reading → DevelopMentor.NET ASP.NET MVC Screencasts Visual Studio

Do you think you need a Window’s app for your next project? Here’s a thought: No you don’t. Let me give you one less reason choose the rocky-road of desktop apps today. You’ll hear people tell you that if you … Continue reading → jQuery Articles Cloud Opinion web

Here’s a common problem. You want to make all of your links on your site that would lead visitors away to open in separate tabs. For example, if I wanted to tell you about this cool article by Troy Goode … Continue reading → jQuery Uncategorized Plugins

Hot keys (or accelerator keys) have been an important navigational tool for desktop applications for many years. Finally, web applications are adopting this functionality too. Check out this simple example of a web app with hotkeys. Expect a more general … Continue reading → jQuery ASP.NET MVC Open Source Plugins

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at the South Sound.NET User Group on April 12th in Olympia, WA. The topic will be: BUILDING WEB APPS WITH ASP.NET MVC AND NOSQL This talk guides you through building modern web applications using … Continue reading → Speaking.NET DevelopMentor LINQ MVC NoSQL Open Source User Groups

We’re all psyched about the new iPad 3 (even though it’s not called iPad 3). It’s filled with killer features: HD Video, Retina Display, and every conceivable type of wireless connectivity including 4G. Apple touts 4G as finally giving you … Continue reading → Mobile mobile

So you’re ready to start that new and ambitious ASP.NET MVC project. Maybe you’re kicking off a new startup or just finally moving that old-and-crusty webforms project into modern development world. Either way, here a a few very simple things you … Continue reading → Articles.NET ASP.NET MVC tips

Note: This blog post is written using the.NET framework 4.0 Beta 2 With Windows Workflow Foundation 3 it was possible to rehost the workflow designer in your own application. But possible is about all there was to say about it as it was pretty hard to do anything beyond the basics. With Windows Workflow Foundation 4 live has become much better on the rehosting front In fact it is possible to create the fully functional and useful workflow editor below in about 200 lines of code. Now that is more like it! The WorkflowDesigner The WorkflowDesigner is the main class to work with. null ). {. Sweet.

Warning: This post is based on a prerelease version of the WCF Web API In my previous blog post I showed how to add to and use the new WCF Web API a console application using NuGet. Now that works but it is far more likely that you will want to be using IIS and host the REST service as part of a web application. So in this blog post I am going to show how to do the normal thing I Created an ASP.NET MVC 3 app to host the REST service. Not that there is anything specific to MVC I need here, all I need is a web site and I could have started with a WebForms application just the same. if (_repo !=

The whole persistence model has changed quite a but for WF4. The persistence class out of the box is called SqlWorkflowInstanceStore and as the name suggests it saves workflow data in either SQL Server 2005 or 2008. It is based on the InstanceStore class to if you prefer some other store all you need to do is subclass the InstanceStore and create your own. So what can we do with the SqlWorkflowInstanceStore? We can attach it to either a WorkflowApplication or a WorkflowServiceHost and persist workflows when we want. Notice I left out the WorkflowInvoker. How about the WorkflowServiceHost?

The View – Model – ViewModel design pattern, also known as MVVM, is getting more popular these days. have found it extremely easy to use when developing very different applications and have used the design pattern recently in both ASP.NET, WPF and Silverlight applications. However easy as it might be is seems to confuse people as I have seen some terrible examples where people make a complete mess of things. Josh Smith did an excellent screen cast for Pixel8 on using MVVM with WPF, you can find it here. The View is data bound to a ViewModel. This is the most important step to remember. 11: {.

There is a lot of new goodness in HTML 5 and one of these features is being able to drag a file from the Windows explorer into the browser and handling the drop event using JavaScript. If you are a GMail user you are probably familiar with this as GMail allows users to attach files to emails using this Drag&Drop style. Of course as always not every browser supports the new feature. According to CanIUse.com 88.92% of browser support Drag&Drop, including Internet Explorer 6 and above, but it turns out this is a little optimistic as IE 9 does support Drag & Drop but not with files.