Blogs @ IRM

Say you want to generate your own tag-cloud from a list of categories or tags you pull from an RSS-feed or similar. This is one way to do it. I’m using ASP.NET MVC for this sample which creates a simple tag-cloud in a Razor-view with HTML looking something like this: The controller-code to start out with looks like this, where you read in the ...

Note to self: If you need to build ASP.NET MVC 2 applications on a fresh TFS 2010 Build Server without Visual Studio installed, copy the System.Web.Mvc.dll from your dev box to the build server and register it there. Cross-posted from my blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/jdanforth

More jQuery and Json… To fill a listbox (select) with items from a Json call. I got this helper class to handle the options/items: public class SelectOption { public String Value { get; set; } public String Text { get; set; } } A sample action/method in ASP.NET MVC that returns Json: public JsonResult GetJson() { var ...

I’m stacking a few things here related to Json, jQuery and ASP.NET MVC so that I can get to them later on. JQuery to grab some Json when a web page is loaded: $(document).ready(function() { $.getJSON("/MyController/MyJsonAction", null, function(data) { //do stuff with data here }); }); The smallish code in the ...

Right, so I ran the new Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta on my WHS and it seems (so far) to have worked out quite well. I created a new MVC website with File->New… and published it over to an MVC-directory on WHS (I have set that up earlier, with a file share and everything). Now, the version of IIS on Windows Home Server is IIS 6 (because WHS ...

I’ve been thinking of setting up ASP.NET MVC 1.0 on my WHS and also start learning some Silverlight stuff, so I took a risk, went to the Microsoft Web Platform Installer page and clicked on the Beta 2.0 link. Downloaded the installer, marked ASP.NET MVC and the most necessary options and let it go. Should work, right? It had to reboot once to ...

Phil twitted that the source code for ASP.NET MVC v1 is available on Codeplex now, so I guess it’ll be released as a proper installer on MSDN any time now. EDIT: …and a few hours later it was on MSDN :) Congrats to Phil Haack and his merry men for doing such an awesome job! Cross-posted from my blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/jdanforth

Hey, I'm just helping to spread the word! A sampled a few links and quotes that has already been posted to blogosphere for your pleasure and knowledge. :) Download it here -> http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=16775 Phil Haack said: We didn’t originally plan to have another preview. However, we ...

I've looked this up twice now so I'm posting it to my blog for future reference and as a quick-tip for others. Say you got a web page with a dropdown/select listbox and you want to reload/auto postback the page when the selection changes. One way to do this without involving a Javascript or Ajax library like jQuery (which probably is a good ...

Now that ASP.NET MVC preview 4 is out, Phil Haack did as promised and made available a working prototype of IronRuby + ASP.NET MVC integration. He wrote: Now that Preview 4 is out, I revisited the prototype and got it working again. I use the term working loosely here. Yeah, it works, but it is really rough around the edges. To be able to ...

Rob Conery did another excellent episode of his MVC Storefront series the other day where he ripped out his user membership code and replaced it with OpenId. Implementing the whole OpenId protocol yourself isn't necessary as there are some great libraries for you out there which makes it really, really simple to use and integrate with both ...

Craig Shoemaker, the host of Polymorphic Podcast (a .NET podcast which is getting better and better all the time), published a great set of resources for ASP.NET MVC which will keep you occupied for hours. Also listen to his shows on MVC. He's got interviews with both Scott Hanselman and Jeffery Palermo around this topic. I'm not going to ...

I just picked up this answer to a comment on ScottGu's blog: I believe we will be showing using ASP.NET MVC with IronRuby and IronPython later this week at TechEd.  I don't think we've finalized what the tooling support will be - but you will be able to use these as language options with ASP.NET. It would have been cool to be at ...

I've been monitoring the OpenID progress for a while now, and when I saw this post from Scott Hanselman about how easy it is to add OpenID support for ASP.NET MVC through the use of the DotNetOpenId package, I had to give it a try. It it sure wasn't hard at all. If you go to the DotNetOpenId website and download their stuff, you even get sample ...

Videos and screencasts are great ways to learn new programming techniques, at least it works well for me. If you're interested in ASP.NET MVC, maybe you've already downloaded the preview 2 which was released a couple of days ago. In that case you also might want to head over to the ASP.NET webby and have a look at the 4 new videos of ASP.NET MVC. ...

I think Scott Guthrie himself just did a better job than me to describe that basics of the ASP.NET MVC Framework on his blog :) Since then I've been answering a lot of questions from people eager to learn more about it.  Given the level of interest I thought it might make sense to put together a few blog posts that describe how to use it ...

I had a look at the demo code that Scott Hanselman made available :) So how does it look when using the ASP.NET MVC framework? Of course, since this is MVC, you got the ''model'', ''view'' and ''controller'' parts, but when listening to Scott Guthrie, it seems to be more about ''router'', ''view'' and ''controller'' and he's repeating the fact ...