If you've ever had to build a working model from scratch, or produce a quick prototype for something, you know it's trickier than it sounds. Thankfully, Ed Charbeneau shows us the tools he uses to make it both quick and easy to produce fantastic (and fantastic-looking) working prototypes in ASP.NET MVC.… Read more
The Web API framework is a useful tool for building RESTful ASP.NET MVC4 applications, but it's not essential. Dino Esposito demonstrates how you can use MVC3 to simulate several of the really useful web API framework features, and still maintain a nice, clean controller method.… Read more
Anyone in IT should be aware of jQuery. This free, open-source JavaScript library has become amost essential to anyone creating a web-based application. Nick Harrison explains, in as sucession of small examples, why it helps his productivity so much, and takes the grudgery out of creating dynamic web pages.… Read more
There are several frameworks that take away the hard work of implementing a responsive design for a website, that will render pages appropriately according to the size of the window. Ed Charbeneau has pioneered the use of Zurb's Foundation Framework in ASP.NET MVC and describes how easy it is to install and use.… Read more
We've inherited from the original MVC pattern a rather simplistic idea of what should be in the Model. In fact, in ASP.NET MVC, there are three distinct types of model: the domain model, view model and input model. As the data behind an ASP.NET MVC application becomes more complex, the more the view model and domain model may diverge.… Read more
Because we can now run browsers on devices of a wide range of screen-sizes, content publishers have had to find ways to fit the layout to the device so that it can be read and navigated effectively. It is no longer good enough to assume a browser-width of 960px. … Read more
When you start an ASP.NET MVC project, you choose one of a number of project templates or starter kits. The ones that Visual Studio provide are very useful, but you can create your own if you want, and Dino finds that the generic one that he presents in this article works well to rapidly create MVC applications.… Read more
The neat separation between processing and rendering in ASP.NET MVC guarantees you an application design that is inherently teastable. It doesn't guarantee that your application will be well-designed and quick to test. For that, attention to use-cases and the structure of your code is essential.… Read more
The Model-View-Controller pattern of the ASP.NET MVC allows the separation of the business logic from the input and presentation logic. Although it permits the independent development, testing and maintenance of each component, it doesn't guarantee clean code. Dino Esposito offers a modified approach in which an Orchestrator component helps to keep your controllers small, clean and manageable.… Read more
Because ASP.NET MVC has been designed with extensibility as its design principle; almost every logical step of the processing pipeline can be replaced with your own implementation. In fact, the best way to develop applications with ASP.NET MVC is to extend the system, Simone starts a series that explains how to implement extensions to ASP.NET MVC, starting with the ones at the beginning of the pipeline (routing extensions) and finishing with the view extensions points.… Read more
The Action Result in ASP.NET MVC provides a simple and versatile means of returning different types of response to the browser. Want to serve a PDF file with dynamically-generated content? Do an SEO-friendly permanent redirect? Dino shows you how simple this can be using a tailor-made ActionResult class… Read more
If you are providing web-based information for a closed group of users, such as a company or similar organisation with roles and membership, then Windows authentication make a great deal of sense for ASP.NET websites or even .NET applications. Why, and how do you implement it? Matteo explains all.
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If your website is suffering from slow performance, it's easy to blame the code, but not always correct. Even in if you're using .NET, you need to be aware of how your memory is being managed, and sometimes it's .NET that's the culprit.… Read more
A large part of Silverlight's allure is in its cross-browser capabilities, and that power is derived from its rendering architecture. Understanding that in-browser architecture will make your life easier when it comes to troubleshooting, and so Shailesh Patel takes us through it.… Read more
Microsoft's WebMatrix Beta 2 comes with some interesting technologies, such as Razor and IIS Developer Express. It promises a much simpler way of getting Web Applications up and running, either by using a configurable package, or by writing code from scratch. Jinath investigates to see what's in store with WebMatrix.… Read more
Are you certain that you know enough about cross-site scripting attacks, and SQL Injection to avoid either of them happening to that site you're responsible for? Even though these exploits are easy to avoid, many developers still aren't taking the necessary precautions, so we asked Jeremy Jarrell to come up with simple guidelines.… Read more
jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks. It shields the programmer from the idiosyncrasies in the way that each browser implements the language: it makes life easier by doing all the routine chores and takes the pain out of AJAX. It also introduces a 'Wow' factor to browser-based applications.… Read more
William Brewer turns a jaundiced eye to the task of laying out web pages using CSS, and gives some nuggets from years of occasional page design. It is, of course, set with a a stylesheet he's come up with to demo a few of his points.… Read more
ASP.NET now has support for the jQuery JavaScript library. Although ASP.NET integrated AJAX technology by introducing the is the UpdatePanel server control, jQuery offers an alternative, and more versatile, way of doing it and a great deal more besides. Matteo shows how easy it is to get started with using jQuery.… Read more
ASP.NET v4 is released with Visual studio 2010. Web developers are presented with a bewildering range of new features and so Ludmal De Silva has described what he considers to be the most important new features in ASP.NET V4… Read more
