HowTo: Fileupload with ASP.NET MVC

  In this HowTo I´m going to give you a short invitation how to implement a fileupload with ASP.NET MVC.

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HowTo: Facebook Connect & ASP.NET MVC

Facebook has created a nice little service named "Facebook Connect". With this application Facebook user are allowed to login into your site with their usual facebook log-in information´s and the whole thing is secured by Facebook. In Fact it´s quite similar to OpenID but it had some more specials than just identification. But in this …

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Free eBook: Testing Chapter from Beginning ASP.NET MVC

Just found an interesting eBook: – Free Chapter of Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Testing ASP.NET MVC Applications (Blogpost)

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HowTo: From the view to the controller in ASP.NET MVC with ModelBinders

With ASP.NET MVC the developer has now full control about the HTML rendering and how the form data will be transmitted to the server. But how can you get the form values on the server side? There are better ways in MVC to do that than Request.Form["..."].

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ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC published

The ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate was today published by Scott Gu. Scott wrote a great blogpost about the improvements in the RC in his blog.

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Some notes about ASP.NET MVC RC & the MVC Design Gallery

ScottGu wrote (I know – I´m late ) a blogpost about the release candidate of ASP.NET MVC and the  MVC Design Gallery.

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The perfect time to release source code?

Microsoft released last week a ASP.NET MVC demo project called "Oxite" and many Newssites wrote things like "MS launched open source blogging plattform". It´s great that Microsoft released the source code, but on the other handside, there are many criticisms from the alpha geeks. The question is: Should source code only released if it is …

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HowTo: Use the new ASP.NET Chart Controls with ASP.NET MVC

Microsoft released today a new feature for ASP.NET – free chart controls (which are based on the Dundas Chart Controls). There are many nice looking charts in this download included: The best thing is: It should work with ASP.NET MVC! Download links for the ASP.NET Charts (free) : Download the free Microsoft Chart Controls Download …

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HowTo: First steps with ASP.NET MVC

In my last post I wrote about why you should take a look at ASP.NET MVC. With this blogpost I want to go a little bit deeper into the MVC universe. The project template After the installation of ASP.NET MVC (currently beta) you will find a new project template in Visual Studio: Right after you …

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HowTo: Basics of ASP.NET MVC or why MVC?

A while ago I blogged about some ASP.NET MVC stuff, but why should I (and you) care about ASP.NET MVC? ASP.NET MVC is a great and extensible framework for building web applications and is a alternative to the ASP.NET WebForms model. Tell me more about "MVC"!  MVC stands for "Model-View-Controller", which is a very old …

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