ASP.NET MVC – Resources

Today I found a very good ASP.NET MVC resource list on  Craig Shoemakers Blog. The post is also available as podcast.

PS:  Even my Pagination User Control is in this list (and in the podcast) \o/

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Information about Live Mesh

The "Live Mesh" was anounced on the Mix08 – a few days ago the closed beta started and Microsoft give some more information about it: Ten things to know about Microsoft’s Live Mesh nikhilk.net – Live Mesh annonced Introducing Live Mesh Live Mesh Blog Introducing Video Platform quick tour for developers Jon Udell’s interview with …

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Real World High Scalability Applications: The Architectur

Real World High Scalability Applications like Amazon, eBay, MySpace – and what goes on behinde the scenes? If you want to know more have a look at this page: Build bigger, faster… Very intresting (- and there are only 2 Windows/.NET applications. Whats wrong with .NET & Windows? )

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HowTo: Create PDF by click – on the fly

My college Oliver Guhr wroted a nice blogpost about PDF creation with nFop. The post is in german – but just scroll down to download the soure code. Today I wanted to show you, how you could create a PDF by just clicking a link on a webpage. Oliver helped me again and wrote the …

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UI Prototyping with PowerPoint 2007

The UI is one of the most important part of an application. Jeff Atwood wrote in a great blogpost, that the UI should be the first thing you do. Unfortuantly there are many methods how to prototyp a UI. I found a very intresting video in the blogpost from Jeff: UI Prototyping with PowerPoint 2007. …

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ASP.NET MVC: Using a ActionFilter for logging

The "pre-" preview 3 of the MVC Framework (see here for more information) introduced new features for the ActionFilter. The "FilterExecutingContext" (using in the OnActionExecuted method) and "FilterExecutedContext" (using in the OnActionExecuting method) are now called "ActionEx…Context". This is the complete method list from an ActionFilter in this pre-preview: public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext) { …

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ASP.NET MVC April CodePlex Source Push

Microsoft released a new version of the MVC Framework. Update: Scott Guthrie wrote a blogpost about the “Release” – this “Release” is not the MVC Preview 3, it´s more a “Preview” of the “Preview 3″ The new version introduce more ActionFilter methodes and other refactorings. Here is the overview from the Codeplex ReadMe: MVC Changes …

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ASP.NET MVC: Display dynamic data on master pages

If you play with the MVC 2 bits for a while you will come to a very simple question: How can I display dynamic data on my master page? The structur of an MVC App (this is my demo app) : Each controller has it´s own View-Folder and render the specific view (EntryController route to …

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[Update] Icons, Icons, Icons… for free!

It´s very hard to get good & free icons – here is my short list of nice icon sources – but please have a look at the license of the icon set: 35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets 20+ Free And Fresh Icon Sets Icons For Your Desktop and Icons For Your Web Designs Freebies …

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ASP.NET MVC – "AddIns" on Codeplex

I`m currently working on a ASP.NET MVC sample website and look around for nice helper or implementations on Codeplex. Here is my (small) list: ASP.Net MVC Membership Starter Kit Troy Goode´s  ASP.NET Membership implementation in MVC – (i should have published my MVC Membership Version on Codeplex and write an english blog sooner ) >> …

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