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Drawing the Line Between MVC Controllers and Application Services

Frequently, when we adapt new technologies or techniques, the new fix ends up introducing new "yucky" stuff or simply pushes the previous yucky stuff to another area. Since "yucky" just might be a bit subjective here, I consider yucky...

Published 09-16-2009 11:29 AM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: MVC.NET, S#arp Architecture, DDD

ELMAH for Error Logging and Reporting in ASP.NET & ASP.NET MVC

With each project that I develop, I typically carry over, from one project to the next, a clunky custom HttpModule for watching for exceptions and logging/reporting them, accordingly. With each application I write, I tweak it a bit more to be a little...

Published 05-28-2009 5:04 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: MVC.NET, Tips & Tricks

The dojo is open... www.ITSamuraiSchool.com

Codai's IT Samurai School is open for enrollment. It's Flash, so it'll take a few moments to download...but I hope you'll agree it's worth the wait... http://www.itsamuraischool.com A few fun facts about the website and the school...

Published 05-18-2009 4:52 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: Architecture, .NET, Software Development, Quality Assurance, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Project Management, Patterns, Test-Driven Development, Agile Development, MVC.NET, S#arp Architecture, Tips & Tricks, DDD

Integrating ActiveReports into ASP.NET MVC

A long time favorite PDF reporting tool of mine is ActiveReports for .NET . It's relatively painless to integrate into your project, has a great designer tool, and has plenty of power for more advanced reporting needs. When I started becoming an ASP...

Published 05-11-2009 1:33 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: MVC.NET, Tips & Tricks

IT Samurai School coming soon...

As if my life wasn't boring enough trying to get S#arp Architecture 1.0 out the door...

Published 05-03-2009 8:32 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: Architecture, C#, .NET, Software Development, SQL Server, Algorithms, Refactoring, NHibernate, Project Management, Test-Driven Development, Agile Development, MVC.NET, S#arp Architecture, DDD

Beware of ASP.NET MVC JavaScriptResult

One of the immense advantages that ASP.NET MVC has over classic ASP.NET is the clean separation of concerns between the presentation and controller logic. Unfortunately, while the MVC RC has brought with it many improvements, it has also taken a step...

Published 02-07-2009 8:38 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: Development, MVC.NET

Cleaner domain objects with MVC RC DropDownList improvement

I absolutely disdain times that I have to modify the domain model to accommodate the inflexibility of UI components. For example, I've encountered situations wherein I'd have to write "pass through" or concatenation properties that would...

Published 02-07-2009 7:27 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: MVC.NET, Tips & Tricks

Creating MVC "Areas" as Subfolders under Views

The support of "areas," or groups of controllers and views organized into modules, in a medium or large sized application is absolutely vital. It seems quite bewildering to me that Microsoft intends on releasing ASP.NET MVC 1.0 without built...

Published 01-22-2009 4:42 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: MVC.NET, S#arp Architecture

ASP.NET MVC BindingHelperExtensions.UpdateFrom with NHibernate loaded objects

An interesting issue was brought up on the S#arp Architecture discussion today (it was actually brought up on the old S#arp forum...but then I couldn't plug the new location! ;). If you use System.Web.Mvc.BindingHelperExtensions.UpdateFrom to copy...

Published 08-08-2008 5:24 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: NHibernate, MVC.NET

S#arp Architecture: a new home, upgrades and a logo!

To facilitate better integration with SVN clients, S#arp Architecture has been moved to Google Code at http://code.google.com/p/sharp-architecture . Additionally, a discussion group has just been setup on Google Groups at http://groups.google.com/group...

Published 08-08-2008 2:19 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: Architecture, NHibernate, MVC.NET, S#arp Architecture

S#arp Architecture upgraded to ASP.NET MVC Preview 3

S#arp Architecture has been upgraded for compatibility with ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 and Spring.NET 1.1.2.. A big thanks goes out to Adam Cooper and Frank Laub for assisting with this effort. S#arp Architecture, an architectural framework for developing...

Published 06-09-2008 11:34 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: Architecture, NHibernate, MVC.NET, Spring.NET

S#arp Architecture: ASP.NET MVC with NHibernate

To skip to the chase... http://code.google.com/p/sharp-architecture/ It wasn't too many years ago that I used to state quietly that I was a Microsoft web developer. Inevitably, a Java developer would hear my whisper and begin laughing hysterically...

Published 04-21-2008 4:44 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: Architecture, NHibernate, Featured, MVC.NET, Spring.NET

Using Spring.NET and NHibernate with ASP.NET MVC

[Update 6/11/08 - To see an example of this in action, read the introduction of S#arp Architecture .] I've been quiet lately as I've been a very busy bee preparing the inner workings of the sequel to my NHibernate Best Practices article. In the...

Published 04-04-2008 4:38 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: NHibernate, MVC.NET, Spring.NET

ASP.NET MVC...now simply MVC.NET!

OK, so maybe not...but it should be! I vote we mutiny to have ASP.NET MVC renamed to simply MVC.NET. It's a whopping 36% simpler to write (if you count the space in the former) and does a better job at conveying the fundamental differences between...

Published 12-08-2007 11:12 PM by Billy McCafferty

Filed under: MVC.NET

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Drawing the Line Between MVC Controllers and Application Services

ELMAH for Error Logging and Reporting in ASP.NET & ASP.NET MVC

The dojo is open... www.ITSamuraiSchool.com

Integrating ActiveReports into ASP.NET MVC

IT Samurai School coming soon...

Beware of ASP.NET MVC JavaScriptResult

Cleaner domain objects with MVC RC DropDownList improvement

Creating MVC "Areas" as Subfolders under Views

ASP.NET MVC BindingHelperExtensions.UpdateFrom with NHibernate loaded objects

S#arp Architecture: a new home, upgrades and a logo!

S#arp Architecture upgraded to ASP.NET MVC Preview 3

S#arp Architecture: ASP.NET MVC with NHibernate

Using Spring.NET and NHibernate with ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC...now simply MVC.NET!